The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-08-28
NEWS VIA WASHINGTON.
From the Washington Star of yesterday eve
lg We clip the following facts and rumors:

From the Washington Star of yesterday eve
ing We clip the following facts and rumors:
Messrs Jonathan Brock and Frederick C. Grow
ley, Of Baltimore, have effected an engagemoI
with the General Government to furnish one thoI
| sand horses.
MRS. BERRETT AT THE CITY HALL.
Mrs. Berrett, wife of the ex-Mayor of Washinl
ton, was in the Mayors office, at the CITY Hal
yesterday evening about the time the Councils nae
and stated to some acquaintances that the search
! her husbands house for papers had been gC
through with, and she was expecting them
search the office, and she wished to reclaim frOr
the officers any of her husbands private paper
which might be found.
THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE.
The oath of allegiance apd.to support the Con
stutiOn and the Government of the United States
was administered to the Attorney General of tn
United States. and to the clerks and messengers j
his oillce on Friday last, by Mr.. Justice Callan.
AN ENGLISH BARoNET IN THE UNITED STATES SERVICE
Sir John Murray, of England, has been appoint
ed an Assistant Adutant General of volunteers il
the army of the United States. He is a YounJ
gentleman of great military experience for his age
and of great wealth, we hear.
ARRIVAL OF sEAMEN AT THE NAVY YAnD-DEPARJUR
OF THE YANKEE.
This morning, the steamer Ben Detord, Captail
Hallet, arrived at the Navy Yard from Boston
with $40 seanen. The steamer Immediately dis
charged her load, and expected to leave for Balti
the river and at Old Point Two or three of th
large United States steamers left Fortress Monroe,
going in a southerly direction, ss the Ben DcfoTr
passed.
The Live Yankee is about ready for service, anc
will join the tOtila this evening, when she vii
again become flag ship of the Potomac fleet. She
carries two 32-pounders, one "a pound boat howit
zer, and one rihsd cannon. She was taking on heI
coal and water this morning, having been dis
charged from the ways. Her chief engineer, Mr
Sanderson, has been removed, but it is alleged tina
his removal was the result of Misrepresentation
and that be will soon be reinstated. Several mas
ter's mates have beer ordered to the ankee, and
60 down with her to dav. Plank sheathing, filled
with sand, to be put around the pilot house for
the protection of the pilot, whose position is very
much exposed especially to musket shots from the
river shores.
The schooner Il. Middleton, of Providence. R. J.,
Captain Sipple, arrived last night with 25l tons
ice for the 2nd Rhode Island regiment and the os-
pitals. She also brought number of packages
for the regiment.
The huge eleven-inch Dahlgren (pivot) gun
brought from New York was being hoisted on
board the Pensacola this morning.
From Correspondence Of the Star.
MOVEMENTS OF THE ENEMY.
LEWENSViLLE, Va, August 27.-The enemy has
occupied Baieys Cross Roads in considerable force
and are entrenchng. Farmers are not allowed to
come through to Washington now and the board.
ers at Mr.. Bailey's have been scattered in cnuse-
quence OF this occupation by the secession force.
Colonel Sherman is in command of the enemy at
BaiIey's Cross Roads
Secessionists hereabouts profess to eypect lively
times soon in this neighborhood
SKIRMTsH OVER THE RIVER
CHAIN BRIDGE, August 27.-Five of our men,
W lille out scouting about three miles above here
Yesterday, were in cornfeld, and to their dismay
discovered that abaut thirty Confederate cavalry
we're "circulating around the edges" of said field
| hIu king the case was desperate, they fred into
me largest group and killed one, who was seen to
al, and seem to have wounded two Others They
ild not stop to investigate, however, but scamper-
20 OH IN one direction, while the cavalry, just as
much frightened, dashed off in the other.
AFFAIRS OVER THE RIVER.
FORT ALBANY, Aug. 27.-We hear that our most
cVanced lntrenchment in the direction of Bailey's
ross Roads was taken possession of BY s'Secesh"
lghf before last. The work intended for q
Wo gun battery, and was unfinished. The Federal
egiment stationed there was drawn in dav or two
go, tor some reason the work was left, and the
ecesslonists, aware Of the fact no doubt drove in
'ur pickets and took possession
THE OATH AND THE CORPORATION ATTORNEY
The opinion of MIR. j. NJ. Carlisle, the Corporation
Attorney, on which ex-Mayor Berret based his re-
usal to take any oath as an er-oficio member Of
he Board of Police Commissioners, pronounces
hGt-
First. The iIavor of Washington is connected
WITH the Police Board not in respect to his persnn
n individuality, but in respect of the office which
lie holds 1t Is, by the express terms of the statute
r-oGicio that be is entitled to vote in the Board
t Is only because he is Mayor that he has such
ltie and 1t is only by ceasing to be Mayor that he
an lose it.
or the Mayor the charter says (sec. 2d): ole
hall, er-oficio, have and exercise all the powers,
uhority, and jurisdiction of Justice of the peace
or the county Of Washington within said county,"
he same provision is found in the charter of lSI2
Sut 1t has never occurred to any one that before
be Mayor could exercise the powers of Just of
be peace he was required to qualify himself as such
" oath or otherwise. This being true, it follows
nat no oath whatever ought to be taken bv the
layor IN addition to his official oath as Mayor
Secondly. The oath of allegiance prescribed hv
he act of August 9Th, 1861, has no application
'hatever to the members Of this Board Of Police,
DO certainly not to the Mayor of Washington, as
2 -. re1-cHcto entitled to be a member of it.
rag opinion gives at length the reasons '. - th
" " FtQp1@fG certain persons in the civil service
the United States" can surely have no anpii- |
alton to the Mayor of Washington; and in that +
onnection concludes that the Mayor is not 10 any |
'nse an executive officer or emplOye of either of
ne Departments, Cor person connected there |
With" in the sense of the statute in question.
The summing up of the whole case is that for the
iayor to take any oath whatever would be de-
arturo from the true intent and meaning of the
CT ut Congress creating the board
THE APPROPRIATIONS OF CONGRESS.
hlsceis sneous document No. "a of the House Of
representatives. has just been printed. In states
uetall the appropriations made during the first
essioh OF the Hhirtv-seventh Congress, the offices
feated and the saeries thereof and the offices the
aiarles OF which have been increased within the
anne period, and the amount OF such increase. 1t
an ofhclat statement Prepared under the direc-
ion OF the Secretary of the senate end Clerk of the
louise of Representatives. recapitulation of the
ntas show that there appropriated for civil
nd miscellaneous purposes, Sl.37l S73 90; for the
rmy, and fortifcstions, S207 4AI ,397 80; for
he naval service, S56, ,365, ,066.29