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.

The quota continues to be a subject of grave anxiety, and the fact is noticed that Yonkers has spent S19.5,00O in town bonds, with 8144,000 in county bonds, in filling the different quotas.

.\pril 8tli, " Richmond is ours at last." The paper wants a " magnanimous peace and amnesty." Notes the fact that "three hundred millions have been paid out in four months to bounty jumpers," and that "only two hundred thousand of the half million called out in July, 1864, have reached the field."

.\pril 15th, ■Praise God from whom all blessings flow." "Stop the draft." Very bitter flings at Jefferson Davis, in a burlesque proclamation.

April 2'2d conies a sudden change. "The National Bereavement." The assassination of Mr. Lincoln is referred to thus: "The darkest crime that ever occurred in the history of this nation has been committed, and forever after will leave a foul blot on its pages . . . Party lines are obliterated in the presence of the nation's dead. . . . He has been removed w hen we least could afford to lose him . . . Our beloved President . . . His well-known kindness of heart. ..." The editor, in conunenting on the assassination, admits that if'might i have l)een a wise move at the beginning of the war or during the darker I days of the struggle ;" but regrets it as being so " foolish and useless" at the moment when it occurred. lie pleads for mercy to the South,, and so closes the connection of the l'oiii>Ts Gazette with the history of the war in Westchester County.