The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1865-09-23
[WH0LE NO. 81.
Effect of the war ON T,aa..

Inc civil war in America, saws the Paris
correspondent OF the London Times, inflicted
serious injury on many branches OF French
trade. Lyons and St. Etienne were the mir
cipal sufferers. The silk exported in IsSo
to America amounted, according :. tbe
id6tedu du Commerce, to l03, ,0OO. .0OOf aY-
elusive of $4,000. C0Of of Swiss and German
silk exported, in transit, from France. 4,
1868, it fell to %, 600, ,OO0f, exclusive of only
l,5O9,OOOf which passed through the French
territory. To these $4,000. .O0Of has 10 h.,
acued that which was sent through England
During this interval of three wears. t6a e,'
ports from France to the United States feIl
from ZoU,OoO,OO0f to "a 94.000,OOOf, and North
American products imported into France
Tor French consumption suffered TO the sama
extent. Instead Of 24O,OOO, ,O0Of in 1890
which, owing to the rise in the price of cot,
ton, reached 363.000 ,000f in 1861, il fell in
1861 to 81 ,000, ,00Of. ...
This reduction applies espeeiaIlv IN r.r
cotton, IN the cultivation of which the
southern States have excelled. France
drew from America, for her own use. in
lS6O, ll5,OOO, 900 of kiIogrammes. valued A.
ioS,UOO,OOOf; and in 1861, log. .0OO. 600 o.
kllogrammes, worth 24l 900 ,OOOf; in 1865.
however, she only imported the insigni6ean,
quantity OF 254 900 kilogrammes, valued 81
l,ooo,OOof and exported in the same yeaY
TO the United States, sc 1000 kilogrammes Of
cotton, valued at 4l4,000f. In respect of
what Is called the special ommerce-tbat
Is 10 say, what is required for the consump.
tlon OF the importing, and which is the pro-
duce OF the exporting Countrywide trade
between the two countries, imports and ex-
ports included, fell from 449 ,OOO. 900 in
1860 TO la, 100000 in 1868. In respect of
the general trade, which comprises all sorts
OF merchandise, of whatever origin, ex-
ported, and all imported, whatever its des-
tination, it fell from 627, 100000 in 1860 to
2OO,OOO,OOO in 1863, or less than one-third.
The trade between England and the United
States was on much larger scale than the
trade between the United States and France.
The general commerce-understoo as il
has just been stated--imports and exports
included, gave in 1860 total of 81 500.
100000, and even in 1868, it was still
932,OOO.o9O. Certainly the difference il
considerable, but much less than for France.
which did not retain one-third, whereas
England retained three-ffths. The decline
OF American products imported into Eng
land was from Sl,l20,000,O00 in 1860, to
to S44O,OOO,OOO in 1868. The all but COM
plete stoppage of raw cotton from the United
States, of which England had received in
1860 to the value of S753, 100000, explains
that enormous diminutian. But exclusively
OF cotton, the imports to England from the
United States rose, on the other hand, from
S36l 900, 900, to $40 ,OOJ, 900 in 1868. where
as English merchandise exported by Eng
land to America, declined from S642, 600 600
to S3S4, COG, 200. England lost much less
than France during the crisis, and the rea-
son is chiefly to be found in the fact that
England had her means of transport TO
America much better organized than France.