Spuyten Duyvil; the seat of several large foundries; inhabited chiefly by operatives. 3. Tuckahoe; a station on the Harlem Railroad; Hodgman's rubber goods manufactory employed about seventy -five hands. 4. Kingsbridge. 5. Riverdale; "a group of villas, and a railroad station." 6. South Yonkers ; a postoffice. Yorktown. -- Population, 2,231. Local particulars: -- 1. Crompond (Yorktown p. o.), 2. Jefferson Valley, and 3. Shrub Oak, were hamlets. A rolling mill, wire factory, gristmill, and sawmill had been erected two miles west of Croton dam.

Intense partisan feeling characterized the discussion of political issues in Westchester County in the electoral campaign of 1860. At that time the leading newspapers of the county were the Eastern State Journal, of White Plains, the II i<ililan<l Ih mocrat, of Peekskill, and the Yonkers Herald ; and all three were aggressively Democratic. They took the election of Lincoln with very bad grace, and indeed never became entirely reconciled to it or to the prosecution of the war with the seceding States. Such a spirit in the County of Westchester, which had always been on the conservative side politically, was naturally to have been expected. It was a spirit conspicuously manifest in the editorial conduct of very able newspapers in New York City, which gave nearly thirty thousand majority against Lincoln. The dominant political party of the metropolis had always been the dominant political party of Westchester County; and opinions which had been insisted on and stood the test of popular 1 This institution of the Roman Catholic 2 Formerly Upper Morrisania, South Fordham, Church was opened for students Juno 24, 1841, Adamsville, and Mount Hope and incorporated April 10, 1*46.