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History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I

Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886. 340 words

Satterley's fence into his garden, and was kept, for some years after, by the family, as a relic of the draft riots.

The witnesses exaniiued by rae, in investigating the aSaii', unite in their stories as to the above facts.

They are Mr. A. B. Kitson, of 37 South St., Boston, Mass. (then a member of the Mount Vernon Home Guards) ; Mrs. Higgins, of Mount Vernon (at the time of riot Miss Eva Satterley) ; Mrs. John G. Satterley, her mother ; Mr. John F. Jarvis, of Mount Vernon ; and Mr. Joseph H. Porter, the drummer-boy of the story, who afterwards entered the 13th N. Y. Cavalry and served to the close of the war.

Mr. John G. Satterley died a few years since.

corruption under previous administrations ; but under that of 'honest old .\be ' it is positively frightful."

On the 28th the Yonkers Herald wants General Dix punished " by damages in a civil action," since he " cannot be reached by the State courts, or courtmartial," for having closed the World and Journal of Commerce, because there is "no hope in Congress " -- it is " too thoroughly servile." " No Senate, in the corruptest days of Rome, registered every decree of its military tyrant with more slavish alacrity than is displayed by the administration majority in fulfilling , the will of Abraham Lincoln."

Noticing the nomination of Lincoln at the regular Republican Convention, the Yonkers Herald remarks :

"Another four years of 'Honest old Abe' would leave nothing but the shadow of a Republic on the American continent." It thanks the Eastern State Journal and Highland Democrat for the welcome extended by them to the paper under its new management. On the 4th of June the name of the paper is changed to the Gazette (under which it still exists) and a great " boom " begins in the advertising columns, from the quantity of county advertising thrown in, as in the case of the East-rn State Journal, by the county officials.