The Portland daily press., 1875-12-08

ticable to obtain Complete state nents of the ex
ports TO Canada in Railway cars. owing to the
fact that there is no law requiring persons ex-
porting merchandise bv land convey .nce to file
full manitests of the exported goods with col
lectorS of customs
The Commissioner of Customs OF the Domn-
ion of Canada has, however, furnished detailed
statements from which it appears that the val
ne OF exp lrts to Canada during the last fiscal
year was $15,660, 118 in excess of that returned
by the customs officers of the United States,
which would increase the total exports OF the
year by that amount, ii. e., from $513, 442,711
to 1929, 102, 929,) aud reduce the excess Of i'm
ports of merchandise over exports to $780,
507.
There was withdrawn from bond for con-
sumption, in excess of that entered for ware
houses during the past fiscal year, merehan-
disc of the value Of 50 1920
The total expectation of specie and bullion
was greater than that for the preceding year
by $25 sol ,737; while the exports Of domestic
goods have decreased in value So 149, 321.
Importations have decreased to the amount
of 1874, 400,90 as compared with those of the
preceding fiscal year, and of $109, 0A, e03 as
compared with tho fiscal year ending June 30,
1873.
COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION. .
There is little change in the proportion of the
foreign carrying trade transacted in foreign YES
sells. about "a per cent. of imports and exports,
during the last fiscal year. having been carried in
the preceding year, and 76 per cent for the fis-
cal year 1872
The Register of the Treasury reports the to.
tal tonnage of vessels of the United States to
De, 4,o53, 732 tons, an increase of $1,000 tons
over that of the fiscal year ending June 80 1874,
exclusive of the canal boat tonnage, amounting
to about $4,000 tons, exempt from enrolment
and license under the act of Congress approved
April IS, 1874.
REVENUE MARINE,
The operations of this department of the
public service have been most satisfactory The
general services performed by revenue vessels
during the last fiscal year may be summarized
as follows:
Number of vessels in distress assisted ~ 1875
Number OF lives saved. .................. 81
Number OF vessels seized or reported for vio-
Number of vessels boarded and examined. -. 22225
Number of miles sailed ....,............. 1871
LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE.
The lighthouse establishment, which is the
largest in the world, and whose charge en-
braces ocean, lake and river lines of unequal
led extent steadily increases in usefulness to
commercial and maritime interests. During
the past year it has established seventeen light
houses and two hundred and eighty beacon
lights on the Western rivers, together with
twenty-one buoys. The present number Of
lighouses % light ships, 45 fog signals, 1853 day
beacons, $50 river lights, and 1880 buoys.
LIFE-sAvING SERVICE.
From Nov. l, 1874. to Nov. 1, 1875, SO vessels
| have been driven ashore within the limits of
| the operations of these stations, having 975
souls on board, and with their cargoes valued
| at So, 607, 722. The apparatus has been used at
| "A wrecks, and 468 persons actuallyi brought
| ashore by it. Imperiled property to the
| value of 81 756475 was saved. and 16 lives and
| 1851, 247 worth of property lost. The stations
| gave 726 days shelter to 219 shipwrecked per.
| sons. The workings of the service are salts
| factory.
| The report treats of several other topics which
are not of general interest.