122 COMMEEOE, UNITED STATES. 



CONGREGATIONALISTS. 



entries of imports and exports for past years, 

 without reference to what portion of the former 

 found their way into market, however, are 

 available, and these, reduced to specie values, 

 at the average yearly price of gold in lawful 

 money for each year respectively, exhibit the 

 following results : 



Yet it must not be forgotten that, as stated 

 in the annual report of the Director, the import 

 and export summaries of several of the past 

 years are somewhat unreliable. 



Hitherto the commercial statistics of the 

 country have been collected and arranged, or 

 digested, very slowly. The Secretary of the 

 Treasury now reports thus : " The Statistical 

 Bureau, authorized by the act entitled ' An act 

 to protect the revenue, and for other purposes,' 

 approved July 28, 1866, was organized on the 

 5th day of September last, by the appointment 

 of Mr. Alexander Delmar as Director. It is 

 expected that, under'his direction, this Bureau 

 will be of great benefit to this Department and 

 to the country. After putting in proper con- 

 dition the numerous books relating to com- 

 merce and navigation, which have been trans- 

 ferred to this Bureau, the Director will prepare 

 reliable statistics of the resources of the coun- 

 try, and the extent to which they are being de- 

 veloped. Monthly reports of imports and ex- 

 ports, taxes, imposts, wages, products, and 

 markets will also be regularly prepared, and 

 every means employed to ascertain the progress 

 of population and industry." 



The value of the produce received at New Or- 

 leans for a series of years ending August 31, is 

 shown in the subsequent figures, while the 

 amounts of the articles appear in the succeed- 

 ing table. These results are chiefly interesting 

 as showing the receipts before the war and at 

 its close, although for the last two years of the 

 war the river navigation had been compara- 

 tively uninterrupted. The receipts of 1864-'5 

 are those for the last year of the war, and those 

 forl859-'60 for the year preceding it. 



1859-' 60 $185,211,254 



1860-'61 155,863,564 



1861-' 62 ' 51,510,990 



1862-' 63 29,766,454 



1863-' 64 79,223,985 



18G4-'65 



1865-'66 201,722,179 



The receipts from the interior at New Or- 

 leans for the year ending August 31, 1866, as 

 compared with previous years, are shown in 

 the following table : 



CONGREGATIONALISTS. The Congrega- 

 tional Quarterly for January, 1867, publishes 

 full statistics of Congregationalism in the United 

 States. The whole number of Congregational 

 Churches, as reported in 1866, was 2,780 ; in 

 1865, 2,723 a gain of 57. In Canada and the 

 provinces there were 120 churches in 1866, 

 against 117 the year before, making a total on 

 this Continent of 2,900 churches, against 2,840 

 the previous year, a gain of 60. Of these churches 

 243 were in Maine, 183 in New Hampshire, 191 

 in Vermont, 493 in Massachusetts, 23 in Rhode 

 Island, 286 in Connecticut, 225 in New York, 

 166 in Ohio, 24 in Indiana, 222 in Illinois, 150 

 in Michigan, 158 in Wisconsin, 166 in Iowa, 60 

 in Pennsylvania, 96 in Canada, and the rest 

 were scattered in smaller numbers through 

 various States, Territories, and British Prov- 

 inces. Missouri had 29 of these, against 18 last 

 year. The total number of Congregational 



