Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-24
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
Foreign Markets.

LONDON, Feb. $500 P. M.-Consols
923692i. United States 5-20's of 1872, 9l5;
do. '65, 80; 10-4Os SO.
PARIS, Feb. 23.-Rentes 56f soc. The
specie in the Bank of France has increased
during the week 100000 francs.
LIVERPOOL, Feb. 23.-California white
whea lbs Sd; red winter wheat lis 9d612s;
receipts of wheat for the past three days 35,-
600 quarters; American $4,000 quarters.
Flour 26d27s. Corn 2Ss 3d629s.
The Cotton Markets.
LIVERPOOL, Feb. 23.-Cotton dull; mid
ding upland 113611sd; Orleans 1Iad; sales
1900 bales; speculation and export 5000
bales. Sales Of the week $1,000 bales; ex-
ports 5000 bales; speculation 10000 bales;
stock on hand $500 bales; American
2OS,OOO bales. Receipts of the week 1O9,-
900 bales; American $1,000 bales; actual
export 5000 bales; stock afoat 100000
American 100000 bales. Advices from
Manchester are less favorable and cause
dizziness.
NEW YORK, Feb. 23.-Cotton less &C
tive and prices lower; sales 1000 bales;
middling uplands 22d.
WEEKLY COTTON STATEMENT.
The comparative cotton statement total
net receipts from Sept. /, 1871, was 81
1S2, 230 bales against 2,626,897 bales last
year; total export this year was 1,236,97I
bales, against 1,6I5,222 last year; stock at
United States ports this year was 570,568,
last year 697 ,065; at interior towns this
year s., 406, last year 11s,170; at Liverpool
this year $50, 600, last year 764, 200; Ameri-
can cotton afoat for Great Britain this
year 10000, last year 100000.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 23.-COttOn nOmin-
ally lower; middling 22c.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 23.-Cotton dull and
dropping; middling 22sc.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. 23.-COttOn quiet
and prices lower; middling 224c.
MEMPHIS, Feb. 23.-COttOn nominal.
Receipts ], 152 beles; exports 1850. Weeks
receipts IO,515 bales; weeks exports 10, Cos
bales; weeks sales $500 bales. Stock in
port 81, 675 bales.
New ORLEANS, Feb. 3.-Cotton-sales
5000 bales and quiet; good ordinary 21!c;
low middlings 2lsc; middlings 224c; re-
ceipts 2,611 bales; exports to HaVre 2,205
b lies; to New York 125 bales; stock 233,-
854 bales. Weeks sales As, 900; net receipts
%, 465; gross 1851; exports IS Liverpool
1896; Havre 4,04S; Amsterdam 2,040;
coastwise 5,678 bales.
New York Money Market.
New YORK, Feb. 23.-Gold active and
higher, closing with sales at Ill. Loans
from 1c to &c for carriages, and one per
cent to &c for use. Clearings SIS, SOC, 600.
Governments strong and higher in sympa-
thy with gold. On Stock Exchange the
Union Pacific was the feature, but dealings
were small and at lower rates; sales regular
and seller per cent at a difference of &c;
borrowing rates ranged from fiat to &C.;
general speculation, aside from Union Pa
cific, was very tame, and fluctuations COM
passed within I to per cent; the feeling
was alternately weak and strong, closing
with lower range of quotations than on
WEDNESDAY last, as business generally was
limited in extent and market dull. Money
active and stringent this afternoon per
cent currency to per cent gold. Late in
the day stock brokers paid 1872 to per
diem. Southern State securities on last
call were firmer in Tennessees, heavier in
South Carolnas, and dull in other bonds.
Sterling Exchange-Bankers bills 1904,
u. S. coupons of 1881, 1152; do. 5-2Os Of
1852, lii; do. 1884, 1114; do. 1866,
111a; do. new, 110s; do. 1857, Ill :; do. 1863,
112I; 1O40s, 110s; currency Is, 1854 Mis-
souri, State Bonds Gage; Tennessee old &c;
do. new 67Rc; Virginia new 543c; do. old
523c; North Carolina old S24c; new TIC.
New York Dry Goods Market.
New YORK, Feb. 23.-Dry goods market
fairly active, and prices are generally on
the rise. Lonsdale cambria muslins, which
sold this forenoon at 23c, are now 234c.
Amoskeag do. are up to 163c; and RoscOg-
gin do. AZ inch, 19620c; Booths are up to
l45615c; do. B, 153616c; do. E. 135c;
Hallowell do. 14c; LacOnia "a bleached
are up TO Csc; and "a do. to Acc;
Pequot ga do. BIC; do. 1914 do. 524c; Pep !
perell "a do. are up to 35c; do. to 40c; |
10-4 do. to 45c; and Ia do. to SOC. Pep |
perel Jeans of all kinds are up 5c per yard. |
American stripes are &c higher; Queen City |
do. to 1c higher; Mucasville do. lie high |
er; ticks also higher; Omega A are advanc-
ed to 26c; do. A c A DC; do. A G A yard |
wide do. Sic; Minnehaha extra do. are sc
higher; York T are advanced to 234c; and |
Clark 80 inch ticks to 26c; prints generally |
steady at 111c for fancy colors. Pacific |
mills have been obliged to make some re-
vision Of their various grades OF ladies'
dress goods, as they opened relatively low,
and wool and cotton keep advancing. |
Brown drills are &c higher. Amoskeag,
Booth, Pepperell and Star are up |
to 154c.
New York General Markets
New York, Feb. 23.-Flour, active,
ualaa nj e I0<74 20 for sIIperfine to best st.