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??lie ?aily News.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 30, 1866.
?' Victor Hugo in English.
[From the N. T. Evening Pott.]
The following observations on HARPER'S travesty
of "Les Travailleurs de la Mer," are from the pen
of Gen. G. CHTJSZRET:
Since 1830 no man has evinced more powerful
originality in literature than Victor Hago; no man
' . has remained more completely himself. Like
Yictor Bago or dislike him, accept or reject him,
declare him to be the regenerator of the French
language, or its destroyer-all that is a mere
matter of taste or individual appreciation; parties
are divided. I refrain fro.n placing myself on
either side. No one has had more imit?t jrs than
Hugo. All the writers who were young in his
?outh, and a number of those who have followed,
ave sought to imitate him without success. Like
Baphael and Rembrandt in the world of art, he
has remained apart-a type to be respected, if
not -..dmired, and which it is indecorous to dis?
figure by any manner of travestitsement.
This, however, has been done, voluntarily or in
.. voluntarily, by the translator of the edition of
the "Travailleurs de la Mer," published in'Eng?
land, and here republished by Messrs. Harper A
Brothers. Either through baste, ignorance of the
French language, or an honest desire to outdo
Hugo and correct him, he has presented that
author to tho public completely travestied and
clad in the translator's clothes.
Being acquainted with English in France is
about the same thing as what ia called "knowing i
French" in England. Notwithstanding I doubt
whether Victor Hugo, though ignorant of Eng- j
.hah, would consent that patte a'oie should by
. . translated flat-foot. Po tte d'oie in French meano
' ' the cluster of wrinkles w/iich meet at the corners
of the eyes (I do not give this explanation for any
over thirty) as tro cartilage cf the ioot of a goose
x terminates at its tibia. It is by an analogous
image that the name o? pattes d'oie is given to did
ferent forest paths radiating toward* a common
centre. In English, crow's foot is the term used
to qualify this result of advancing years. Victor
Hugo in comparing the patte d'oie of Hautaine
graven upon his face by every vice-to a vulture's
claw, uses a powerful image, and carves the sem?
blance of hie own thought upon the tablet of the
reader's mind, while in the comparison of the flat?
foot of Ran tai ne to a vulture's claw, I eui discover
only a double platitude-that of the translation and
that of Rantaine's organ of locomotion.
Entire lines, four or five at a time, containing
original and beautiful images, are sometimes sup
greased, while additions have been made by the
.an al a tor who, in exchange for Hugo's satisfecit,
generously bestows upon him comparisons whose
age that author probably looked upon as entitling
them to repose. Among these is that of Aurora
in the description of Deruohette. What could be
lovelier th. n Hugo's phrase-"Ede est de l'aurore
ayant la figure humaine." "She is morning with
ahuman face." But, probably thinking that some
ignorant Englishman had never heard of Aurora
(with a capital A), the translator compassionately
brings his mythological knowledge into play.
Elsewhere expressions, similes, entire, passages
are completely mada ovar in tho taste of the trans?
lator, whose incontestable talent should have
made him an author, but who is no translator. .
Boileau very sensibly says: "Be a mason if ,
your talent lies in that direction, rather than
?crivain du commun et poete vulgaire." I will
say more:, Be a. writer rather tuan- a fanciful
travestissant translator. .What tue public dravo is
Victor Hugo.-' what they pay' for is Hugo'Q work '?;
given in English, not the offspring of the transla?
tor's brain.
I have not read above twenty entire pages o.
thia translation; the quotation? I sake are from a
few pages, out open at hazard. I leave the pub?
lic to judge whether they have been, supplied with
a translation of the "Travailleurs de la Mer," abd
whether they are ablo to, form ..any judgment
whatsoever of that truly great author. As for
me, I protest, and think that as regards taste aa
well as honesty a'translator should respect the
author in his hands.- and present him to the
publicas he isl Ido not think that Hugo loses by
it. I have seen a scrupulous, unamplifled, yet
graceful translation of his style; but to make such
an one it is necessary to be thoroughly acquaint?
ed with the French language.
The following are specimens of the new Hugo:
French-'Tl avail entre les deux yeux cette fiere
ride verticale de Vhomme hardi et pers?v?rant.
Translator-Between his eyes he had that proud
vertical hue, which indicates in a mau boldness
and perseverance.
Will some benevolent friend have the goodness
to inform niejwhat & vertical hueda? Bide in
Frenoh means wrinicie; ' 2T V ZT
Mess Le thierry, the uncle of Deruchette, Hugo's
heroine, being a "sea-faring" man, is somewhat
wanting in reverence. When making any oath
which he considered a solemn bond upon his own
honor he was, writes Hngo, in the habit of saying :
"J'en donne ma parole d'honneur au bon Dieu."
"Ma parole tShouneur au bon Dieu" means exactly
thia, My word of honor to the good God. Au ec?
centric, if yon will, ah irreverent oath, but binding
to the death. .
Translator-' I give my word of honor to do it
with God's help." What is there characteristic of
Mess Le thierry in this utterly common-place
phrase? Can anv one do anything without God's
help ?"
In the description ot the horrible frequenters of
La Jacressarde, the ghosts qf human beings, the
filthy chrysalis of the haman butterfly, Hago says:
"L'orde social se complique de ces larves." (So?
cial order is complicated with these larys.)
Translator-" Cr?atures of this kind form a
part of the social fabric."
In describing Clubiti, at once a villain and a hy?
pocrite, Hugo says of the wretch so esteemed, yet
so despicable : "Il avait sur le dos des aUes
d'ange; ?crasantes pour _un gredim" " He had
upon his back angel's wings crushing to a scoun?
drel."
