Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-04-22
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We have carefully condensed the following
commercial statistics of the United States, Tor
= the wear ending June Goth, 1857. from the
official Report of the Secretary of the Trea-
sury. made to the present Congress.
number of vessels entering the ports of
. the United States were 22, 1873, with tonnage
of 7,Is6,3I6, and crews numbering 277,s59
men and 2,073 boys. OF which IL ,304 vessels
were American, with tonnage of 4,721,37o
while there were 1,024 Foreign vessels
with tonnage of only 2,464,s46-show1ng
that while the number of home and foreign
vessels were nearly equal, the former carried
tonnage nearly double the latter.
The number of vessels cleared were: Amer
lean II.I34. with tonnage of 1880, 65l; and
foreign. 10, 969 with tonnage of 2,490,l7O.
The exports of home productions amounted
In value to $685., ss5 ,o6o; and the exports of
goods, wares and merchandise, of the growth,
produce and manufacture of foreign coun-
tries. 3.975,6I7-making the total exports
1892, 96O,6S2.
The imports from foreign countries amount
ed in value to S360.S90, l4l.
The amount of specie, in coin and bullion
exported. and included in the above aggre-
gate, s60;07s 1852; and the amount imported
l2,461, 799.
OF our exports, Cotton yields S13l ,575.S59;
Tobacco Il ,707 ,799; the product of animals,
such as bacon, lard, beef wool, hides, butter,
&C. Sl6,736,4 5S; the product of the forest,
such as lumber, shingles slaves, bark. skins,
furs and the manufactures of wood. sl4,699,-
I'll; the product of the sea, fisheries, whale
bone and oil, &c. SIS, 739, 644 vegetable food,
such as wheat -four, corn, meal, rice, apples,
&C., S58, 333, 166; cotton manufactures, So
115.l77.
The British Empire receives of our exports
s214,742 ,65S the French SIS, the
Spanish s2l 996, l75; Bremen 1852, lO7 ;
Brazil 5,26s ,l66; and no other one country
as much as five millions.
OF our imports we receive from the British
Empire, Sl69, 523 ops; from the French, s4S,-
OO0858; from the Spanish, S57 ,432,545; from
Brazil, SCI ,4GO.73 from Bremen, SI0,723-
523; from the Sandwich Islands, 1856, 1892
from Mexico, SIS ,985, S57; from Belgium, So,
O60,31l; and from no other one country as
much as five millions.
The greatest exporting cities are: New
York, SII1.O29 ,O83; New Orleans, S91, $780,
$40; Boston, s24s94,OI9; Mobile, s2O.575,-
es7; Charleston, SIS, 9935O6; Baltimore, S13,
4O5393. New York imports S222, $50, 1907
New Orleans, S24891 1868; Boston, S44, 840,,
O83; Mobile, S7O9 900; Charleston, S2,0l6,-
1884; Philadelphia, ST, 850,630; Baltimore,
SI0,581 POS.
The slave States export to the amount OF
S165, 1893, while their imports amount only
to SAL ,484,709
These figures give as fair an exhibit of the
commerce of the United States can be OBJ
tanned 1t is impossible to make them correct
as among the States. For instance the cx
ports of Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Mis-
souri, and Mississippi are wholly left out o.
the tables, and the aggregate is made up o.
the returns of the Districts from whence theil
products are exported In our computation
of the slave State exports, we have aggregated
the returns from the Districts situated within
those States but there is large amount OF
the produce of Kentucky, Tennessee, and
North Carolina, which is shipped to Northern
ports and thence exported. The full value o.
exports from the slave States undoubtedly ex
ceeds by several millions. the amount thus
ascertained. 1t is remarkable fact thai
while the Southern States are such large ex
porters, their standing as importers is so in
significant, the one exceeding the other fou
to one. While Mobile exports more thar
twenty millions she imports less than on,
million; and while the entire South send.
abroad one-half the exports of the country
she actually imports but about one-ninth o
that which is received in return. These facts
are certainly suggestive, and will doubtless
afford the staple, if not for sober reflection, at
least for heated defamation, if they should
fall under the eyes of delegates to the Mont
gomery Southern Commercial Convention
However this may be, the North is unques
tionably our store keeper, our factor, our job
Der, in which capacity she makes her cent pei
cent commission. Whether we can better
afford to pay that commission than to do oul
own importing, under all existing crcum
stances, may be more appropriately discussed
in another article.