Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-25
MARKETS By TELEGRAPH.


LIVERPOOL, May Pa C0ttCn-market
firm; middling upland 7Sd; middling Or
leans Sa8td. Sales 1900 bales; American
$500 bales; speculation and exports 1900
bales.
New YORK, May 24-Cotton- market
dull; middling upland 16!al65c. Futures
closed easy with sales Of 2O,1OO bales as
follows: May delivery IS lj-1Ga1j 31-32C;
June delivery Is 15-l6al5 31-32c; July de-
livery Is 3-32a165c; August delivery 16ia
10 9-32c; September delivery Is Lie;
October delivery Is ELSIE; November de-
livery 10 13-32a15 1889; December de
LIVERY l5lal5 II SIC; January delivery l5sa
ais 11-16c; February delivery - 25-32alj
2T-32c; March delivery 10 1l-32al6 3-1Gc;
April delivery 10 7-3zal64c'
NEW ORLEANS, May y. 90 CO-1Or-
demand moderate; sales ! 900 bales; Liver
pool dispatches are regarded IS encOurag-
ing; quotations are unchanged; good Ordi-
nary 70 strict good ordinary l4al45c; low
middling to strict low middln9 l45aljc;
middling to strict middliug l5tal5sc; good
middling to middling fair lJ5aItC. net re-
ceipts $3.50 bales; exports to continent j3o
bales; cOastWise 81 bales; to Great Britain
4,634 bales; stock 76, $50 bales.
MEMPHIS, May p. Cotton market
steady; middling 15c; sales $50 bales; let
receipts $50 bales exports $50 bales; stock
20,O2T bales.
CHARLESTON, May 24.-COltoa quiet;
middling 1jsalj.c: los middliug IJ!c;
good ordinary I4!al+tc; net receipts 2jG
bales; exports to Great Britain 1914 bales;
coastwise $50 bales; sales $50 bales.
SAVANNAH, May 24-CO.ton is dull;
middling l55c; low middliug lj5C; good
ordinary 14sc: net receipts 5O4 bales; en-
ports 70 Great Britain 3, GA bales; COastWise
1875 bales; sales sos bales.
MOBILE, May p. 49, Cotton is weak;
middling 15c; low middling 145c; good
ordinary 14c; net receipts ISS bales; ex-
ports cOastwise 2T9 bales; sales 25O bales.
GALVESTON, Nay 24.-Co;tun was dull;
demand limited; middliEg 14sc; low mid
ding 14jc; good ordinary 1890 net receipts
60 bales; exports cOastwise IS bales; sales
543 bales.
ST. LOUIS, May 2L-Cot.on quiet and
unchanged at l5tc.
LOUISVILLE, May "a Cotton dull at
15jc.
CINCINNATI, Nay 2I.-COit5n quiet and
steady at l5.c.
FOrsfEn sEaFEsts.
LONDON, May p, P.M.-CousOls for
money 93 ia935; for account 3taJ35; United
States 5-2Os Of rs, 1OGt; do. 1857, lO9t;
lO-40's 104!; new IS, lO3; New York Cen
tral, e3; Erie, Is. Erie preferred 35.
The amount of bullion gone into the
Bank Of England on balance to-day was
fl57,OOO.
PABIs, May 24.-Rentes G4f. SOC,
FRAEKFOKT, May 24.-5-20s of 1862,
99I.
LIVERPOOL May "a Flour - extra
State 22s. Wheat No. , to l S 4daSs lid.
Corn 32a33s. POrk-western lbs Cd; east
em SIS Cd. Lard Gas. Bacon G. G. sos;
L. G. NJ. SIS. SugaT-cured hams 53s ID.
Cheese 6fs.
New York Money Market
NEW YORK, May 24.-MOney closed easy
al Pas per cent. Prime mercantile paper
was 4a44 per cent. Sterling exchange was
dull at 4.S614665 for 60 days and ASA
4.S95 for sight. The Customs receipts To-
DAY were $4,000. Gold opened at 1l6b
and closed at 1162. The borrowing rates
were from / 10 4 per cent. per aunum ard
l-64 per cent. per diem; loans also were
made fiat. The Assistant Treasurer dis
bursed to-day $4,000. The clearings To-
dav were S24,OOQOOO. Government bonds
closed firm. Railroad Mortgages were
steady. State bonds were quiet aud uOmi-
nal. Tomorrow, Morton, Bliss & Co will
opened proposals for 100000 8 per cent.
gold bonds Of Western telegraph COmpa-
ny. The currency bonds Of the company
falling due November next will be received
at 1909 and interest ~ payment for the new
loan. The stock market was unsettled and
somewhat changed by the heavy decline in
Erie. Dealings in O. is stock were very
large and attended with a pressure % sell.
The opening sales were al zl4 against p
al the close on saturday, but lileIWagd
there was q decline 20 30. This was PIE
cipj'ated BY a declined al london IS well
as reports that there was likely Go DE a
strike Of employees in case the interest on
the second consolidated mortgage due June
was paid before their Gains were salts
fed, and kilograms from Albany that there
had been a consultation between the At
tOrney- General aud the Erie officials which
might lead to a Receiver being appointed.
The sales at the stock Exchange between
zen and two O'Clock tO-Csy amounted %
$4,000 shares, Of which 1900 shares were
Pacific Mail, $500 Western Union, 10000
Erie, 1900 Northwestern common, 12l,C0O
Lake Shore, 9,OOO OhiOs and G,GOO Union
Pacific.
Sterling Exchsnge-Bznkerz' Bills 4.SIi;
United States coupons II 1881 I24i; 5-zUs
of 1852 III; do. Of 1864 lis; Do. 1866
1909: do new 1928; u. ). coupons Of 1867,
IZ35; do. Of 1858, 123a, new hVeg, I1Gs;
IO-4Os, HIS; currency sizes l24s' = sOUn
State bonds 1O2. TenHssSse old 50f CO.
new dOc. StocEs-Wcsjsrn Union Tels-
graph TTf: Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph
23I; New York Central lC4 E-ie 19i; g.;
preferred 81.
new Yes Dry GCOds Market
New YORK, May ~ Business coHliu-
ues sluggish with commission houses and
importers and jObbiDg trade generally
quiet. Cotton goods are moving slowly at
prices. Fruit Of the Loom
shirtings are firm at l3C. The late reduC-