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Shoo, Fly ! at 1? Mode ?. Frameai*. TA 1 MOUCHE t KB K 'IV CO KM ODE. Je Buis, Je sala, Je sals, Gomme l'?toile do matin, Je sala. Je ao?t, Je sala, Comme l'etoile, da matin; La mnilqae est en l'air, C'est one ma mere ma dit, Les anges elles Jettent la m?lasse Sur la tete de ce no-gr?e. Ta ! mouche I ne m'Incommode, Tal mouche ! ne m'Incommode, Ta I mouche I ne m'incommode, Gar Je suis un de Compagnie G. Shoo, Fly t Hit Deuten Sprachen. AUSGEHEN ! FLIEGE. Ich fahle, loh fahle. Ich fahle, .ich fahle, wie der morgens tern ; loh fahle. Ich f?hle, Ich fahle. Ich fahle wie der morgens ter n : Die music ist am Lane Meine matter sagt mir das, . Am Kopi von dieser Hegerlnn Die Engele geglesen Sucker&ass, Aaseghen I Fliege! nicht mich tr?ben, Auseghen 1 Fliege ! nicht mich tr?ben, Aaseghen I Fliege l nicht mich traben, Fur ich bin an dem Companle "G." LIMP PEOPLE. [From the Saturday Review.] Vice is bad, and malignant wickedness ls worse, but beyond either in evil results to mankind Is weakness; which, indeed, is the pabulum by which vice is fed, and the agents by whroo malignity works. If every one in this world had a backbone, there would not be nearly as mach misery or guilt as there ls now; lor we must give each igdlvi?ual of the "cruel strong", a large ?ollowing o? victims; and it woola be easy to demonstrate that" the pro? gress of nations has always been in propor? tion to the number ol stiff backbones anions them. Yet unfortunately limp people abound, to th? detriment of society . and to their own certain sorrow; molluscs predestined to be the food of the stronger, with no power of selt delence or self-support, but having to.be pro? tected against outside dangers if they are to be . preserved at all; and perhaps when you have done all you can do, not safe even then, and most likely not worth the trouble taken^ about them. Open the gates tor hat one moment, and they are swept up by the first passer-by; let them loose from your own sustaining hand, and they fall abroad in a mass of flabby help? lessness, unable to work, to resist, to retain mere heaps of moral Jelly, pitiable as well as contemptible, perhaps pitiable because BO contemptible. See one of these poor . creatures left a widow, if a woman-turned out of his office, if a man-and then judge of the valae of a backbone by the miserable con? sequences of its absence. The widow is sim ply lost in the wilderness of her domestic solitude; as much sp as a child set in the midst of a | pathless moor with no one to guide him to ute Bale highway. She may have money, and she may have relations, but she isas poor as If she had nothing better than parish relief, and anlese sc me one will take her np and manage everything for her conscientiously, as lonely as If she were an exile in a strange land. She has been so long used to lean on the strong j ' arm of her husband, that she cannot stand upright DOW that her support has been token from her. Her servants make her their prey; her children tyrannize over her and utterly Ignore her authority; her boys go to the bad, her girls get fast and loud; all her own meek little ideas of modesty and virtue are rudely thrust to the wall: and she is obliged to sub? mit to a family disorder which she neither likes nor encourages, but which she has not the strength to oppose nor the wisdom to di? rect She may be the incarnation of all saiat b ly qualities in her own person, but by mere want ot strength she is the 'occasion by which a very pandemonium ls carried on; and the worst house of a community ls sure to be that of a quiet, gentle, molluscous little widow, without one single vicious proclivity so far as she herself is concerned, bat- without th? power to repress or even to rebuke vice in others. A molluscous m tm, too, suddenly ejected from his long-accustomed groove; where, like a toad embedded in the rock, he had made his niche exact!]' fitting to his own ! . - shape, presents just as wretched a picture of j helplessness and nnshlftiness. In vain his friends suggest this or that independent en? deavor; he snakes his head, and says he can't it won'tdo; what he wants is a place where he - is not obliged to depend on himself, where he has to do a fixed amount of work for 8 fixed amount of salary, and whe re his fibreless plas? ticity- may And a mould ready formed, Into I which'lt may run without the necessity of] forging shapes for itself. Many a man of re? spectable Intellectual powers has gone down into ruin, and died miserably, because o? his j limpness; which made it impossible for him to break new ground or to work at anything whatsoever with the stimulus of hope only. He must be bolstered up by certainty, support? ed by the walls of bia groove, else he can do nothing: and if he cannot get into this i r lend ly groove, he leta himself drift into destruction. In no manner are limp people to be depend .