The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-20
FINANCIAL AND COTTON
FINANCIAL.

FROM some statistics just received we gather
some interesting facts and present them To our
readers to-day, regarding the forelgn
trade Of the United States. The last month
balance In favor of this country. The
value Of merchandise exports was sS2s60iSS
which is 20 per cent larger Than IN the cor
responding month OF the previous year This
sum has only once been exceeded in me history
If the country commerce, the exception being
in December 1850. Daring the same moath the
imports Of merchandise amounted 10 $3.50 So
an Increase Of per cent This shows
BALANCE IN OUR FAVOR
rf S3S.45S,6l3. Including specie, the exports
mounted to s94, 99S07S, and the Imports 10 i69,
StasS3-a gain in the former over the same
,onth of 1881 of sl6 o0l, and in the latter OF
,LOU2,564 During the last three months OF the
ear there was uade balance in favor OF this
country Of nearly $500 900, and N view OF this
fact it is somewhat singular that no important
sums OF ter ign gold were received, as WAS al
most universally expected. The only explana-
ton seems TO be that there was large return
movement of american securities during the
month Of January. The specie imports Tor De-
cember were only sS3ls,UlS, aud the exports s..
0SI645 In merchandise there was increase OF
S22 00O coo in raw cotton alone and over S,O OO,-
90 in breadstuffs; while in provisions, the next
item in importance, there was decrease of
nea. ly million dollars
THE FIGURES CT THE YEAR.
The figures for the twelve months OF the cal
endar yeai snow that the exports OF the country,
Inclusive of specie, were sS2iOlL47l, or 20, Dol.
473 less than ia the year eetolng, Whlle the
aggregate imports were l75,SGOoS, gam OF o.
1885, 45 These figures leave the excess of eN-
ports at Is 672 AIS In comparison with 1902 81
in 1851 Exclusive of specie the excess OF eX-
ports was only u.s. 1885, 1872 in lSS2 against 1853 SS9-
b79 in 1881. In the years specie movement
there was also great tluctuation, as IN 1880 we
exported 1851, 22l more than we imported.
while in 1881 the imports We're 1881, AIS beyond
the exports until July, the. export trade had
been suffering Il steady deeline since that time,
however there has been a steady improvement
in the current exports, SO much So III iact, that
during the last six months OF the year, when
include tn period of change, there was Il gain
over the corresponding six months of the pre-
ceding year of 81. i3iOSO. This expansion was
particularly conspicuous in the three months OF
october, November and December, when the
imports showed an almost equally marked de-
cline, that is, compared with the preceding
months rhe decline TOOK place, therefore, al.
most entirely In the fore part of the year, and
was chiefly due to the shot crops of ISL, The
effect of the abundant crops Of loo2 is plainly
visible, and would have been more SO hau IL
not been for The falling of in provisions and the
h ,lding back of grain Ia the INTERIOR as 70 the
future an improvement may reasonably be
looked for 10 the two latter respects; but the
excessive movement of cotton is hardly likely
to be maintained. The value Of goods remain
Ing in bonded warehouses OF the United states
at the close If 1881 was S3l 2i5 500 OF which S20,-
6SS. sos Mas in this city. AT the END OF 1881 the
grand total was Sl3, ls9Ol9.
In illustration of the way in which the people
of great city spend money, the following table
of collections made in the first revenue district
of Missouri, (St Louis for January 1855, Is eVl-
dence. OF course the goods thus stamped are
made there, but 1t does not follow that they are
all consumed in that city.
There was collected by Hon. Isaac n. Stur-
geon, in the first revenue district OF MISSOURI,
1urup J0unnry lSSis