Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1874 — Immigration and Commerce. [ARTICLE]

Immigration and Commerce.

Washington, Dec. 14. The report of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics has the following table, containing a comparative statement of immigration by countries ethnolqgically grouped for the four fiscal years from July 1,1870, to JunqßO, 1874:

I Year ended./une 30. Count rice ethnologiA catty grouped.' 1871.' 1872.: 1873.; 1874. England. Scotland aud Wales*Bs.4ssi 83.8»4j 89.482: 61.999 Ireland : 57,439': 68.732; 77,344' 51.707 Teutonic: Germany, i Au-tna aud Neth-) -I erlands | 88,431447.200'159,347 J 97.623 Scandinavian: Bwe-| den, Norway and; ! i Denmark...’< 22,132 ; 28,575] 35,4811 19.178 Latin: Belgium,; j i .Switzerland. Italy.] | -- Erance. Spain and | ( Portugal... 9,833 18,860; 28.361: 21,694 . Sclavomc: - aud Polandl 1.208 ; 2.641' 4,898 1 5,7.55 China 7,135' 7.778 20.292; 13.776 British North Amer - ican Provinces.... 47,082 40.176 37,371! 32,960 Spanish and Portuguese Colonies: -—Mtrxrco; —South: America. Cuba and; Porto Ricol 1.218 1.500 1.760 1,536 All other countries..] 1.417 4.440 5,067 5,111 T - | —; 1 "Tcffal immigrants. |331,350'4(M.t8)6;459,803 313.339

*16.042 of this number were reported as from “Great Britain, not specified.’’ In regard to the trade with Canada the report -says-, although the pubHshed statenients of the bureau in regard tq the whole foreign trade of - the country and particularly of our exports by water are nearly accurate, yet it has hitherto been found impracticable if nor impossible to obtain full returns of merchandise exported to the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The fact, long known and deplored, is the more, to be regretted now when our commercial relations"with the Dominion of Canada excite much discussion and w’ill soon no doubt engage the-serious attention of the Senate of the United States. The returns from several Custom-Houses on the Canadian border arc necessarily defective owing to the want of legislation requiring persons exporting merchandise by land conveyance to tile manifests of such merchandise'and produce with the Collector of the Customs of that district on the border across which the articles pass into the foreign country, as is now required in the case of all exports to foreign countries in vessels. From the detailed statements by Provinces and ports, as well as by articles and values, prepared by the Commissioner of Customs of the Dominion, the bureau has been able to add to the stated values of articles embraced in the returns of Collectors of Customs of the Districts of Vermont and Niagara the official figures obtained from Canada, which figures are published in the statement of domestic exports contained in the annual report of the Bureau on Commerce and Navigation for the fiscal year 1874, and also in the monthly report for August, 1874. The total value of the articles omitted as above stated amounts, in the fiscal year 1874, to $10,200,059, Canadian or specie values, and to $11,424,066 in United States currency, computed at the average premium on gold in that year. The export of specie in the same period amounts to $3,619,568, as appears by the statements of the bureau, while the Canadian imports show but $2,235,987; the former sum is, however, believed to be correct, the figures having been furnished by the agent of the express company which conveyed the specie to Montreal, and verified by the’undersigned. It appears that during the year ending June 30, 1871, there were exported from the United States to Belgium 17,384,603 gallons of refined petroleum, valued at $4,294,037. The published trade statements of Belgium for the year 1871 (a period of six months later) give the imports for consumption into that country from' all foreign countries as 13,618,000 kilogrammes of “oil ether than for table use,” valued at 14,980,000 f, or 4,289,000 gallons, valued at $2,966,000 (United States measure and value), which, from the high price per gallon, would appear to include a eonsitterable amount of oil other than petro leum. The amount of petroleum and corn exported from this country to Ireland is given below in the second column; the amount imported into Ireland from all other countries is shown in the first column—each for the two_years ending June 30. 1873: z: .. .... Indian corp, bu5he1523.877,766 27.105,930 Petroleum, gallons 1,877,474 13,964,718 The total amount of domestic breadstuff's exported from the ports of Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Port Huron and Toledo to the Provinces of Quebec and Ontario, Dominion of Canada, during the fiscal year ending June 30,1874, was as follows: Quantity. Value. Indian corn, bn5,122.819 §2.599.974 Wheat, bn 8,477.804 10,241.019 Wheat flour, brls 82.316 570.587 Other breadstuff's 267,510 -. Total value . §13,679.090 Out of 7,418,711 bushels of Indian corn or maize exported to the Provinces of Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1873, 7,366.727 bushels were exported from the ports of Chicago, Detroit, Toledo and Port Huron to the Provinces named. It also appears ftiqni the Canadian statistical reports that during this period there were exported from tfie Dominion of Canada to foreign countries 6,242,976 bushels of Indian corn not the product of the Dominion; hence it is fair to presume that it was the product of the United States. . ,