The total number of bushels of corn arriving at tide-water during the same period was 26,516,535. The whole number of boats, new and old, registered during the last year, was 485, with a tonnage of 74,630, making an average tonnage of 154. The importance of the canals in the development of the resources of the State is fully indicated by the preceding tables, as well as the necessity for their enlargement. Comparing the season of 1865 with that of 1866, it shows an increase in revenue of $596,684, and an increase in tonnage of 1,045,566, divided among the different classes as follows: The marketed imports and the exports of the United States for the months of July, August, September, October, November, and December, 1866, so far as given, compare one with another as follows: SPECIE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND OF FOREIGN IMPORTS MARKETED-CONTRASTED. Imports at declared specie value. Exports at declared currency value reduced to specie, at the average price of gold for each month. July, 1866. $1 49; $15,595,017 $21,998,404 Aug., 1866. 1 45 $13,069,819 13,967,472 Sept., 1866. $35,068,223 37,496,844 42,121,411 Oct., 1866. 1 50 10,908,218 24,684,000 11,483,165 10,718,911 16,091,983 Nov, 1566. 1 43; Dec., 1866. 1 88 Total.... 7,545,391 11,612,161 11,516,298 5,408,866 872,443,812 $125,522,033 $65,894,148 From these returns it appears, that while the month of September is the largest importing month, that of December is the largest exporting month of the half year. It also appears that the value of goods thrown on the market during the half year did not differ materially from the value of the total imports for the same period. This is not always the case, the two amounts differing very materially at times. During the period embraced in the above returns they compare as follows: Imports entered for warehousing, value........... Total imports, value.... $6,549,664 During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1866, the declared value of the total imports was $437,640,354, and the amount of customs duties received $179,046,651. The customs duties were thus forty-one per cent. of the total imports. During the half year ending December 31, 1866, the declared value of the total imports was $197,965,845, and the amount of customs duties received about $87,500,000. The customs duties were thus forty-four per cent. of the total imports. These latter amounts will need some alterations, since several of the ports have yet to be heard from, both as regards $7,244,528 2,454.011 2,687,274 86,167,165 1,862,619 498.219 15.282,164 23,637,874 4,596,782 857,292 14,158,000 19,612,074 16,925,164 3,851,895 609,972 20,997,768 24,989,635 $191,416,181 $22,227,109 $4.294,490 $93,614,888 $120,186,487 their returns of commerce and of imposts. Without making any allowance for these imperfections (the extent of which can be estimated by allowing for the respective ports which have failed to send their returns of commerce in time, and by adding about $1,000,000 to the sum of imposts), the result indicates an increase in the percentage of the customs revenue to the total gross imports. During the half year ending December 31, 1865, the imports were $211,805,738. For the corresponding half year just ended, they were $197,965,845. Allowing for the returns not yet received, the amount is about the same. With the same amount of imports, then, and an increased percentage of customs receipts, the total amount of customs duties for the year ending June 30, 1867, it is anticipated, will prove to be rather over than under the official estimate for the year, which was $160,843,774. If there were any means of contrasting the monthly returns furnished herein with similar ones for like periods during past years, they would present an interesting indication of the course of our foreign trade; but, unfortunately, there are none. The monthly summary returns of the previous years have not always been duly received at the Department. Few, if any of them, are complete; and the great variance of their results with those of the quarter-yearly summaries, which do not distinguish between goods entered for consumption and those entered for warehousing, forbid them from being used as standards of comparison. The total Feathers Butter bbls. 610 179 1,506 Bran ..sacks. $373,189,274 $326,683,097 Beef. bbls, and tes. 228,699,486 805,004,732 Beef, dried.. ...lbs. Cotton... .bales. Corn in ears... Corn, shelled........sacks. 