The range of prices at New York for thirty-nine years-Continued. Indigo, Manilla. Iron-English pig. Lead, pig. Leather, hemlock Nails-Cut.. *Imports for consumption, year 1851-52, (exclusive of specie.) $195 000.000. Excess of domestic produce, (exclusive of specie,) $155,000,000. $37,000,000. Exports of tobacco, $10,000 000; of cotton, 1,093,000,000 of pounds, average price 8.05 cents. The largest export was in 1860, average price 10.85 cents; total value, $192,000,000. In 1821 cotton exported, 125,000,000 pounds, average price 16. 2 cents per pound. Nails-Wrought.. 10 30 per cent. ad val. Castile... Spices-Pepper......... Wine-Port *For the first time in the history of this country, the foreign imports this year exceeded $300,000,000, the exports to foreign countries for the same year being $278,241,064, or more than 72 per cent. beyond the average exports of the preceding ten years, (1844-53.) Of: h exports of the fiscal year 1853-'54, those of breadstuffs and provisions were $65,941,323, or nearly 24 per cent., being double those of the preceding year and the average of the six years, 1848-53. This increased export was mainly owing to the Crimean war. |