Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-02-14
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
The Cotton Markefa.

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NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 13. Cotton
demand active; sales 1900 bales; prices
are easier; good ordinary 13sa14Ic; low
middling to strict low middling 14ia14Sc
middling 10 strict middling 145a154c; good
middling to middling fair 153a164tc; net
receipts 4, 494 bales; exports cOastwise 4,5S3
bales; to Great Britain 5,455 bales; tC
continent 1914 bales; stock 2S0,S99 bales;
unsOld last evening 10000 bales; on ship
board Al 500 bales.
MEMPHIS, Feb. 13.-COttOn steady and
unchanged; middliEg 15e; receipts 1885
bales; exports !, 142 bales; sales 800 bales;
stock on hand 70, 100 bales.
GALVESTON, Feb. 13-Cotton quiet and
easier; middling 155c; low mijdling 14sc;
good ordinary 1890; net receipts 2,423
bales; exports to Great Britain S,679 bales;
sales $50 bales.
CHARLESTON, Feb. 13.-CottOn quiet,
middling 15al55c low middling 14tc; good
ordinary lac; net receipts $40 bales; ex-
ports to Great Britain LIZA bales; coast
wise 725 bales; sales 500 bales.
| SAVANNAH, Feb I3.-COttOn quiet and
nominal but lower to sell; middling 15Ec;
low middling 14sc good ordinary lac; net
receipts 3,l76 bales; gross receipts 1921
/ bales; exports to Great Britain 1,244 bales;
cOastwise SOP bales; sales 600 bales.
MOBILE, Feb. 13.-COttOn quiet; mid
/ ding 15c; net receipts 2,231 bales; exports
cOastwise 1895 bales; sales !, 400 bales.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 1S.-Coston quiet and
unchanged.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. 13.-COttOn is firm
at 14se.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 1S.-COtton dull and
nominal.
Foreign Markets,
LONDON Feb. Is, 5 P. M.-COnsOls for
money 925ag3; for account 93a93 2, ex-
interest; United States 5-20s Of '65, 1919;
do 1867, 1919, ex.; I0-4O's 1929; new IS,
lO2; New York Central, 80; Erie, 25i; do.
preferred 49,. Tie rate Of discount in
open market for three months bills is per
cent, which is the same as the Bank Of
England rate.
LIVERPOOL, Feb. 13.-BreadstUfs are
quiet; shoulders SIS. sugar-cured hams
25s. Lard 62s Sd. Refined petroleum 81
a2Os.
ANTWERP, Feb. 13.-PetrOleum 2SIf.
FRANKFORT, Feb. 13.-5-2Is Of 1862,
9SS.
PARIS, Feb. 13-Rentes G4E Zoe.
New York Money Market.
NEW YORK, Feb. 13.-Money closed at
2a25 per cent. Prime mercantile paper
was 4a6 per cent. Sterling exchange was
a little steadier at the close a. 4o,}a4S35 for
good to prime bankers sixty days and 4S6a
1855 for sight; during the morning line
Of good bankers bills sold as low as 49,.
Gold closed al 114t after selling at 1l4aa
1I4s. The rates paid for carrying were
5a2 per cent. per annUm and Hat Tor Dor
rowing rates. The Customs receipts to-day
were 1897, 900, and for the week s. ,663, 500.
The Treasury disbursements for the week
were Sl,615,O00. The specie shipments for
the week were SjS1,O1j, Of which S93,2S5
was in gold coin and the remainder in
silver and gold bars. The imports of dry
goods for the week were Sl,763, 7S2, and
for merchandise S3,S3S, 146. Government
bonds were dull and steady. In railroad
bonds this afternoon Central Pacific had
advanced TO 965; Union Pacific first to $50
and sinking funds to S6a. Stocks opened
irregular. but in the main weak, Pacific
Mail being the exceptional strong stock.
As the day advanced the whole list became
weak under the influence of Western Union
and Union Pacific, ard prices declined 10
; per cent. Western Union declined to
T25 when it was known that the Executive
Committee had decided to reduce the rates,
Monday, to correspond with the reduction
made by the Atlantic and Pacific Compa-
nv. Later in the day there was a slight
recovery. but towards the close stocks were
very dull and weak, except for Pacific Mail.
The market closed active and weak. The
bears profess to be in receipt Of dispatches
from Nashville to the effect that efforts are
being made in the Legislature to repudiate
a portion Of the bonded debt Of the State.
The first mortgage bOndhOlders Of the
Great Western Railroad, Of 1859, and Hi
nois and Southern Iowa Railroad, this after
noon, appointed Messrs. GrisWOld, Lord,
Brown and Baldwin a committee to confer
with the Directors of roads and to apply, if
necessary, by judicial proceedings for tie
appointment Of a Receiver to protect their
interests, and see that the earnings Of the
roads are applied according to priority liens
and not devoted to the payment Of the
floating debt existing. TIE dizziness in
the market is generally attributed to the
advanced rates Of commissions, and di--
satisfaction in regard to this matter seems
to be growing. To-day there was call
ahoat for a meeting on the 18th inst,
to form a new board,
The sales at the Stock Exchange between
ten and two o'clock to-day amounted to
$4,000 shares, of which s, 400 shares were
Lake Shore, 10000 Northwestern, common,
$4,000 Pacific Mail, p, 400 Western Union,
1000 St. Paul common, 500 Rock Island,
p, 900 Ohios and Il, 800 Union Pacific.
Sterling Exchange.-Bankers' Bills 484;
United States coupons Of 1881 1194; 5-ZUs
of 1862 ZIG; do. Of 1864 1l7s; do. 1866
1874; do new 11S5; U. S. coupons Of 1867,
1195; do. of 1868, 1195, new hves, 1l5;
1O-4Os, III; currency skies 119b; Missouri
State bonds 96s. Tennsseee old "a; do. new
Sc. StOcks-Western Union Telegraph
725; New York Central 10lt I; Erie 2Sti;
do preferred AZ.
NEW YORK BANK STATEMENT.
NEW YORK, Feb. 13.-The following are
the changes as compared with last weeks
statement:
Loans, increase. ......sss......sl,yl 5s 0UO
Specie, increase. G2SOOU
Legal, tenders decrease. 7C9slOO
Deposits, increase. "-
Circulation, decrease. l29,3OO
Reserve, decrease. l5,5I0
New York DRY Goods Market.
NEW YORK, Feb 13.-Business was mod
crate in the package department and trans /
actions arec hiefy restricted to staple cot
ton goods. Prints, ginghams and cotton
hosiery, shifting and medium prints are |
in GOOD demand and firm. Medium Cing-
hams are active and in light supply. |
Worsted shawls, more inquiry by distant |
iobbers. The Daily BUHej;a says, Gar |
ner's, Amoskeag and WamsUtta prints Of /
all description viii be advanced 3c Monday !
next.
New YORK General Markets.
NEW YORK, Feb. IS. Flour - market !
dull and in buyers favor; supertine, vest !
ern and State S3.S0al.4O; extra Ohio $4.6ja |
60; St. Louis S4.T5aS00; common OF |
good S4.6Oa4.75; good to choice S4.sOa5.25; |
white wheat western extra S5.25a5,SO;