The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-10-02

Total American currency. $133 659 573 $24 275
Total English currency f2673l9l4 942 $40 655
Thus, out of the 900 of foreign trade, the
! Old Country engrosses f42, $40 900, or about 65
per cent? and of the f56, ,522, 900 of foreign goods
imported into the States, f26, ,731 ,0O0 or trife
more than one-half, supplied by England and
her colonies. by the side of this enormous trade,
the commerce with other foreign nations appears
small and insignificant. France, Russia, Holland
| Belgium, Denmark, Spain and Cuba, Austria. Por-
tuga the Two Siciies and Turkey do moi, combined
purchase ofthe Americans more than England alone
the aggregate being but SS7, ,204 900, as against
S9O, ,454 900; and it requires the trade with Brazil
| the whole of the South American States, to be
| added to the trade of the United States with Eu-
rope and Asia, and Africa, in order to bring it into
an equality with the value of the goods purchased
by the British empire; while out of every hundred
dollars worth OF native or foreign produce sold BY
the United States, England and her colonies takes
sixty-hye, and all the rest of the world but thirty
| five.
No other "material guarantee" is required for
the preservation of peace between Young America
and Old England than is afforded by that stupen-
dous commerce which has grown up between the
two countries. Governments may change their
policy, and become involved in the technicalites
| of those small disputes which must ever arise
in the management of the affairs of two great
nations possessing so many points of common in.
| terest; but the producers and consumers on each
! side of the Atlantic have cemented an alliance SO
| powerful, that it cannot be broken, and have
| formed friendships which will endure so long as
| freedom and progress shall continue to be the
watchwords OF enlightened civilization.
PERUGA.-The latest advces from the seat of war
IN Italy, announce that Gen. Fant of the Sandman
army, entered Perugia on the l4th inst, capturing
| the castle and taking one thousand prisoners.
Perugia is one of the most important cities of
the Papal States. 1t is the capital of the deega-
ton OF the same name, through which the historic
| Tiber runs In the Western part of the delegation
| is Lake Perugia, near which Hannibal gained a
victory over the Romans in the year 2l7 B. C. The
| mn oft
| mans perllous march across the marches of the
Arno, during which their leader lost his right eye
| After crossing The Arno, Hannibal enticed Fami-
MUS, one of the Roman Consuls, from his position
at Arretium (the modern Arrezzo), to the banks of
| Lake Thrasymenus, where he attacked the Romans
in front and rear. In this battle fully One-balf of
the Roman army perished by the sword or in the
lake, and the other half captured and the Con-
| sui fell.
Perugia is situated on the side and summit of a
lofty eminence, whose base is washed by the Tiber.
1t is eighty four miles north from Rome, is sur
rounded by lofty walls, and defended by the citadel
captured on the l4th by Gen. Fanti and his Sar-
dinian troops. The city threaded by very irregu
lar but commodious streets, and contains some re.
markably fine buildings.
PERnoUs ADVENTURE OF YoUYG WOMAN TO GET
TO HER LovER.-As the freight train ON the Logans-
port Peoria and Burlington Railroad was coming
West, the evening of the 9th inst the conductor
was accosted at Hanna station, in Indiana, by a
smart, intelligent and goodooking female who So
licited a ride. She explained that she had eloped
from her parents account of their opposition to
her union with young man to whom she was attach
ed. Conductor Moore advised her to reconsider her
determination to elope and declined taking her On
board, and the train moved on, leaving her as was
supposed, behind. Some time after one of the train
men had occasion to pass over the cars, and found
the girl, with her band boxes, clinging to a car
loaded with timber, just back of the engine She
had only space of about six inches of the car to
stand on, and in that perilous position, with the
sparks OF the locomotive beating upon her, she had
ridden about twelve miles. 1t has been well said
that
"a woman will or won't-depend ont
she will dot, she will, and there is end ont"
The train was stopped, and the girl was taken
into the conductors and left at KENT but with
uncomfortable will she succeeded in raising suffi-
cient money to pay her fare on subsequent train,
and on Wednesday evening passed throug this city
to Chillicothe, where she Joined her lover-Peoria
Transcript.
The HAYTIEN NEGROES LOVE TO THEIR RAcE.-A
John Brown worshipper, who has been looking
after John Browns interest in Port au Prince,
writes to the Boston Journal:
81 arrived here safely and in good health Friday
before last On the following Tuesday had an in
terview with the President went up to the pa
1an NTH Aalvo hons I