----, applicant for a pass to go to City Point,
Virginia, and now residing at ----, do solemnly swear that, if said
pass be granted, I will not take any property excepting my wearing
apparel, and that all the articles to be taken with me are
contained in the trunk or package delivered or to be delivered to
the quartermaster on the transport steamer on which I am to go to
City Point. That I have not been in any insurgent State, nor beyond
the military lines of the United States, within thirty days last
past. That I will not return within the military lines of the
United States during the present war, and that I have not in my
trunk nor on my person any papers or writings whatsoever, nor any
contraband articles.

"No person will be allowed to take more than one trunk or package
of female wearing apparel, weighing not over one hundred pounds,
and subject to inspection; and if anything contraband be found in
the trunk or on the person, the property will be forfeited and the
pass revoked.

"_Second._--A passenger boat will leave Annapolis, Md., on the
first day of July next, to deliver those permitted to go South at
City Point, and the baggage of each applicant must be delivered to
the quartermaster on said boat, at least twenty-four hours previous
to the day of departure for inspection.

"_Third._--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.

"_Fourth._--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 before the boat leaves Fortress Monroe.

"L. C. TURNER, _Judge Advocate_."

JUNE 16TH.--We have nothing from the West to-day. But it is believed
that Hooker is retiring toward Manassas--that fatal field--where another
(and the third) battle may be fought. Lee's army is certainly on the
march, and a collision of arms cannot be averted many days. It is
believed Gen. Ewell, successor of Jackson, has beaten Milroy at
Winchester.

But, while terrible events are daily anticipated in the field, all the
civilians seem to have gone wild with speculation,