Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-22
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH
The Cotton Markets.


LIVERPOOL, May 81. - Cotton dull
and easier; middling upland SD; middling
Orleans sc; Sales 10000 bales; American
$500 bales; speculation and export 1000
bales.
NEW YORK, May u. - Cotton dull /;
middling upland 1Sac.; futures closed
firm, sales 1920 bales as follows: June
delivery II 29-32a17 15-1G; July delivery
IS 13-32alS 7-16c; August delivery 1S2a
IS 25-32c; September delivery Is 11-32e
bid.
NEW ORLEANS, May 21.-CottOn-de-
mand moderate; sales 1850 bales; low
middling and better qualities rather
stronger, but not quOtably higher. Lower
grades dull at previous rates; good ordina-
~ to strict good ordinary 15Sal6ic; low
middling 70 strict low middlIng 16sal7se;
middling to strict middling 17sa1S1; good
middling 1SIa1S;c; receipts 453 bales;
exports continent 3,159 bales; stock ST.
OFT bales.
MEMPHIS, May 21.- Cotton dull but
unchanged; middling 17sc. Receipts for
the past day $50 bales; shipments for the
past tweuty-four hours, 475 bales; stock
2S,115 bales.
GALVESTON, May 21.-Cotton dull and
weak; good ordinary 16c; middling lie;
ret receipts PAS bales; exports to France
7S6 bales; coastwise 172 bales; stock Il, 663
bales.
SAVANNAH, May 21.-CottOn dull;
middling 179c; net receipts So bales; gross
receipts 50 bales; exports coastwise $50
bales; sales Is bales.
Hu.p-o-O,- NJ ~ ro..-- An
and easier; middling 17ta17sc; low mid
ding 175e; net receipts l03 bales, exports
coastwise 20 bales; sales 100 bales.
MOBILE, May ELECTION dull and tend
ing down; middling 1T5c; net receipts PIG
bales; exports cOaStwise IS bales.
ST. LOUIS, May 21.-Cotton-middling
1Sc.
LOUISVILLE. May ELECTION quiet and
unchanged at 11ic.
CINCINNATI. May 21.-COtton duh and
unchanged at 1Sc.
Foreign Markets.
LONDON, May 81, p. M.-BulliOn in
Bank of England increased E594000; Con-
soils for money, g33ai; account 935as; 5-2Os
of IS 1914; Of 81 1921. 10-40s 1O4. New
Elves 1919. New York Central IS; Erie
32ii; preferred 80.
LIVERPOOL, May 21.-Breadstuffs firm.
PARIS, May 2l.-Specie in Bank Of
France increased 100000 francs during
the week. Rentes 59f j5c.
FRANKFORT, May 21.-5-2Os of 90
9S..
New York Money Market
New YORK, May 21.-MOney closed at
8 per cent. Sterling Exchange dull at 4S7l
Ass for sixty days, and 49O4a491 for sight.
Customs receipts to-day were S466, 900
Gold closed at 112Sc after selling at 112!a
112ac- Carrying rates q to 1 per cent
and finally flat. The Assistant Treasurer
discussed S46S, 700. Cleanngs S19,OOO,-
600. Exports to-day $4,000. Govern
ments firm and in good demand. State
and railroad bonds dull. Stocks opened
steady and declined 4al3 per cent as the
day advanced, and at the close were strong
at an advance of to l per cent from the
lowest point of the day. The decline in
Pacific Mail was due 10 Washington news
about subsidy. The Western Union was
weak on the report that the company would
declare dividends of 2 per cent not before
anticipated; also on continuance of the rII-
NOR of an alliance between the Atlantic
and Pacific Telegraph Company and the
new direct cable company. The advance
at the close was aided by free buying asd a
Washington dispatch that the Banking and
Currency Committee had completed the cur
reBcy bill. Among he sales to-day were
5000 shares of Western Union. 5000 Pa
cific Mail, 5000 Central Pacific, $4,000
Long Shore, 1900 Union Pacific, $50
Northwestern, 1000, Rock Island and
10000 Wabash.
Sterling Exchange.-Banksrs' Bills 1881.
United States coupons of 1881. 1919;
5-20s OF 1852, 1853; do. of 1854, 1l7R; DO,
of 1865, 11S5; de-. new 119s; 5-2Osof 1867,
1909; United States coupons of 1868, 1904:
new ives, 1155; I0-40s, 115k; currency SKIES,
III. Missouri State bonds 81; Tennessee,
old S2B; do. new S2i. StOcks-WesJern
Union Telegraph III; New York Central
81 !; Erie $50; do preferred 55c-
New York Dry Goods Market.
NEW YORK, May 21.-Business was
quiet with commission houses, but there
was moderately active iObbing trade with
near by dealers. Market for cotton goods
steady, bit inactive. Prints quiet in first
hands. Brighton and Albion suitings are
now &c. The Bulletin says: A great auc-
tion sale Of heavy wOolens was held sue
cessfully to-day and bidding was spirited
throughout