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COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES. 



The tonnage entered and cleared at the port 

 of New York, to and from foreign ports, was as 

 given in table on page 111. 



The coastwise movement was as in the fol- 

 lowing table : 



Exports of Domestic Produce. 



The decline in the coastwise clearings is very 

 marked, as resulting from the closing of the 

 cotton ports, and the consequent loss of the 

 cotton freights. 



The commerce of Baltimore was greatly af- 

 fected by the political events of the year, par- 

 ticularly in relation to the imports, which in the 

 aggregate were as follows : 



The leading articles of export were as follows : 



The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which is 

 the great feeder of Baltimore commerce for a 

 large portion of the year, was held by the Con- 

 federate troops, and its business consequently 

 interrupted, thus cutting off the Western trade 

 from Baltimore, and also stopping the returning 

 business over that road. 



The business of the port of Philadelphia was 

 similarly affected in relation to breadstuff's, 

 the exports having been as follows : 



The events of the war fell more heavily upon 

 the Southwestern and Southern cities, as a 

 matter of course, than upon the Northern ones, 

 which were remote from hostilities. A good por- 

 tion of the business of the year was transacted 

 before the blockade took place. Hence the trade 

 of St. Louis does not in the aggregate show so 

 much decline as might have been anticipated. 

 The receipts at that place were as follows : 



In the receipts of all articles above Corn, the wagon receipts are in- 

 cluded; of Corn, and all articles following, the receipts comprising th* 

 amounts received by boats and railroads only. 



