The Portland daily press., 1863-06-09
BY TELEGRAPH
Portland Daily Press.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Communication Tickets for Soldiers
Order in Relation to Passes to 90
South.
Destruction of Rebel Foundry, Mills, Go
THE FEDERAL Reconnaissance ON
FRIDAY.
Communication Tickets for soldiers
Order In Relation to Passes to 90
South.
Destruction of a Rebel Foundry, Mills,
THE FEDERAL REC0NNOISSANCE on
FRIDAY.
Both Armies on the Rappahannock Wide
Awake.
WASHINGTON. June 8.

w AodiN0ION, June Q.
James McKie has been appointed Commits.
sioner to Peru for the settlement of claims
vice Leonard Sweet resigned.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. has
made arrangements by which the commute
tons for soldiers either discharged or Oh
furlough, are placed in charge of the Sanitary
Commission at their rooms. No tickets are
sold for New York and Boston, at the ticket
office at less than regular rates. The recent
statement of the over charge to the soldiers,
was doubtless IN consequence of their igno-
rance of the arrangements andof the place
where the Communication tickets were to be
procured. Soldiers tickets for the West are
sold at the ticket Office by the general pas
senger agent, Mr.. Robert Edmonds.
The following order in relation to passes
has been issued:
Ladies desiring passes to go and return
from rebel States, can receive permits under
the following regulations :-lst-All applica-
tions for passes to go South must be made in
writing and verified by oath, addressed TO
Major L. G. Turner, Judge Advocate, Wash
ington, ID. c., as follows:-"A B, applicant for
a pass to go to City Point, Va, and now re-
siding at -, do solemnly swear, that, If
said pass is granted, will not take any prop
erty, excepting my wearing apparel, and that
all articles to be taken with me are contained
in the trunk or package delivered or to be de-
HNcTtu VI Tic quar- ttTuidSttT vi Tile transport
steamer on which l am to go to City Point
that have not been in any insurgent State,
nor beyond the military lines of the United
States within thirty days last past; that l will
not return within the military lines of the
United States during the present war; and
that l have not in my trunk any papers or
writing whatsoever, nor any contraband ar
ticles." No person will be allowed TO take
more than one trunk or package of female
Aorsn ral ssxbs
pounds, and subject to inspection, and if any
thing contraband be found in the trunk or on
the person, the property will be forfeited and
the pass revoked. 2d-A passenger boat will
leave Annapolis, Md, on the LIST day of July
next to deliver those permitted to 60 South
at City Point, and the baggage of each appli-
cant must be delivered to the quartermaster
on said boat at least twenty-four hours previ-
Gus to the day of departure for inspection.
3d-Children will be allowed to accompany
their mothers and relatives, and take their
usual wearing apparel, but the name and age
of each child must be given in the application.
4th-Ladies and children desiring TO come
North will be received on the boat at City
Point, and taken to Annapolis; and every
adult person coming North will be required TO
take and subscribe to the oath of allegiance
to the Government of the United States be-
fore the boat leaves for Fortress Monroe.
(Signed) l.. c. TURNER,
Judge Advocate.
Rear Admiral Lee has forwarded to the
Navy Department report of Lieut.. Com
mandcr ellis, giving the details of joint
naval and army force upon Mattapony river.
Its main object was to destroy foundry at a
point ten miles above Walkertown, where it
was said ordnance matter was manufactured
for the enemy. For this purpose 400 infantry
embarked on the morning of June 4th on
board the steamer Commodore Morris, Lieut.
Com. ellis, steamer Commodore JONES' Lieut..
Com. Mitchell, the gunboats Smith, Broggs,
and transport Winnisimmet The expedition
proceeded to Walkertown, about twenty
miles above West Point, on the Mattapony
river, where it arrived at 2 A. NJ. on the 5th.
Here the troops were landed and marched
to Ayletts where the objects Of the expedition
were successfully accomplished, and the foun-
dry, with all its machinery, together with the
mills, grain, &C., was destroyed. The land
forces also destroyed grain at other places, and
captured horses, mules and cattle, and at $50
p. NJ. re-embarked. The vigilant dispositions
of Lieut.. Giles kept the river below clear, and
the rebels who attempted demonstrations at
several places were dispersed by the gunboats.
The navy had no casualties.
Admiral Lee thinks the entire success of the
expedition was owing to our evacuation of
West Point only five days before, thus pre-
Gliding the possibility Of any movement in
that direction and throwing the enemy Off his
guard.
The Richmond Examiner Of Saturday ridi-
cules the rebel dispatches from the Southwest,
and especially those which set down ire
mendous losses for Gen. Grant. 1t calls them
"blatterkite kilograms"
Fredericksburg is still held by the enemy.
No attempt has been made by our troops to
take il.
L..