This bring? before the reader in a single line a
man reverenced where he should have been
loathed.
Translator-"Ho had worn those angel wings
that the devils fio? so wearisome in their fallen
state."
Hence we learn that devils in their fallen state :
have angels' wings, and are annoyed thereby,
by. This may be a reminiscence of Milton or i
Dante, or a revelation made in a dream to this
English translator, but it is not to Hugo. .
Again, when Clubin stands on the very pinnacle
of triumphant vice, Hugo says :
"Il respira son crime a pleine poitrine." Res?
pirer a pleine poitrine means to draw a full long
breath, and after saying that Clubin aired the
soul which he describes as so hideous, Hugo, con?
tinuing the singular image, says: "He inhaled his
crime in a full breath."
Translator-"He revelled for that moment in
the open air."
But what is altogether cruel is the way io which
Tictor Hugo's drollery (he condescends to be
droll in dealing with superstition) is treated at
the beginning of this translation. This airy flight
of fun is arrested; it is dragged down to earth
?nd shod with leaden shoes. "Alas, poor Yor?
ick!" Little doth it avail thee to be "a follow of
excellent jest.''
SUPERNUMERARY. FINGERS.-A discussion upon
the subject of supernumerary fingers, which took
place at a recent meeting of tho Surgical Society
of Paris, was somewhat remarkable for the dis?
crepancy of opiuion which was elicited as to the
frequency of tho occurrence, and is on that ac?
count interesting, as going to illustrate the freaks
and accidents of which tho statisticau may bo the
sport. Ono physician had observed numerous in
etancee of extra Angers during a two years* resi?
dence at the Foundling Hospital; another could
not re?ard the deformity as a rarity; while a third
declared that among about 10,000 new born infants
which had come under his notice he had met with
an extra finger bat once? the fourth sneaker as?
serted, on the contrary, that the deformity in
question must be very common, for he had him?
self seen some fifteen cases; whilo tho fifth stated
that ho had seen not only a great number of in?
stances of supernumerary fingers, but even of su?
pernumerary hands. . ...
Speaker number six remarked that during bis
twenty-five years' practice at tho Maternit? Hos?
pital he had not met with more than ten of these
cases, and that in a statistical record of the Lon?
don and Vienna lying-in hospitals, comprising at
least 14,000 children, it was shown that not a sin?
gle instance of the deformity in question had oc?
curred. The^third speaker re-entered the discus
siou for the purpose of remarking that tho long
service of his master (sixth speaker) at the Mater?
nit?, joined with his own observations at the same
hospital and also at the Clinique, furnished the
somewhat formidable number of from 90,000 to
100,000 infants, among whom only twelve or thir?
teen cases of extra fingers had been observed. At
this point M. VelDeau turned the subject by
speaking of the carious coincidences which chance
often throws in the way of the medical practition?
er, and cited, as ar example from his own ex?
perience, the fact that ho had once in private
practice met with three instances of fracture of
the neck of the thigh-bone upon the same day.
Nation.
The Pearl Fl?neries or the Persian <
Colonel PELLY has made a report to the Go
ment of Bombay on the pearl fisheries 01
Persian Golf. He says :
The pearl oyster beds extend at inte
almost along the entire length of the Ari
coast of the Golf, from a little below the po:
Koweit to the northward down to the neig]
hood of Rass-ool-Khaimah, southward.. 1
are also some beds near K&--f>ck and at <
points on the Persian i oast lit. , but these 1
are of comparatively little account as bei nj
less extensive, less prolific, and less lucra
The beds along the Arabian coast are he'd t
the property of the Arabs in common, fo
erac ce, an Arab of Koweit may -dive along
Bahrein or R&as-ool-Khaimah coast and vice v
But no person other than the Coast Arabs is
sidored to have any rig? .t of diving; and
probable that any intrusion on the part of fort
ere wonld create a general ferment along the c
line. The richest banks are those of the isl
of Bahrein. They are found at all depths, fr<
little below high water mark down to three, se
twelve, seventeen and eighteen fathoms, j
probable that there aro beds at a much gre
depth; for instance, if, as is supposed, it bo
fact that there are beds in the inlets of thc 1
sendom promontory, these beds must have a d<
of twenty-two or twenty-five fathoms.
It is held as a rule that the lustre of the p
depends on the depth of the water-the gre
the depth, the finer the lustre. Thore doe?
seem to be any known law governing the mon
less perfect sphericity of tho pearl. Th? beet i
ter beds are said to be level, and formed pf
whitish sand overlaying the coral in clear wa
A mixture of mud or earthy substance with
sand is considered to be detrimental to the pe
and the beds having this defect aro liable to
haustion. It is to this canse that the Arab
Bahrein attribute the exhaustion of the pearl b
on the coast of Scinde and Ceylon; while the b
of the Persian Gulf, although annually fia
from the earliest historic periods, continue ]
lific aa ever-one or two ot the moat recent t
years having given a more than usually abunc
return.
The notion that the Arabs feed their oysf
beds at particular seasons of the year seem
be erroneous. No care whatever is taken of
beds. The oysters swell about over the sane'
slightly attach themselves by the binge to bit?
seaweed or coral, and are discerned by the dil
from their boats in groups below the olear wa
The diving period is from the warm spring
April to the end of the hot summer months
August and September. There may be fi
four thousand to five thousand fishing-boats al?
the entire coast, each boat containing from t
twenty to thirty-two men. Of the above mun
of boats somo fifteen hundred may belong
Bahrein. A few of these boats may reap in
pendently the fruits of their own labors, but
great majority are in the hands of agents of pc
merchants, whether Hindoo or other, who res
in the towns of the littoral. These agents mi
advances of money to the divers during the n
diving season, and when the spring comes on i
boats are supplied with so many days' daten, ri
and other provisions, and start away for I
?anks, returning as provisions fad or weatl
compela. Hundreds of boats may be seen auch
ed ata time on the banks.
