COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES. 



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circles, owing to the excitement caused by the 

 election for President. The candidates were 

 Carlos Martin, Rafael Nufiez, Justo Arosemena, 

 Rojas Garrido, and Santiago M. Serez, the last- 

 named having gained the victory over his com- 

 petitors. 



In the month of Jane, the columns of some 

 of the opposition journals of the capital teemed 

 with bitter criticisms on the outgoing adminis- 

 tration. We transcribe, from the fyualdad, 

 the following charges against President Muril- 

 lo : " Dr. Murillo does not practise what he 

 preached before being elected President. He 

 was then a friend of universal suffrage, sec- 

 tional and individual autonomy, and an enemy 

 of nepotism, etc., etc. Now he wishes to name 

 his successor, to divide the Liberal party ; keeps 

 the nation amused by the prospect of railroads 

 everywhere, and employs $30,000 in causing 

 bis favorite candidate to succeed by main 

 force. He disarms the Conservatives in Tolima, 

 fails to arrange the question of limits with Ven- 

 ezuela, and authorized his nephew to interfere, 

 with armed force, in the affairs of Panama." 



Some important modifications were made in 

 the tenth article of the treaty of amity and 

 commerce between Colombia and Peru, under 

 date February 10, 1870. 



The President of the republic decreed that 

 honors should be paid to the memory of Jos6 

 Antonio Paez, both as a general of Colombia 

 in active service and with full pay, and as one 

 who contributed by so many acts of heroism 

 to the triumph of the cause of independence 

 in the first Colombian Union. 



Remington rifles to the number of 10,000 

 were received in August. They had been or- 

 dered under the apprehension of war with 

 Venezuela. 



To the picture of prosperity for the future 

 of Buenaventura drawn by advocates of rail- 

 ways and other agents of material develop- 

 ment, i-; pri'si-nted a saddening contrast by a 

 journal of that town, in its lamentations over 

 the immorality prevalent among the colored 

 population, and mainly attributable to the abuse 

 of strongdrinks, and to the absence of churches,^ 

 schools, and industrial establishments. 



COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES. 

 For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1873, the 

 general commerce of the country shows the 

 sum of $663,41 0,597 (gold value), being a gain 

 of $23,<71,31 on the total imports for the 

 corresponding period of 1871-'72. The total 

 exports for the fiscal year ending June 30, 

 1873, amounted (gold estimate) to $578,938,- 

 988, being a gain of $67,053,014 on the total 

 exports of the previous fiscal year. Reexports 

 for the same period, to June 30, 1873, were 

 $28,148,481, or an increase of $5,378,782 over 

 those of the fiscal year of 1871 -'72. The value 

 of foreign commodities remaining in ware- 

 house, June 30, 1873, was $77,646,570, as 

 compared with $122,211,200, June 30, 1872 

 a difference of $42,564,685. The following are 

 summaries of the two fiscal years : 



The amounts of the foregoing, which con- 

 sisted of specie, bullion, and merchandise re- 

 spectively, were as follows: 



Allowing for the difference in the ware- 

 house accounts, the imports for the last fiscal 

 year were in excess over the domestic and 

 foreign exports combined, to the extent of 

 $100,887,818; while, for the fiscal year pre- 

 vious, the excess of imports over exports was 

 only $62,397,039. 



The values of imports and exports carried 

 in American and foreign vessels, and in cars 

 and other land conveyances, are thus reported 

 for the two fiscal vears: 



These latter show that, during the fiscal 

 year ending June 30, 1873, more thnn 73 per 

 cent, of the total trade by water was carried 

 in foreign vessels, and that the value of the 

 same trade so carried in the fiscal year pre- 

 vious was about 76 per cent. 



The number and tonnage of vessels engaged 

 in the foreign trade which entered and cleared 

 during the last two fiscal years, are given as 

 follows: 



The Journal of Commerce publishes full 

 comparative tables of the commerce of the 

 port of New York for the entire year of 1873. 



