Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-12
MARHETS BY TELEGRAPH.
The Cotton Markets.

LIVERPOOL March IL Cotton quiet;
middling uplands 75d; middling Orleans
SaSBd. Sales 1900 bales; American
$500 bales; speculation and exports, 1900
bales.
NEW YORK, March IL Cotton is weak:
middling uplands 1919; futures closed
steady; sales Of 20,7O0 bales as follows:
March - I1-32a15sc; April - 1890 bid;
May 10 1-16a16 S-32c; June 16Rc bid; July
IS 25-32a16 13-16c.
NEW ORLEANS, March 11.-COtton-de-
mand fair; sales 600 bales; good or
binary to strictly good ordinary l3al4c;
low middlings to strict low middlings lag
a15Ic; middling to strict middlings 154al6;
good middlings 161aI7c. Receipts 6,1I3
bales: exports TO Great Britain ?, 1913 bales;
coastwise - bales; to continent 1856
bales; stock 2Sj,1lT bales; unsOld 1850
bales.
MEMPHIS, March 11.-Cotton-market
quiet and unchanged; inferior to low
ordinary GaS5c, S6.Ij, 91.c, 10tc; good Ordi-
nary 131a13ac; low middlings 14aal45c,
middlings 1j4a15dc; strict middlings l6c;
good middlings i6ba11c; receipts for the past
day g65 bales; shipments for the past
twenty-four hours 1870 bales; stock $3.50
bales.
ST. LOUIS, March 11.-COttOn-gOOd
demand for best grades; some sales higher;
middlings l55c.
LOUISVILLE, March 11.-COttOn quiet at
Isle.
CINCINNATI, March 11-COtton-market
quiet and uncb3nred at 153c.
Foreign Markets
LONDON, March IL, 5 p. M.-COnsOls for
money 92a925. United States 5-2Os OF %,
I00I; of 1861, 100; 1O-i0s lO3; new 5s,
1O4s; New York Central, 959; Erie, Az;
preferred 655. The rate Of discount IN
open market for three months bills IS IS
per cent, which is 3 per cent below the
Bank of England rate.
LIVERPOOL, March 11.-BreadstufiS are
quiet.
PARIS, March 11.-Rentes COT SOC.
FRANKFORT, March 11-5-20s of 1862
9s9e.
New York Money Market
NEW YORK, March 11.-Money closed
easy at BAD per cent. Sterling closed firmer
at asa for 90 days, and 4S7a4S75 for sight.
The Customs receipts were S44S, 900. The
Treasury disbursements were S2O9,OOO.
The clearings to-day were Sl6,OOO,OOO.
Gold ranged from 111s TO lip, closing at
l12. State bonds quiet and nominal. Gov
ernments were strong with a good demand.
Stocks in early dealings declined Tag, but
soon recovered and became strong in the
last hour and closed with an advance of la
Il in the entire list. The principal activity
aud improvement were in Union Pacific,
Lake Shore, Northwest, St. Paul, Rock
Island. Wabash and Western Union. The
sales between ten and two o'clock were
1880 shares. Short interest very large;
market very strong at about the highest
prices Of the day.
Sterling Excnange.-Bankers' Bills Asa I;
United States coupons of 1881, 119s;
5-2Os of 1862, III; do. Of 1854, 119; do.
of 1865, 1904; de-. new 11Sil; 5-2Os Of 1867,
119s; United States coupons of 1865, 1l9;
new fives, l14II; I0-40s, 1l3s; currency skies,
116i. Missouri State bonds 81; Tennessee,
old 9IJ; do. new 81. Stocks-Western
Union Telegraph 75i; New York Central
1859; Erie cog; do. preferred 20.
New York Dry Goods Market.
NEW YORK, March 11.-Trade move
ment with manufacturers agents was slow
and unsatisfactory to-day and the market
feverish and excited, owing to a break in
certain makes Of prints and dOmestics. At
lantic sheetings were reduced &c. The
Daily Bulletin says the following prints
are retailed by agents: Arnold 9ae; Garner
Sc, cash; AmOskeag &c, cash; Aliens 9ic,
and Bristol &c. Prints are selling freely at
reduced prices. WOolens were quiet. Shawls
were active.
New York General Market.
NEW YORK. March 11.-FlOur steady
with moderate demand. Wheat-demand
fair and market firm at S1.45. COrn-de-
mand fair and market firm at 63a65c. Oats
steady with a moderate demand at 46a54c
Rye steady with a moderate demand at
S1.01a1.03. Barley dull but unchanged
Mess pork easir; sales at S15.00al5.25.
Lard dull and prices dropping; steam SEA
SIC; kettle &c. Bulk meats steady with a
moderate demand; shoulders 5aa5sc; clear
rib re; re for spot; buyer March clear Sc
Bacon quiet at 63a5saSEc. Whisky-la-
mand fair and market firm at Ole
Baltimore Markets.
BALTIMORE, March 11-FlOr improv 20;
demand ti1ner, but unchanged; superfEe