Total for week?Net receipts, 21,300 bales; exports, 2,929 bales.
Total for season?Not receipts, 5,411,615 bales, exports, 4,526,738 bales.
NEW YORK, April 24.?After a slump around the opening today, the cotton market steadied up and finally almost wholly closed the early loss. The chief reason for the strength appeared to be that futures were trading a dollar a bale under the demand of spot middling being quoted at 5c. May at its highest stood at 5c. Spot were steady and bears appeared to be afraid to depress futures to lower levels.
Around the opening the market lost 11 to 12 points. At the best of the session prices were unchanged to 5 points off, compared with the last priced of last week. The close was irregular, with the trading months unchanged to 7 points down, net May showing the widest loss.
International politics was the chief depressing feature, but some comments were made by the exchanges in Texas and also by the publication of contracts of May, and first notices of that position which will appear tomorrow.
Chicago, April 24.?December, 11.5c; October, 11.5c. December, 12.5c; January, 12.5c. Spot.  Cotton, steady, unchanged. Sales on the spot, 1,120 bales; to arrive, 500 bales. Middling, 11.5c.
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET.
NEW YORK, April 21 - Raw sugar, firm, centrifugal, 14; molasses, 5.57; refined, firm. 