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

hAhhEIS BY TELEtJRAPH.
The Cotton Markets.
LIVERPOOL, May 4. Cotton quiet and
steady; middling upland S.aSs; middling
Orleans SsaSad. Sales 1900 bales; Anne
rican 1900 bales; speculation and export
1000 bales.
NEW YORK, May A. Cotton dull;
middling upland 17se.; futures closed
steady and strong; sales of 1880 bales as
follows: May delivery II 3-1ea17 3-32c;
June delivery IL I7-32a17 9-16c; July de-
livery II 15-16a17 3l-32c; August delivery
Is 7-32a1Sttc; September delivery II 1-32a
1Sc; October delivery II 27-32a17sc Nov
ember delivery 17sa17 Lice; December
delivery 17aa17 9-16c.
NEW ORLEANS, May 4-Cotton dull;sales
1,221 bales; good ordinary to strictly good
ordinary 15sa15te; low middling to strict
low middling 164a17tc; middling to strict
middling 17ia1S4c; good middling 1S!Ia
| 1S3c; receipts 2,2S4 bales; exports to Great
Britain LOO bales; stock lilo bales;
unsold $500 bales.
GALVESTON, May 4 - Cotton-nothing
doing and prices nominally unchanged;
ports to Great Britain 6,003 bales; coastwise
2SS bales; to continent 764 bales; stock
30,S52 bales.
CHARLESTON, May 4.-Cotton quiet;
middling 16aa16sc; low middling 161a1Gsc;
good ordinary 1870; net receipts SIS bales;
exports TO Great Britain 1869 bales; coast
wise 363 bales; sales $50 bales; stock 49,
729 bales.
SAVANNAH, May 4.-Cotton dull and
| unchanged; middling 16Sc; net receipts
332 bales; gross receipts 352 bales; exports
coastwise SO bales; sales 666 bales; stock
81, 902 bales
MOBILE, May 4.-COtton dull; middling
16sc; low middling 164e; good ordinary
| 455c; net receipts POI bales; exports coast
wise 992 bales; sales 100 bales; stock g.
SOP bales.
| MEMPHIS, May 4. Cotton steady
middling lie. Receipts for the past day
| 445 bales; shipments for the past twenty
four hours 2,110 bales; stock $4,000
bales.
ST. LOUIS, May 4.-Cotton firmly held
but little doing; middling lie.
LOUISVILLE, May 4. Cotton quiet
and unchanged at 16sc.
CINCINNATI, May 5-COtton-market
quiet and unchanged at lie
Foreign Markets.
LONDON, May 4, 5P. M.-COnsols for
money g25a93; account 9}a93!. United
States 5-2Os of '65, 1863; 1867, 1921;
1O-40's 104!; new IS, 10411; New York
Central, 50; Erie, 81; preferred 81. The
amount of bullion gone into the Bank
of England on balance to-day was ESQ.,
900. The rate Of discount in open market
for three months bills is g per cent,
which J below the Bank of England
rate. Rate for money at the Stock Ex-
change on Government securities 3 per
cent.
LIVERPOOL, May 4-Breadstufs are
quiet and unchanged.
PARIS, May 4-Rentes 59f S5c.
FRANKFORT, May -5-2Os Of 1862
9S!.
New York Money Market
| NEW YORK, May 4. Money was
easy at 3a4 per cent. Sterling Exchange
was quiet at 4ST3 for 60 days and 400 for
sight. Gold ranged at 112sa112s and
/ closed at 112s. TIE rates paid for carrying
ranged from to 4 per cent. The customs
receipts were S61,000 Treasury disburse-
mtnts were $4,000. The clearings to-day
amounted to S19,000,O00. State bonds were
quiet with a slight improvement Railroad
bOads were active wit an advancing ten
| dency. Government bonds closed weak in
| sympathy with gold. Stocks opened weak
| and before the first call the whole market
declined Lag per cent. Columbus, Chicago
and Indiana Central led the decline on the
reports that the statement of CaprOn *
| Merriam will not be very favorable. Dur
ing the last hour the market was heavy and
prices made further decline under free
sales. The decline TOR the day ranged from
to 3! per cent and the closing quotations
were generally the lowest made. The I'M
! settled state of the market was caused by
the Wisconsin legislation, the Treasury
gold sales for May, House financial bills,
the talk about retiring legal tenders and
the rumored lease of the Atlantic and
Great Western by Erie. The activity was
greatest in Western Union, Pacific Mail,
Union Pacific, Wabash, st. Paul, North
western, Rock Island, Lake Shore, and
Columbus, Chicago and Indiana Central.
The sales at the Stock Exchange between
ten and three O'Clock to-day amounted to
2O4.OOO shares, of which 5000 were West
ern Union, $4,000 Union Pacific, 1900
Pacific Mail, $1,000 Lake Shore, $1,000
st. Paul, 1900 Northwestern, common,
1900 Rock Island, 10000 Columbus,
Chicago and Indiana Central, 1000 New
York Central and 1900 Wabash. The
sales Western Union, Union Pacific, Paci-
fic Mail, Lake Shore and Rock Island were
greater betW cen two and three o'clock than
all the rest Of the day.
Sterling Exchange.-Bankers Bills ass;
United States coupons of 1881. 121s,
5-20s of 1862, ISL; do. Of 1864, III; do,
of 1885, 11Sa; do. new 119s; 5-2Os Of 1867,
1909; United States coupons Of 1868, 12O;
new fves, lis; 10-40s, lis; currency skies,
11G5. Missouri State bonds 943; Tennessee,
old 49,; do. new $50. Stocks-Western
Union Telegraph II; New York Central
9Ss; Erie 34ss; do preferred SOC.
New York Dry Goods Market.
New YORK, May 3.-Business was quiet
with importers and domestic commission
houses but a moderately active and job
bling business is in progress. The clothing
trade are commencing operations in heavy
cassimeres, suitings and Overeoatings, but
spring woOlens are sluggish. The market
for cotton goods is quiet but agents prices
are steady and unchanged. Prints and
shifting stripes are more active. PercaleS
and lawns are doing well.
New York Live stock Market
NEW YORK, May 4-The cattle market
was strong and active at an advance for the
week Of 4al, excepting 3 cars of Texan,
which sold at 10s and cars fat bulls at IS
sc; the live weight range was Hall &c and
the bulk of sales at 11a11sc. Sheep were
very firm at the highest mark Of the year
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