COMMERCE. 



CONGREGATION ALISTS. 133 



BZCEIPT8 OF CUSTOMS AT NEW YORK. 



SPECIE AND BULLION. 



The subjoined tables, showing the export 

 movement monthly for tbe past four years, 

 complete the general statistics of commerce 

 for the port of New York. The shipments of 

 goods are mostly counted at their tale value, 

 but all others, with trifling exceptions, at their 

 market value in paper-money at the time of 

 shipment : 



Export* from New York to Foreign Ports during the 

 Yean 1870, 1871, 1872, and 1873. 



DOMESTIC PRODUCE. 



These statistics exhibit a clear gain of near- 

 ly $64,000,000 in the export of merchandise 

 and produce from the port of New York the 

 most gratifying return ever made. 



The total foreign trade at the port of New 

 York is usually about two-thirds of its im- 

 ports, and 40 per cent, of the exports, of the 

 whole country. 



Below is a ^quarterly summary of the ex- 

 ports hence to foreign ports, exclusive of 

 specie and bullion. This includes the reship- 

 ments of foreign products, but is chiefly made 

 up of domestic produce and manufactures: 



Etporti from Ntw York to Foreiyn Porte, exclusive 

 of Specie. 



lot.... $40.776.407 $W,7M,WO I6MM.U1 $63.171.761 



2d 47,514,407[ 55,844.997] 63,062,291| 76,316.120 



3d 46,841.837 6s.218.4'.r>' 60,209.589 75.764,054 



4th... ! 61,413,088 61,360.798; 70,191,285] 84.993,470 



Total.. $l5.945.7.'a $234.1166,287 $236,859.297 $800.245,408 



CONGREGATIONALIST8. The twentieth 

 anniversary meeting of the American Congre- 

 gational Union wa held in the city of New 

 York on the 8th of May. The report of the 

 treasurer showed the receipts for the year end- 

 ing May 1, 1873, to have been $60,303.96. 

 The disbursements had been: for building 

 churches, $43,812.96; for pastors' libraries, 

 $390.90; miscellaneous expenditures, r $10,- 

 444.87. A balance was left in the treasury of 

 $5,055.23. Fifty -two churches had been 

 helped. Pledges of help had been given to 

 about fifty other churches, which, it was ex- 

 pected, would more than absorb the balance 

 on hand. 



