Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-30
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
The Cotton Markets.

LIVERPOOL, May 29.-Cotton quiet;
middling upland sgd; middling Orleans
sc; Sales 10000 bales; American $500
bales; speculation and export 1000 bales.
Sales of the week $4,000 bales; export 1900
bales; speculation 5000 bales. Stock S54,-
600 bales; American AT, 900 bales. Receipts
for week 100000 bales; American $1,000
bales. Actual exports 1000 bales. Stock
afoat $4,000 bales; American 10000
bales.
NEW YORK, May 29.-Cotton dull and
nominal; middling upland 1890; futures
closed firm; sales of 1000 bales at II
21-S2a17 11-16c for June delivery; Is 1892
for July delivery; Is 11-16alS 23-32c for
August delivery; 1Sia1S 7-16c for Septem-
Der delivery; II 27-32a17sc for October de-
livery; II 11-16a17sc for November deli
very; 17sa17ic for December delivery.
The comparative cotton statement for
the week ending to-day is reported
as follows: Net receipts at all United
States ports during the week 22,925
bales; for the same week last year,
32,s77 bales; total receipts to date
3,64S,679; same time last year, 3,39S692
bales. Exports for the week 10, 1877 bales;
same week last year $1,000 bales. Total
exports to date /, 10, Al bales;same time last
year 2,309, 1888 bales. Stock at all United
States ports 326, 439 bales; same time last
year 305, 036 bales. Stock at all interior
towns $500 bales; same time last year
81 800 bales. Stock at Liverpool $4,000
bales; same time last year $1,000 bales.
Stock of American afoat for Great Britain
10000 bales; same time last year 2O2, 900
bales.
NEW ORLEANS, May 29.-Cotton de-
mand moderate; sales 1,450 bales; prices
irregular; desirable kinds are a shade
strong; good ordinary to strict good Ordi-
nary 15ia16c; low middling TO strict
low middlIng 16sa174c; middling to strict
middling 17sa1S1c; good middling 1Ssa
1SSc. Receipts 1908 bales; exports, to
continent 2,453 bales; coastwise 21,275
bales; to Great Britain ,391 bales. Week
" sales 13,100 bales; net receipts 1858
gross receipts $3.50 bales; exports to conti-
nent 2,543 bales; coastwiSe 6,379 bales; to
Great Britain 9O,032 bales.
MEMPHIS, May 29.-Cotton dull and
nominal; middling 17ac; receipts for the past
day 3S5 bales; shipments for the past
twenty-four hours 1,132 bales; stock 26, 400
bales; receipts for the past week 4, 465 bales;
shipments for the past week $3.50 bales;
sales 5000 bales.
MOBILE, May 29.-Cotton = stock IS
S6I bales. Weekly net receipts ], 1872 bales,
exports to Great Britain ,S3S bales, coast
wise 73T bales; sales 365 bales.
GALVESTON, May 29.-Cotton-no de-
mand; stock 14,794 bales. Weekly net
receipts 1880 bales, exports coaStwlse l.
033 bales. sales 800 bales.
CHARLESTON, May 9.-Cotton-stOck
1852 bales. Weekly net receipts 1858
bales; exports cOastwiSe 2,302 bales; sales
1,250 bales.
SAVANNAH, MAY 20. - COtton-stock
1886 bales. Weekly net receipts 1,426
bales; gross receipts 1,495 bales; exports to
Great Britain 2,467 bales; coastwise 1,5l2
bales; sales T79 bales.
ST. LOUIS, May 29.-Cotton dull but
nominal.
LOUISVILLE, May 29.-COtton quiet and
unchanged at 17tc.
CINCINNATI, May 29.-Cotton quiet at
17sc.
Foreign Markets.
LONDON, MAY 20, 8 p. M.-Consols for
money 93sa93s; account 93ta93s. United
States 5-2Os of '65, 1917; 1867, 1903;
IO-4O's 1045; new IS, 104; New York
Central, IS; Erie, 34t!; Erie preferred %.
The rate of discount in open market for
three months bills is 8! per cent, which
Is ! below the Bank Of England rate.
Rate for money at the Stock Exchange
on Government securities per cent. The
amount of bullion gone into the Bank
of England on balance to-day was f9l,-
900.
LIVERPOOL. May 29.-Breadstufs are
quiet and unchanged.
PARIS, May 29.-Rentes 59f &c.
New York Money Market
NEW YORK, May 90. - Money was
2a2K per cent; only small portion of Of
ferings EMPLOYED low rates. Sterling Ex-
change was dull at 4S6i4SS for sixty
DAYS and 49OJa49l for sight. The imports
of drv goods for the week amounted to
81 .456. $50. Gold was steady at 112ta1123,
closing at 1924. The customs receipts were
$4,000. The rates paid for carrying were
la23 per cent and fiat. The Assistant
Treasurer discussed $4,000. The specie
engagements for tO-morrow's steamers so
far are 81 100000 gold coin and S25O,OOO
silver bars and $4,000 Mexican silver in
transit. Governments bonds were dull.
Railroad bonds were firm. State bonds
were quiet. Stocks have been extremely
dull. the sales Of the day only reaching 62,-
| 600 shares. The widest change to-day was
Pacific Mail, which advanced from 423 TO
49,. In the remainder of the list fuctua-
tions only to per cent: The bulk OF
| sales were in Lake Shore, Western Union,
and Union Pacific. Tomorrow being legal
holiday, all Exchanges will be closed.
Bank statement-Loan decrease, S22o,-
$50; specie decrease, 500, 900; legal ten
ders increase, S163, 300; deposits decrease
81. S39, 800; circulation decrease, SI3,4OO;
reserve, increase S1,576,5OO.
Sterling Exchange.-Bankers' Bills 4SSs;
United States coupons of 1881, 12ls,
5-2Os Of 1852, 1854; do. Of 1864, 1l155; DO.
of 1855, 1881 do. new 120; 5-2Os Of 1867,
| 1909; United States coupons of 1868, 100:
new fves, 1153; IO-f0s, 114s; currency skies
117s; Missouri State bonds %; Tennessee
old s2l; do. new s2I. Stocks-Western