Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1877 — American Commerce for Ten Months. [ARTICLE]

American Commerce for Ten Months.

The report of the Bureau of Statistics for the first ten months of the fiscal year is an encouraging one. A comparison for the whole time with the corresponding period of 1876 does not exhibit any improvement, but this can be plainly discerned in the imports for the month of April. Their total value was $12,670,411, against $36,156,52(5 for the same month last year. When viewed for the ten months, the decline is seen to have continued for most of the time; the figures are $357,592,545 of merchandise imports in 1877, against $389,069,848. The domestic exports for April, 1877, were $47,780,775, or more than $1,000,000 better than those of April, 1876, $46,704,668. For the ten months, the domestic exports were valued (gold values) at $503,733,353, against $439,915,269 for the corresponding months of the fiscal year 1876—an increase of $63,818,084. The heaviest increase in imports was in sugar, of which $12,000,000 more in value was imported; the imports of teas and coffees fell off $11,000,000. The exports of com increased $10,000,000, while those of cotton fell away $21,000,000. There was a great enhancement in the value of petroleum exports, which rose from $24,300,000 to $46,000,000. Bacon and ham exports increased $lO,000,000; lard, $5,000,000; and leaf tobacco, $8,000,000.