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. Mr. Lyon, in thus letting out the secrets of the grand jury room, did what he could to save a neighbor by further saying that he was " one of nine '* who voted to strike the Journal off the list. Next week the indefatigable editor managed to get two more men who were on the grand jury to say that theg voted against the presentment, and as soon as this consummation was reached he burst out into indignant denunciation of the men who voted/o?-it, as a " corrupt and debauched clique ; " " curs who have snarled and snapped at our heels for years," who need"' a sound kicking" for " besliming and befouling all. they touch," while "their putrid breath so corrupts the air" that the editor can hardly draw his breath.

The presentment, however, had a marked effect on the tone of the paper for some weeks, for the next editorial conclusion on '• what patriotism demands of party organization " in the crisis is that the Democrats should, in future, "stick together on local issues " and let the administration carry on the war without interference.