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Show CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA COSTA RICA AND PANAMA. Work on the Costa Rica railroad is proeressiDg in every direction. The President of Costa Rica has been allowed leave to visit Europe, with aa allowance of $25,000 for ex-pen ex-pen -en. Professor Agassiz and his party went over tho Panama railroad on Saturday, the 6th instant, as far as Mamee station, where they remained until yesterday, when they returned to Panama. SAN SALVADOU. The Bohtin of the 10th ultimo says: Article 12th of tho Arbizu-Samayoa treaty has been ful tilled on tho part ot the stipulators. In virtua of this stipulation the Jesuit Fathers, Paul and Pozo, were expelled. This fulfillment of the law has called forth a protest from Bishop Areinco highly insulting to the High Powers of the nation. This document attacks in a disrespectful and viiulent "mnuer the Legislative and Executive Power. AL-cording to tho Bolel'n Official of Juue 20th, the Republic of Salvador is declared to have returned to a state of peace which it enjoyed before its inturruption by tho intrigues of the ex-president of Honduras. CUATEMALl. On the Sth instaut, the government ordered thirty-nine Capuchin Fiiarb constituting the community of that order, to leave the country. They were to proceed from the Convent of Belem, which they occupied, toward the Mexican frontiers. At the hour of departure (S a. m. ) there was assembled a great crowd of men and women, so much so as to intercept the murch of: the carriages containing tho Padres. A soldier, in trying to make a way for the carriages through the crowd, discharged dis-charged his musket by accident; other three soldiers, thinking there had been given the order to tire, made use ot their arms, killing two and wounding threo persons. Latterly, tho government, govern-ment, at the solicitation of the Spanish vice-consul, allowed the Padres to he conducted to Ctiamperico, and there to take passage to Ca.itornia by the next steamer. The expulsion of th'. Friars above-mentioned above-mentioned was in consequenco of a decree issued by general Barrios on the 7-h ultimo, declaring the exclam-t exclam-t ration of all religious communities in tbe Republic, aud the transference of their properties to the nation, to be devoted to tbe creation and maintenance- of gratuitous schools. Vessels and ornaments required for the service of tho church are exempted. A pension pen-sion of $25 per mouth is granted to those religionists who are not authorized author-ized to say mass fur tbe period of a year, to be paid out of the public treasury; trea-sury; a similar pension to be given to those who, from age or other impediment, impedi-ment, are unable to gain their daily bread, ECUADOR. Mr. de Dulcat, Charge d' Affaires and Consul-General of France, io Ecuador, Ecua-dor, has suddenly died in Quito, The search for the treasure supposed yet to be in the wreck of the Lcocadia, which went on shore in 1802 near Funta Santa Helena, goes on actively, and endeavors are being made to clear out the sand, etc., that fills the wreck. A good coal mine has been found and denounced by Messrs. Enriquez, iMurga, Gomez & Dchais, near a place i oalled Crab bay, about four leagues from the town of Santa Helena. The government replied to the document ' ihat coal mines had been declared a i government monopo y, but that they 1 should receive a pecuniary compensa-, compensa-, tion should the mine turn out fit to be worked. CHILI. The fiscal revenue for 1ST I was $11,778,500 83. In the first lour months of the present pres-ent year the customs have yielded $191,264 40 more than in the corresponding corre-sponding period of last year. Don Jose Joaquin Marquez has discovered dis-covered some guano depo&its io the territory of Chili, and has applied to congress for concessions to protect his rights therein, and make them public. Tho whipping-post is still used in Chili, and one man recently received 1,500 lashes to imake him confess a robbery, dying, of course, before the punishment was completed. Private despatches state that the Trans Andine Telegraph is likely to be completed between Los Andes and Mendoza in the course of a lew days, so that we may now anticipate hearing of a direct instant communication from Buenos Ayres to Valparaiso. Congress convened on the first of June last. President Ersazurez, in his message, says: The late troubles and disputes as to the burial of Protestants, or of those outside of