COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES. 



The aggregate decline is near $30,000,000 in 

 value. This has not arisen so much from les- 

 sened quantities as from diminished values, 

 consequent upon the blockade. Thus sugar 

 with an increased crop was worth $3,700,000 

 less money. A larger crop of molasses sold 

 30 per cent, or over $2,000,000 less. 



The exports of the leading crops from New 

 Orleans for the year 1861, with the destination 

 of the articles, were as follows : 



KECAPrnTLATION. 



This return of the exports of cotton from 

 New Orleans shows that almost the usual 

 quantity had gone forward before the war broke 

 out, or the blockade interrupted the trade. 

 The crop year begins September 1, and the 

 cotton begins to come forward in quantity in 

 December. The bulk of it is usually delivered 

 by April. Hence the first eight months of the 

 blockade was of no real effect upon the trade. 

 It was only in Jan., 1862, that it began to affect 

 supplies. On the other hand the tobacco was 

 much affected, the export having been cut 

 off to the extent of more than one-half. 



