The total value of the exports from each of the six coast States and Texas, during the same period, was as follows:— There exists a considerable trade between Liverpool and the Confederate States. During the financial year ending 1861, the total number of vessels which cleared inwards from Confederate ports was 789, and outwards for Confederate ports 472. The largest shipments were from New Orleans and Mobile, the united tonnage of the vessels entered inwards from those ports being 539,620, while the tonnage dues amounted to 40,6077., and the dock and town dues on merchandise to 58,7551. The chief exports of the Confederate States consist of cotton, tobacco, and rice, the value of which at various periods, since the year 1790, is shown in the subjoined table : : The following is a statement showing the quantity of cotton, rice, and tobacco exported annually from the Confederate States from 1821 to 1861, according to the report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States: The annual produce of cotton grown in the Southern States is somewhat differently estimated on the basis of Confederate returns.* According to these statements, the produce of cotton during the seventy-two years from 1790 to 1861 was as follows: The number and tonnage of vessels entered, during the years 1859 and 1860, at ports of the Confederate States amounted to— The number of tonnage of vessels which cleared from ports of the Confederate States amounted to— * George M'Henry: The Position and Duty of Pennsylvania, Appendix, London, 1863. The number and tonnage of mercantile vessels built in each of the States of the Confederation, both for sea and river navigation, in the years (ending June 30) 1859 and 1860, is given in the subjoined table : Further details concerning the trade and commerce of the Thirteen States which have seceded from the North American Union are given under United States.' The annual produce of cotton grown in the Southern States is somewhat differently estimated on the basis of Confederate returns.* According to these statements, the produce of cotton during the seventy-two years from 1790 to 1861 was as follows: : years The number and tonnage of vessels entered, during the and 1860, at ports of the Confederate States amounted to 1859 The number of tonnage of vessels which cleared from ports of the Confederate States amounted to * George M'Henry: The Position and Duty of Pennsylvania, Appendix, London, 1863. |