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chandise and is excluded, il remains true that:

favor OF the United oeotes LOT siA ycs<S 70 guy ~
abroad, that imported for the same period was
only e9i J66 %. There was therefore. balance OF.
elusive Of gold In favor OF the United States averaging
annually tS 6i7 ,962."
Comparing tho British official returns Of trade
between the United States and Great Britain
with our own official returns, IL appears, de-
Quoting the value of gold and silver exchanged
from both Imports and exports that:
"The average In favor Of the United States for three
years before the Is So 6O6: for three years OF
war S12 537 49, and for six years 81 But the
true Averages are OK the totals including gold, which
arc: .
For three years Of Var..--.--..-.- J3fg0,6D
For sixNtars. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 5y.2H.tSJ"
SO that by either method oil calculation it is
demonstrated that the balance Of trade remains
during the years Of war as it was before, with
the United States, and not with foreign countries
i'll general, nor with Great Britain in particular.
The second division of Mr. Blodget's pamph-
let treats of the "increased quantities CT I'M
portsnt articles produced in the United STATES;
and It's aim is to show that our actual products
have not fallen off in consequence of the war
but have been in fact largely augmented during
its continuance To this view We have no Other
suggestion to make than that, while we accept
tho evidence Of increased values, we cannot sup
pose-and we do not know that Mr.. Blodget
means 10 argue-that the condition OF the
countrv is more favorable than it would have
been had there been no war. That 1t Is IN ao-
vance OF what it was four years ago Is abun-
L. toI 1,y no facts
pamphlet adduccs; but we conceive it to be
equally demonstrated that this increase Is not IN
consequence Of the war, but in spite OF It. 10
many branches Of industry the war has supplied
IN unwonted stimulus, but it is impossible to
suppose that on the whole the United States
would not have been richer country II the
energies of million of its citizens had been
turned steadily to productive, instead OF de-
structive, employmcnts.
We can present Mr.. Blodget's figures only in
the most condensed form. He shows that the
eastward tunnage of all classes Of merchandise
increased from 4, 734.7l4 tuns in 1860 to $780,
a2i tuns in 1868; in which the New-fork
Canals. the New.York Central, tho Erie, and
the PENNSYLVANIA Railroads are included. Inc
total tunnage increased in the same years from
77s6, 32I TO lO.595,2ls. Elaborate tables OF
different articles moving at tbe different impoF'
tant point are given-at Chicago, at Milwaukee,
at Green Bay, at Toledo, at Buffalo. In every
case the positive increase of 1863 over 1860 and
1859 is enormous and this whether the total
tunnage, or each specific article, be considered.
At Chicago, for instance:
1.-THE increase OF wheat Is nearly twice Of corn nearly
six times. and of the total OF grain mucn mort thah
hrce times in s63 over ls9. An unusual season &C.
onrreu In 1863 reducing oil grain crops largely below
he aycrar. 81 years otherwise the ratio OF increase
from 1893 TO 1862 would have been maintained
At the same place the increase in cattle, hogs,
beef, pork, lard, tallow, and bacon, far exceeds
the increase in grain. at Milwaukee, the in
crease in grain is nearly threefold in hive years.
At Green Bay, the increase is nearly fourfold IN
1863 over 1850. At Buffalo the total IN bushels
Of grain increased from 37,0s9,46i, IN
1860, to G4,735,5lO in 1863. Pork and
beef at the same point were, in 1853,
A OIO, $50 lbs. in 1868, l49, 42S e94 lbs; and
at the other principal points where this great
movement of produce may be measured, at
Cleveland, Erie. Dunkirk, Niagara, Osweso,
Ogdensburg, and Champlain, similar results
are presented. Their general result is shown in
the summary of receipts at the termini OF trans
porta,ion to the seaboard, which in bushels of
-four and grain compare as follows: In lSd9
"A, 354, 225, in 1868, 1l6, 367,5iS.
O., all Wi If
Mr.. Blodget shows to have occurred in the pro-
duction Of iron, Of copper, and of coal, while to
take one article which has been almost created
as commodity of commerce within the same
period, petroleum. the increase is from $50 bbls
in 1859, to 9, 800, 900 in 1860. Anthracite iron
was in 1859, 256, 1872 tuns; in 1868, 49, 600 tuus.
Cincinnati is an inland city, usually
thought to be greatly dependent on its CON
nection with New Orleans, and with the planting
States generally for tho larger share OF its trade
II is therefore On extreme case of the depres-
sion which the war may be thought to have
produced; yet its product increases as follows
In 1859, the hogs packed were 81, 500; in 1868,
6os, 457. Pork, from &c, 565, 200 lbs, increased
to 1913, 5l6,77l; Oats, from 557,7Ol bushels to
,5O4, 43O. And though the Mississippi trade
during this period has been almost annihilated,
the general result at Cincinnati is al in.
crease in all the quantities of merchandise
handled, averaging from 30 to so per cent.
A still clearer view Of thc essential facts in
this demonstration is presented by the following
table. showing, in certain leading articles, the
sresss Of quantities exported in 1923 over
1890:
Wheat, bRsh..-.................. 3,O03e6l