* ed on; their very central quality being fluidity, which is a bad thing to rest on. Take them in their family quarrels-and they are always quarrelling among themselves-y ou think they must have broken with each other for ever, that Barely they can never forget or forgive all the insolent expressions, the hard words, the full-flavored epithets which they have flung at one another; but the next tune you meet they axe quite good Mends again, and going on in the old fluid way as if no fiery storms had lately troubled the domestic horizon. Per ' haps they have induced you to take sides; if | >. so, you may look out, tor yon are certain to be thrown over, and to have the enmity of both parties Instead of only one. They are much given to this kind of thing, and fond of mak? ing pellets for yon to shoot; when, after the shot, they disclaim and disown you, They speak against each other furiously, tell you all the family secrets, and make them worse and greater than they re all y are ; and if y ou are cred? ulous for your own part you take tue m literally, and if highly morai, you probably act on their accusations in a spirit of rhad aman thine justice, and the absolute need of rewarding sin accord- j lng to its sinfulness. .Beware, their accusations are baseless as the wind, and acting' on ? them will lead to your certain ? discom? fiture. The only- safe way with limp people ls never to believe what they? say; or. If | you are forced to believe, never to translate youAaith into deeds or even words; never to commit yourself to partisanship in any form whatever. They don't in teni lt, in all proba? bility; bnt by very force of their weakness limp people are almost invariably untruthful and treacherous. By the force, too, of this same weakness, they are incapable of anything like true friendship, and in fact make the most dangerous friends to he found. They are so plastic that they take the shape of every hand which holdB them; and if you do not know them weU, you may be deceived by their shy? ness of touch vand think them sympathetic be? cause they are fluid. They leave you full of I promises to hold all you have told them sa-1 cred, and before an hour ls out they have re? peated to your greatest enemy every word you have said. They hod not the faintest In? tention of doing so when they left you; but they "slop about," as the Americans say; an* -.sloppy lolks cannot hold secrets. The traitors. -of lite are the Ump, much more than the wicked-people wno let things be wormed out of them rather than intentionally betrov them. Th^ey repent Ulcely enough; Judas hanged himself; bat of what good Ts thou- re pentan ce when the mischief ls done ? Not all the tears in the world can put out the Ire when once lighted, and to hang oneself be? cause one has betrayed another will make no difference Bave in the number of victims which one's own weakness has created. Limp men are Invariably under petticoat I Sivernment, and it all depends on chance aud e run of circumstances whose petticoat Is dominant. The mother's for a long period then the sisters'. If the wife's, there is sure to be war in the feminine camp belonging to the invort^rate commander ; for such a man creates Infinitely more Jealousy among his womankind than the most discursive and the most unjust. He ls a power, not to act, but to be used; and the woman who can hold bim with ?ae firmest grasp has necessarily the largest share of good things belonging. She can close or draw his purse strings at pleasure; she can use his name and mask herself behind r JPT0I?TYAT Pleasure; he ls the undying Jorklns who ls never without a Spenlow to set him well up in front; and we can scarcely wonder that the various female Spenlows who shoot with his bow and manipulate his circum? stances arv jealous of each other to a frantic pitch, regarding his limpness, as they do, as so much raw material from which they can spin out their own strength.. As the mollusc has to become the prey of some one, the question simply resolves itself Unto whose ? the new wife's or the old sisters'' who shall govern, sitting on his shoulders 1' and to whom shall he be assigned captive ? Be generally inclines to his wire, If she is younger than he, and has a j backbone of her own; and you may see a limp man of this kind, with a fringe ol old-rooted female epiphytes, gradually drop one after another of the ancient stock, till at last Ms wife and her relations take up, ail thc space, and are the only ones he supports. His own kith and kin go bare while he clothes her and hers In purple and fine linen; and the fatted ?aires in his stalls arc liberally slain for thc prodigals on ber side of the house, while the dutiful sons on his own get nothing better than the husks. I Another characteristic of limp people is, their i curious Ingratitude. Give them nine-tenths of your subsistence, and they will turn against yon if you refuse them the remaining tenth. Lend them continually all the money you can spare, and lend in utter hopelessness of any future day. of reckoning, but retrain once from r your own Imperative needs, and they will leave your house open-mouthed at your stingi? ness. To be grateful Implies some kind ol're? tentive faculty, and this is just what the limp have not got. Another characteristic of a dif? ferent kind is the rashness with which they throw themselves into circumstances, which they afterwards find they cannot bear. They never know bow to calculate their forces, and spend the latter baif of their life in regretting what they had spent the former half in endea? voring to attain, or to get rid of, as it might chance, if they marry A they wish they had. taken B instead; as house-mistresses they turn away their servants at short notice after long complaint, and then beg them to remain lt' by any means t' iy can bribe them to stay. They know nothing of that clear Incisive action which sets men and women at ease with themselves, and enables them to bear consequences, be they good or ill, with dignity and resignation. A limp backboneless creature always falls foul of conditions, whatever they may be, thinking the right side better than the left, and the lett one so much nicer than the right, according to its own place ot standing