New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-03-17

monthly report NO. y tStrltS lo|l Ol
the Bureau Of Statistics is in press. and
will soon be ready for distribution. 1t con-
tains the statistics Of our foreign trade for
the month of November, 1871, and the
eleven months ended the same, compared
with the corresponding period of 1870. The
following summary has been furnished by
the chief of the bureau:
Domestic exports Foreign
Periods Imports. tspece values. exports.
Month ended November so
ls4, s3s *as 1872, si;ssS,s
Eleven months ended November 30
l21l....... $50, 544,226 463263087 25lI 6l1
1870. 45s,8l6,l68 4o8 1851! 208i435.
The value of foreign commodities remain
ing in warehouse November 30, 1871, was
30, 1871. Due allowance being made for
the difference in the warehouse account for
the eleven months ended. November 80,
1870, and for the corresponding period OF
1870, it will be found that during the first
mentioned period the imports exceeded the
exports by S52.73l.44l, as compared with
an excess of $l6,O ,062 during the latter.
The following table shows the respective
amounts of imports and exports, which
consisted of merchandise and Of specie and
bullion, for the eleven months ended No
yember 80, 1871:
Domestic Foreign
Imports. exports. exports.
(specIe value).
Merchandise. $50, 7O3,45i s4oo4748o6 $l3i26,70S
Specie and bull
lion. I6,G+0,,72. g. 788 2Sl n,.I4,a32
ELEVEN MONTHS ENDED NOVEMBER 80, 1870.
Domestic Foreign
Imports. exports, exports.
Merchandise ,73s s544 sls, os4 #l4s32, ss8
lion. ......... 2422a,3-e 631825s l4.cll ,22e
The relative value of the imports and ex-
ports brought into and shipped from the
h. .1n +t,-
ended November November 80. 1871, in
American and foreign vessels, and in cars
and other land vehicles, respectively, We're
as follows:
. vessel9 II, l%p2;t 81 sEE"r5 s59
Horeign 5,556S487 34SS3o5io I48$4953
Cars, etc. i4,76s,055 ,26o 22lsl86
ELEVEN MONTHS ENDED NOVEMBER 80 1870:
Domestic Foreign
nesses sPG es s.. i%.7 si
Foreign 30l 81. 1886 292 .29- l5282689
Cars, etc... 6,l292o3 2,5sl,955 l,2o8,828'
By the two preceding tables it will be
noticed that of the total imports and e1-
ports carried in vessels during the eleven
months ended November 30, 1871, over
sixty nine per ceat was carried in foreign
bottoms, and for the corresponding period
of 1870 over sixty-tive per cent.
The number and tonnage of vessels en-
gagged in the foreign trade during the
twelve months ended November 80, 1871,
were as follows
-Entered-- -CleaTed--
No. Tons No. Tons
American vessels. IL .J72 3.7.9132 1890 3o3S,g.o
Foreign vessels 1881 6,846457 1873 6,14o.o59
Total. 30 G53 1885, 1893 3o548 lo.57s,a35
TWELVE MONTHS ENDED NOVEMBER 30, 1870:
-Entered- -Cleared-
No. Tons. No IONS
American vessels. $40 1881 584 lO,281 5bl 5lS
Foreign vessels. $3.50 1888 1852 ooi9,4oo
Total 9,l96, 423 % ,9l9 9,ll7ei6
In addition to the usual monthly summa-
ries of imports, exports, warehouse transac-
lions, indirect and la trdnsiu trades, this
number contains an elaborate statement
showing the values of exports from Great
Britain to the several countries named
therein, in the thirty-one years from 1910 to
1870, inclusive, distinguishing British and
Irish from foreign and colonial merchandise;
also statements showing the production OF
pig iron in Scotland, mining industry Of
Prussia, telegraph statistics of Russia, popu-
lation of Denmark, trade OF Italy, and sta
tistics of the United States of Colombia.
A partial statement of the imports and
exports for December, 1871, and exports of
specie and bullion from the port Of New
York during the five weeks ended February
%. 1872, concludes the report