"The Yonkers Herald, Highland Democrat and Eastern Sfaffi Jnnrnul have, from the time of the issue of the President's Proclamation, immediately after the firing on Fort Sumter, steadily treated the war which has followed, in the extracts and articles they have published, as an unholy and partizan war, unjustly commenced and prosecuted by the administration. In so doing, it has evidently been their i)urpose to consolidate a party, by the aid of whose opposition and influence they might prevent enlistments and retard the successful prosecution of the war.

[Two New York City papers are further mentioned as circulating in the county, with similar doctrines and the presentment proceeds ;]

" The Grand Jurors, therefore, invoke the attention of the District At^ torney of this county to the prosecution of the editors and proprietors named, if hereafter, after this public notice of their evil courae, they shonld persist in thus continuing to give aid and comfort to the enemies of the government, and they request him to certify and transmit a copy of this presentment to the United States District Attorney of the Southern District of New York, witii a view to his commencing such proceedings thereon as the nature of the circumstances requires.

"Stephen Lyon, Foreman.

" W. SwiNBUENE, Clerk."

This document naturally produced quite an excitement in the office of the Eastern State Journal, and the editor, being a White Plains man, living within a stone's throw of the court-house, and personally known to all the members of the grand jury, exerted himself to the utmost to get rid of the stain it produced on his reputation. He managed to get a letter from the foreman of the grand jury, which he published in his next week's paper, stating that he (the foreman) had voted against putting the Eastern State Journal on the list of papers presented, but that he had been outvoted and therefore had signed the presentment.