IM 



COLOMBIA. 



There are, besides, the following national 

 territories, administered directly by the cen- 

 tral Government : 



8u Andrf T 8n Lol* d ProTtd*ne! . . . .. 8JM 



In the nnnexed table are enumerated the 

 St:ite capitals, with their populations: 



ToUl. 



U .,: 



We are not in possession of definite infor- 

 mation respecting the population of the other 

 territories Casanare, Goajira, Sierra Nevada, 

 and Uotilones. 



About 1,000,000 of the inhabitants are 

 whites and mestizos, with a large proportion 

 of European blood; some 600,000 mestizos 

 more strongly marked with the Indian type, 

 500,000 zambos, and the remainder Africans, 

 re are, besides, about 126,000 independent 

 Indians not included in the foregoing figures. 



Mg$Pll>l 0' th. ^public ............. 60.000 



!r^r n "-::-:::::::::::::.v.v.-:.v::::::: 



Popiyiin .................................. 1.<WO 



8antaM.ru ............................... S.MO 



I',,, ,.- , ...... 



-,',.. r",'. ......................... SO.UOO 



Qiuno... .................................. 7.000 



Total ............................... 170,078 



The President of the republic is General J. 

 Trujillo, elected provisionally in 1873. 



The members of the Supreme Court of 

 Bogota are elected by the Legislative Chain- 

 Iters of the nine States, and are: The Presi- 

 dent, 0. Conto; four members in ordinary. ,1. 

 M. Rojas Garrido, J. M. Perez, J. M. Yilla- 







mizar Gallardo, and M. M. Ramirez ; the Pro- 

 curator-General U A. Cenon. 



V. Arbaltez is the present Archbishop of 

 Bogota. 



The gorernors of the different States are as 

 follows: Antioquia, J. M. Berrio; Bolivar, 

 R. St D. Vila: Boy aca, V. Rueda; Oanca, J. 

 >tqnera; Cundinainarca, J. Borriga; Mag- 

 dalena. J. II. Oampo Serrano ; Panama. !'. 

 matoOerrera; Santander, N. Oadena; Tolimo, 

 J v. I. :., 



There being a governor of the city of Pana- 

 ma, the Bute executive is called president. 



The army is 1,420 strong in time of peace; 

 in ease of war, each of the States furnishes 

 a continjcnt of one per cent, of its population. 



According to a report of President Murillo, 

 under date April 4, 1872, the national debt 

 wa made np of the following elements: 



FOREIGN DIET. 



Old debt 



New debt .. 



Supcndeddcbu.. 



Home debt. 



Total debt ...... 



Membud aplUl. 



|14,8S7.0 

 14,06400 



.i.-l.l.TKI 

 *n >.]'-, i 



At UM PWMOI nt>. 



:1tpcrct- 

 1.860.4W=8R " 

 1.817,465= 9 " 



$r>.4<M.om 



*,667.M1 



In January, 1878, a contract was signed by 

 the Secretary of the Treasury mi'l Mr. O'Lcary 

 (commissioned for the purpose by tlic forcirn 

 landholders), transforming the fori-i^n 

 into one of $10,000,000, at four ami a halt' por 

 rent, pcrannnin (say $450,000), wliicli in' 



.rred by about thirty-seven and a half per 

 cent, of the customs receipts. 



The following note was addressed by the 

 Secretary of the Treasury, on August -itli. to 

 the Colombian ministers [o England 



