COMMERCE. 



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FOREIGN IMPOET8 AT THE POET OF NEW YORK, &o.-(Continued.) 



This table embraces the following unusual 

 items in the list of importations : 



Wool, Ibs 114,864 $8,588,021 



Cotton, " 103,542 13,153,814 



Hides 7,051,091 



Guns, no 11,996 8,975,413 



Lead, pigs 268,262 1,520,599 



Tar 2,017 18,080 



Turpentine, spirits 4,641 292,039 



Eosin,bbls 2,656 86,587 



$.84,635,144 



These figures were formerly on the export 



list, and aided farm produce to pay for im- 

 ports, but by the change produced by war they 

 are now to be paid for by farm produce, and 

 thus curtail the national resources. Eosin was 

 formerly sold at 80 cts. per bbl., it is now 

 bought back at $32 per bbl. That is, we 

 give for one bbl. what we formerly got for 

 forty bbls. 



The exports from the port of New York were 

 in the aggregate, monthly, as follows : 



EXPOETS POET OF NEW TOEK. 



These values, except for specie, are in cur- 

 rency, and widely different from their real 

 value, or that which is realized abroad. The 

 fluctuation in the value of exchange, however, 

 had an important influence upon the export 

 market, since the disposition to ship depended 

 almost altogether upon what could be obtained 

 for bills. Nevertheless, the chief exports were 

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breadstuff's and provisions ; and those articles, 

 in consequence of the improved crops of Eng- 

 land and Western Europe, were far less in 

 demand than in the previous year. The fol- 

 lowing table shows the exports, from the 

 port of New York, of the articles which make 

 up the bulk of the export trade for the 

 year: 



