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SPAIN. 



of James Martin and B. F. Randolph, both 

 members of the General Assembly. 



At the presidential election in November, 

 107,538 votes were cast, of which 62,301 were 

 given in favor of the election of G-eneral Grant, 

 and 45,237 were for Seymour: Grant's ma- 

 jority, 17,064. There are four congressional 

 districts in the State, three of which sent 

 Eepublican, and one a Democratic Representa- 

 tive to Washington. 



The Legislature met in regular session on 

 the fourth Wednesday in November, and two 

 weeks later adjourned into the month of Jan- 

 uary, 1869. 



The entire bonded debt of South Carolina 

 amounts to $5,407,306.27, consisting of the 

 following items : 



Three per cent, stock, payable at the 



pleasure of the State $38,836 60 



Six per cent, fire loan, payable in 1870 314,453 89 



Six per cent, stock new State-House 1,775,000 00 



Six per cent, stock and bonds, funded debt 1,282,971 27 



Five per cent, bonds, fire loan 484,444 51 



Six per cent, bonds, Blue Ridge Railroad . . . 1,000,000 00 



Six per cent, bonds, new State Capitol 511,600 00 



Making a grand total of $5,407,306 27 



-Interest due on the entire debt July 1, 1868. . ..$355,204 32 

 Interest due January 1, 1869 159,214 38 



Total interest $514,418 70 



The regular report of the financial opera- 

 tions of the State covers the period from the 

 15th of May to the 15th of November. The 

 expenses of the Government during that time 

 were $409,688.76, while the receipts for the 

 same time, including the funds on hand on May 

 1st, amounted to $435,373.83. The estimated 

 disbursements of the current year are put at 

 $819,290.51, including interest on the public 

 debt to the amount of $330,692.38. 



The reorganization of the public institutions 

 has made a good degree of progress during the 

 past year. The Lunatic Asylum has been in 

 successful operation, and on the 7th of Novem- 

 ber contained 204 inmates. There is a new 

 penitentiary at Columbia, having 500 cells for 

 male convicts, and 48 for females. On the 

 15th of January, 1868, there were 187 prison- 

 ers in the penitentiary, 158 of which were ne- 

 groes. 



The State has property in railroads as fol- 

 lows: 



Shares in Northeastern Railroad Company $120,000 00 

 Shares in Spartanburg and Union Railroad 



Company 250.000 00 



Shares in Pendleton Railroad Company. . . . 42,500 00 

 Shares in Greenville and Columbia Railroad 



Company, 433,960 00 



Shares in Blue Ridge Railroad Company. . . . 1,310,008 00 

 Shares in Columbia and Augusta Railroad 



Company 42,200 00 



Shares in Cheraw and Coalfields Railroad 



Company 300,000 00 



Shares in Laurens Railroad Company 50,000 00 



Shares in South Carolina Railroad Company ' 24,000 00 

 Shares in Charleston and Savannah Rail- 

 road Company 270,000 00 



Shares in Southwestern Railroad Bank 6,000 00 



Shares in Keowee and Tuckaseegee Turn- 

 pike Company 6,000 00 



Total $1,754,660 00 



SPAIN, a country in Europe. From Jan- 

 uary, 1868, until September, the country was 

 under the rule of Queen Isabella II. ; in Sep- 

 tember a successful revolution overthrew the 

 throne of the Queen, and the country was un- 

 til the close of the year under a provisional 

 government. Queen Isabella II. was born Octo- 

 ber 10, 1830 ; succeeded her father on Septem- 

 ber 29, 1833 ; was declared of age by decree of 

 the Cortes, November 8, 1843 ; was married Oc- 

 tober 10, 1846, to her first cousin, Francisco de 

 Assis, Titular King of Spain, born May 13, 1822, 

 son of the Infante Francisco, brother of King 

 Ferdinand VII. Heir-apparent was Alfonso, 

 Prince of Asturias, born November 28, 1857. 

 The eldest daughter of the Queen, Infanta Isa- 

 bella, born December 20, 1851, married on May 

 14, 1868, the Count of Girgenti, brother of the 

 ex-King Francis II. of Naples. The only sister 

 of the Queen, Infanta Louisa, was born Jan- 

 uary 30, 1832, and married October 10, 1846, 

 to Antoine, Duke of Montpensier, youngest son 

 of the late King Louis Philippe of France. The 

 right of Queen Isabella to the throne has al- 

 ways been contested by the family of her 

 father's brother, Don Carlos (born March 29, 

 1788; died at Trieste, March 10, 1855). Don 

 Carlos, on May 18, 1845, resigned his claims to 

 the throne in favor of his eldest son, Don Car- 

 los, Count of Montemolin, after whose death, 

 January 13, 1861, the second son of Don Carlos, 

 Don Juan, born May 15, 1822, inherited the claim 

 to the throne. Don Juan, after the revolution of 

 September, 1868, resigned his claims in favor of 

 his eldest son, Don Carlos, Duke of Madrid, born 

 March 30, 1848 ; married February 4, 1867, to 

 Infanta Margareta, daughter of the late Duke 

 Charles III. of Parma. The act of renunciation 

 is dated Paris, October 3, 1868, and says: 

 " My only ambition being the happiness of the 

 Spaniards that is to say, the internal pros- 

 perity of my beloved country and her prestige 

 abroad I believe it to be my duty to abdicate, 

 and do hereby abdicate all my rights to the 

 crown of Spain in favor of my son Don Carlos." 

 The attempts made after the expulsion of Queen 

 Isabella from Spain, to effect a fusion of the 

 two lines of Bourbons, failed, and both Isabella 

 and Don Carlos, who assumed the name Carlos 

 VII., up to the close of the year, maintained 

 their rival claims. 



At the beginning of the year 1868 the Span- 

 ish ministry was composed as follows : Presi- 

 dent and Minister of War, Marshal Kamon 

 Maria Narvaez y Campos, Duke of Valencia 

 (appointed July, 1866) ; Foreign Affairs, Arra- 

 zola (1867); Grace and Justice, Marquis de 

 Eoncali (1867); Finances, Marquis de Barza-* 

 nallana (1866); Interior, Bravo Murillo (1866); 

 Public Works, Commerce and Instruction, 

 Orobio (1866) ; Navy, Belda (1867) ; Colonies, 

 Marfori (1867). On February 15, Severo Ca- 

 talina was appointed Minister of the Navy. In 

 consequence of the death (March 23, 1868) of 

 the Prime Minister Marshal Narvaez, the whole 

 ministry tendered their resignation, and on the 



