Statement of the exports of the growth and agricultural products of the United States, with their immediate manufactures, for the year ending June 30, 1862.

The most remarkable feature in this summary is the extraordinary develop ment of the foreign trade in breadstuffs. The animal productions of the country take the next rank. Cotton occupies the third place in relative increase since 1825. The following is a statement of the proportionate rate of increase in thirty-seven years under the several heads of the classification:

In 1860 the total of agricultural exports, exclusive of cotton, was $90,849,556; in 1861, when the cotton-State ports were closed for threefourths of the year, the same exports increased to $137,026,505, an increase of $46,176,949-about fifty-one per cent. advance during the first year of the rebellion, when the commercial marine of the country was largely diverted to the naval service, when the ports of a great section were blockaded, and the very existence of the government was threatened by a monstrous insurrection. In 1862 a further increase of $18,115,570 was made, the aggregate being $155,142,075. The advance was mainly in provisions and breadstuffs, (mostly breadstuffs,) and was occasioned by a diversion of trade from the south to Europe, and to some extent by decreased breadth and yield of wheat in England and other European states. The total of animal products in 1860 was $24,666,798; in 1861, $27,715,392; in 1862, $42,288,916. Breadstuffs made a stride from $26,989,709 to $73,534,544 in 1861, and to $84,340,653 in 1862-an increase of more than two hundred per cent. The principal increase is found in the following items:

Indian corn

Wheat

Flour...

1860.

1861. 1862. $2,399,808 $6,890,865 $10,387,383 4,076,704 38,313,624 42,573,295 15,448,507 24,645,849 27,534.677

Without reflection one might deem such a result, in the absence of southern exports, so wonderful as to excite suspicions of the truthfulness of the figures. It should be remembered that, cotton excepted, and rice and tobacco left out. the exports from southern ports have mainly been the produce of the west shipped via New Orleans, and are scarcely worth taking into the account of general agricultural exports.

The following table shows the paucity of such exports:

Statement of the aggregate exports of the growth and agricultural products (with the exception of cotton) of the collection districts of Richmond, Norfolk, Petersburg, Alexandria, Camden, Edenton, Plymouth, Washington, Newbern, Beaufort, Wilmington, Charleston, Georgetown, Savannah,, Brunswick, Mobile, Pensacola, Key West, St. John's, Apalachicola, Fernandina, New Orleans, and Texas, for the year ending June 30, 1860.