116 COMMERCE, UNITED STATES. 



CONGREGATIONALISTS. 



FOREIGN FREE. 



Exports from New York to foreign Ports, exclusive 

 of Specie. 



FOREIGN DUTIABLE. 



SPECIE AND BULLION. 



TOTAL EXPORTS. 



The total foreign trade of New York is usu- 

 ally about two-thirds of the imports and about 

 40 per cent, of the exports of the whole United 

 States. 



A quarterly summary (herewith given) of 

 the exports hence to foiviirn ports is exclusive 

 of specie and bullion, includes reshipments of 

 foreign products, but is chiefly made up of do- 

 mestic produce and manufactures : 



CONGREGATIONALISTS. The National 

 Congregational Council held at Oberlin, Ohio, 

 in November, 1871, had appointed a commit- 

 tee to confer with the directors of the Amer- 

 ican Home Missionary Society, and -arrange 

 some plan by which the churches in the West 

 might participate more directly in the work of 

 the society. Early in January, a conference 

 was held in New York, at which a plan was 

 agreed upon, substantially as follows : 



1. The general conference or association of 

 each State is to organize a home missionary 

 society in that State. 2. By this State society 

 an executive committee of three is to be ap- 

 pointed in each district conference ; this com- 

 mittee to act as the agency of the American 

 Home Missionary Society, and, cooperating 

 with the superintendent of missions employed 

 by that society in each State, to have a gen- 

 eral oversight of the work within its own 

 boundaries. 3. The chairmen of these several 

 district committees constitute a State Board 

 of Home Missions, to which the general over- 

 sight of the work in the State shall be com- 

 mitted, and by which the State superintendent 

 of missions shall be nominated, the society at 

 New York commissioning and sustaining him. 

 4. The superintendents and the executive com- 

 mittees are to labor for an increase of contribu- 

 tions, and to avoid, if possible, any conflict 

 with other denominations. 5. Each State so- 

 ciety is to have a treasurer, who is to keep an 

 accurate report of the collections in the State, 

 and who is to account to the parent society 

 for the money received. 6. More efficiency 

 and enterprise in occupying the frontiers are 

 promised. 7. As soon as the churches in the 

 several States are able to support the work 

 within their boundaries, their State' societies 

 will be merely auxiliary to the parent society, 

 and will transmit to that society only their 

 surplus funds. 



The collections for the American Home 

 Missionary Society during the year ending 

 May 1, 18Y2, were $294,566, being $11,000 

 more than the collections of any previous 

 year. The gifts to the society exceeded those 

 of any previous year by $48,500. The society 

 during the same year supported nine hundred 

 and sixty-one missionaries in twenty-nine 

 States and Territories. Six thousand three 

 hundred and fifty persons were added to 

 the missionary congregations. Eighty-four 

 churches were organized, and forty -six 

 churches attained a condition of self-support. 

 The increase in the number of missionaries 

 over those of the previous year was twenty- 