As a role the diving may be in water of four
seven fathoms in depth. Fifteen fathoms a divi
is considered extremely prejudicial to longe vi
and occasionally provea fatal. In any case t
crow is told riff into divers and r< po-holders, a
the fermer diving, while tho latter keep.the bc
and stand by to haul the diver up. Each diver h
his comrade for the purpose The diver strij
closes his nostrils with horned pincers, has a ro
attached to his girdle and a stone or other weig
to his foot. He then drops overboard feet foi
most, and on reaching the bottom collects 1
oysters nat il he,can no longer remain below, wh
he pulls at tho string, lets go the atone woigl
and is hauled on board by his comrade. T
atone weight is attached to a second rope,
which it -is afterwards hauled up. The ovate
are collected into a bag or other receptacle i
taohed to the diver's cheat and waist.
The annual product of the pearl fisheries
assumed to be as follows : Out-turn of the Bahre
pearl divers twenty lacs of rupees, or ?200,000; ot
turn of the divers from the Arab littoral of tl
Persian Gulf other than Bahrein, twenty laos
rupees, or ?200,000 ; total ?400,000. The gre
bulk or the beat pearla ia sent to the Bombay ma
ket, where, during the late Bhare mania, fan
6rices were given for good pearla. A large nuc
er of pearla are aent towards Bandad. As a ru!
the Bombay market prefers tho pearl of yellowii
hue and perfect sphericity, while tho Bagdi
market pr?f?ra tho white pearl. The email ae<
pa?j>la Sa principally.to Bagdad also."
Ammonia as a Motive Power.
.The practicability of confining a motive po wi
in receivers, convenient for transportation to ai
glace where the work ia to be done, has often bee
iscuased by mechanics and engineers, bt
hitherto without arriving at a solution of the pri
blem. M. TeUier, a Frenoh chemist, proposos <
employ ammoniacal gas for thia purpose. I
generating this gas under the pressure of its on
atmosphere, it ia converted into a liquid, whicl
even at very low temperature, exerts a pressui
of seven atmospheres.
-The properties upon which the now application
of ammonia are founded aro as follows: 1. Th
freat solubility of ammoniacal gas in water; !
ta easy liquefaction ; 3. The faculty which it poi
eesses of furnishing mechanical foroe at ordin?r
temperatures; 4. The possibility of super-heatin
its vapors without the necessity of high tempere
ture; 5. The ability to recover tho whole of it b
dissolving it, and the employment bf the heat i
the preparation of new quantities. It follows, i
these points are established, that the gas can h
collected and liquefied in any place, and with
quantity of water three times as large one cai
vaporize the gas, using it as a motive power at
pressure of eight to ten atmospheres, an opera
lion in which the action will remain constant, be
causo the heat required to produce the gas wi!
bc formed by tho caloric of condensation diaon
gaged in the aqueous aolution. If, therefore, in i
large establishment, ammonia is evolved and li
qaeQedj it can be transported to any spot where i
is required, and will furnish immediately and with
ont farther trouble, a motive power of the moa
economical character. Ita application to fire-on
ginee, and the further employment of the ammo
niacal gas to extinguish the fires, are very obvioui
advantages, if tho plana of the inventor can bi
practically accomplished.
It ia olaimed that with twenty pounds of liquc
fled ammonia a force equal to ono horse-powei
can be maintained for an hoar. The invento)
does not claim that thia application can aupersedi
Bteam power-it ia simply proposed as a substi
tate for steam, in places where the latter cannot
be employed. An omnibus with an ammonis
engine of two horse-power, ?an be propelled eighl
miles with forty pounds of liquid ammonia and
one hundred and twenty pounds of cold water.
With such provision, which can be repeated each
trip, the company would have a simple, compact,
easily managed motion, disengaging neither smoke
nor vapor, alwaye ready, whatever be tho time ol
stoppage or delay, and accomplishing a saving ol
fifty per cent, over the employment of horses and
cf other means of locomotion.
M. TeUier earns un thc various applications ol
his invention as follows : 1. Adaptation to ele?
vated railroads; 2. Circulation in tunnels and
places whore tho combustion of air would prove
destructivo ; 3. Employment on cross roads and
oity railroads ; 4. In the" working of minos.
.??.
HEINE.-Tho brother of Heine is about to pub?
lish in tho Gartenlaube, a Gorman illustrated
paper, a serios of papers entitled ''Recollections
of my brother Henrich Heine," a specimen ol
which has already appearod, and which touches
on the relation between thc poet aud his uncle
Solomon, tho banker, tho richest man in Ham?
burg. There Was a perpetual war between thom
on the eubjoct of money, which Heine, like thc
poet that he was, despised, and which his uncle,
like the banker that he WAS, loved and hoarded,
which did not, however, prevent him from giving
away largo suma in charity. Ho was generous tu
his brilliant but erratic nephew, though he lec?
tured bim on hi3 extravagance, a circumstance
which led the former to leave Hamburg as often
as he could induce his uncle to give him money to
travel with. On ono occasion, after he had fin?
ished his tragedy of "Radcliff," he found the bank?
er at breakfast, in good humor, and announced to
him that he wished to visit the country in
which its scenes were laid-England. "Go,"
said Uncle 8olomon. "Ay, but living is dear in
England." "You received money not long since."
