Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-12

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The Cotton Markets.
New FORK, Dec. 11.-CottOn--
active and prices higher; middling uplands
zoe.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 1f.-Cotton sctive
and higher; sales 5000 bales. Good ortiina-
ry 18sd185; low middfng 1Ss695c; mid
ding 19a6I9se; receipts {, 077 bales; exports
70 Hayre 1878; Liverpool 1921; stock
11S,0S5 bales.
MEMPHIS, Dec. Coston-excited and
prices higher; naiddliag 194c. Receipts
3,525 bales: shipments 4, $40 bales.
ST. LoU1s, Dec. 11.-Cotton firm; mid
ding 1S61S4c.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 11.-Cotton excited
and prices higher. Low middling 1sae.
New York Money Market.
NEW YORK. Dec 11.-Gold heavy at
10946109s. Loans from 5d7 per cent,
gold, for carrying. Clearings S30,000,O00.
Government bonds strong and higher, Ger
mans bought freely. The stock market
was strong and advanced until after bank
ing hours, when a commission was paid
for the use Of money over night, the down
ward reaction was about 4 to ! per cent.
The features have been Lake Shore and
Ohio The money market was made very
stringent for stock brokers before the close
of banking hours, and loans were made at
a J of per cent, the last rates were I per
cent, gold, to 1-16. 1t is confidently af-
firmed that the clique are locking up, and
have taken 100000 out of the market,
their capacity it is said is 100000. State
bonds steady.
Sterling Exchange-banking bills 100;
U. S. coupons of 1881, 117s; 5-20s Of 1862,
1f05; 1854, 110s; 1865, 111k; do new, III,
1867, 1155; 1868, ISL; 10-40s, 1O9s; cur
rency 6s, 113a; Missouri bonds, 9S1; Ten
nessee, old, 654; new, 655; Virginia, new;
6Sll; old, 81; North Carolina, old, 35; do
new, Is.
New York Dry Goods Market.
New YORK, Dec. 11.-Market steady.
Appleton brown drills 14c; Adriatic do.
14bc; WalthaIn a inch brown sheetings
125c; do. 94c; do. 30c; do. 104c; do. 35c;
Stark A and Atlantic A do. 13c; Pequot A
14c; Nevada A lie; Augusta SO inch do.
IL &c; do. 80 inch, do. 10, do. p inch, do. 0.
New market bleached and colored corset
jeans 12ac; Rockport do. 13c; Kearsage satin
do. 15c; Boston improved denims I25c;
cloaks do. 25c; Columbian Xxx and blue
denims 24c; Otis &C lie; do. BIB do. zoe;
do. XXX &c; Pearl river brown and blue
do. 239c; Slater's kfinville and Masonville
paper cambrics lie; do. high colors lie;
LOnsdale bleached muslins tic; do. cam
brics Z2Ic; Lyman j do. 215c; Masonville
muslins Tic; Monadnock &c; sheetings 80
do. 10!c; do. 35c; Carris linseys 21Jc; How
ard do. 16ac; and Union Mills No. 20
checks 21c.
New York General Markets.
NEW York, Dec. 11.-Flour $5.S569.25.
Rye -four and corn meal unchanged. Whis-
ky dull at 81. Wheat $1.5261.75. Barley
unchanged. Corn dull at 7S5079c. Oats
56d57c. Hay and Hops unchanged. COT
fee, sugar and mOlasSes unchanged and
prices firm. Rice Sa69c. Crude Petrole-
um 13l614c; refined 235624c. Pork firm
er;. mess $13; cut meats unchanged; mid
dies steady. Lard-No. l to prime steam
93695c; kettle 9.c. Butter and cheese IN
changed
Baltimore Markets.
BALTIMORE, Dec 11.-Flour dull but
unchanged. Wheat steady and prices firm.
