The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-05-21
The Bogus Proclamation.
Protest Of the Edito, s ofMe World and Jour
80 nal IF Commerce. a -t.l
TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

Will you oblige us by publishing in your
columns tic following statement OF the
proceedings of the Government this eve
ming towards the World and the .Joun1lJ Of
Commerce, regarding he publication in our
mornings issue of the forged proclamation,
purporting to be signed by President Lin
coin, appointing day of fasting and pray
er. and calling into the military service
100000 men. ga - 81 "a
The document in question was written
on their manifold paper, such as is used Tor
all the dispatches sent to the sc veral news.
papers of our association, and had every
external appearance and mark to identity
it as genuine despatch arriving in the
regular course of business.
1t was delivered at our office late at night
at the time of the receipt of the latest
news. too late, Of course, for editorial SUI
pervi>ion. bnt, as it happened, not before
-our printing offices were closed. :
1t was delivered at all, or nearly all of
the II, wspaper offices, and published in a
part Of the morning editions OF the Journal
Of Commerce and World, and, as we are in
formed, in part of the editions Of one or
more of our contemporaries.
Early this morning the fact that the de
spatch had not been sent by the Agent of
the Associated Press became Known to US,
and its fraudulent character was at once
announced upon our bulletin boards, and
n reward of five hundred dollars offered by
us for the discovery of the forger. The
Executive Committee of the Associated
Press also offered similar reward of one
thousand dollars as the fraud had been at
tempted to be perpetrated upon all the
journals composing our association.
We t. ok pains in the afternoon to APP
prize General Dix of the facts in the case.
and gave him such information in regard to
the circumstances Of the forgery as might
assist him in the discovery of its author.
The Government was at once put in pos
session of the facts in the case. Nevcrthc
less, this evening General Dix. acting uri-
dee pcrcmtory orders from the Govern
ment, placed our officers under a strong
military guard and issued warrants for the
arrest Of the editors and proprietors IF the
Void and Journal Of Commerce, and their
imprisonment in Fort Lafayette. A vessel
was lying, under steam, at one Of the
whalve- 70 convey US thither.
CHANGING to meet one of the officers of
General Dix's staff, charged with the exc
cut,on of this order, We proceeded in his
company to the headquarters of the De.
partment of the East, and were informed
by General Dix that the order for our ar
rest had been suspended, but that the order
Tor tho suppression Of the publication of
the u "a and Journal of Commerce had
not been rescinded, and that we could not
be permitted to enter our sfiices, which
continue under the charge of the military
guards.
We protest against this proceeding. We
protest against the assumption Of our Com
piicity with this shaun less forgery, impli-
ed in the order for our arrest We protest
against the suppression of our journal f.r
the misfortune Of being deceived by a for
gerry not less ingenious nor plausible than
the forged report Of the Confederate Score
'ary OF War, which Secretary Seward
made the basis of diplomatic action.
PRIME. STONE, HALE & HALLOLK,
s#...... Journal Of Commerce
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New YORK. May Is 1864 World.