Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-05-08
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Th0 COTTON M0rAosSs
LIVERPOOL, May COTTON quiet; mid
ding uplands 8S69d; middling Orleans 81
691d. Sales 10000 bales; American 5000
bales; speculation and export 1900 bales;
shipped from Mobile and still at sea 11-16d;
April and May shipments from Savannah
and Charleston SD; May ard June delivery
from same ports 11-16d; May and June
shimpments to New Orleans sgd.
NEW YORK, May Cotton in mode
rate request and heavy; middling uplands
1910. Sales of futures $500 bales, as fol-
lows: May 1Sa61Ssc: June Is SLIGO
1870; July 1s 5-l66lSsc; August 1St61S
7-16c;.
NEW ORLEANS, May Cotton quiet;
sales 1920 bales; good ordinary 1859 low
middllngs 1esc; middlings 1861S5c; mid
ding Orleans 1641c; receipts 5,15S bales;
exports to continent 2, 230 bales; stock 154,-
9C5 bales.
CHARLESTON, May 7.-Cotton nominal;
middlings 1St6l84c; net receipts 592 bales;
sales 100 bales; stock 24,335 bales.
GALVESTON, May 7.-Cotton dull and
dothiDg doing; for ordinary to good ordina-
~ 144c; net receipts $50 bales; exports
coastwise 365 bales; sales 205 bales; stock
1924 bales.
MOBILE, May 7.--Cotton dull and weak;
low middlings 15ac; middling 17ac; net re-
ceipts 16S bales; exports to Great Britain
3,1SS bales; coastwise 307 bales; sales 800
stock 30,952 bales.
SAVANNAH, May Cotton dull; mid
ding 1916; net receipts 3l5 bales; exports
coastwise 296 bales; sales 1893 bales; stock
30220 bales.
ST. LOUIS, May Cotton duh and un-
changed; low middliDg l7G17ic; middling
1S6l8!c.
CINCINNATI, May 7.-Cotton dull and
lower at 1Ss61Ssc.
LOUISVILLE, May 7.-Cotton duh and
sending downward; middliDg upland TIC.
MEMPHIS, May Cotton dull and
lower; good ordinary 15c; low m:ddling lie;
receipts S55 bales; shipments $50 bales;
stock $4,000 bales.
Foreign Markets.
LONDON, May -Consols-money 935
ON account 93d. u. S. 5-20s of '65 81 !;
| do '67 "a; 10-40s S9I; new SIS S9s. Erie
sos. The rate of discount Of the Bank of
England has advanced per Get and is now
a. Turpentine 40 Refined petroleum
| 15s.
FRANKFORT, May 7.-U. S. 5-20s OF '62
95j.
PARIS, May 7.-Rentes 54f SAC.
LIVERPOOL, May 7.-Breadstuffs quiet.
California white wheat average lis 9d011s
IOd; red winter lbs I'd. Corn 27s Sd. Flour
| 81 Cd. Receipts of wheat for the past three
| DAYS $4,000; American 1900; corn 5000;
| American 1000. Pork 70s. Cheese Us.
| Cumberland middles S8s Cd; short rib mid
dies sos.
ANTWERP, May Refined petroleum
41f
New York Money Market.
New YORK. May THE supply Of
loanable funds is steadily increasing aud
the money market seemed settled into an
easy condition for the spring and summer
months. Currency is still flowing here and
the banks are discounting freely as well as
| Offering increased amounts of money on
call to bankers. The rates to-day was 601
per cent, on call ard 769 for prime dis
counts. The outstanding legal-tenders have
| decreased S154,OO0. The advance in the
| Bank of England rate of interest was ex-
pected and had no marked effect. Sterling
was dull and heavy at 8s6Sk for 80 days and
9z695 for sight. Gold was dull but steady
ranging at 1l740 l173. and closing at III
N1l73. Loans were 207 per cent? The
clearings were $50,000,000; treasury dis
bursements S38O,0O0 for interest; custom
receipts S38OOO0. Governments were q
trifs better and firm. State bonds were
dull but Tennessees very strong. Railway
bonds are in increased demand. Stocks are
lesa active and the changes smaller than
yeste-dav, The market vas feyeris and al
ternately weak and strong, closing weak
The chiefifuctuations were in Canton which
rose from I02 to 1861; Pacific Mail So, 81
53E, 6u3; Western Union SO, 871, S7s; 97si
St. Paul 57s, 5S55, 500; c., g. & |. Q. 355
861. 35ss Rock Island 1104, I'LL, hog
Obios 49,, AL, 43ss; Wabash70, 6gs, 70tt
60s: Harlem 126, 10, 1868. The changes
ia the rest of the list we're only 40a pei
cent. The earnings of the Lake Shore
road for 1872 were S17,592, l62, an increase
of 81, 1895, 654 over 1871. The earnings Of
the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Mime
sofa Company for April were $77,386
against $64,5S1 in April of last year.
Sterling Exchange - Bank Bills lOo5
o. s. coupons, 1881, 12lt; bus OF looz
llo5, 40. oSs 11o21 40. Vo, Aess' ,1oI
fives 1881; do. '67, 12O; do: '6S, llo5
1O-40s, 11Ss; currency l6's, l15S; Missouri
bonds "a. Tennessee, old 81; do new 81 J.
Virginia, old 49; do. new so. North Caro-
lsna, old u; do.-new 10.
rev York Dry Goods Market.
New York, May T. Manufactures
agents were quiet to-day and jobbers only
moderately active. Cotton goods We're
steady at The lately reduced prices. Orlen-
tai, Washington, Dunnel and Bristol prints
were reduced &c. Somerset prints were sell
ing at &c to close out the production. 20
lored cottons are steady and active. The
best makes of ginghams are hrm, put low
grades are irregular. Corset Jeans are
quiet; some brands are lower: Woo-ens
and shawls are inactive. The auction
rooms are selling large lots of ribbons, dres:
goods, silks and laces at low prices: The
faiInre of Fowler g. Slocums, dry goods i'm