Oorr-yellow 70671c. Oats dull at 500
SIC. Rye 90c6Sl. Mess pork steady at
$14.25. Bacon quiet-shoulders 7ac; sides
Sc; clear rib 81; sugar-cured hams 15c.
Lard 10c. Butter unchanged. Whisky SO
S$l.
Chicago Markets.
CHICAGO, Dec. .-FlOur-demandf fair
and market firm. High grades quiet.
Buckwheat -four in good demand. Wheat
dull and prices dropping. No SIPS; No
2 S1.20I; rejected $1.O5. Corn 42s642!c.
Oats-30 32sc. Rye-63l. Barley-637
Pork-Less active, but strong; Mess $40
Lard SIC. Green meats in god request and
firm. Hams 6ad73c. Shoulders, 3b64c.
Rough ribs, 81. short ribs SEC. Short
clear 5566c. Meats in salt from fifteen to
twenty days-frm at previous quotations.
Beef products unchanged. Hogs-demand
good at full prices, $50 to 4.05 common to
fair, good to extra $3.50, closing firm. Dress
ed, S4.S06485. Whisky firm at 81. Sight
Exchange on New York par.
6 P. M.-HOgs active and firmer; sales
range from s.. 100 to S4.30.
st. Louis Markets.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 11.-Flour unchanged.
Wheat firm; No2 S1.3234; fall No 3 red
S1.4S; No red winter $1.57I. Corn
mixed on trock 43G44c. Oats 34ac. Bar
ley quiet at 67ic. Rye 75d76c. Whisky
92c. Pork $13.25. Dry salt meat steady;
loose shoulders, ten days old, 4ac; order
lots, ten to twenty days old, shoulders so
SIC clear rib 65c; clear sides 6a66sc. Ba-
con unchanged. Lard Sc. Hogs easier at
$3.8064.15.
Cincinnati Markets.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 11.-Flour and grain
unchanged. Linseed oil 72d74c; Lard oil
83685c. Eggs 35c. Butter 20d25c.
Cheese 14615c. Pork $12.75 cash; $I4.50
A1475 for delivery in January. Lard ga
&c asked for steam and kettle. Bulk meats,
asking SIC, &c and &c. Bacon, shoulders
TIC, sides 7675c. Hogs $4.4064.60. Re
ceipts Il, 400. Whisky Gull and declined;
sales at 90G91c. Green meats strong, 4ac,
5ac, sd8ac.
louisville Markets
LOUISVILLE, Dec. 11.-Tobacco firm;
sales 81 hhds Tugs at 6a67Rc; low to me-
dunn leaf 7i612c. Bagging dull and weak
sales at l 4615c.
Cotton active; middling 19c.
Flour good shipping demand at
So 25d6 80 for extra family. Grain quiet
and firm, dealers paying 81 356l so for
choice wheat 5565S for ear and shelled
corn. Oats 40c. Rye 75c. Hogs 81 GOA
60; receipts Saturday 1000. Privisions
quiet and firm. Whisky 92d93c.
Memphis Market.
MEMPHIS, Dec. 11.--Flour quiet and
unchanged. Corn TU672c. Oats SOC.
Hay $26.50. Bran $27.00. Bulk meats
shoulders 5sc; clear sides 6sG7c. Bacon
no demand. Lard 9a6l0c.
New Orleans Markets.
New ORLEANS, Dec. 11.-FlOur firm;
superfine 1918; Xxx S7.Z5; xxx S7.75.
Corn scarce but frmer; white S2t6S5c.
Oats quiet at 55656c. Bran S1.40. Hay
dull and lower; prime 32c; choice 35c. Pork
quiet at $14S. Bacon quiet-shoulders,
clear ribs 7s; clear re. Lard-choice in de-
mand, poor dull, tierce 9d9ac; key 106104.
Sugar-cured hams dull at 146l5c. Sugar
fir1ner; interior 63d6sc; fairto fully fair Sf0
Q4c. nrimA QIMQsc. Molasses active and