Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-02-09
MARKETS By TELEGRAPH.
The Cotton Markets.

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LIVERPOOL Feb. S.-COttOn- market
firm; middling upland 7sa7sc; middling
Orleans I'D. Sales 1900 bales; American
$500 bales; speculation and exports 1000
bales.
NEW YORE, Feb. S.-COttOn is dull at
f5Ea16c. Futures closed barely steady
with sales Of 24,2OO bales as follows:
February delivery 10 g-16aI5 1890; March
delivery 10 Hide; April delivery 16a16
1-32c; May delivery 165-16a16 Il-32c; June
delivery Is ~19-32a16sc; July delivery Is 2T-
32a165c; August delivery 10 3l-32al7 l-32c;
September delivery is 9-16c.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. s. Cotton
demand good; sales 6,2j0 bales; good Ordi-
nary to strict good ordinary lSial4sc; low
middliug TO strict low middling l44al5c;
middling to strict middling l5bs15aci good
middling to middling fair 15sa165c; net
receipts 1929 bales; exports TO continent
200 bales; cOaStwise 500 bales; TO Great
Britain 1875 bales; stock 27O,l66 bales.
MEMPHIS, Feb. S.-COttOn-market is
firm; middling. 15C; receipts 1850 bales;
exports 1850 bales; sales 1,503 bales; stock
on hand 6S,6SO bales.
GALVESTON, Feb. S.-COttcn quiet and
firm; middling l5c; net receipts 1920 bales;
gross receipts 1855; exports COastYise p
100 bales; sales 1884 bales.
MOBILE, Feb. Cotton quiet; middling
15c; net receipts 3,475 bales; exports coast
wise T12 bales; 10 Great Britain $500 bales;
sales 100 bales.
CHARLESTON, Feb. s. Cotton quiet;
middling 15a15Hc; low middling 14sc; good
ordinary lac; net receipts LS22 bales; ex-
ports cOastWise 1859 bales; sales 5000
bales.
SAVANNAH, Feb 6. - Cotton quiet and
firm; middling 154c; net receipts 3,S6S
bales; exports t continent 2,470 bales;
cOastWiSe - bales.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. S.-COttCn market is
higher for best grades; good ordinary l33c;
low middling 14ac; middling Sc
LOUISVILLE, Feb. S.-Cotton is quiet
and unchanged ct 15sc.
CINCINNATI, Feb. S.-Cotton is duh and
unchanged at 15c.
FOrsfEz Markets.
LONDON Feb. s, 8 P. M.-COnsOls for
money 923a92s; for account 92fa92s, ex-
interest; United States 5-20s Of 80, 1913;
do. 1867, iO7I, ex.; lO40s 1854; new s.,
1929; New York Central, 81; Erie, PSI; do.
preferred Az.
LryERPOoL, Feb. s.-Breadstufs ere
quiet.
FRANKFORT, Feb. s-5-2Os Of 1852,
9Ss.
PANS Feb. S-ReDtes 64f T5c.
New York Honey MarkeL
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s3 per cent. Prime mercantile paper was
4s6 per cent. Sterling exchange closed firm
at 4S6 for sixty days and 4S9 for sight.
The Customs receipts to-day were $685.
600. Gold opened at 1l4S and closed at
ll4I: the two extremes Of the day having
been 1l4ta114!. The rates paid for carry
ing were LAB per cent. and fiat. The
Treasury disbursements to-day were S406,-
900. The clearings to-day were $4,000
OOO. There was some talk this evening Of
a squeeze in cash gold. The subscriptions
to the new loan to the city Of Paris as an
nOuncad amounted to forty times the sum
required. The amount asked for was 25,-
100000 francs, but the subscription reached
1000 800 francs. Government bonds were
steady. Railroad bonds we're firm. State
bonds were quiet. Stocks opened quiet and
fluctuations as a general thing were mar
row. Prices declined ! to per cent. early
in the day but recovered toward noon.
The improvement was afterwards lost.
After the second board Union Pacific and
Northwestern were firm, the former selling
at 800 and the latter at Az. There was
very little change in the balance Of the
market. The weakness in Erie both here
and at London was due to the resignation
of Vim. b. Duncan from the Directory.
In the Market during the last hour Of
business, prices advanced from to IA per
cent. from the lowest point Of the day.
The leading features were Northwestern,
Lake Shore, Western Union, st. Paul and
Union Pacific.
The sales at the Stock Exchange between
ten and two o'clock to-day amounted to
$4,000 shares, of which $4,000 shares were
Lake Shore, 10000 Northwestern, common.
6yOOO Pacific Mail, 5000 Western Union,
5000 st. Paul common, 5000 Erie, 5000
Ohios and 1900 Union Pacific.
Sterling Exchange.-Bsnkers' Bills $50;
United States coupons Of 1851 1904; sos
Of 1862 1861; do. Of 1854 1I73; do. 1856
1913; do new 11SS; U. S coupons Of 1867,
Il9t; do. Of 1865, 1l9S, new hves, lisa
1O-4Os, 1l76 currency sIxes 1874; Missouri