Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-24
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. FOREIGN COMMERCE. A Fine Showing the Past
 Year.
  THE LARGEST IN OUR HISTORY. A Grand Pageant Arranged
 at Cincinnati. THE CYCLONE AT ROCHESTER. A Graphic Description of Its
 Appearance.
A Graphic Description of Its
 Appearance.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

Our Faretxn Comm nerce-Last Year's the
 Largest i'm Our HistUry-An Excellent
 Showing all Around.
 WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.-Mr. Joseph Nim- mo, ir, chief of the bureau of statistics, has completed and handed to the Secretary of the Treasury his preliminary reporton the for eign commerce of the United States for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1883. In his re- port it is shown that the total value of i'm ports and exports of merchandise during the year amounted to $1,556, ,92s, ,4S5, being larger than during any previous year in the history of the country. The balance of trade in our favor is $1O0, ,6s3, ,153, as against $25, ,902, ,6s3 during the preceding fiscal year. The value of exports of merchandise from the United States during the year amounted to $sS3, ,s05, ,819, as against $75O, 542, ,257 dur ing the preceding fiscal year, showing an in- crease oE B, 253. 5e2a The influence of the crops upon our exports of merchandise is evident from the fact that during the ten years which ended June 30, 1882, 7S per cent of our exports of merchandise consisted of products of agriculture. The leading ar- ticles of exportation during the last fiscal year were, as during the preceding year, cotton, breadstuffs, meat products and petroleum, cotton being very largely the leading commodity. It appears that during the year which ended June 30, 1883, the value of the exports of cotton amounted to $247, ,34s, ,621, as against $199, ,644 for the preceding fiscal year, an in crease of $47, ,513, ,977, and that the value of the exports of wheat and -four amounted to STA, 7os, ,8aO, as against $149, ,SO4, ,773 during the preceding fiscal year. The exports of meat products and dairy products amounted t0 $99, GA, ,621, as against $114, ,463, ,72S during the preceding fiscal year. The cotton crop produced dur ing the season of 1882 was larger by about 400, ,OOO bales than any crop previous produced in this country. The wheat, rye, oats and barley crops were also larger than ever before and the corn crop was only exceeded by the crop of 1880. The prospect at the present time is that the aggregate of the crops of the season of 1883 will be quite as large as the aggregate of the crops of the season of 1882. The value of the imports of merchandise into the United States during the year ended June 30, 1883, amounted to $723, 122 ,666 and was exceeded but once be- fore during the year ended June 30, 1882.
 It is impossible at present to give com parative statement of the total value of the imports of each of the several commodities during the last and preceding fiscal year, but the results are for the year, however, ap- proximately indicated by comparing the value of the imports of each of the leading commodities during the eleven months ended May 31, 1883. with the values of the same during the corresponding elev- en months of the preceding fiscal year. This is shown as follows The value of the imports of sugar and mo. lasses amounted to $s7, ,155, ,837, as against $84, 966, 192 during the corresponding eleven months of the preceding fiscal year. The imports of iron and steel and manufactures thereof amounted to $37, ,414 40, as against $47, ,417, 22S during the corresponding eleven menths of the preceding year. The exports of domestic gold and silver coin and bullion during the year amounted to $21, ,623, 181, and that of foreign gold and silver amounted to $1O, 197, 152.