"True, thai will do for my expenses; but for the
honor of che name I want a docent credit with
Rothschi ld." A lotter of credit for ten thousand
francs was given him, with the understanding
that it was only a matter of form, and was not to
be used, his mother having put into his purse one
hundred louis d'or. In lesa than twenty-four
houra after his arrival in London, Heine present?
ed the letter to Baron James von Rothschild, who
cashed it. A few days later, when Uncle Solomon
opened bia lettera at breakfast, ho found one from
I Baron Jamoa, telling him "that he had had the
extreme pleaaure of making the personal ac
quaintance of his celebrated, charming nephew,
and that he bad thc honor to pay four hun?
dred pounds to him." The pipe dropped from
tho old banker's month, he ran np and down
the room, cursing at Heine and Roths?
child; at last be went to the poet's moth?
er, whom he lectured on tbo total deprav?
ity- of her BOD. She wrote the dear boy by return
of post, but neither her letter nor his uncle's an?
ger troubled him. One passage in his letter was
substantially aa follows : "Old people have their
caprices; what my uncle gave in a f?t of good hu?
mor he might take back in ill humor. I had to
make sure. Who knows but in his nest letter he
might have written to Rothschild that the letter
of oredit was only a mere form; there are enough
examples of thia sort in the annals of rich bank?
ers' offices. Indeed, my dear mother, men munt
always make sure; would uncle have become BO
rich if he had not always made sure?" On Heine's
return to Hamburg there was, of course, a ser?
mon, to which he listened in silenco; when ht? was
finished he said : "T beat thing about you, un?
cle, is that you bear u. v namo," and immediately
left tho room. They soon made up again, and to
the end of his sadly afflicted life Henrich Heine,
poet, had no better friend than Solomon Heine,
banker.
(JO M M t? HC J ! AJL.
Exports.
LIVERPOOL-Por ship Hudson-113 bales S I and 3865
bales Upland Cotton.
Tin Charleston Cotton Ularket.
On Monday afternoon some 60 bales of Cotton were
disposed of at 39c $ lb. for Strict Middling Cotton.
Yesterday about 150 bales wese sold, the decline of lc f)
rs. on the better grades which took pisco on tho previ,
ons day having been maintained, and in the lower quali?
ties a falling off in price ef 2c fl lb. occurred.
Angosta Market.
AUGUSTA, May 29-COTTON.-Early in the day there
waa a good demand, which at a late hour was greatly
moder ? tod. We quote Middling 33K; Strict Middling
SS; Good Middling 36c.
GOLD -Brokera buying at 188, and selling at 140.
SILVER.-Brokers buying at 123, and selling at ISO.
?o demand for stocks.
Columbas Market.
COLUMBUS, May 27.-COTTON.-Our market was
quickened last week by advancing prices in New York
end New Orleans, In the face of unfavorable reports
from Liverpool, and more activity was manifested at
higher rates. The quotations for Friday and Saturday
were 30 to Sic for Middlings. Receipts still very light,
and steck on hand still about 6C00 bales.
Mobile Market.
MOBILE, May 14.-COTTON.-The market opened
quiet thia morning, and the chief sales were made be?
t?re 12 o'clock, on a basis of 35c, but later in the day
after receipt of New York advices of noon to-day-a
brisk demand sprang up, and outside figures were paid
in some instances. The transactions of tue day foot up
1400 bales, the market closing firm at 36 to 36c for Mid?
dling. The Press dispatch from Nev York st noon to?
day quotes Cotton 40 to 42c, active and advancing. Pri?
vate telegrams from New Orleans report Cotton "ad?
vanced and advancing."
MOKKTABT AN? FINANCIAL-Tho principal feature of
the market to-day is a further decided advance m gold,
and consequent advance in cotton, under advices from
New York and New Orleans, received after the dose of
the general market yesterday.
The market opened for gold at 140, and the principal
transactions were made, buying and seUlng at 138 to
140, although some holders were asking, after 3 o'clock,
from 142 to 144, but we beard of no sales at these
figures, $40,000 were shipped to New Orleans to-day.
The only transactions reported to UB were $10,000
bought in two lots at 138, and $13,000 sold lu small Bums
at 140.
The market for Sterling ls rather nervous, and none
but the beat bills can be negotiated under the uncertain?
ty of tho standing of houses on the other side. The
only sales we have heard of to-day for A 1 bills were
made at 140? Ul. Most of the orders previously given
have been withdrawn, and loading bankers will only bny
on secured bills of lading at 3d. valuation for Cotton.
Tbore is very little New York Sight offering, which is
firm at ?i@J? premium.
New Orleans Sight par. . .
New Orleans Market.
NEW ORLEANS, May 21.-COTTON.-There bas been a
very steady demand for tho leading staple to-day, which
would doubtless have resulted In heavy sales but for
tho restricted character of the supply and the unusual
stringency in prices. Transactions, nevertheless,
amount to 2700 bales, which were taken by 12 bnyers,
who represented the English. French, Spanish, and
Northern markets, the principal movement having been
for tho New England mills. Prices have undergone no
quotable alteration slnco our last, bat they continue
very firm, and in order to fairly represent the market
at the close of business this evening, we find it neces?
sary to contract our quotations, as purchases of any
magnitude can not bo effected at yesterday's inside fig?
ures. And, in fact, tho tendency of the movement
throughout has been to the outside rates in our quota?
tions, which nowTure'as-ioiiows, nr:
Ordinary.28 @30
Good Ordinary.32 @33
Low Middling.'..36 @87
Middling.40 ?41
STATEMENT OF COTTON.
