Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-14
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
The Cotton Markets.


LIVERPOOL, March 3D. Cotton steady;
middling uplands 7saSd; middling Orleans
| gid. Sales 1900 bales; American
| 1900 bales; speculation and exports, 1000
bales. Sales for the week $1,000 bales;
exports 1000 bales; speculation 5000 bales
stock 73SOO0 bales; stock American 346,-
900 bales; receipts 1900 bales; American
$1,000 bales; actual exports 1900 bales;
stock afiOat 462, 700 bales; American &c.,
600 bales.
New YORK, March 13.-COttOn dull and
irregular; middling uplands 1910; futures
closed steady; sales of Il, 500 bales as follows:
March 15sa15 1890; April 10 11-16; May
10 3-16al6 7-32c; June 16sa16s; July 16sa
| 16 15-16c.
NEW ORLEANS, March 13.-COtton-de-
mand fair; sales 1850 bales; prices ir-
regular but steadier toward close; good or
binary to strictly good ordinary 1910; low
middlings to strict low middlings 4aa15tc;
middlings to strict middlingS 153a16c;
good middlings 16sa17c. Receipts 1915
bales; exports to Great Britain 8, 70Sbales;
cOastwise 1914 bales; to continent 3,34l
bales; stock 2IS,431 bales; unsOld 10000
bales. Weekly sales $4,000 bales; receipts
net 29,002 bales; gross 30,SS2 bales; exports
coastwise 4,505 bales; TO continent 29,029
bales; to Great Britain 21,564.
MEMPHIS, March 13.-COttOn quiet and
easy; limited demand; inferior TO low
ordinary 6aS5c, S6.15, 93c, 104c; good Ordi-
nary 13Ia135ac; low middlings 14ia14sc,
middlings 153a15@c; strict middlings l6c;
good middlings 168a17c; receipts for the past
! day 1,260 bales; shipments for the past
twenty-fOur hours 2,405 bales; stock 54,31O
bales; receipts for the past week 1865
bales; shipments for the past week II, 153
bales; sales 1900 bales.
ST. LOUIS, March 13.-COttOn steady;
middlings 15ac.
LOUISVILLE, March 13.-Cotton quiet at
154c.
CINCINNATI, March -Coston-market
dull but unchanged, 15sc.
Foreign Markets.
LONDON, March Is, ) P. M.-Consols for
money 92a925. United States 5-20s of '65,
1901; of 1867, 1921; 10-40's 1881; new IS,
lO4S; New York Central, 96aa; Erie, 40;
| preferred 655. The amount of bullion in
the Bank Of England ON balance to was
$4,000.
PARIS, March 13.-Rentes 60f. soc.
LIVERPOOL, March 13.-Breadstufs are
quiet.
New York Money Market
New YORK, March 13.-The Customs
receipts were $4,000. The Treasury dis
bursements were $242, 900. The dry goods
imports for the week were S2,545, 213.
Sterling closed firm at 464a4S48 for 60 days,
and 4STa4S7s for sight. Gold ranged from
! 111sal12s and closed at 111s. Carrying
rates fat to per cent. The ciearings to-
day were S26,0O0,000. State bonds dull and
| 4
at opening advanced .as per cent, but this
was soon lost, and during market hour
were weak with lowest prices of the day,
current rates ranged .a15 decline in Lake
| Shore and Western Union. The sales
between ten and two o'clock were
10000 shares, of which %, 1000 shares were
Western Union, 10000 Union Pacific, TO-
600 Wabash, 10000 Lake Shore, and 1900
Northwestern.
Sterling Excnange.-Bankers' Bills 4S4B;
United States coupons Of 1881, 119s;
5-20s of 1862, III; do. Of 1854, 1894; do.
Of 1865, 12O; do. new 11Ss; 5-2Os Of 1867,
119; United States coupons Of 1868, 119;
new fves, 114s; 10-40s, 113ss; currency skies,
1I6. Missouri State bonds 9411; Tennessee,
old 80; do. new SO. Stocks-Western
Union Telegraph 75ss; New York Central
1919; Erie 43..; do. preferred 6S.
New York Dry Goods Market.
New YORK, March 13.-BusineSs ruled
quiet with commission houres and jObbing
trade generally active. The market for
cotton goods was quiet and irregular.
Prints quiet, excerpt the newest styles, and
those were selling at job prices. Percales
and lawns were selling freely. Dress fab
RIGS were doing we'll. COttonades were less |
active. Kentucky jeans quiet. Shawls and
hosiery We're in fair demand.
New York General Market.
New YORK. March 13.-FlOur quiet |
and unchanged superine western and
State S5.7Oa6.1j; extra Ohio S6.45a7.75;
St. Louis S6.G0a11.00; good to choice .7Oa /
600; extra white wheat S6.90a7.4O.
Whisky steady at 97c- Wheat heavy and
lower; No. spring S1.j0a1.52 Rye and
Barley UNCHANGED. Corn quiet and strongly
in buyers favor; new mixed western s6a
SSe. Oats opened firm but closed dull;
mixed western 62sa634c. Coffee dull and
nominal. Sugar heavy and lower; fair to