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The Daily Dispatch: March 3, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
uitful of results, and thus describes them: For many months the officers of the Potomac fleet have been aware of an extensive contraband business being carried on across the Potomac, but at what point could not be positively ascertained until a few days ago. Then the discovery was made that there was a regular express communication between Baltimore and Richmond, viz the counties on the left back of the Potomac, and crossing that river from St. Mary's county to Northumberland and Lancaster counties, and then crossing the Rappehannock, and on to Richmond. The officers sent on the expectation to break up this line of communication discharged their duty most admirably. They not only captured the express boats, and destroyed them, but also secured several bushels of matter, including letters from portion in Baltimore, Washington, and New York, to friends in Richmond and other or the South, some of them, it is said, containing important information, sent by persons heretofore e