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COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES TOR 1870. 



began to think of becoming a preacher, though 

 his father was a clergyman. He commenced 

 preaching about 1820, and for a few years had 

 charge of small congregations in Vermont and 

 North Eaton, N. Y., studying diligently mean- 

 while to qualify himself for greater usefulness. 

 In 1836 he was called to the pastorate of the 

 large and influential church at Union Village, 

 N. Y., where he remained for seven years. He 

 had already attained a high reputation as a 

 pulpit orator and an efficient advocate of the 

 temperance and antislavery causes. In 1843 

 he was called to Boston, where he founded the 

 Tremont Temple, the "Plymouth Church" of 

 Boston. He was very useful, and exerted a 

 powerful influence throughout New England, 

 during his thirteen years' ministry in Boston. 

 But he felt a strong inclination to labor in the 

 "Western field, for which his earnest nature, 

 his broad views, and his impassioned ora- 

 tory, eminently qualified him. He spent a 

 year at Detroit, two or three years at Cincin- 

 nati, and about-1860 settled down in Chicago, 

 where the remainder of his life was spent, ex- 

 cepting his year or two of earnest labor, after 

 the war, in founding and bringing into success- 

 ful operation the " Colver Institute," at Rich- 

 mond, for educating young men of color, of 

 decided piety, and promising gifts, for the min- 

 istry. For two or three years past he had been 

 a great sufferer from heart-disease; but his 

 patience under severe pain, and his calm en- 

 durance of the ills to which he was subjected, 

 were worthy of admiration. He had writ- 

 ten considerably for the periodical press, and 

 published some small treatises and occasional 

 discussions and addresses, but his greatest 

 merit as a public speaker lay in his power of 

 forcible and eloquent extemporization. As a 

 pastor he had been remarkably successful, 

 more than sixteen hundred converts having 

 been baptized by him in connection with the 

 churches of which he had had charge. 



COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES 

 FOR 1870. The Government returns of im- 

 ports and exports at all the customs ports of 

 the United States are now completed for the 

 nine months of the year ending September 

 30, 1870. They show a gain in the imports 

 for that period of over $9,000,000 as contrast- 

 ed with those of the first nine months in 1869; 

 and an increase in. the exports of nearly $19,- 

 000,000 in the same period, when compared 

 with the previous year. The excess of im- 

 ports over exports thus far returned for 1870 

 ' is, in round numbers, $45,800,000. 



Trade with Canada during the year was not 

 so prosperous as in 1869, on account of the 

 Dominion tariff" which went into effect April 

 7, 1870, in retaliation for the heavy duties 

 imposed on Canadian goods. In 1869 the bal- 

 ance of trade against the United States was 

 $11,714,610, but in 1870 it amounted to 

 $21,742,130. 



The following are summaries of the statistics 

 for the periods mentioned . 



Imports at all United States Ports. 



Reexports at all United States Ports. 



Exports from all United States Ports. 



The total official returns which have been 

 made for the year 1869, since the publication 

 of the last ANNUAL CYCLOPAEDIA, show the im- 

 ports to have been $463,461,427, against $381,- 

 701,510 for 1868, and the exports $394,644,335 

 (specie value), against $362,481,052 for the 

 year previous thus indicating a far larger ex- 

 cess of imports in 1869 than that of 1868. 



Full comparative tables of commerce at the 

 port of New York, for the year 1870, are given 

 by the Journal of Commerce. The following 

 is a statement of the totals of foreign imports 

 at New York for the past ten years. 



Under dutiable are included goods entered 

 directly for consumption and for warehousing. 

 The free list is small, owing to the transfer of 

 tea, coffee, and other items, to the list of duti- 

 able imports eight years ago. The specie and 

 bullion came mostly in transit to foreign ports, 

 and nearly all appears again in the exports. 



Foreign Imports at New York from I860 to 1870. 



The following tables show monthly summa- 

 ries of imports at ' New York for four years : 

 1. The total dutiable entered each month for 

 consumption. 2. The monthly entries for 

 warehousing. 3. Free goods thrown directly 

 on the market. 4. The specie. 5. The total 

 monthly entries of all kinds. 



* Fiwt nine months. 