2,003,176 558,278 1,722,089 Cotton seed. ..sacks. 94,172 18,199 Candles.. 1,214 TO 1.121 .bbls. 998,831 Hitherto the commercial statistics of the country have been collected and arranged, or digested, very slowly. The Secretary of the Treasury now reports thus: "The Statistical Bureau, authorized by the act entitled 'An act to protect the revenue, and for other purposes,' approved July 28, 1866, was organized on the 5th day of September last, by the appointment of Mr. Alexander Delmar as Director. It is expected that, under his direction, this Bureau will be of great benefit to this Department and Pork. to the country. After putting in proper condition the numerous books relating to commerce and navigation, which have been transferred to this Bureau, the Director will prepare reliable statistics of the resources of the country, and the extent to which they are being developed. Monthly reports of imports and exports, taxes, imposts, wages, products, and markets will also be regularly prepared, and every means employed to ascertain the of population and industry." Potatoes.. Shot Sugar.. Sugar Tallow Tobacco... 636 CONGREGATIONALISTS. The Congregafull statistics of Congregationalism in the United tional Quarterly for January, 1867, publishes States. The whole number of Congregational Churches, as reported in 1866, was 2,780; in 1865, 2,723-a gain of 57. In Canada and the provinces there were 120 churches in 1866. against 117 the year before, making a total on this Continent of 2,900 churches, against 2,840 the previous year, a gain of 60. Of these churches 243 were in Maine, 183 in New Hampshire, 191 in Vermont, 493 in Massachusetts, 23 in Rhode Island, 286 in Connecticut, 225 in New York, 166 in Ohio, 24 in Indiana, 222 in Illinois, 150 in Michigan, 158 in Wisconsin, 166 in Iowa, 60 in Pennsylvania, 96 in Canada, and the rest were scattered in smaller numbers through various States, Territories, and British Provinces. Missouri had 29 of these, against 18 last The total number of Congregational year. ministers in the United States was 2,919, against 2,761 in 1865. In Canada and the provinces there were 90, and 86 in 1865, so that the whole number was 3,009 in 1866, and 2,888 in 1865. Of these only 862 were reported as settled pastors, while 912 were returned as acting pastors or stated supplies, and 236 were so returned that it could not be told whether they were pastors or stated supplies. Of the rest 879 were reported as not engaged in the pastoral work. Very many of these were professors in colleges and theological schools, or teachers in academies and private schools. There was also a large force connected with the several benevolent societies and general Christian enterprises in various parts of the land. The total membership of the churches within the bounds of the United States was 267,453 against 263,296 in 1865, a gain of 4,157. Adding the membership in Canada and the provinces, it stood 272,975 in 1866, and 269,062 in 1865. From seventeen States reports of benevolent contributions were received, while thirteen States and Territories made no report. The whole sum returned was $1,024,720.87. Of this sum Massachusetts gave $392,244.09; Connecticut, $257,164.60; New York, $93,130; Maine, $49,409; New Hampshire, $44,905; Ohio, $41,396; Vermont, $38,583.62, and from other States smaller sums varying from $25,000 downward. If the whole sum given in charity in all the States and Territories were reported, it would not probably fall far short of $1,500,000. The American Home Missionary Society sustains a number of missionaries in the Southern States, where Congregationalism before the war was almost entirely unrepresented. From the report made by the agent of the Society, the Rev. J. E. Roy, on the Southern Missions of the Society in 1866, we glean the following facts: The church organized in Memphis one year and a half ago by your missionary, Rev. E. T. Bliss, I found in a prosperous condition. It had already assumed the pastor's salary of $2,000; it had a membership of