The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-09-25
FROM SOUTH AND CENTRAL AM

By the Ariel, at New York, we have news from
South and Central America.
In New Granada the Federal Government appears
to be triumphing in all directions and several re-
verses on the part of the reyolutionists are re-
ported In a recent engagement the Governor of
the State of Santander is said to have been made
prisoner.
The Governor of Panama has had his attention
called to the Chiriqui Thompson grant, and the
Attorney General has been directed to institute
investigation. The Governor, in his message, de-
cares the grant null and void.
The claims of the United States against Peru are
still unsettled, President Castillo, who, by the wav
has quite recovered from his wound, refusing to
settle the question or submit to its settlement by
any other than third friendly Power. This pro-
position it is understood has been rejected by our
government. The President of the Assembly, who
is the Bishop of Arequipa has introduced q project
of a new constitution. Guano contracts are still
subject to the approval of the President only, bill
to place that power in the hands of Congress hav-
ing been defeated.
The Chilian Congress was still in session at San
tiago. The report of the Minister of Marine is
interesting. The weather had been quite severe,
and some wrecks are reported. sea captain on
his way from Valparaiso to africa, reports having
an island fifteen miles long, which had Just
been thrown up from the sea-
In Eucador affairs seem to be all in favor of
Flores Franco failed to get any sympathy at
Guayaquil. He is said to be committing outrages
whenever he can. He withdrew the exequater
port, and that gentleman had gone in search of a
United States vessel.
In Central America everything was quiet. There
is no news of Walker whose fate is not yet known.
The news published a few days ago to the effect
that he had been shot, only a rehash of the
news received via Havana, by the Spanish steamer
Francisco de Asis, which sailed the day Walker
was placed in confinement at Truxllo
An extra session of the Costa Rican Congress had
been called, but for what purpose is not known.
President Martinez, of Nicaragua still in fail
ing health, and it is said he will resign next Janu-
ary.
ANOTHER New YoRK MYsrERY-A Dead Nan
Found ,gih his Throat C,u.-In New York, between
6 and O'Clock on Sunday morning, Edward
Spring, watchman, employed at Pier No. l,
North River, discovered the dead body of a man
floating in the dock He secured it to the pier, and
notified the coroner. DR.. Christopher Wetje
made post tmertem examination of the body, and
found that the throat OF the deceased had been cut
almost from side of the head to the other and
that the wound was so deep as to have severed the
wind pipe and all the principal arteries. The doc
tor also found bruse two inches in length the
left side OF the head, and the supposition is that
the man has been murdered, although, in the alb
sence of any testimony as to how the wounds were
inflicted, the jury could not positively assert that
such was the case. From the advanced state OF
decomposition in which the body was found it is
supposed to have been at least four weeks in the
water, and its general appearance betOkened it to
be that of dock-laborer 'ongshoreman. The
deceased was about forty years of age. He was 3
feet inches in height, stoutly built, and had dark
hair and sandy whiskers.
POSTAGE TO URUGUAY AND THE ARGENTINE COME
DERArIoN BY THE FRENCH MAIL.-We are requested
to state that official notice has been given by the
French Post-ofiice that French mail packet will
hereafter run regularly between Rio de JaneirO,
Montevideo, and BuenOs Ayres, connecting at Rio
de Janeiro with the monthly line of French m all
packets plying on the route between Bordeaux and
Rio de Janero, by means of which letters from the
| United States for Uruguay and the Argentine
| Confederation may be forwarded via France, in
the French mail, at postage charge of 80 cents,
the single rate of one-fourth ounce UNDER pre-
| payment of which is compulsory in the United
! States. Letters originating in Uruguay and the
| Argentine Confederation, and addressed to the
| United States, may, however, be prepaid or left
unpaid. at the option of the senders; the French
| Post-office having appointed its own agents at
| Montevideo and Buenos Ayres, who are authorized
| to receive the postage in advance.-Nat. Intel.
THE GREAT EAsTERY-The Great Eastern could
transport ten thousand men of all arms, army
complete in itself, and ready for immediate action
| or rapid advance-three hundred miles in twenty
| four hours. From where she now lies she could
reinforce Gibraltar to that extent in little more
| than four days. Putting aside the horses, she
could throw still larger force into Calcutta in be-
| tween five and six weeks. She would have little
to fear from enemies. With the heels of every
ship afoat, she could run down small opponents OF
distance formidable ones. Indeed, though not con-
sructed for fighting, she alone of all the ships now
existing Is equal to the task OF keeping, not, in
| deed, a continuous blockade, but a continuous
| lookout any harbor that might be considered
| dangerous; and it would be a national sin as
| we'll national shame, should she ever be-
come the property Of any other naval power
London Post.
TIE ENGLISH RAoE.-The old English blood has
not stagnated in veins. The population of the
country is rapidly increasing despite of the enor
nous drain of emigration-nor has the race degen-
Grated in any respect. Most of the suits of armor
in the Tower would be found too small for the stout
| limbs of the young Cumberland recruits who join
| the ranks of our Household troops. The duration
| of life has increased. 1t is mistake to suppose
that the increase of luxury has sapped the vigor of
the English people, We have still practical mo-
nopoly of the coal and iron of the world, and in
creased skill in using them. Better still, we have
absolute freedom of action and thought.-Once a
| Week.
AN EDIroR's EXCUSE FOR Nor serving AS JUROR.
MIR. Oliver Johnson, the editor of the National
| Anti-Siouery Standard, having been summoned as
juror in a Court in New York, presented the fol
lowing reason for being excused from service, en-
dorsed on the back of the summons
"The within named party asks to be excused
| from the service to which he is herein summoned,
| on the ground that he is held by public opinion to
be crazy, forasmuch as he is editor of the National
Anti-Starery Standard, paper which advocates
the immediate abolition of slavery and the dissolu
| ton OF the American Union covenant with
| Death and an agreement with He'll.
"Sept is, 1860. OLIVER JOHNSON"