COMMENCE. 



dry ffoodt at New York, 1849 to 1807. 



Y.:ir. Invoiced Value. 



1859 $118,162,624 



1860 103,927,100 



1861 48,686,689 



1862, 



1868 67,274,647 



1884 71,589,752 



1865 91,965,188 



126,222,855 



1867 86,268,648 



60,154,509 



exports from New York in the 

 !:ir yoar wore one hundred and eighty- 

 -ix millions, or six millions less than in 1866, 

 ul i-'mht millions in excess of 1865. 



1,654,144 

 . 80,842,986 



98,869,894 



90,534,129 



> ports from New York to foreign ports, exclusive of 

 specie. 



The /oreigu importations into the United 

 States during the fiscal year ending June 30, 

 1867, were, in merchandise, $389,924,977 ; 

 specie, $22,308,345 ; total, $412,233,322. (See 

 FINANCES OP THE UNITED STATES.) The 

 business of a single year is no criterion of the 

 business of a country; we therefore present, 

 from official sources, a summary of the foreign 

 importations into the United States for the past 

 nineteen fiscal years : 



The following table gives the exports of domes- 

 tic produce and specie from the United States to 

 foreign countries for the years ending June 30th : 



CONGREGATION ALI8T8. 129 



OONGREGATIONALIST8. The Congre- 

 gational Quarterly, fur January, 1868, publUbe* 

 the following statistics of Congregationalism in 

 America: 



VOL. vn. 9 



The number of absent members in the United 

 States was 34,056, in all America, 84,872 

 (against 33,298 in 1866); number of additions, 

 29,638 in the United States, 30,080 in all Amer- 

 ica (against 20,266 in 1866); number of adult 

 baptisms, 8,598 in United States, 8,564 in all 

 America (against 5,248 in 1866); of infant bap- 

 tisms, 4,949 in the United States, 5,226 in all 

 America (against 4,345 in 1866). 



The American Congregational Union held its 

 fourteenth annual business meeting at Brooklyn, 

 on May 9th. The secretary's report stated that 

 during the past year, through the instrumental- 

 ity of the Union, the Congregational Clerical 

 Union, consisting of Congregational ministers 

 in New York and vicinity, has been organized, 

 a convenient place* provided at the Bible House, 

 where ministers of the denomination may meet, 

 and a special effort has been made to promote 

 the work of church education. In this latter 

 work, the receipts have been double those of 



