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Don Carlos, himM-lf, while travelling 



1-YaiKv uitli an Austrian passport, under tho 



of the Marquis of Ah -untura, was ar- 

 ! at Lyons by the civil authorities. Ho 

 HTM reminded that ho could reside only in the. 

 north nt' France, and if ho violated that con- 

 dition IK- iiui^t leave the country. The prince 

 then proceeded to Switzerland, accompanied 

 by an escort as far as the frontier. Previous 

 In his arrest ho met the Duke of Modena at 

 Lyons and cora{)leted all his arrangements for 

 jroin- to Spain and raising another insurrec- 

 tion. Various engagements took place be- 

 tween the insurrectionists and the Government 

 troops during the summer, without any definite 

 result. On September 5th, the Carlist chief 

 Carroga, and 500 men, offered to lay down 

 their arms, and were pardoned. On the fol- 

 lowing day a band of 000 Oarlists was attacked 

 and beaten near Navarre. Several of them 



captured, among whom were some 

 priests, with arms in their hands. Another 

 band of 800 or 400 was encountered in the 

 province of Biscay. The insurgents were at- 

 tempting to destroy the railroad, but were at- 

 tacked by the Government troops and routed. 

 These defeats put an end to the Carlist move- 

 ment for the remainder of the year. 



The colonial possessions of Spain consist of: 



By far the most important of these colonies, 

 as regards natural resources and their develop- 

 ment, commerce, and wealth, is the Island of 

 Cuba. The government is vested in a Cap- 

 tain-General, who is the military commander 

 of tho whole island, and the civil governor of 

 one of the three provinces. Its population, 

 according to the census of 1867, was classed as 

 follow- : 



White Inhabitants ...................... .. 7C0612 



Free Colored .................. '.' i38,843 



slaves .................................. ......'."I tm'jaa 



Total 





T!i free colored population consisted of 

 50,000 Chinese ; 1,500 Yucatese ; 225,843 free 

 II-LTI-OOS; and 6,000 emancipated slaves, or 

 such negroes as had been taken from on board 

 of captured slave-traders. Havana, the seat 

 of government, and the chief town of the 

 island, had a population (in 1863) of 205,676 

 inhabitants, of whom 138,895 wore whites. 



The island being still in a state of insurrec- 

 tion against the Government of the mother- 

 country, the construction of railroads and 



other public works projected baa not been re- 

 sumed during the year. < )n September 19, 

 1870, tho Panama and West India submarine 

 cable, which connects Cuba with Jamaica, was 

 opened to tho public ; the submerging of tho 

 cable- to Awpinwall was to be completed at an 

 early day. At the end of tho year 1868 about 

 403 miles of railroad were in operation. Tho 

 most important port is Havana; tho clearances 

 at the custom-house there comprise from 45 to 

 50 per cent, of the entire exports of the island, 

 while the entries amount to nearly 75 per 

 cent, of tho aggregate imports in Cuba. Ma- 

 tanzas is next in importance as regards expor- 

 tation. The entire exports of sugar during 

 1809 summed up 1,701,871 boxes of 400 pounds 

 each, and 511,822 casks or hogsheads, of which 

 1,308,381 boxes, and 35,649 hogsheads were 

 exported from Havana to the following coun- 

 tries: 58 per cent, to the United States ; 26.5 per 

 cent, to Great Britian ; 6.8 per cent, to Spain 

 and the south of Europe ; 6 per cent, to France ; 

 1.6 per cent, to the North of Europe; and 

 1.14 per cent, to other countries. There were 

 also exported from Havana, in 1869, 880,078 

 barrels molasses, at from 110 to 120 gallons; 

 2,115 tierces honey, at 80 gallons; 13,605 bar- 

 rels rum, at 125 gallons; 28,049 arrobas wax 

 (one arroba equals 24 Ibs.) ; 22,269,876 pounds 

 tobacco, and 179,962,000 cigars. The export 

 of coffee is not of any importance. The offi- 

 cial statements of imports and exports of Cuba 

 do not state the value of the different articles ; 

 on an average, tho imports and exports of 

 Havana are calculated at $40,000,000 annually. 

 The movements of shipping at the port of 

 Havana, during 1869, comprised the following 

 arrivals: 721 American vessels, of 378,645 

 tons; 574 Spanish vessels, of 142,320 tons; 

 124 English vessels, of 124,522 tons ; 58 French 

 vessels, of 50,661 tons; 49 German vessels, of 

 39,750 tons; 68 Norwegian vessels, of 26,061 

 tons; 75 vessels from other countries, of 35,386 

 tons : total, 1,852 vessels, of 797,345 tons. The 

 customs revenue at Havana,' in 1870, showed 

 an increase of $6,000,000 over that of 1869. 



Tho insurrection on the island of Cuba 

 against the Government of Spain was con- 

 tinued throughout the year 1870 with unabated 

 vigor, and, although it did not gain ground nor 

 obtain any signal advantage, the Spanish au- 

 thorities were unable to suppress it, and tho 

 war was waged on both sides with a degree 01 

 ferocity and a disregard of human life un- 

 known in modern warfare. The destruction 

 of property was immense, the torch of the 

 Spaniard and Cuban alike was busy in carry- 

 ing devastation over fertile regions. The de- 

 crees issued and executed by both parties wero 

 bloody and revengeful. The Spaniards, be- 

 sides having to fight a desperate enemy, per- 

 fectly familiar with all tho mountain roe 

 in the interior of tho island, saw their number 

 decimated by the climate and by disease ; and, 

 although they had u numerous army in the field 

 at the beginning of the year, the Captain-Gen- 