the pale of the Roman Church, have suggested the following mode of arrangement: It was necessary to put an end to this evil by dictating measures to secure to all deoent and tranquil burial. With this view it has been ordered that in all Catholic cemeteries there be set apart a portion of tbe ground for the reception of tbe bodies of thoso to whom the church denies ecclesiastical burial, and that tbe cemeteries that '. may be constructed in future, with their fiscal or municipal moneys, shall be laical or common. The justice of the latter determination determina-tion cannot be denied. The money of 1 all ought to be employed in tbe service of all. But as some time must elapse 1 before laical cemeteries exist in all our " towns, it is necessary to order the ' separation of the part of which I have spoken, in the Catholic cemeteries. By thiB measure the repetition of past 1 conflicts will be avoided, and the legitimate legi-timate interest of all will be consulted. I The opening of congress has been signalized by the presentation of sever-1 sever-1 al very important measures, among them may bo mentioned a bill for legalizing civil marriages ; one lor abolishing the privilege of the clergy privilegium clericale); one for authorizing author-izing the president of the Republic to enter into contraots with private individuals indi-viduals for the introduction of immigrants; immi-grants; one for the abolition of flogging; flog-ging; one for a new assessment of landed property; one for the abolition of tho tobacoo monopoly; and another tor the repeal of the duty on foreign coal. FEKU. There has been a rebellion of the Chinese in Canete. Don Julio LoveDthal has been named consul ad honoreni of Peru in Guuteoiala. Don Antonio Silva has been recognized recog-nized as Brazilian vice consul in Tum-be-. The statue of Cristoval Colon is to bo removed to the Square of Guadeloupe Guade-loupe in front of the Palaco of the Exhibition. Tho surf along the wholo south coast contiuues very heavy, and has given rise to several accidents and loss of hie. Immense deposits of nitrate of soda havo b.'cn discovered about four leagues distant from Africa, between tho ravine of Azapa and that of Vitor. Another cargo of coolies from Macao has arrived by the national frigate America. Out of 690 originally embarked, em-barked, loi arc reported dead, "all gone back to China." This is over 15 per cent, and affords another reason rea-son why some investieatiou should be made when such heavy losses occur. The two great objects which attract public attention, are the opening of the National exhibition to take place on the 1st inst., and tho installation of congress on the 2Sth of this month. M'iat of the nations of America and Europe have contributed extensirely to tho forainr. Tho galWios and hall of the splendid edifice are full of all that indury oau otlcr aa mout worthy of attention. Liter advices pay that the government govern-ment party ia conti nent of sueoens, and tho adherents of Mr. Pardo, although not altogether despondent, regard their cause with some uncertainty. Mr. Pardo' b supporters, among the first men of the country, are loth to enter into a contest where the probabilities of defeat are greater than thoi-e of vi tory. In any case, the dancers of a revolution appear to be distant. In Tambo Mora three launches were lost, and the engineer of a steam launch lost his life io trying to get od board of the steamship lnca. The Inca could only ditembark the mails but no cargo at the aboe port, on the 14th. At Pisco, on the loth, the sea was still so rough that she had to bring back her cargo to Callao. The Quito and Peniano i'ound similar difficulties at the porta of their route to the rrvth of Cailao. At Huanchico tho Qwto had to remain two miles off the port, but finally could not land anything. On the evening of the 14th of June the inhabitants of Lima were start'ed from their aecu-tomed equanimity by some ominous rumors which circulated rapidly through the city. It was intimated inti-mated that on the following day president presi-dent Balta proposed effecting a coup d'etat, and in the preence of the garrison gar-rison of Lima, intended presenting Dr. Areniif, the candidate and favorite of the administration, as the legnlly elected president of the republic. Tbe agitation calmed down when it was ascertained as-certained that the military on the oeca-sionwas oeca-sionwas planned more for general governmental gov-ernmental purposes than for practical strategy. |