SOUTH CAKOLISTA. 



penditures of the year were $61,522.50 ; the 

 amount of work performed by convicts, as esti- 

 mated at contract price, and of materials and 

 stores on hand, $93,675.69, leaving a balance 

 of $32,153.19 to the credit of the institution. 



There has been a marked decrease in the 

 aggregate value of the real and personal 

 property in the State since 1860, the extent 

 of which, owing to the changes wrought 

 within that period, has not been accurately 

 determined. The assessed valuation of the 

 real property in 1860 was $129,772,684, and 

 of the personal property $359,546,444, which 

 included slaves, valued at $160,962,400; in 

 1869 the assessed value of the real property 

 was $125,170,069, while the personal property 

 was valued at $38,828,410. 



The number and assessed value of live-stock 

 in the State in 1869, as compared with the 

 number and value in 1860, are exhibited in the 

 following statement : 



SPAIN". 



637 



The number of inhabitants in the State, in 

 1860, was as follows: 



A comparison of the results above given 

 shows a decrease of 16,427 in the white popu- 

 lation of the State since 1860, and 26,182 in the 

 colored, making a total decrease in the popu- 

 lation of 42,609. The decrease in the white 

 population has been five and a half per cent., 

 and in the colored six and a third per cent. 



SPAIN". Throughout the year 1869 the coun- 

 try was under a Provisional Government. On 

 the 18th of June, 1869, Marshal F. Serrano y 

 Dominguez, Duke de la Torre, was appointed 

 Eegent, and formed the following ministry: 

 President of the Council and Minister of War, 

 Captain-General J. Prim, Count de Reus, Mar- 

 quis de los Castellejos; Minister of State, M. 

 Silvela ; Minister of Justice, M. Ruiz Zorilla ; 

 Minister of Finances, 0. Ardanaz ; Minister 

 of the Navy, Counter- Admiral J. B. Topete ; 

 Minister of the Interior, P. M. Sagasta ; Min- 

 ister of Agriculture, J. de Echegaray ; Minister 

 of the Colonies, M. Becerra. 



The area of Spain, inclusive of the Balearic 

 and Canary Islands, is 195,607 square miles; 

 the population, in 1864, was 16,302,625. The 

 population of the colonies, in 1869, was as 

 follows : 



AMERICA. Cuba and dependencies (1867) 1,369,942 



Porto Rico and dependencies (1864). . 615,574 



ASIA AND OCEANICA 4,348,459 



AFRICA. The Guinea Islands 5,590 



6,339,565 



The budget of 1869-'70 estimates the revenue 

 at 214,113,800 escudos (1 escudo=48 cents) ; 

 the expenditures, at 298,708,491 escudos ; deficit, 

 84,594,691 escudos. The public debt on March 

 1, 1869, amounted to 2,551,000,000 escudos. 



The army, according to a statement of the 

 Minister of War, amounted, in the summer of 

 1869, to 80,000 men. The fleet is to consist of 7 

 iron-clad frigates, 5 large screw-steamers, 9 

 smaller screw-steamers, 8 side- wheel steamers, 

 2 transports, 2 sailing-vessels, 2 school-vessels. 

 For the protection of the coast, there are to 

 be employed 3 gunboats, and 84 sailing-vessels. 



The bloody conflict between the republicans 

 of Malaga and the troops of the Government, 

 which took place in the last days of the year 

 1868, was quelled, after severe fighting, on Jan- 

 uary 2, 1869. The insurgents having refused 

 the summons of General 0. de Rodas to sur- 

 render, the latter, supported by the ships-of- 

 war, after a prolonged fight took possession of 

 all their positions, and completely defeated 

 them. They lost 400 killed and wounded, and 

 more than 600 taken prisoners. The conflicts 

 between the republicans and the Government 

 gave new confidence to the partisans of the 