forty-four, a growing congregation, and a flourishing Sabbath-school. Having promise of aid from the Congregational Union, was raising the generous sum of $8,000 for a house of worship, which is now in process of erection. The church at Washington, under Rev. Dr. C. B. Boynton, Chaplain of the House, with its one hundred and twenty members-several of whom have recently been added on profession of faith-I found in a hopeful condition. At Knoxville I found Rev. T. D. P. Stone, who has been commissioned to labor for a season at that place. At Chattanooga, a place of classic interest, with its Lookout Mountain, its Chickamauga, its Missionary Ridge, its National Cemetery, I found the field open and ready for a missionary. At Helena, Ark., where the old churches had all become disintegrated, I found a few Congregational friends from the North desiring a minister. At New Orleans I assisted in organizing a corporate religious society of twenty-seven male members, which elected as its president Mr. S. D. Moody, a young merchant from Boston, who seals his earnest ness in the work by a subscription of five hundred dollars. Five of these members are old and influen tial loyal citizens. The remainder are persons from the North, settled in business. I am glad to learn that the Congregational Union has purchased for this society the Second Presbyterian Church, which is in a fine, central, and easily accessible location. At Savannah I took the initiative for organizing a religious society and securing a minister. Thirty business men attached their names to a paper, pledg ing themselves to become members of such a society, and to contribute, through it, for the support of the gospel; while twenty other persons gave assurance of sympathy and cooperation. Of the thirty gentlemen referred to, two-thirds are ex-officers of the army, settled there in business, while nearly the same proportion of the other adherents are men who have borne the same honor. At Newbern, N. C., I found the enterprise which had been initiated by the Rev. Horace James in a flourishing condition. A corporate religious society of forty members had been organized. Rev. A. A. Ellsworth had assumed the ministerial care of the society, and was proving himself admirably adapted to the situation. The society had assumed the entire salary, only the expense of his removal having been taken from your treasury. Richmond, with its forty thousand inhabitants, its superb water-power, its inland navigation, and its much importance. I was permitted to prepare the oceanic commerce, is destined to become a city of way there for a religious society. Twenty-five gentlemen signed a paper approving such a movement, and pledging to it the support of their personal influence and substance. The English Congregational Year-Book for 1867 contains the statistics of Congregationalism in England as far as they could be ascertained up to December, 1866. The following are the most important points as presented by the Year-Book: County Associations and Unions.-England, 43; Wales, 16; Scotland, 8; Ireland, 1; Colonies, 8. Total 76. Congregational Churches.-England, 1,923; Wales, 788; Scotland, 105; Ireland 27; Channel Islands, 13; Colonies, 278. Total, 3,134. Out-stations of the Congregational churches, 1,065. Mission churches in foreign lands, 249. The number of out-stations and preaching places connected with these mission churches is not known. Stations of the Home Missionary Society, 119; Evangelistic stations of the Home Missionary Society, 60; rooms, cottages, farmhouses, in which the agents preach, 340; lay preachers in home missionary stations, 233; lay preachers in Welsh churches, 293; Evangelistic agents in Home Missionary Society, 59; native teachers in foreign missions, 700. Vacant Churches.-England, 192; Wales, 87; Scotland, 9; Ireland, 7. Total, 295. Theological Colleges.