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 1861; the
imports were $10,333,896, a falling off of $117,000. The
exports were grain, lumber, ore, and quicksilver; those to
Great Britain were almost exclusively ore and quicksilver,
and showed an immense increase front 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 Franco something like 51,400,000 worth of
merchandise, and exported nothing to that country except
gold. During the yoar 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, 610 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
58,035 gallons ; in 1860 the production was 206,518 gallons,
when the total amount of wine produced in the United
States was 1,617,957 gallons. The amount of wine pro-
duced in California last year is stated to be 2,000,000 g.,,3
%1
lons, or more than twice as much as was produco..;lolW4 the
whole of the United States in 1860. There
Nhiacrhe are not
that state 40,172,650 grape vines,
manthosoof which
become
productive, there is little doubt hhoue
yet in a bearing condition. When
duct of wine will be at least
84
, O
state was pressed to its full capacity of grape-growing, it
00, 000,000 gallons of wino
ot:o thatoo ga thellonasn. nua
If l pro-
is
I is believed it could produce 2
annually.
The assessed value
of all the property in the State for
.
9 in 1865, $181,007,406. The total
1864 was $180,484,94 ,
or a little over onetaqoltuiaatlrht
of property in the state for one year
the value
increase in
ityheathrownisthe oaf
The Population of the state is not far from half
was thus only $J22,457, • er of one
per cent.
aisggcarpegitaatle,
,intultasivt
capital of ~,, '
and their energy, intelligence, and industry, they made only
$-22 457 which, if equally divided among the population,
a , t
would give a little more than a dollar—say a dollar and a
tfflion,
ewTllBl 54t811.4;4d9
quarter—for his or her earnings during the year. The
following counties are those which exhibit a falling off in
the value of property—which are poorer—as cor,rpeasrneo,
with 1864. Amador, Butte, Colusa, Del N:te;rooterey,
Lassen, Lake, Los Angeles, Marin,
MariP° .rdino, San
Mono, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, San.
poßernSaanta Clara,
Diego, San Joaquin, San Luis
31teT°he following have
(This.Sutter, Trinity,
Shasta, Siskiyou, Solano, San
and San Tuolumne, Tohama, Yolo, and
,_.Yuba'_tra Costa, El Dorado,
increased : —Alpine, Alameda, ""
ups'roperty in San
Fran-
cis Naepoa., P llunmlaBs6,
4S i
tehrrea,asSonoma,
si
r:SlteulenBl66osl,7
$82,403,4,8; '_.... 888,266,457 ;
Francisco was „ 69 equal to a little over 7 per
only two millions of dollars of
in the state. It pays into
haeboPut half the money received by that
the state treasurylrdinary sources of revenue.
institution fr0a1...?......._---_=_ _
havingcereenats.e fBont
one-halfhFer aynecals,csl:llBoc"P ek- sr
i Y

Under the old constitution of South Carolina
the veto was not vested in the Governor, but the 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 nith
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."

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