Stock on hand Sept. 1st, 1866.bales 83,239
Received since yesterday. 1,013
Beoolvod previously.704,162
- 796.176
788,414
Exported sires yesterdsy. 2,098
Exported previously..629,673
- 642,262
Stock on hand and on shipboard not cleared.146,162
The exports are for Havre exclusively.
SUOAU AND MOLASSES-The receipts from the Coast
since yesterday, amount to only 13 hhds of Sugar; no
Molasses. The stock of Louisiana Sugar and Molasses
on hand is limited, while foreign ls plenty, but with lit?
tle or no demand for either, end the little animation
that waa exhibited yesterday bas entirely abated. Thore
wero no sales to-day, but wo continue our quotations as
follows : 12 to 13c for common to good common Louis?
iana; UH to ltXc for fair to fully fair; 15 to IStfc for
prim?; .and 16c per lb for choice. There was nothing
done in Molassos to-day. Yesterday, not previously re?
ported, 60 boxes No. 14 Cuba Sugar sold st 13>ic; aud a
cargo of 117 hhds, 24 tes and 10 bbls of Muscovado Mo?
lasses on private terms.
FLOCK.-Thu market is still very quiet and prices aro
drooping. The supply on hand ls ample, bat even the
higher grades do not And many eager purchasers. Sales
wore confined to 030 bbls, of which 60 doable extra at
$12 50per bbl; 100 and 'SO low extra at $11; 100 do at
$10 50 ; 400 do on private terms, and 100 superfino at
$9 25 per bbl.
COHN.-There is a fan- supply on hand wlih a
moderate demand, and we notice a further decline of Sc
per bushol for yellow. Tho sales to-day amount to 20,300
sacks, of which 20,000 yellow, yellow mixed and white
sold by one party at 85c for yellow and yellow mixed,
and OOo for white, and 300 white at 95c per bushel.
OATS-Are in active demand, and prices are firm with
an upward tendency. The supply and receipts are
limited, and sales were restricted to 1400 sacks, of which
SOO and 700 at 66c and 200 at 67c per bushel.
BEAN-ls quiet, while the supply on hand is more
than sufficient for the demand, which is altogether of a
local character. Prices remain as st our previous quo?
tations, viz : $1 20 per 100 lbs.
HAY-IB doll, and prices are merely nominal. There
ls a fair stock on band. It ie very alow of sale at $22
per ton for prime Western.
BACON*-Contlnnea lo active retail demand, but prices
are firm at 14>ic for shoulders, 17,S to 18c for ribbed
sides, 19c for clear* Bides, 25c for sn gar-cur ed hams, and
27 to 28c per lb for Duffield hams. We notleed sales to?
day of 12 tea sugar-cured hams at 25c per lb.
Pons-Bemains quiet and unsettled. We hear that
soles have been made to-day, bat prices were below the
market quotations, and therefore wero suppressed.
Holders are not pressing their stocks on the market,
while buyers are indisposed to purchase to any consid?
erable extent We, however, quote it at $33 per barrel
for retail lots.
Lan?-Tho supply is limited, with a fair roto.Ide
mond, and prices arc still very finn. Sales t'-day
amount tn 76 kegs at 21c, and 25 tierces prime ?it 23c
per pound.
STAK CANDLE*-Aro in fair supply and moderato de?
mand at 2"Jc per 12 oz; 21c for 14 oz; aud 2?o per pouud
for 16 oz.
WHISKEY.-Tho market is doll and dopronsed. Wo,
however, contluuo our quotntious, which aro only
nominal, at $2 20 to $2 30 per gallou for Western recti?
fied.
NAVAL SIKHES-Rosin is selling at $3. St and $8 for
Nos :t, 2 ?ind I. Tar at S2 60: Pitch at S3, anil SpirltH of
Turpentine- at 05c gallou.
BACUIKQ-Remains quiet, but is still very firmly held
at 29c in rolls, and :llo yard lu balus.
BALI: Rort-Thcrc is but very little of this articlo on
hand, Mid that is divided among a few deniers, but
prices arc firm at 18c ll?.
Burren ANU CHEESE-There have beou some rccolpts
of Goshen butter, but still it is very scarce and lu re?
quest, and prices aro finn at GUc t* lb. Western is in
moderate supply at 65c for good yellow. Common is
plenty, but dull at 25@40c r> lb. Cheese is In fair sup.
ply, but dull at 15@22c for Western, and 27c $ lb for
English dalry lots.
SUNDRIES-Potatoes aro soiling at $2 25?2 90, onions
$2 60@3, apples at $0@8 *? bbl, caga at $32@33 ? bbl.
and sour krout $1S@16 bbl, chickens at $8 60@9 3
dozen, and turkeys at $36 "ri dozen.
FBJSIOHTS-The demand lor all points is of a very re?
stricted character, and rates cannot bo reported as much
bettor than norn in ah Steamers, when placed on the
berth, have a fixed quotation, but when tho day of de?
parture arrives, and space ls still vacant, terms are
made easy to shippers. Sailing vessels are of different
classes, and each ls supposed to have an appropriate
rate. But lt not unfrequently happens that a vessel
chartered at an extreme figure lowers the quotation
when in need of freight with which to fill up. The
prioea given to-day are J? to Jid by steamship, and yt
to *?d per lb by sidling vessels for cotton to Liverpool.
To Havre, by sail, 1 >?c, and to New York and Boston by
steam, ??o per lb for cotton, and 75c per bbl for flour;
and by sail, }? to 9-lCc per lb for cotton, and 45c per bbl
for flour.
