Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-10-31
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
The Cotton Markets.

The Cotton Markets.
| LIVERPOOL, Oct. 30. - Cotton quiet;
middling upland I'D; middling Orleans
| SD. Sales 1900 bales; American g.
| 500 bales; speculation and export 1000
bales. The sales Of the week amounted
to 10000 bales; exports for the week 1900
bales; speculation 1000 bales; stock in
port $4,000 bales, American 10000 bales;
receipts for the week - bales: Ameri-
can - bales; actual exports 1000 bales;
stock afloat for this pert 295,000 bales, in
Guiding 49, 600 bales of American.
NEW YORK, Oct. 80. - Cotton dull
with sales Of 2,579 bales; middling uplands
lac; middling Orleans 15e. The market
for futures closed steady with sales of g, 300
bales as follows: October delivery IA 9-16c;
November IA 9-l6e; December IA LILA
II 23-32c; January II 31-32c; February 10
9-32a15 slice, March Is 19-32a15se, April
- 27-32a15Se, May 10 1-16a16 3-32e, June
10 9-32a16 slice. The comparative cotton
statement for the week ending to-day IS
reported as follows: Net receipts at all
United States ports during the week 14S,O35
bales; for the same time last year,
I02, 935 bales; total receipts to date |
6J2, 666; same date last year, ,4l0 bales. |
Exports for the past week 1929 bales; |
same time last year 81 ,294 bales. Total |
exports tOdate 204, 81 bales; same date last |
year 154,547 bales. Stock at all United |
States ports 407, $40 bales; same time last |
year 256,6S6 bales. Stock at all interior |
towns GO,43S bales; same time last year |
IS, AS bales. Stock at Liverpool $4,000 |
bales; same time last year 532, 900 bales. |
Stock of American afiOat for Great Britain |
10000 bales; same time last year $1,000 |
bales.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 80. - Cotton |
demand fair during the morning bus slack |
towards the close; sales 1850 bales; the |
prices were as follows: good ordinary to |
strict good ordinary 13a1Ssc; low middling |
to strict low middling 135al41tc; middling to |
strict middling 14tka14te; good middling to |
middling fair 14sal4Sc; receipts 9,49O |
bales; exports coastWise 3 bales 10 CONT |
nent 1850 bales; stock 67,629 bales; I'M
sold last evening 1920 bales; on shipboard |
$500 bales. Weekly sales 10000 bales; |
weekly net receipts 4,370bales; gross re-
eeipts 39, 202bales; exports to continent g. |
PIG bales; exports coastwise 1865 bales; |
exports to Great Britain p ,O4O bales.
MEMPHIS, Oct. So Cotton firm and |
offerings light; sales 1900 bales, mid |
ding 13ial4c; receipts 2,4T0 bales; ship |
ments $500 bales; receipts for the week |
14,122 bales; exports for the week 5000 |
bales; sales 1905 bales.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 80. - Cotton, is TN
changed.
LOUISVILLE, Oct. SO.-Cotton quiet and
unchanged at 14c-
CINCINNATI, Oct. SO-Cotton steady al
14c.
Foreign Markets.
LONDON Oct. 80 5 p. M.-Consols for
money 92aa92E; for account 92sa92I; Unit
ed States 5-2Os of '65, 1864; do 1867, |
1904; I0-4O's IO3a; new IS, 103; New York
Central, 95; Erie, 26Ia26s; do. preferred 43.
The amount of bullion withdrawn from
the Bank of England on balance to-day /
was $4,000.
LIVERPOOL, Oct. SO.-Breadstuffs are
quiet.
PARIS, Oct. 80 Rentes 62f 17sc.
FRANKFORT, Oct. 3O.-5-2Os of 1852
97s.
New York Money Market
NEW YORK. Oct. 3d. Money was 2
a2B per cent. Prime mercantile paper was
5a7 per cent for short and long dates, and
10 per cent. for good single names. Sterl-
ing exchange was firm at 4S4a4S44 for
sixty days, and 4S7 sa4SIs for sight. The
dry goods imports for the week amounted
to S1,O99,354. The Customs receipts to-
day were S4S7,00O Gold was dull at l1Ot. /
The borrowing rates were 2a4 per cent.
per annum, and 1-64 per cent. per day, and
at the close loans were made fiat. The
Assistant Treasurer discussed S35l, 900.
The clearings to- day were 100000.
n d ,1rrT Inf firm
State bonds were strong and higher, nOta-
bly, in Missouris and Tennessees. Rail-
road bonds were dull and a little lower.
The stock market advanced Tag per cent. in
the early dealings, but afterwards became
weak, and declined 4ala per cent. The ex-
t-eme decline was in Erie, which fell of
from 2Ss to 27s; Wabash declined from
295 to 20, and Western Union from 79s to
10. At the second board there was a re
covery of Jag per cent. from the lowest
point During the last hour of business,
the market was weak and lower, and there
was report of a mercantile failure, but
Just previous to the close, prices rallied Ia
Z per cent, when the failure was denied.
The greatest advance was in New York
Central, which rose from 1907 to 1012 on a
small business. Rock Island advanced
from 96s to 97s, and Western Union from
7S5 to 79s. The improvement in the bal
ance of the list was gag per cent. The de-
cline in Wabash was caused by a report
from Toledo that tine company were in ar
rears to employees, and that the latter had
waited Cd the President and demanded
their pay. 1t is reported that John Duff
has sold his stock in the Atlantic and Pa
cifc Telegraph Company to the Union Pa
cific, and resigned rs President of the COM
pany. Mr.. L. p. Morton has also resigned
as trustee in the Atlantic and Pacific.
The sales at the Stock Exchange between
ten and two O'Clock to-day amounted toll
10000 shares, Of which $4,000 shares were
Western Union, 1900 Pacific Mail, 49,
900 Lake Shore, 200 Union Pacific, D.
900 Erie, IL 600 Wabash.
Sterling Exchange.-Bankers' Bills 4S43;
United States coupons Of 1881, 1854;
5-2Os Of 1862, 113t; do. Of 1854, l16a: do.
of 1865, 1175; dO. new 116s; 5-2Os Of 1867,
I17s; United States coupons Of 1888, 117s;
new ives, 1929; 10-40s, 112; currency SKIES
11Ti; Missouri State bonds 95. Tennessee
old 691; do. new II. Stocks Western
Union Telegraph 791; New York Central
1904; Erie 2S1; do preferred 45.
New YORK Dry Goods aarkes.
New YORK, Oct. 3O.-Business con-
tinued quiet with manufacturers, agents
and importers, and the jobbing movement
was sluggish. The market for cotton goods
quiet in first hands, but prices nominally :
unchanged. Prints moved slowly. Fancy
in fair demand. Felt skirts still :
active. Wooden goods quiet. Dress fab
RIGS sold largely at auction and brought fair g
prices.