Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-23

quotablylower; good ordinary to strict good
ordinary 12Sa13ic; low middling to strict
low middling 13sa13sc; middling to strict
middling 13sa14sc; good middling to mid
ding fair 143a15ic; receipts 1888 bales;
exports to Great Britain z, 176 bales; stock
22S,553 bales; unsold last evening 1920
bales; on shipboard 103, 900 bales.
MEMPHIS, Dec. 22.-Cotton is steady;
middling 135c; receipts 2,097 bales; ex-
ports 945 bales; stock 65,645 bales; sales
- bales.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 22.-Cotton in fair de-
mand and unchanged.
LOUISVILLE, Dec. 22.--Cotton nominal
at 1870.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 22.-COtton Is steady
at 1890.
Foreign Markets.
LONDON Dec. y, P. M.-Consols for
money 919a91{; for account 92a925, ex-in-
terest; United States 5-2Cs of ,65, 106a; do.
1867, 107, ex.; 10-4O's 104; new IS, 1O3;
New York Central, So; Erie, 25; do. prefer
red AZ.
LIVERPOOL, Dec. 22.-Breadstufs are
firm.
PARIS, Dec. 22.-Rentes 61f. 60c.
New York Honey Markes
New YORK. Dec. p. = Money, after
loaning at 4 per cent. closed at 3a33 per
cent. Prime mercantile paper is quoted at
6a75 per cent. Considerable amount of
money is still going South for cotton.
Foreign exchange was tor prime bankers
sixty days sterling at 4S4.a4S5; and weak
for demand at 4S9a49O. The produce ex-
ports for the week amounted to S6,50S, $50,
decrease from last week of 1872, 1853.
Gold was steady at 1114alI1s. The rates
paid for borrowing were 3a2 per cent. and
fiat. The Treasury disbursements to-day
were $4,000. The Customs receipts to-day
were S261, 900. The elearings to-day were
g, 100000. The specie engagements for
tomorrow were 100000. Government
bonds were dull State and railroad bonds
were quiet. The excitement in stocks has
subsidized, the market being less feverish
than any day since the attack commenced
ON Pacific Mail. At the opening of bust
ness the market was irregular but in the
main higher, after which there was a de-
cline of ssa1 per cent, which was followed
BY full recovery. Later on there was
another decline along the entire list of 1a11
Il
Mail, which was done on a report to the
effect that the steamship City Of Tokis was
ashore at barnegat. But at the announce
ment that the report was incorrect, aided
by a dispatch from Washington to the effect
that Rufus Hatch had invited an investiga-
ton Of the company's affairs by commit
tee Of Congress, which invitation was ac-
cepted, stocks rallied from 345 to 35s. The
market was very strong at the final close
and sharp advance was made in certain
leading specialties. Northwestern common
led the list ia rise to 49,, clean advance
Of points; Lake Shore rallied to soy; st.
Paul common to 375; Pacific Mail to 36t;
Western Union to 500 and Wabash 10 Pa
The advance in Lake Shore was based on
rumOrs Of a A per cent. dividend in Febru-
airy. A prominent feature Of the market
to-day was the large business done in sell
lers option; the difference between seller
60 and regular way was ia5 per cent. in
the case Of New York Central and West
ern Union, and lag per cent. in Rock Is
land, Pacific Mail, Wabash, Lake Shore.
The sales at the Stock Exchange between
ten and two O'Clock to-day amounted to
224,000 shares, of which $1,000 shares were
Pacific Mail, $4,000 Western Union, So
900 Northwestern, common, 5000 Lake
Shore, $1,000 Wabash, q, 900 Union Pacific,
5000 Ohios, 5000 Erie and $1,000 st.
Paul and 1000 Ohio and Mississippi.
Sterling Exchange.-Bankers' Bills 1851,
United States coupons Of 1881, 1915
5-2Os of 1852, 1874; do. Of 1854, 1155; 90.
Of 1855, 1175c; do. new 1919; 5-2Os Of 1857;
1909; United States coupons Of 1858, 120aa;
new fives, 11S; 10-4Os, IA; currency SKIES
1175; Missouri State bonds 81. Tennessee
cid 10; 90. new Is. Stocks Western
Union Telegraph S0s; New York Central
1908: Erie 27l: do preferred ~.