Memphis Market.
MEMPHIS, May 25.-COTTON.-The inquiry was very
activo, and New York reporta showing that prices wore
still advancing, a very active bminess was done. The
noon dispaich reported: Gold 37ff?? Cotton in good de?
mand; prices tondiDg upward-40 to 41c. The press
dispatches quoted still higher, and private advlcos
favored nay aa high as 35c for Middling. Bates conse
1 qacntly advanced, ont with some irregulsrlty. A lot ol
i 210 bsies, classing Middling, brought 35c. The market
closed buoyant, and with prices looking rilli upward.
The following ls a summary of the eales reported to us:
17 bales at 25c, 20 at 26 & 38 at 28, and 9 at 3(>>i, Good
Ordinary; 64 at 31 and 72at 82, Low Middling; 185 at 33,
113 at 33>i. 129 at 34, 85 at 36>i, and 210 at 35, Middling;
1169 Strict Middling; 16 at 35, Good Middling.
Ordinary..27@28c
Good Ordinary.29@30c
Low Middling.81@32c
Middling.83@33lic
Strict Middling.I.I.'-SS
Good Middling.-@
.Wilmington Market.
WILMINGTON, May 28 -TURPENTINE-Has further
advanced, and we quote sales of 290 bbls at $5 25 for
new virgin, $3 25 for yellow dip, and $1 62? for hard,
per 280 lbs.
SPIRITS TURPENTINE-Sales of 75 bbls at 59c, and 34
do at 60c per gallon for white.
ROBOT-Sales of 134 bbls at $5 for opaque, and "$8 for
pale, per bbl of 280 lbs.
Cerros-Ono Bmall lot (9 bales) changed hands at 36c
per lb fer middling.
Consignees per Northeastern Railroad.
May 28.
201 bales Cotton, 146 bbls Naval Stores, car Stock,
bundles Leather, Mdze, &c. To Lee A Spencer, G W
Williame & Co, W O Bennett k Co, Screven & Nesbit, J
& JO Kirkpatrick, Gonzales, Woodward A Co, Adams,
Frost & Co, J Cantwell A Co, W K Ryan, J M Caldwoll
A Son, J H Bagge? & Co, O Reeder, E H Rodgers A Co,
Holmes & Stoney, L Seal, J O Bradley, G E Pritchett, S
L Howard, Dukes A Co, Willis A Chlsolm, J Campeen.
PORT CALENDAR.
COEni'CTBD WEEKLY.
PHASES or TUB MOOR.
Lsst Q. 7th, 4h. 22m. even I First Q. 21st, 4h. 38m. morn
New M. H th, 9 h. 38m. morn! mil M. 29th, 7b. 68m. morn
BUR.
RISZS. I BITS.
HOOK
nisza.
moa
wara.
28|Mooday....
29 Tuesday....
30 Wednesday.
31 Thursday..
1 Friday.
2 Saturday...
3 Sunday.
4..65
4..65
4..64
4. .54
?..64
4..53
4..63
e..69
7.. 0
7.. 0
7.. 1
7.. 1
7.. 2
7.. 2
4..28 J 6..42
6.. 8 7..26
Bise. 8.. 4
8..40 8..45
0..33 9..24
10..16 10.. 6
10..58 10..48
MARINE NEWS.
PORT OF CHARLESTON,
Arrived Yesterday. (MAX 29
Sour D S Williams (3-masted), Letts, New York, via
Hampton Roads, U days. Corn, Hay and Mdze. To W
Roach, R M Butler, J A Enslow A Co, J A J I) Kirk?
patrick, C Sahlmann, and Order.
BELOW.
Behr Oakes Ames, Edmunds, Washington, DO,
days. Hay and Oats. To W Roach, O SQ Master.
Cleared Yesterday. [MAY 29
fAeamshlp Kalorama, Donkin, Baltimore-Willis A Chls?
olm.
Ship Hudson, Potto, Liverpool-Willie A Chlsolm.
Brig Hasard, Cottrell, Wilmington, X C-IE Hertz A
Co.
Went to Sea Yesterday. [MAX 29
Steamship Kalorama, Dentin, Baltimore.
8teamor Dictator, Co rotter, Jacksonville via Savannah
and Fernandina.
Brig Ambrose Light, Simpson, Wilmington, N O.
GREAT REDUCTION
OF
DRESS GOODS.
"LADIES" PLEASE CALI- AND EXAMINE AT
A LA VILLE DE PARIS,
No. 291,
Southwest cor. King & Wentworth sta.
. May 8 _Imo
NEW DRESS GOODS,
JUST RECEIVED
A LA VILLE DE PARIS,
No. 2913
Southwest cor. King & Wentworth sta,
May 8_Imo
MOSQUITO NETTING.
108 IN. BOBINET LACE
RICHARDSON'S LINENS
SHIRTINGS, best brands
SHEETINGS, all widths
BLEACHED LINEN DRILLS
BROWN A PLAID LINEN DRILLS
CLOTHS, CASSIM ERE, Ao.
AT
A LA VILLE DE PARIS,
No. 291,
Southwest cor. King & Wentworth sts.
Maws _imo
SPRING il SHER GOODS.
THE SUBSCRIBER, HAVING JUST RETURNED
from the North, takes th! J method of informing
the public that he is receiving a full assortment of
CLOTHS. OA888LMEBES, COATINGS AND VESTINGS
of the best foreign and domestic manufacture, adapted
to Spring and Summer wear.
