The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-07-17
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

WAsHINGToN, July lG, 1861.
No cessation yet appears in the advance of troops
into Virginia. A regiment crosses the river every
five or six hours and the greatest care is taken to
let the movement be conducted as quietly as pos
sble. General Scott has made requisiion on the
Governor of Pennsylvania for the fifteen regiments
now stationed at Easton, Chester, Harrisburg Pitts
burg and other Pennsylvania camps of instruction.
1t is natural to suppose that the frequent Issuing
of marching orders to Gen. McDo"ei! by Gen.
Scott is the repetition of the old of Napoleons
in order to make attack unexpectedly. 1t is
sure tina. bona-fde order could never get beyond
the official circle 20 which it related.
Notwithstanding the above reasoning, quick
eve can easily perceive that the advance Of the
column will not be delayed great while. About
r 900 troops, including several companies OF ma
riues crossed the Long Bridge early this afternoon
| Persons protesting much knowledge Of the move
ments of the parties state that those of to-day are
the preliminary to advance of the entire
BODY on the Confederates at Manassas. The OBJ
iect so far as the plan is already developed is to
attempt to turn the position of the forces at the
Junction, thus avoiding the hazard of direct
| march.
| From couparing the orders already issued by
| General Mcdowell | am led to believe that the
column will be divided into three parts which will
| Zach doubtless be directed to different points of
! attack The Federalists have been taught whole
some dread of masked batteries and will not will
| ingy encounter them
II il reported that General Scott will take com
| mapd in person, ana the report receives partial
confirmation from the fact that a complete and ca
pacious military carriage reached here from a
northern mandatory several days ego.
The celebrated iron battery car has arrived |
learn, and is doubtless intended for the Vir
ginin roads
notice that the pickets on the Baltimore and
W Arlington Railroad have been doubled since this
morning.
The commission appointed by tie House to as
certain " hat department clerks sympathse with
the Southern cause is sitting in committee room
No. 5, which is known to many as the 'sStar
Chamber" the proceedings entirely parte,
and any entertaining an ill feeling against an
employee of the Government, has but to designate
him revo!utionist to obtain his dismissal This,
perhaps IN ay account for the many discha rges of
the last week, which the Administration says were
maj de in order to reduce expenditures. That the
committee have their hands full we know from the
facts that the chairman Mr.. Potter) has asked to
be allowed a clerk.
Lieutenant Colonel Wadsworth Rumsay has been
appointed Adjutant-General of the militia of this
District, vice Major Bradley, declined. First Lieu
tenant VIM. d. Baldwin has been appointed aid to
the commanding officer of the District
Dir. Ten Eyck introduced bill in the Senate to
establish in the District of Columbia police board
founded on the identical principles that rendered
the late Baltimore board so efficient and popular
The following members are proposed in the bill as
the board: The Mayor, er-oGic5O, President; John
Wilson, James A, Wise and Robert Clark, Commits
sioners,
There has as vet been no attempt made to sup
| press the drunkenness which characterizes the
troops now in this city. Murders, burglaries,
thefts, and even attempts at highway robbery are
daily heard Of.
Thomas Haggerty, who was shot in the vicinity
of the Kirkwood House on Friday last, died at the
Hospital Yesterday afternoon. He was member of
the New Jersey Sd regiment, and shot by Jos.
Craig, of the New York 14th.
| Rev. DR.. Norwood well known rs q sympathizer
with the present national revolution. has just re-
turned from Virginia, where be has been engaged
! in his vocation. The authorities here will proba-
bly, cause his arrest, as he is the most popular man
in Georgetown, and exercises large influence in
| Washington city
| Never were the Senate galleries more brilliantly
adorned by the fair sex than they were to-day.
The ladies hocked to hear the gallant Breckenridge,
| of Kentucky, in his remarks on the Constitutions;
and had be but glanced at the gallery, he could not
! have mistaken the smiles OF the ladies Tor other
| than those of admiring sympathy
| The editor from Frederick who arrested and
| i"lt. is"..oa ttte ~ft, asad
| yesterday, taking oath to obey the Constitu-
| ton. He would not take the oath to support Mr..
| Lincoln.
The prison here is full of soldiers and citizens
most Of the latter being arrested on charges of
treason. 1t is rumOred that General Mansfield will
use the old capitol building as military prison.
Two cases of the smallpox have appeared at the
Government Infirmary. About hundred cases
of the measles known at the same institution.
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