Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-19
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
The Cotton Markets.

| LIVERPOOL, Dec. 1S.-Cotton dull; mid
ding upland 10d; do Orleans104d; sales
1900 bales; speculation and export 5000
bales.
New YORK, Dec. -Cotton-demand
fair but at lower rates; middling uplands
1890.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 1S.-CottOn dull.
Good ordinary 1916; low middling 19c;
middlings 1910; sales 5000 bales; receipts
1904 bales; exports to Liverpool 1885
bales; to Barcelona 1000 bales; coastwise
$50 bales; stock 134, 1852.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 1S.-Cotton dull and
prices nominal; middling 1870.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 1S.-Cotton dull and
prices dropping. Middling 196193c; Low
middling 1876.
LOUISVILLE, Dec. 10. - Cotton quiet
and steady; middling 19c.
MEMPHIS, Dec. 1S-Cotton dull but
unchanged; middling 1910. Receipts 1866
bales; exports 1919 bales.
Foreign Markets.
LONDON, Dec. 49, Consols for money
92s6925. Five-twenties of '62, 924; do
'65, 93s; do. '67, 93s; 10-40's 91s.
FRANKFORT, Dec. 1S.-U. S. 5-20s '62
81.
PARIS, Dec. 18.-Rentes 5Gf. 30c.
New York Money Market.
NEW YORK, Dec. 18.-GOld weak. The
Assistant Treasurer to-day paid out $780,
900 in gold on account of 5-20s redeemed,
making the total for this year $40, 10000.
The rates paid for carrying were 7 per cent
gold, and 1872 per cent. Clearings So, 000,-
! 900. Governments quiet and firm. Stocks
opened firm, and advanced until about 2 p.
m, with Pacific Mail, l.. S., Erie and Read
ing as the features. After this time the
market was weak, closing heavy, and
lower decline ranged from to ! per cent,
and was most marked in the Pacific Mail,
L. S., Wabash, Ohio and w. U. Business
very dull and confined to a few leading
stocks. Money tight. Loans made from I
for gold TO per day, closing at I for gold
bid. Southern State securities were dull
and heavy on last call. At the morning
board general decline in prices was quite
marked in some cases. The fear that some
more Southern States will default in their
January interest payments is having an un-
favorable effect on the entire list.
Sterling Exchange-banking bills 1901;
U. S. coupons of 1881, 1175;; do. 5-20s of
1852, 1904; do. 1854, 111i; do. 1865, 1I1s;
do. new, 1135, do. 1867, 115S; do. 1868,
1851; 10-40s, 1104!; currency IS, 1874; Mis-
souri, bonds, 81; Tennessee, old, 645; new,
IS; Virginia, new, 81; old, 615; North
Carolina, old, 81; do. new, II.
New York Dry Goods Market.
New YORK, Dec. 18.-Dry goods market
quiet and firm, at 136133c for the best brands
of heavy brown sheetings; lac for heavy
1rown drills like Amoskeag and Appleton;
14ac for Adriatic, do. 11a612ac for Ameri-
can stripes, Hamilton and Amoskeag, do.
1919 Amoskeag corset jeans; 1870 for
Indian Orchard, do. 12c for Monsarge
bleached satteen, do. 156153 for Arlington
blue denims; 15c for Haymaker brown, do.
1890 for Otis A X A, do. &c do. BIB, 20c
do. for &C, lie for Pearl River brown, blue
! do, 23Rc for Clark's o. N. 7. spool thread;
SOC for Green and Daniels do cord; CSC
for New York; New York mills muslins 2lc,
Namsetta do. zoe; White Rock do. 1Gc.
Lancaster prints 11ac; Spragues lie; Nal
lony pinks lie; Stearns Xxx Alpaca braids
S5c, and printing cloths nc.
New York General Markets.
| New YORK, Dec. 1S.-Flour dull at
| S5.S069.25. Rye -four and corn meal I'M
changed. Whisky lower and active at ga
ssf92!c. Wheat sl.4S61.75. Rye 90c. Bar