The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-10-27
FROM WASHINGTON.

Correspondence Of the NelC York Herald
Oct 26.-Advices from Monterey state that on
the receipt there of Vidaurris defeat at San Luis
Potosi quite panic took possession of the citizens.
and particularly the foreign residents, who had
been lending Vidaurri the money which enabled
him to move on the centre. 1t supposed that
the central forces would march at once on the
frontier, and that all the foreigners would be COM
PEELED to leave for the United States. Our consul
at Monterey was involved IN these speculative
loans, and it is supposed he may have involved in
degree the noninterterence policy of our gov
ernment
Senior Mata, the representative of President ,Jua-
req and the constutionasts has left for Vera Cruz
Before leaving he was admitted to private inter-
view with the President and another with General
Cass The chief point of desire the part OF Pres
ident JuareZ is to obtain pecunary aid from
our government, and Senior Malta was given to D.
derstand that our government could take no part
in the present contest in Mexico; but should the
constitutionaists succeed and evince disposition
to arrange the pending questions between the two
countries and the claims of American citizens in an
amicabe and just spirit, they would find on the
part OF this government every disposition to af
ford them such moral and material aid was in its
power.
The points on which such a negotiation might
turn are: a railroad route to some port on the
Gulf OF California; liberal commercial treaty. in
Guiding reciprocity in certain articles on the north
ern and California frontier; and treaty guaranty
ing the neutrality of the Tehuantepec route Senior
Malta will return here before the close of the session.
to give the President an opportunio to request
Congress to act before spring.
1t is rumored here that Mr.. Reed will obtain the
mission to England, as acknowledgment of his
success in the East
Governor Winslow, of North Carolina to whom
the President offered the mission to Sardinia does
not accept. He is in Washington. Mr. Daniel our
present Minister rendered his resignation but it is
supposed, Mr.. WinslOw having declined, that
Mr.. DanlePs resignation will not be accepted at
present
At the time of the difficulty with British cruisers
and our vessels the coast of Cuba, this govern
ment officially expressed to Spain its qualification
at the friendly conduct of the Spanish officials The
Spanish governmental has in the same friendly man
ner, formally acknowledged having received the
communication.
EXTENT or THE SORGHUM CULrURE.-Now that the
manufacture of the present crop of Chinese sugar
cane has commenced, the frequent statements in
exchanges show that very large amount was
planted-consderably more, we should think, than
last year. gentleman who recently passed
through the interior of Iowa the Davenport
Times that in some counties he passed through he
saw fully as much Chinese sugar-cane growing as
ordinary corn, and that both soil and climate seem
well adapted to its culture. paragraph in anoth-
er Iowa exchange states that farmer had satisfied
himself that excellent article of mOlasses could
be produced at cost of only sixteen cents per
gaon-better in fact, than that usually sold for
Sl.25. The Times confidently sets down Iowa as a
sugar-growing State, and declares that even now
she is capable of producing enough for home con-
sumption.
Willard Barlow, Esq, of Davenport, saws the
Times, who has just returned from tour through
Missouri, Tennessee, Alabama, and Kentucky states
that the planters in those States have made expert
ments in the sorghum culture this year, and they
universally successful They speak in the high
est terms of the new cane. Mr.. b. states he saw
great many of the old-fashioned cider mills in use
grinding the cane in the same way that apples are
ground. Chicago Press and Tribune.
MoRPHY AND Observation-Disclosures OF TIE
MATCH.-"The match has Just been settled, and Mr.
Morphy declared the winner, all bets being paid.
They were to have played until one or the other
had won seven games; but when they stood Morphy
five and Harrwitz two, the latter gave it up laying
the blame of his defeat upon his ihealth; but the
fact is Morphy is by far the best player. When the
termination of the match was announced at the
Cafe de la Regence, the rendezvous of the chess
players here, the Americans assembled there were
quite uproarious in their cxultation, while the
Germans and the Prussians, who bad bet upon
Harrwitz, Immediately suffered a terrible eonga-
ton of couutenance Still they continue to have
hope, for another person has been sent for to
try his hand at playing with the formidable
young American, and the person is 4 countrvman
of theirs. Paris Correspondent Boston Tran
script.
PAID FIRE DEPARTMENT AT RIcHMoSD.-The CITY
Council of Richmond (Ya.) have determined to
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