-England, 8; Wales, 3; Scotland, 1; Colonies, 4. Total, 16. Preparatory or missionary institutions, 5, viz.: Cotton End, Nottingham, Bristol, Bedford, Highgate. Private seminaries for theological preparation, 4. Total number of students in theological colleges: England, 196; Wales, 90; Scotland, 6. Total, 293. Students in preparatory institutions: Cotton End, 6; Bedford, 11; Nottingham, 53; Bristol, 18; Highgate, 10. Total, 98. Ministers in England, 1,826; Wales, 407; Scotland, 105; Ireland, 25; in the Colonies, 217; foreign lands, 202. Total, 2,782. CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. The first session of the Thirty-ninth Congress * assembled at Washington on December 4, 1865. (For the President's Message, see PUBLIO DOCUMENTS, ANNUAL CYCLOPÆDIA, 1865.) The Senate was called to order by the President pro tem., Mr. Foster, of Connecticut, Mr. The following is a list of the members of Congress: SENATE. California-James A. McDougall, John Conness. West Virginia-Peter G. Van Winkle, Waitman T. Willey. Wisconsin-Timothy O. Howe, James R. Doolittle. Connecticut-Henry C. Deming, Samuel L. Warner, Augustus Brandagee, John H. Hubbard. Delaware-John A. Nicholson. Illinois-John Wentworth, John F. Farnsworth, Elihu B. Washburne, Abner C. Harding, Ebon C. Ingersoll, Burton C. Cook, H. P. H. Bromwell, Shelby M. Cullom, Lewis W. Ross, Anthony Thornton, Samuel S. Marshall, Jehu Baker, Andrew J. Kuykendall; at large, S. W. Moulton. Indiana-William E. Niblack, Michael C. Kerr, Ralph Hill, John H. Farquhar, George W. Julian, Ebenezer Dumont, Daniel W. Voorhees, Godlove S. Orth, Schuyler Colfax, Joseph H. Defrees, Thomas N. Stillwell. Iowa-James F. Wilson, Hiram Price, William B. Allison, Josiah B. Grinnell, John A. Kasson, Asahel W. Hubbard. Kansas-Sidney Clarke. Kentucky-L. S. Trimble, Burwell C. Ritter, Henry Grider, Aaron Harding, Lovell H. Rousseau, Green Clay Smith, George S. Shanklin, William H. Randall, Samuel McKee. Maine-John Lynch, Sidney Perham, James G. Blaine, John H. Rice, Frederick A. Pike. Maryland-Hiram McCullough, John L. Thomas, Jr., Charles E. Phelps, Francis Thomas, Benjamin G. Harris. Massachusetts-Thomas D. Eliot, Oakes Ames, Alexander H. Rice, Samuel Hooper, John B. Alley, Nathaniel P. Banks, George S. Boutwell, John D. Baldwin, William B. Washburn, Henry L. Dawes. Michigan-Fernando C. Beaman, Charles Upson, John W. Longyear, Thomas W. Ferry, Rowland E. Trowbridge, John F. Driggs. Minnesota William Windom, Ignatius Donnelly. Missouri-John Hogan, Henry T. Blow, Thomas E. *Seat declared vacant. + Admitted near the close of the session. Deceased March 28, and succeeded by George F. Edmunds. Seat given to Henry D. Washburn. Wright, of New Jersey, presented the creden tials of John P. Stockton, of New Jersey, elected by the Legislature to serve for six years from March 4, 1865. Mr. Cowan, of Pennsylvania, said: "Before the oaths are administered, I beg leave to present the protest of several members of the Noell, John R. Kelso, Joseph W. McClurg, Robert T. Van Horn, Benjamin F. Loan, John F. Benjamin, George W. Anderson. Nevada-Delos R. Ashley. New Hampshire-Gilman Marston, Edward H. Rollins, James W. Patterson. New Jersey-John F. Starr, William A. Newell, Charles Sitgreaves, Andrew J. Rogers, Edwin R. V. Wright. New York-Stephen Tabor, Tunis G. Bergen, James Humphrey, Morgan Jones, Nelson Taylor, Henry J. Raymond, John W. Chanler, James Brooks, William A. Darling, William Radford, Charles H. Winfield, John H. Ketcham, Edwin N. Hubbell, Charles Goodyear, John A. Griswold, Robert S. Hale, Calvin T. Hulburd, James M. Marvin, Demas Hubbard, Jr., Addison H. Lailin, Roscoe Conkling, Sidney T. Holmes, Thomas T. Davis, Theodore M. Pomeroy, Daniel Morris, Giles W. Hotchkiss, Hamilton Ward, Roswell Hart, Burt Van Horn, James M. Humphrey, Henry Van Aernam. Ohio-Benjamin Eggleston, Rutherford B. Hays, Robert C. Schenck, William Lawrence, F. C. Le Blond, Reader W. Clark, Samuel Shellabarger, James R. Hubbell, Ralph P. Buckland, James M. Ashley, Hezekiah S. Bundy, William E. Finck, Columbus Delano, Martin Welker, Tobias E. Plants, John A. Bingham, Ephraim R. Eckley, Rufus P, Spalding, James A. Garfield. Oregon-John H. D. Henderson. Pennsylvania-Samuel J. Randall, Charles O'Neill, Leonard Myers, William D. Kelley, M. Russell Thayer, B. Markley Boyer, John M. Broomall, Sydenham E. Ancona, Thaddeus Stevens, Myer Strouse, Philip Johnson, Charles Denison, Ulysses Mercur, George F. Miller, Adam J. Glossbrenner, William H. Koontz, Abraham A. Barker, Stephen F. Wilson, Glenni W. Schofield, Charles Vernon Culver, John L. Dawson, James K. Moorhead, Thomas Williams, George