Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-07-14
Arbitrary Proceedings I'm West
neutrality-suspicious. of The
Wheeling Register and ParIxers.
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Wheeling Register and Parl<ers-
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| [From The Wheeling telligencer-Abotion.l
| SUPPRESSION OF THE DAILY REGISTER
ARREST AND IMPRISONMENT OF ITS Ed
IToRs.-On Saturday afternoon, Captain
| Ewald Over, commander of this post, re-
ceived dispatch from General Kelly, di-
recting him to proceed at once, by order of
General Hunter, "to arrest Baker and
Long, editors and proprietors of The Daily
Reqister, paper published in the city OF
Wheeling, West Virginia, and place them
in confinement at the military prison in that
city and 80 keep them until further orders.
Also to seize and suppress The Register
newspaper, and take possession of the Of
flee and safely keep the same until further
orders"
Immediately upon the receipt of the or
der, Captain Over, with guard, proceeded
to the office and notified the editors of
his errand. The employees were notified
at once to abdicate the premises, the office
was closed, and Messrs. Long and Baker
were escorted to the Atheneum in charge
of Lieutenant Knapp, of the Provost Guard.
They were assigned temporary quarters in
the room occupied by the rebel prisoners
who have expressed Willingness to take
the oath of allegiance.
There are sundry conjectures as to the
cause of the arrest, but at present we shall
not attempt to give any more information
upon the subject than is already known to
the daily readers of The Register. We sim
cerely regret that any necessity should ex-
ist tor such peremptory proceeding upon
the part of the military authorities and we
anxiously await the further development of
the case. e -v .r.rrstr
From The Wheeling Intelligencer. Mondayl
On Saturday last Capt. Over, command
ing at this post, received peremptory or
der from Gen. Hunter, to arrest the respon-
sible editors of The Wheeling Register
and put them in the military prison, and
suppress for the present the further publi-
cation of the paper. Capt. Over was left
in the dark as to the special cause why this
order was issued, and no one else of course
was any better off. 1t was presumed that
the extreme bitterness with which The
Regster had referred to Gen. Hunter in
connection with the Washington Statue
might have had something to do with the
arrest, but this is hardly probable.
Still, the wonder is as to the reason of
the arrest. What has been the immediate
cause of It? No one seems to have any
idea beyond the fact of the general disloy-
alty of the sheet. So far as we have OBJ
served there has been nothing unusual in
the paper of late. 1t has followed at about
the same old pace the example of such
sheets as The Cincinnati Enquirer, The Co
lunbus Crisis, Chicago Times, and New York
Necs. Pretty much all that was eyercon-
tanned in the paper was taken from those
prints. 9e,
Why Gen. Hunter should have selected it
out and left the papers we have named free
to circulate In his department Is more than
we can appreciate. He has giyenit no.
toriety that it would never have otherwise
enjoyed, and also, in addition, new lease
of life, IL ever 1t starts again. As itwasit
had not sufficient strength, we suppose, TO
| have run 1t through the summer.
| What makes the arrest Of The Register men
all the more incomprehensible is the report
of Wharton's arrest at Parkersburg for an
| article published in his paper--The GdSette.
| Wharton, we all know, is a loyal man and
of course it was for no act Of Intentional
aid or comfort to the enemy that he was
arrested. Weunderstand that the last issue
| of his paper was suppressed and burned, and
| hence we have not our usual copy OF Tx
| Gazette to see what was said. e--
The arrest of Mr.. Wharton has stirred ur
! a good deal Of feeling among the Unior
4 men at Parkersburg as we learned yester
i day. We presume that he will be speedily
1 released by order of the Government. Gov
! Boreman has sent a request TO that effect K
i the Secretary OF War.