Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-03
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
The Cotton Markets.


LIVERPOOL, March 2. Cotton dull,
middIing uplands I'D; middling Orleans
SD. Sales 1900 bales; American
7,4OO bales; speculation and exports, 1900
bales.
NEW YORK, March q Cotton dull;
middling uplands 16c; futures closed
steady; sales of 22,5O0 bales as follows:
March - 1-16c; April Is 15-S2c. May 10
I5-32c; June 16 9-}2c; July Is 1890.
NEW ORLEANS, March 2.-CottOn-de-
mand moderate; sales 1850 bales; prices
unregular and weak; good ordinary to
strictly good ordinary 125af4e; low mid
dlings to strict low middlings 14sal5c; mid
dling TO strict middlingS 1jal55a; good mid
dlinSs I65aI7c. Receipts 1862 bales; ex-
morris to continent 1.26S bales; cOastwise p
02O bales; to Great Britain II, l2O bales;
stock 297,551 bales; unsOld 2OO,3OO bales.
MEMPHIS, March p Cotton market
dull and prices unchanged; middlings l54
aI55c; receipts for the past day $50 bales;
shipments for the past twenty-four hours
1900 bales; stock 59,47O bales.
ST. LOUIS, March 2.-Cotton market
dull and prices nominal.
LOUISVILLE, March Cotton easier at
15tc.
CINCINNATI, March 2.-Cotton-market
steady at Isle.
Foreign Markets.
LONDON, March 2.-Consols for money
92a921: on account 921ag2s. United
States 5-20s of 'G5, 1898; Of 1867, 1O95;
IO-4Os 1924; new IS, 1914; New York Cent
raj, 90; Erie, 43a433; preferred 6S. The
amount of bullion gone into the Bank Of
England ON balance to-day was f65,OOO.
LIVERPOOL, March 2. -Breadstuffs are
quiet.
PATIs, March 2.-Rentes 59f. 2jc.
FRANKFORT, March .. 1905 Of 1862
9Ssc.
New York Money Market
New York, March 2. - Money easy
al 3a6 per cent. Sterling dull at 1881 for
60 DAYS and 4S7 sight. Customs receipts
were S557,OOO. Gold closed at 1123 after
selling at Il2Ja1I21. The carrying rates
were from to 5. The Treasury disburse-
ments were $4,000. The clearings to-day
were S32,OOO.OOO. Governments steady.
State bonds all nominal. Stocks opened
weak but later became firm, but again fell
ofand continued weak and feverish until
the announcement Of an increase Of legal
tenders, when a firmer feeling prevailed,
and prices advanced materially, the market
closing steady at a slight reaction from the
highest points. The greatest improvement
i'm Northwestern which advanced from 543
to So. The principal dealings were in
Northwestern AID st. Paul, Lake Shore,
and Union Pacific, which were exceptionally
firm Throughout. Wabash, Western Union
and Pacific Mail market was active, stimu-
lated by a change in the Treasury pro
gramme which was hailed with joy by Op-
orators as a relief from the general dizziness
which peryaded the market for sometime
past.
The sales at the Stock Exchange between
10 and 2 o'clock amounted to 17S,OOO shares
of which $1,000 shares were Western
Union, 10000 Union Pacific, $4,000 Wa
bash, 1900 Pacific Mail, $500 New York
Central, 1850 st. Paul, common, $1,000
Lake Shore, 1880 Northwestern common,
and $500 Onios.
Sterling Excnange.-Bankers' Bills 4S4 :;
| United States coupons of 1881. 119s;
5-2Os Of 1862, 117S; do. Of 1864 49,; do.
of 1865, 1909; de-. new 11SE; 5-2Os Of 1867,
119s; United States coupons Of 1865, 11S3;