Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-11
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH,
The Cotton Markets.

LIVERPOOL, Dec. 10.-COttOn is quiet;
middling upland 7saTJd; middling Orleans
75aSd. Sales 1900 bales; American g.
600 bales; speculation and export 1000
bales.
NEW YORK, Dec 1O.-Cotton is dull;
middling upland 14sc; middling Orleans
14Sc. The market for futures closed quiet
with sales of $4,000 bales as follows:
December delivery IA 3-32a14sc; January
delivery 14sc; February delivery IA 13-16c;
March delivery Is 3-16a15 9-32c; April
delivery Is 17-32e; May delivery 15Sc; June
delivery 10 3-16c; July delivery 10 15-l6c.
new ORLEANS, Dec. 10. Cotton
| demand active; sales $500 bales. Prices
stronger in morning; in afternoon easier;
good ordinary to strict good ordinary
I3IaI3ic; low middling to strict low mid
ding 133a14c; middling to strict middling
14ia145c; good middling to middling fair
14sa15c; fair lssaI5.c; receipts 1851 bales;
exports, to Great Britain S,605 bales; coas-
twise 1,746 bales; stock 1929 bales; I'M
sold last evening 81, 100 bales; on shipboard
103, 800 bales.
MEMPHIS, Dec. 10.-COtton in good de-
mand and irregular; middling 1870; receipts
S,I35 bales; exports 1870 bales; stock ST.
los bales.
CHARLESTON, Dec. 10. - Cotton easy;
middling 1870; low middling 13 ia13sc; good
ordinary 134c; net receipts 1852 bales;
exports cOastwise 296 bales; sales 1900
bales; stock $3.50 bales.
SAVANNAH, Dec. 10.-COtton quiet;
middling Is Lice; net receipts 1859 bales;
exports to continent ], JAP bales; eOastwise
T72 bales; sales 1857 bales.
GALVESTON, Dec 10.-COtton steady at
&c advance; middling l45c; low middling
1870; good ordinary 1870; net receipts 4, 495
bales; gross 4,652 bales; exports to Great
Britain 292 bales; coastwiSe 313 bales; sales
1922 bales.
MOBILE, Dec. 10.-Cotton quiet; mid
ding 1890; low middliDg 1890; good Or
binary 13!e; net receipts 1851 bales; ex-
ports coastwise 1856 bales; sales $500
bales.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. TO- Cotton is lower;
good ordinary 195c; low middling lS4e;
middling 1Ssc.
LOUISVILLE, Dec. 1O-COttOn very Gull
at lac.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 1O.-COttOn dull and
unchanged at 1876.
Foreign HAEAeda-
LONDON Dec. 10, P. M.-Consols for
money 9Isa9ls; for account 923. ex-in-
terest; United States 5-20s OF '65, 1861; do.
1867, 1904; 1O-40s 1914; new IS, 103;
New York Central, 90; Erie, 24!; do. prefer
reu So.
LIVERPOOL, Dec. 1O.-Breadstufs are
quiet. Corn SIS I'd.
PARIS, Dec. 10.-Rentes OF. &c.
New York Money Mhrket
NEW YORK, Dec. 10. - Money was
35aa4 per cent. Prime mercantile paper
was 6a7 per cent; next grade las per cent.
and miscellaneous 10a15 per cent. Foreign
exchange was firm at 4S4sa4S5 for prime
bankers sixty days sterling and 4S9sa49O
for demand. Gold opened at 100 and
closed at l111. The carrying rates were Ia
2 per cent, and for borrowing fiat; las
Der cent in the after the room closed IL
1916 per cent. was bid and offerings made
liz per cent. The clearings to-day were
So 100000. The Treasury disbursements
were $4,000. The Customs receipts were
S346,OOO. Government bonds were firm
State bonds were nominal. Railroad
bonds were dull. The stock market was
weak at the eOmmencemenr Of business
but shortly after became active and strong
under Abe lead of Pacific Mail, Western
Union and Erie, and prices advanced 4al
per cent. Later on there was decline all
around, but during the afternoon the whole
market was buoSant with Lake Shore,
Western Union, Northwestern and Erie as
features. Later the market reached y
per cent. from the lowest point Of the day
on the report that advert had purchased the
the Grand Opera House from the Erie
Railway Company. Columbus, Chicago
and Indiana Central declined to 80 and
. Afterwards rose to 6Gs; this weakness is at