Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-15
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
Tbe Cotton Markets

LIVERPOOL May Il. = Cotton ad-
vancing; middling upland sgd; middling
Orleans sgd. Sales 10000 bales; Ameri-
can 5000 bales; speculation and export
1909 bales.
Rev YCaH, May 14.-Cotton frmer;
middling upland JSsc.; futures closed firm;
sales 40, 100 bales as follows: May delivery
Is 3-l6alS 7-S2c; June delivery Is 5-16a1S
1890 july delivery Is 25-S2c; August de-
livery ~ 1-t55.
NEW ORLEANS, May 14-Cotton firm;
sales 1850 bales; prices irregular; factors
asking higher in the morning, but subse-
quently relaxing In their pretensions, and
tue market closed firm at Yesterdays quota
tionS, as fOIloWs' good ordinary TO- strict
good ordinary 15sa16sc: low iDiddling to
strict low middlIng 175al7sc; middling to
strict middling 1Sa1s5: good middling 1Ss
also, receipts 961 bales; no exports; stock
SO, 733 bales; uns0id 1900 bales.
MEMPHIS, May -COttOn-deihand fair
and market finn; middling 1Sc; strict
middling Isle. Receipts for the past day
$50 bales; shipments for the past twenty
four hours; 345 balesj stock 81 ,465 bales.
ST. LOFTS, Mat 14.-=Cotton - demand
fair and market frmer; middling 17sc.
LOUISVILLE, May 14.-Cotton quiet and
unchanged at 17ac.
CNCNSATf, Nay 14~Cotton quiet at
175c-
Foreign Markets.
LONDON, May IA, 3 p. NJ Consols for
money e3ta93I; account 93s. United
States 5-2Os Of go, 10I 1867, 1901;
tD1i6is i04i ns@ IS, 1O4s; New York
Central, 50; Erie, 52ta32k preferred 52s.
Tie rate Of discount in open market for
three months bills is 81 per cent, which
a-l6 below the Bank Of England rate.
The amount Of bullion gone into the Bank
of England on balance to-day was G27, 900.
The bullion in the Bank of England has
decreased f62,00O.
lGvfRPoeL, May 14.-Breadstuffs are
quiet.
PARIS, May 14.-Rentes 59f 9Oc.
New York Money Market
NEW YORK. May 14.-Money was very
pieilty; loaned down to per cent; closed at =
as per cent. Sterling Exchange was dull at
4S7Ja4SS for bankers sixty days, and 4905
a49l for sight. The Customs receipts to-
day were $4,000. Treasury disburSe-
ments S40S,OO0. Gold ranged at 112a1l24.,
closing at the latter price. The rates paid
for carrying ranged from / to 3 per cent.
The clearings to-day were SfS,00O,OOO.
State bonds were dull. Railroad bonds
dull and nominal. Government bonds
closed steady. Stocks opened weak, ta5
lower than yesterday at the close, and de-
clined Ia1 per cent during the DAY, with an
irregular market; but at the final close re-
covered Ias, with a steadier feeling in the
market. The principal dealings were in
Western Union, Pacific Mail, Lake Shore,
Northwestern and st. Paul.
The sales at the Stock Exchange between
ten and two O'Clock to-day amounted to
1872 900 shares, Of which 81 900 were West
ern Union, $1,000 Union Pacific, 21OO0
Pacific Mail, 10000 Lake Shore, 5000
st. Paul, 5000 Northwestern, 5000 We
bash and 1000 Ohios.
Sterling Exchange.-Bankers' Bills ASS,
United States coupons Of 1881, 1915;
5-2Os Of 1852, 1854; do. Of 1854, 116s; do,
of 1865, 117s; do. new 1874; 5-20s Of 1867,
1904; United States coupons of 1858, 1903;
new fves, 1854; 10-40s, 114;,; currency SKIES,
1864. Missouri State bonds 955; Tennessee,
old IS; do. new IS. Stocks-Western
Union Telegraph 70!; New York Central
97!; Erie $50; do preferred 55c-
New York Dry Goods Market.
NEW YORK, May 14-Business was quiet
in all departments The market for cotton
goods was quiet, but fairly steady in first
hands, jobbers opening some brands Of fine
brown cottOns below agents prices Cling
hams dull. WOrsted dress goods in far
demand. Black alpaccas are selling low,
but pure mohairs are firm.
NEW YORK, May 14.-FlOur steady;
superfine Western and State S5-6Oa5.S5;
extra Ohio S6.15a7.60 st. Louis S6.23a
HOO. Wheat steady; No. 2 spring Sl-4sa
1.50. Bye quiet at Sl.O5al.lO. Barley
unchanged. Corn in fair demand and
higher; new and old western mixed S5aS7c.
Oats frmer; Western mixed 61ao2c. Cof-