Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-10
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH
The Cotton Markets.

| LIVERPOOL, May Cotton active and
frmer; middling upland SsaSad; middling
Orleans S55aSsd. Sales $4,000 bales; Anne
rican $500 bales; speculation and export
5000 bales.
NEW York, May o. Cotton firm;
middling upland 1S55c.; futures closed steady
| sales of 1920 bales as follows: May de-
| livery II 11-32c; June delivery II 25-32c;
| July delivery Isle; August delivery Is =
| 16c; September delivery Is 5-16c; October
delivery II 15-16c.
NEW ORLEANS, May Cotton demand
good; sales 400 bales; movement checked
BY prices advancing above the limits of
pending orders; good ordinary to strict good
ordinary l55a16Ic; low middling to strict
low middlIng 17a17Ic; middling to strict
middling 1Tsa1S.t; good middling lSaalSsc;
receipts 1867 bales; exports cOaStwise
653 bales; 10 continent LII bales; to Great
Britain ?, 1872 bales; stock 1O2, 416 bales; I'M
sold 1850 bales.
MEMPHIS, May -COtton-demand fair
| and market firm; low mid1ling 169c; mid
ding I7a175c. Receipts for the past day 400
bales; shipments for the past twenty-fOur
hours, SO bales; stock 31,S1O bales.
MOBILE, May Cotton firm and
higher; middling I7c; low middling 16Sc;
good ordinary 15.c; ne: receipts 5S bales;
sales 500 bales
SAVANNAH, May Cotton firm; mid
ding I7kc; net receipts 392 bales; gross re-
ceipts 392 bales; exports eoastwise S42 bales;
sales 167 bales.
CHARLESTON, May o. Cotton strong
and nominal; middling 1Tc; low middling
16sc; good ordinary l65c; net receipts 2yI
bales: exports to Great Britain 1873 bales;
coastwise 800 bales; sales 4OJ bales.
GALVESTON, Nav Cotton steady;
good ordinary 15tc; middling 174c; net
receipts AL bales; exports to Great Britain
1899 bales; sales 80 bales; stock 2O,9O4
bales.
ST. LOUIS. May F9.-COttOn - demand
fair and market firm; prices advanced; mid
ding 17ic-
LOUISVILLE, May 9.-COtton-demand
fair and prices advanced to lie.
CINCINNATI, May -COtton-market
firm and demand fair at 17lc.
Foreign Markets
LONDON, May 9, p. M COnsOls for
money 93a93k; account 931 a93tt. United
States 5-2Os of '65, 107; 1857, 1924;
IO-40's 1O4J; new IS, 1914; New York
Central, 50; Erie, S2s; preferred 53a.
LIVERPOOL, May 9.-Breadstulfs are
quiet and unchanged.
PARIS, May 9.-Rentes 59f 5T5c.
New York Money Market
New YORK. May 9.-MOney was easy at
Sal per cent, closing at per cent. Sterling
Exchange was quiet and steady at 4SS for
bankers sixty days, and 491 for sight. Gold
opened at 1928, advanced to 1929 and de-
clined to 112f at which it closed. The
rates paid for carrying ranged from 3, 4, 81
to 2 and % per cent. The clearings to-day
were 81, 100000. The total payments to-
day by the Treasury on account of May in
tereSt are S694,000. The Treasury opera
tiOns for the past week at the New York
Office included the disbursement of 3d.
2lS000. The specie shipments for the week
were S25, 900. The imports for dry
goods amounted to 81, AIS, 900; merchandise
s, O97, 600. Government bonds were strong
and steady, but little doing. State bonds
were quiet at better prices. Stocks have
been tirmer in tone than for many days
past and prices at once showed general
advance of toll! per cent At the second
call there was a slight reaction, but during
the last hour of business the market was
Uf10 Will Tue eNCtpllOn VI EfAc WHICH ndS
offered down to 355. The last dealings
were at about the best prices of the day.
The principal dealings were in Lake Shore,
Western Union, Union Pacific, Pacific Mail,
st. Paul and Northwestern common.
The sales at the Stock Exchange between
ten and two o'clock to-day amounted to
$4,000 shares, of which 81, 900 were West
ern Union, 1900 Union Pacific, 10000
Pacific Mail, $4,000 Lake Shore, 5000
Rock Island, 5000 Northwestern common
and 1900 st. Paul.
Bank statement-LOan increase, S70,-
700; specie increase, 8, 665, 800; legal ten
ders decrease, $500; deposits increase
81, S35, 200; circulation increase, So, GOO;
reserve, increase y, 163,950.
The specie shipments to-day were ST.
$4,000 of which S1,310,0O0 was gold coin,
Sterling Exchange.-Bankers' Bills 1881.
United States coupons OF 1881, 1919,
5-2Os of 1862, 1854; do. of 1854, III; do;
Of 1856, lis; do. new 11ef; 5-2Osof 1867.