Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-26
Markets BIZ TELEGRAPH.
The Cotton Markets


LIVERPOOL, April 20 Cotton steady;
middling uplands 81; middling Orleans
sgd. Sales 1900 bales; American T.
200 bales; speculation and export 1000
bales.
NEW YORK., April 25-Cotton nominally
a higher; middling uplands 173c; futures
closed firm; sales of sc, 100 baks as fol-
lows: April delivery l6 Lice; May de
livery II 3-32c; June delivery II 17-32alT
9-16c; July delivery II 3l-32alSc; August
delivery Is '5-16c.
MEMPHIS, April 25-Cotton dull, prices
unchanged; good ordinary 15ac; low mid
ding 163a16sc; middiing 16sa17. Receipts
for the past day $40 bales; shipments for
the past twenty-four hours $50 bales;
stock 81, 101 bales.
ST. LOUIS, April 25.-Cotton firm and
higher and little doing; middling lie.
LOUISVILLE, April %. Cotton quiet
and unchanged at 1870.
CINCINNATI, April 25- Cotton-market
firm and demand fair at lie.
Foreign Markets
LONDON, April %, p. N.-ConsOls for
money 92sa92s; account 92sa93. United
States 5-2Os of rs, 1861; 1867, 1889;
1040's 104; new IS, 104; New York
Central, IS; Erie, 314; preferred 81. The
amount Of bullion gone into the Bank
of England on balance to-day was fS4,-
600. The rate of discount in open market
for three months billsjis 3s percent, which
is per cent below the Bank of England
rate. Rate for money at the Stock Ex-
change on Government securities 3 per
cent.
LIVERPOOL, April 25.-Breadstuffs are
quiet and unchanged.
PARIS, April 24-Rentes 59f. soc.
FRANKFORT, April 25.-5-20s of 1862
9S!.
New York Money Market
NEW YORK, April 25.-MOney closed
easy at 3a4 per cent on call, prime business
not in demand and discounted at sal per
cent; supply of prime paper small Owingto
dizziness of trade. Sterling Exchange was
quiet at AS for prime bankers 90 days and
4S9 for sight. Gold closed at 1923 after
selling at 112ia1l25. The rates paid for
carrying ranged from per cent to flat clos
ing at per cent. The elearanees were
S5S0O0,O00. The Treasury operations for
the past week at the New York Office
included the disbursement of over $1,000
600 for interest and in redemption of $40
bonds, and the receipts of S2,0OO,0OO for
customs; the payments to-day of S75O,OO0
was chiefly on account of May coupons.
The specie shipment for the same time
amounted to S423, 236, principally for
silver bars. The imports for the week, of
dry goods amounted to 81, ,632; mer-
chandize S5.3SS,553. Governments were
strong and considerably lower. State bonds
were quiet and nominal. The Stock mar
ket opened firm but remained so only
short time, Northwestern being excep-
tiOnally weak; prices subsequently picked
up but again went of, gathering strength,
however, at the closing. The market
closed steady with speculative shares.
The sales at the Stock Exchange between
ten and two O'Clock to-day amounted to
100000 shares of which were 81 200 West
ern Union, 1900 Pacific Mail, $4,000 Lake
Shore, $1,000 Union Pacific, and 1900
Northwestern.
Bank statement-LOan decrease, SOL
200; specie increase, S122, 500; legal ten
ders decrease, S424,300; deposits decrease,
$4,352, POO; circulation increase, SCI 300;
reserve, increase S771,225.
Sterling Exenange.-Bankers' Bills 4S6!;
United States coupons of 1881, 12Os,
5-2Os of 1862, ISL; do. of 1854, 1193; 40,
of 1865, 1909; do. new 1874; 5-20s of 1867,
120; United States coupons Of 1868, 119s;
new fives, 116; 10-40s, 1145; currency skies,
1165. Missouri State bonds 9443; Tennessee,
old So; do. new IS. Stocks Western
Union Telegraph 7Os; New York Central
975; Erie 34s; do preferred 5Sc.
New York Dry Goods Market.