V. Lawrence. Rhode Island-Thomas A. Jenckes, Nathan F. Dixon. +Tennessee-Nathaniel G. Taylor, Horace Maynard, Wiliam B. Stokes, Edmund Cooper, William B. Campbell, S. M. Arnell, Isaac R. Hawkins, John W. Leftwich. Vermont-Frederick E. Woodbridge, Justin S. Morrill, Portus Baxter. West Virginia-Chester D. Hubbard, George R. Latham, Killian V. Whaley. Wisconsin-Halbert E. Paine, Ithamar C. Sloan, Amasa Cobb, Charles A. Eldridge, Philetus Sawyer, Walter D. McIndoe. Not admitted at this session. Alabama-C. C. Langdon, George C. Freeman, Cullen A. Battle, Joseph W. Taylor, B. T. Pope, T. J. Jackson. Arkansas- Byers, Lorenzo Gibson, J. M. Johnson. Florida-F. McLeod. Georgia-Solomon Cohen, Philip Cook, Hugh Buchanan, E. G. Cabaniss, J. D. Matthews, J. H. Christy, W. T. Wofford. Louisiana-Louis St. Martin, Jacob Barker, Robert C. Wickliffe, John E. King, John S. Young. Mississippi-A. E. Reynolds, B. A. Pinson, James T. Harrison, A. M. West, E. G. Peyton. North Carolina-Jesse R. Stubbs, Charles C. Clark, Thomas C. Fuller, Josiah Turner, Jr., Bedford Brown, S. H. Walkup, A. H. Jones. South Carolina-John D. Kennedy, William Aiken, Samuel McGowan, James Farrow. Virginia-W. H. B. Custis, Lucius H. Chandler, B. Johnson Barbour, Robert Ridgway, Beverly A. Davis, Alexander H. H. Stuart, Robert Y. Conrad, Daniel H. Hoge. Delegates from the Territories. Arizona-John N. Goodwin. Colorado-Allen A. Bradford. Dakota-Walter A. Burleigh. *Seat given to William E. Dodge. + Admitted near the close of the session. Legislature of New Jersey, protesting against the right of Mr. Stockton to take his seat here as a Senator. I do not desire to raise the question as to whether he may not be sworn, because I believe his credentials are prima facie sufficient for that purpose; but I desire that these papers may be laid before the Senate and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary when that committee shall be organized, in order that the prayer of the memorialists may be heard, and such order taken upon it as the Senate in their wisdom may decree." The protest was received and laid upon the table, for future reference to the Committee on the Judiciary, and the oath was administered to Mr. Stockton. Mr. Sumner, of Massachusetts, submitted the following concurrent resolution declaratory of the adoption of the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery, which was laid on the table and ordered to be printed: Whereas, the Congress, by a vote of two-thirds of both Houses, did heretofore propose to the Legislatures of the several States, for ratification, an amendment to the Constitution in the following words, to wit: "ARTICLE XIII. Sec. 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Sec. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation." And whereas, at the time when such amendment was submitted as well as since, there were sundry States which, by reason of rebellion, were without Legislatures, so that, while the submission was made in due constitutional form, it was not, as it could not be, made to all the States, but to "the Legislatures of the several States," in obedience both to the letter and spirit of the provision of the Constitution authorizing amendments, there being a less number of Legislatures of States than there were States; and whereas, since the Constitution expressly authorizes amendments to be made, any construction thereof which would render the making of amendments at times impossible, must violate both its letter and its spirit; and whereas, to require the ratification to be by States without Legislatures as well as by "the Legislatures of the States," in order to be pronounced valid, would put it in the power of a long-continued rebellion to suspend, not only the peace of the nation, but its Constitution also; and whereas, from the terms of the Constitution, and the nature of the case, it belongs to the two Houses of Congress to determine when such ratification is complete; and whereas more than three-fourths of the Legislatures to which the proposition was made have ratified such amendment: Now, therefore, Be it resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That the amendment abolishing slavery has become, and is, a part of the Constitution of the