These goods having been purchased recently, and at
very low figures, persons wishing anything hi my line
will ?nd it to their advantage to giveme a call, as I have
the most experienced workmen, and am prepared to
make them np in the very best style at Edgerton A
Richarde' old stand, No. 82 Broad-street.
March 30 _J. 8. PHTLLLP8.
THEE
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN BM,
LIMITED.
INCORPORATED UNDER "THE COMPA?
NIES' ACT, 1863."
AUTHORIZED CAPITAL ?1,800,000,
IN 60,000 SHARES OF ?30 EACH.
First IBSUO, 30,000 Shares, and tho remainder to be is?
sue il as may bu required, under the sanction of a Gen?
eral Meeting.
THE ENGLISH & AMERICAN BANK,
LIMITED,
Having opened Offices at No. 63 WALL STREET, NEW
YORK, ls prepared to sell Bills of Exchange on the
1SNGU8H AND AMERICAN BANK (LIMITED), Lon?
don, and on the UNION BANK OF LONDON; to buy
Bills of Exchange, and to issue Commercial and Travel?
ers' Credits, available in all parts of the world. Com?
mercial Credits issued for use In the
EAST INDIES, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIA, WILL BB
UPON THE ORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION OF
LONDON.
Further particulars may be ascertained on application
at the Office, No. 63 Wall street
WILLIAM WOOD, Manager.
GEO. BURGHALL WATTS, Assistant Manager.
April 2 _3moa
ROYAL HAVA*A LOTTERY OF CUBA,
CONDUCTED BY THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT.
$360,000 IN GOLD DRAWN EVERY SEVENTEEN
DAYS.
Prizes cashed and Information furnished.
The highest rates paid tor Doubloons and all kind
Geld and Silv-r. 1 K? IX>R k CO.- Barkers,
?tabwrr* flroo No-1-' jflM ..<ti?et New IT?
HBOAfiA A YEAR MADE BY ANY ONE
ITO?UVU WITH $15.-Stencil Tools. No ex?
perience necessary. The Presidents, Cashiers,. 11
Treasurers ot three Banks indorse the circular. ? > t
free w:th samples. Af 1 .-esrthe American steted ! i >
Works, ap -iag?eJd, Ywroaour. Marchi i
Gen. JAMES LONGSTREET, President.
mmm 9
GREAT SOUTHERN AND w?fTERN
LIFE & ACCIDENT
INSUKANCE COMPANY,
NO. 21 CA RONDEL ET-STREET, NEW ORLEANS.
CA.PIT^LL-$300,000.
-o
$25 WUl Insure voa ONE TEAR for $5000!
-o
50 Cents will purchase a TWO DAY TICKET for $5000.
Sl.25 will purchase a FIVE DAY TICKET for $5000.
$3.50 will purchase a TEN DAY TICKET for $5000.
$5 will insure you ONE MONTH for $5000. :
-0
WEEKLY COMPENSATION IN CASE OF TOTAL DISABILITY.
$25 on Insurance of 95000, and in proportion for other savants.
Major TH08. G. BHETT,
GENERAL SUPERVISING AGENT.
LEE ?fe CO.,
Agenta District No. 21,
Hay 1? lao NO. 1 BK0AD-8XBLET, BASmOXT SFMAm BANK,
-O'
0? WILLIAMS, Secretary. -
HUGER & HASELL,
No. 137 MEETING-ST.,
CHARLESTON. S. C.
LOCOMOTIVES, RAILROAD IRON
RAILWAY SUPPLIES
PORTABLE A STATIONARY ENGINES
???JIRON 4 WOOD WORK MACHINER!
SAW MILLS, GRIST MILLS
COTTON GINS,
MILL AND GIN BANDS
WILDER'S SALA MANDER" SAFES, ?bo.
April a_
THE
SOUTHERN EXPRESS COMPANY
Offlee No. 147 Meeting-street.
oo^TisrBOTioisrs
WITH ALL
RAILROADS THROUGHOUT,
TBE
UNITED STATES.
Every attention given to the
safe Transmission of Freight,
Money, and Valuables.
WILL CALL FOR AND DELIVER
FREIGHT TO ANY POINT IN
THE CITY, FRBE OF
CHARGE.
H. B. PLANT,
President, Augusta, Ga.
April 28_
GIFT
BOOK STORE,
No. 398 King-street.
LIBERAL AND POPULAR METHOD TO INSURE
rte rapid salo of NEW AND STANDARD COOKS,
including Works of Fiction; also, Prayer Books, Bibles,
Hymn Booka, Backgammon Boards, Writing Desks,
Photograph Albums, Portfolios, Card Pictures, Ac. AU
our books are bi new and substantial bindings, carefully
eolcoted from the Hats of the most eminent publishers,
and sold at their list prices. $25.00 worth of Gifts dis
tributed with every $100 00 worth of Goods. Gifts
varying in value from 25c. to $15.00, given with each
article sold.
We wish lt distinctly understood that wo have none
of tho BraBS Jewelry-our Gifts are useful articl'ia.
1 he finest assortment ot' Photographs ever exhibited
In tv.h city will bo found here.
The "Circulating Library," so well known to the citi?
zens of this city, has received a large addition of new
Books, hy thc most popular authors.
Initials stamped on Noto Paper and Envelopes with*
out extra charge.
Tho public are respectfully solicited to give us a trial,
and satisfy themselves. Imo May 19
A. C -A. JR, ID
IO TUE
Gentlemen of Charleston anti Vicinity.
THE UNDERSIGNED DESIRE TO INFORM THEM
that thoy have leasod tho second floor ol the build,
lng on the CORNER OF MARKET AND KING STREETS
(known as the Adger building), where they have fitted
up, In every particular, a flrat-claas BILLIARD HALL,
comprising Eleven Tables, from the manufactory of
Messrs. Kavanagh A Decker.
