The following are leading items of domestic export for the same periods: 8,792,402 1.728,385 16,030,657 644,674 5,266,667 The total value of imports (other than dry the year 1876, was $199,025,371. The followgoods and specie) at the port of New York, for ing is a valuable comparative table: IMPORTS OF A FEW LEADING ARTICLES OF GENERAL MERCHANDISE AT NEW YORK FROM FOREIGN PORTS FOR THE YEARS 1873-'76. Hops. bales.. 43,599 22,860 One striking feature of these reductions is, that they have taken place in spite of the general decline of prices. The total value of exports from the port of New York for 1875 was $255,515,942; for 1876, $279,097,136, viz.: to Great Britain, $151,682,227; France, $15,175,135; Holland and Belgium, $14,679,002; Germany, $32,381,654; other countries of North Europe, $3,362,485; Spain, $2,073,329; other countries of South Europe, $11,172,134: China and Japan, $1,844,807; Australia, $2,366,275; British North American colonies, $4,295,497; Cuba, $9,096,274; Hayti, $4,085,847; other West Indies, $8,614,670; Mexico, $1,471,104; British Guiana, $1,038,375; Brazil, $3,105,163; other countries of South America, $8,325,355; all other ports, $4,346,643. The following were the leading articles of export for 1876 and 1875: Hides, coal, paper-materials, etc. NAVAL STORES: Spirits turpentine. Tar.. Oil-cake... Petroleum. Bacon PROVISIONS: Pork.. .bbls, and casks.. 179.154 170.502 Beef.. bbls, and casks.. 119.778 86.581 2,231,783 1,708.249 Butter.. ..100 lbs. 107,151 949,656 1,606,011 1,189,900 .pkgs.. Cheese. Tobacco, leaf, etc. Tobacco, manufactured. 42.841 921.187 The receipts of domestic produce at New York, for the years 1876 and 1875, have been as follows: Tobacco.. Total in the United States 8,438 8,300 To the total number of ministers should be added 126 foreign missionaries, who are not included in the table. The number of licentiates was 258; number of baptisms of adults, 8,743; of baptisms of infants, 5,184; total number of persons in Sunday-schools, 401,838; amount of charitable contributions (2,418 churches reporting), $1,241,014.39; amount of home expenditures (1,020 churches reporting), $1,388,446.74. The following is a summary of the statistics of the Congregational theological seminaries in the United States for the year 1875-'76: It is the largest exportation the country ever enjoyed, and is $130,000,000 more than in 1872. The balance in favor of the United States in 1876 was $226,000,000. The table shows that the products of the farms and of the soil constitute five-sixths of the whole amount of exports, and that the American position in the trade of the world is, in the main, simply that of a great agricultural nation. CONGREGATIONALISTS. The following is a summary of the statistics of the Congregational churches in the United States for 1875, as they are given in the Congregational Quarterly for January, 1876: |