United States. Resolved, That notwithstanding the foregoing resolution, and considering the great public interest which attaches to this question, the Legislatures which have not ratified the amendment, be permitted to express their concurrence therein by the usual form of ratification, to be returned in the usual manner. Resolved, That no one of the States, to the Legislature of which such amendment could not be submitted, by reason of its being in rebellion against the United States, and having no Legislature, be permitted to resume its relations, and have its Legislature acknowledged, and its Senators and Representatives admitted, until its Legislature shall have first ratified fact. such amendment in recognition of the accomplished Mr. Sumner also submitted the following resolutions, which were laid over: Resolutions declaratory of the duty of Congress in respect to guaranties of the national security and the national faith in the rebel States. Resolved, That, in order to provide proper guaranties for security in the future, so that peace and prosperity shall surely prevail, and the plighted faith of the nation shall be preserved, it is the first duty of Congress to take care that no State declared to be in rebellion shall be allowed to resume its relations to the Union until after the satisfactory performance of five several conditions, which conditions precedent must be submitted to a popular vote, and be sanctioned by a majority of the people of each State respectively, as follows: shown by an honest recognition of the unity of the 1. The complete reestablishment of loyalty, as Republic, and the duty of allegiance to it at all times, without mental reservation or equivocation of any kind. pretensions, and the complete enfranchisement of all 2. The complete suppression of all oligarchical citizens, so that there shall be no denial of rights on account of color or race; but justice shall be impartial, and all shall be equal before the law. 3. The rejection of the rebel debt, and at the same debt and the national obligations to Union soldiers, time the adoption, in just proportion, of the national with solemn pledges never to join in any measure, direct or indirect, for their repudiation, or in any way tending to impair the national credit. 4. The organization of an educational system for the equal benefit of all without distinction of color or race. 5. The choice of citizens for office, whether State or national, of constant and undoubted loyalty, whose conduct and conversation shall give assurance of peace and reconciliation. Resolved, That in order to provide these essential safeguards, without which the national security and the national faith will be imperilled, States cannot be precipitated back to political power and independin all respects fulfilled. ence; but they must wait until these conditions are Mr. Sumner also submitted the following resolutions, on the duty of Congress to the Southern States, which were ordered to be printed: Resolutions declaratory of the duty of Congress, especially in respect to loyal citizens in rebel States. Whereas, it is provided by the Constitution that "the United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government; " and whereas there are certain States where, by reason of rebellion, there are no State governments recognized by Congress; and whereas, because of the failure of such States respectively to maintain State governments, it has become the duty of Congress, standing in the place of guarantor, where the principal has made a lapse, to provide governments, republican in form, for such States respectively: Now, therefore, in order to declare the duty of Congress 1. Resolved, That whenever a convention is called in any of such States for the organization of a government, the following persons have a right to be represented therein, namely, the citizens of the State who have taken no part in the rebellion; especially all those whose exclusion from the ballot enabled the rest to carry the State into the rebellion, and still more especially those who became soldiers in the armies of the Union, and by their valor on the battlefield turned the tide of war and made the Union triumphant; and Congress must refuse to sanction the |