The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-27 00:00:00

The State of California.

California lost population in 1865. She sent away
29,776 to the East and to the North, and received 25,784 ;
loss 3,992, or nearly one per cent. There was a gain of
799 in Chinamen. The exports to foreign countries, aside
from treasure (not including Atlantic States) for the year
wore $14,500,000, an increase of $1,250,000 over 1864; the
imports were $10,333,896, a falling off of $117,000. The
exports were grain, lumber, ore, and quicksilver; those to
Great Britain wore almost exclusively ore and quicksilver,
and showed an immense increase from former years—five
times as much as in 1864. Nearly all the copper ore and a
good deal of valuable gold and silver ore is sent to Great
Britain to be worked.

The exports to China and Japan were largely increased
by shipments of flour and wheat. The trade with China
has nearly doubled since 1862, though this increase has
been very gradual and slow since 1863. The value of ex-
ports to Japan has quadrupled since 1862. With Mexico,
Australia, and Victoria the export trade has fallen off, but
with all other countries it has increased. California im-
ported from France something like 11,1,400,000 worth of
merchandise, and exported nothing to that country except
gold. During the year she exported (in all) 163,701 barrels
of flour, 392,361 sacks of wheat, 149,167 sacks of barley,
12,649 sacks of oats, 15,329 bales of wool. Of wines
(mostly California) she exported 20 hogsheads, 4,926 casks
and pipes, 640 half casks, 110 quarter casks, 81 barrels, 49
octaves, 92 kegs, 14,000 cases, 3,444 baskets, and 100 pack-
ages; being an increase of nearly 80 per cent. on the expor-
tation of 1864.

In 1858 the amount of wine produced in California was
58,055 gallons ; in 1860 the production was 206,518 gallons,
when the total amount of wino produced in the United
States was 1,617,957 gallons. The amount of wine pro-
duced, in California last year is stated to be 2,000,00.0ngaa
lons, or more than twice as much as was produced in
whole of the United States in 1860. There_ rh
nro
riot
that state 40,172,650 grape vines, many
those vines h
vines becom a
yet in a bearing condition.
pro-
duct of wine will be at least
Sj,
of grape-growing. it
state was pressed to its
full
capacity2oo,ooo,ooo gallons of wino
productive, there is little doubWrtoblion°ol:otothohaotgtabileonasn.nuailf
timis believed it could produce
annually,
of.nalllBth6so, psrloBple,rotoy7,4inot.he
The
etoftaorl
property in the state for one year
1864 Thew aassss
e IsBs assessed 4 va1ue84,9490f;
increase in the
tahlleythmisadcaepointalyl,
$
va912":157, or a little over one quarter of one
5-
'laden of the state is not far from half
atnhathe use
industry, o f
t The PciPu in
who started last year with a total aggregate
capital of .ep
if equally divided among the population,
would give a little more than a dollar—say a dollar and 3
apweniarsiletelhin:
aonil'4Bi4.l;t9e4ll9iglienutcew:
quarter—for his or her earnings during the year. Tho
following counties are those which exhibit a falling off.:?,'l
the value of property—which are poorer—as
ell'no,
with 1864. Amador, Butte, Colusa, Del Norte
;fonterey,
Lassen, Lake, Los Angeles, Maria, Mari 0_
and their
: which,nerg.y'
Mono, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, San
Santa Clara,
Diego, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, '
Sutter, Trinity,
Shasta, Siskiyou, Solano, San
I,,fate;:he following have
Tuolumne, Tehatna, Yolo, and Yufr•s, Costa, El Dorado,
BPeisillaanrdino, San
increased :—Alpine, Alameda, P"
Cstanislaus, and San Frau-
Napa, Plums, Sierra, Sonoma,va
us
of
1 property in San
cisco. In 1864 the assessed
in
1865, $88,266,457; in-
Francisco was $82,403,48,%_
equal to a little over 7 per
crease for the year, $5,8c612,5,
cent. San Francisco
lit-lope' rty in the state.ns It pays into
only two millio of dollars of
having one-half
the
d
y sources of revenue. half the money received by that
theinstisttuattiao
a treasuryfr aboutnaorip r_

Under the old constitution of South Carolina
the veto was not -vested in tho Governor, but tho new
constitution gives him the power. The first occasion of
the exercise of this newly-given power by Governor Orr
was, in regard to an "act to amend the patrol laws,"
which, in effect., re-established the police regulations with
regard to freedmen, which had once controlled them as
slaves. The Governor says that, having accorded freedom
to the African race in their midst, the people of South
Carolina are bound by duty and policy alike " to give him
all the concomitants of what ho regards as so great a
boon,"