Those wishing to pass a pleasant evening in the enjoy,
ment of this game, cannot but help to find this the cool?
est said best adapted room in the City.
A private SAMPLE BOOM is attached, stocked with
the finest importations.
Gentlemen are invited to call and inspect for them
LOBING- & T LTRNER.
HEALTH RESTORED,;
AND SICKNESS PREVENTED BT UELN? TBS OELB
- BBATED
GR AEFENB ER G ;
FAMILY MEDICINES.
AMONG WHICH ABE
MIES HALL'S UTEEINE CATHOLlCON,
. Price $1.50,
Which will infallibly, positively, invariably core aQ
those torturing, perplexing, and debilitating Symptom*,
commonly known aa IMM DISEASE, WEAKNESS.
IRREGULARITIES, etc., which.weary and render un?
happy so many women between the ages of 15 and 50.
for which the medical profeseton seen in vain fora
remedy, and from which wealth, position, delicacy, anal
refinement afford no exemption.
Bead Ute following ;
LAFAYETTE, KT., June 21, I860.
I am a graduate of the regular Medical Colleges. Eight*
een months-ego I had seven cases of severe female di**
ease which I hsd entirely failed to cure. One lady had
constant hysterics; one had every ay mp ton of epileptic
convulsions consequent upon deranged menstruation;
others had whites, tailing, irregularities, and all the se?
vere symptoms of continued uterine derangement,
Having my attention called to MARSHALL'S UTERINE
C ATH6EIC0N, I used it, sod it cured every cate. Then
bas not been a single failure in its operation.
0. J. NOBTHINGTON, M. D.
?-See that the seal of the Graefenberg Company la
on every bottle."??
THE GBAEFENBEBG VEGETABLE FILLS
Are the best in the world for family use, and for Indi*
gestion-Constipation-Headache- Nervousness-BU*
iousneee -Heartburn-Acidity- Nausea--Flatulence
Want of Appetite-Dyspepsia-Liver Complaint-Ort
pings-Fevers.
On account of their great mildness, and from the fact
that they never gripe, nauseate, or leave the bowels in a
constipated condition, the Graefenberg Pills will be
fonnd more pleasant than any others.
ny Pri?e 25 cents per box. On the receipt of one dol?
lar four boxes will be sent by mall, tree of postage, to
any part of the country.
. DYSENTERY SYRUP.-Price 60 cents.
Infallible in all cases of bowel complainte, and a ceo
tain cure lor ASIATIC CHOLERA.
GREEN MOUNTAIN OINTMENT.-Price 26 cents.
?y-For Burns, Bruises, Scalds, Old Sores, Chilblain*.
Chapped Skin, Cold Sores, and. wherever there ls In*
flammation. It acts Uko magic.-??
?5-Tho Ointment ls guaranteed as the best applica?
tion In the world for the above. It acts more quickly
and certainly than any other ever offered to the public,
CHILDREN'S PANACEA-60 cents.
SARSAPARILLA COMPOUND.-IL
CONSUMPTIVE'S BALSAM_$3.
EYE LOTION.-28 cents.
HEALTH BITTERS.-26 cents.
PILE REMEDY.-$1.
FEVER AND AGUE REMEDY.-60 cents.
MANUAL OF HEALTH.-25 cents. A complete Fami?
ly Physician. Sent by mell on receipt of 26 cents.
THE GBAEFENBEBG FAMILY MEDICINES are pr*,
pared nuder the Immediate supervision of a SKILFUL)
PHYSICIAN, and they may be relied upon in all case*.
J9-THEY AR*; PURELY VEGETABLE.-?*.
jts7*They have been the leading American Remedie*
for 20 years.
Sold, wholesale and retail, by THE GBAEFENBEBG
COMPANY, No. 139 William street, New York, and by
the trade generally.
a5~The trado supplied on liberal terms, by
KING & CASSIDEY,
March 17 stnthSmos CHARLESTON, & OL
49- SIMIL1A 8IMEUBUS CURA MIS.
HUMPHREYS' SPECIFIC,
ros
PREVENTION AND CUBE
or
ASIATIC OHOLEBA.
As the season advances, and Dysentery, Cholera Mor?
bus, attended with Fevers, are becoming common, a
PREVENTION for the ASIATIC CHOLERA ls a necessi?
ty with every individual and every family.
In the last visitation of Cholera in this country, Dr.
II CM PH RE YS' SPECIFIC waB regarded, wherever tho
prossnreon his time allowed it to be introduced, as the
surest PREVENTIVE and most effectual CURE given to
the public.
Of those who uso tho PREVENTIVE faithfully, only
about five per cent, wero attacked, and of cases treated
the mortality was lesa than four per cent.
One-half ounce vials.$1.00
Pocket casts, three three-quarter vials, and book of
directions, complete. 3.00
Family caaes, three one-ounce vials, and book,
complete. 6,00
Sent by mall free on receipt of price.
HOMEOPATHIC SYPHIL0LDS.
ANCHOR SYPHILOID, cures Gonorrhoea, Gleet,
Old Urinary Complaints.$2.00
STAR SYPHILOU) (case of three bottles and book),
cures recent Syphilis, Chancres, Buboes. 6.00J
8ent by mail on receipt of price.
HUMPHREYS'
Specific Homeopathic Medicine Company?
No. 562 Broadway, New York.
KING & CASSIDEY,
April 14_stuth?mos Charleston, 8. O.
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