Showing a total of 290 vessels and 255,666 tons. The receipts of merchandise, via the Isthmus of Panama, for the years below indicated were as follows: 1863, 28,151 tons; 1864, 31,348 tons; 1865, 24,927 tons; 1866, 32, 866 tons; 1867, 31,769 tons.

The amounts of money paid on freights of merchandise arriving at the port of San Francisco during the three years ending with December, 1867, were as follows:

Our exports of merchandise and commodities, being the product of California during the year 1867, show a considerable increase on those

of any previous year, as appears by the annexed table:

The value of shipments to New York, as above presented, represents both those by sailing vessels proceeding around Cape Horn, and by the Panama and Nicaragua steamers. The exports for 1867 were made up of a considerable variety of articles, of which wheat and flour, barley and oats constituted the principal items. The table appended shows the quantity and destination of grain and flour sent away during that year:

The annexed table exhibits the annual and total export of merchandise and treasure from the port of San Francisco, from 1848 to 1867 inclusive:

These exports include shipments to domestic Atlantic ports as well as to foreign countries. The merchandise exports for the period prior to 1855 are estimated. The same is true of the treasure exports prior to 1851. The annual average exports of merchandise since 1848 is $7,126,285, and of treasure, $43,080,508, or, combined, $50,206,703. During the six years ending with 1867, the United States Sub-Treasurer at San Francisco shipped thence $50,000,000 on Government account, making an aggregate treasure export of $891,610,170, from 1848 to 1867 inclusive.

* Estimated.

The combined exports of treasure and merchandise during 1867, as compared with 1865 and 1866, were as follows:

The receipts of treasure of San Francisco from all sources, through regular public channels during the years 1866 and 1867, were as follows:

To the above sums total should be added about ten per cent. for bullion arriving in private hands. From the foregoing table it will be seen that there was a very considerable increase in the bullion receipts of 1867 over those of the preceding year; the increase in the receipts from the northern mines, over $2,000,000, was mainly due to gains made in the State of Nevada, the product of which amounted to nearly $18,000,000 for that year.

The value and destination of treasure shipments from San Francisco, during the fourteen years ending with 1867, were as follows: To Eastern domestic ports, $428, 159,455; to England, $150,548,502; to China, $55,368,810; to Panama, $7,755,344; to other ports, $9,930,338, making a total of $651,762,466.

The amount of coin transmitted to the interior by Wells, Fargo & Company's Express, during the year 1867, was $10,326,639; the amount brought by them from the interior during the same time was $5,340,184, adding $4,886,445 to interior circulation.

From the foregoing, it appears that the total receipts of uncoined treasure from the interior during the year 1867 amounted to $46,257,320, and of coined to $5,340,184, to which add foreign imports $3,968, 322, and we have a total of $55,566,826 to represent the receipts at San Francisco for that year, total exports for the same period having been $41,676,292.

The army disbursements on this coast during 1867 were, on account of Quartermaster's department, 5,810,708.65; Paymaster's department, $2,288,142.85, and for Commissary department, $1,671,421.83, making a total of $9,770, 272.33.

The total receipts of Internal Revenue in the State of California during the year 1867 amounted to $6,747,624.87, of which $4,021,284.25 were derived from manufactures, $1,773,326.46 from incomes, $12,460.73 from legacies, and the balance from various other sources.

The passenger arrivals by way of the sea for 1867 were 35,683, and the departure 20,419, showing a gain of over 15,000. The gain in 1866 was less than 5,000. Of the arrivals for the past year, 27,500 came by the Panama and San Juan steamers, principally from New York. The departures by the same steamers were 14,000. The arrivals from Asia during the year were 4,300, and the departure 4,500. Our gain from Australia was 1,146, from British Columbia 857, from the Hawaiian Islands 289, and from Mexico 162. The net gain to the port from all sources, by way of the sea, for the ten years ending December 31, 1867, is 115,866. Fully 75 per cent. of the passengers which have arrived at this port seawards since 1848 came from the Atlantic States.

СПАРТЕР XIII..

MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS.

Railroads Central Pacific Railroad-Western Pacific Railroad-San José Railroad-Sacramento Valley Railroad-Placerville and Sacramento Valley Railroad--California Central Railroad-Yuba Railroad-Northern California Railroad-Various Short Railroads ---Railroads Recently Commenced-Railroads Projected-Steamship Lines-Ship Building-Telegraphs-State and County Finances-Gold Product-Fisheries-Immigration -Population-Voters-- Races, etc.- Chinese in California - Libraries - Literature, Journalism, etc.-List of California Publications.

RAILROADS.

After a series of years of disastrous delay, during which, though numerous enterprises were planned but few were carried beyond the mere work of projection, the era of active railroad building seems about being inaugurated in California. During the session of the Legislature ending March 30th, 1868, a large number of franchises for laying down railway tracks in different parts of the State, were granted to the various companies applying for the same, the most of whom, it is supposed, will at once proceed with the work of their construction. There are now about three hundred miles of railroad completed and in operation in the State, a very small extent considering the urgent necessities as well as unexampled facilities that exist for making these improvements.

CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD.

This, though not the first entered upon, is the longest, as it is also by far the most important piece of railway yet constructed in the State. The Central Pacific is one of the companies authorized by act of Congress to build a railroad from the Missouri river to the Pacific Ocean, designed to form a part of the road spanning the entire continent. Starting at Sacramento, it is to be pushed eastward until it meets the Union Pacific road, advancing from an opposite direction. This junction, it is supposed, will be a little to the eastward of Salt Lake,