 After serving out his term at Albany Penitentiary, he continued to be detained there because he did not pay the fine, and was released only after a presidential pardon in December 1870.In 1890, he had been the editor of the "Albany Evening Times" in Albany, New York, for more than 15 years, when Governor David B. Hill transferred the State Printing from the "Albany Argus", a pro-Cleveland paper, to Callicot's paper.As the editor, Callicot had "carried on the business of political assassination, abusing the best and lauding the worst men of the Democratic Party.