".•Vny I*resident, not wedded to a line of policy which he knows the South ' will never acquiesce in, -- the abolition of slavery, -- would see that it is just the time to e.xteud the olive-branch of peace ' ; but announces, with great relief, that the " Yonkei'squota is at last filled." Great troubleseems to have existed on this point of ipiotas during the year, for there are fiequent appeals to the " rich men of Yonkers to come forward, especially ! those that have not been drafted, and hi lp the rest to buy substitutes." ' This is especially the case in the issue of June 18th, when the drafts were threatened.

I February 4, ISb.l, records the pa-^sage of the constitutional amendment against slavery with a great lamentation as being "irritating to the South. ' February llth records the fact that " in the Legislature of this State the Democrats all voted against the adoption of the amendment."

February 18tli, comes the following:

" If JlcC'lellan had been elected, the Albany Argus truthfully says, the people of the South, who long for peace, would have been looking as eagerly for the Fourth of March as the Democrats of the North. General JlcC'lellan would have treated with the States of the Confederacy, separately, for a return to the Union ; would have appealed to the people ; would have concerted with the generals of the Confederacy to detach their armies from the dynasty at Richmond."

JIarch llth the paper rejoices over the rejection by New Jersey, Delaware and Kentucky of the Constitutional Amendment, and hopes that one more State will follow their example, so as to make the adoption impossible.