for ute moment; and what heads plan and hands execute, Ups are never weary of bemoaning. In fact the limp, like fretful babies, do not know what they want, being unconscious that the whole mls I chief iles in their having a vertebral column of gristle instead of one of bone. Then they spread themselves abroad, and take the world Into their confidence, weep in public and rave in private, and cry aloud to the priest and the Levlte passing by on th? other side (may be heavily laden for their own share) to come over and help them, poor sprawling molluscs, when no man but themselves can set them up? right. The-confldence of the limp are told through a trumpet to aU tour corners of the sky, and are as e?sy to get at, with the very gentlest pressure, as the Juice bf au over-ripe grape. And no lessons of experience will ever teach them reticence, or caution in their choice of confidants. Not difficult lo press into the service ol' any cause whatever, they are the very curse of ?Il causes which they as? sume to serve. They collapse at thc first touch ot .persecution, ot' misunderstanding, of harsh judgment, and fall abroad in hopeless panic at the mere tread of the coming foe. Always convinced by the last speaker, facile to catch and impossible to hold, they ore the prizes, the decoy ducks, for which contending parties fight, perpetually oscillating between the main? tenance ot old abuses and the advocacy of dangerous reforms; but the side to which they I have pledged themselves on Mooday.they for-1 sake on Tuesday under the plea of reconver? sion. Neither can they carry out any design of their own, if their friends take it in hand to over-persuade them. If a man of this stamp lias painted a picture, be can be induced to change the whole key, the central circumstance, and thc principal j figure, at the suggestion of a confident critic wno is only a pupil in the art of which he is, at least technically, a master; if be is preaching or lecturing, he thinks more ol the people he ls addressing than of what be has to say, and, though Impelled at times to use the scalping- j knife, hopes he doesn't wound. Vehement advocates at times, these men's enthusiasm Is merely temporary, and burns itself ont by its own energy of expression; and how fierce so? ever their aspect when they ruffle their leathers and make believe to fight, one vigo? rous peck from their opponent proves their anatomy as that of a creature without verte? bra, pulpy, gristly, gelantinous, and limp. All things have their uses and good issues; but. what portion of the general good the Ump aro designed to subserve is one of those mysteries to which none as yet hold the key. m . THE INCOME TAX. mark Twain's Interview with nu As? sessor, nad what Came of lt. [From the Buffalo Express.j Thc first notice that was taken of me when I "settled down," recently, was by a geutlcman, who said hq was an assessor, und connected with the United States Internal Revenue Pe Sartment. I said I had never beard of his ranch of business before, but I was very glad to see bim, all thc same-would he sit down ? He sat down. I did not know anything par? ticular lo say, end yet I felt that people who had arrived al the dignity of kecplmr house must be conversational, must be easy and so? ciable in company. So In default of anything else to say, I asked bim ii he was opening his shop in our neighborhood. He said he was. [ I did not wish to appear ignorant, hut had hoped he would mention what he had Tor sale.] "I ventured to ask him "how was trade ?" and he said, "so-so." I then said we would drop in, and if we liked his house as well as any other, we would give alva our custom. He said be thought we would like his estab? lishment well enough to confine ourselves to it-said he never saw anybody who would go off and hunt up another mon in his Une after trading with him once. That sounded very complacent, but barring that natural expression of vUlany which we all have, the man looked honest enough. I do not know how it came about exactly, but gradually we appeared to melt down and run together, conversationally speaking, and then everything went along as comfortably as clock-work. We talked, and talked, and talked-at least I did. And we laughed, and laughed, and laughed-at least be did. But all the time I had my presence of mind about me-I bad my native shrewdness turned on "lull bead," as the engineers say. I was determined to find out all 'about his business, in spite ol his ob? scure answers: and I was determined I would have it out of him without his suspecting what I was at? I meant to trap bim with a deep, deep ruse. I would tell him,all about my own business, and he would naturally so warm to me during this seductive burst of confidence' that he would tell me all about his affairs be? fore he suspected what I was about. I tfrbught to myself, My son, you little know what an old fox you are dealing with. I said : "Now youfflever would guess what I made lecturing thrWinter and last spring ?" "No^don't believe I could to save me. Let me see-let me Bee. About two thousand dol? lars, maybe ? But no-no, sir, I know you couldn't have made that much. Say seven? teen hundred, maybe ?" "Ha-ba ! I knew you couldn't. My lectur? ing receipts for last spring and this winter were fourteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars-what do you think of that ?" ' ? "Why lt ls amazing-perfectly amazing. I will make annote ol it. And you say even this wasnt all ?" r ' UA111 Why bless you, tbere was my income from the Buffalo Express for four months about-about-well, what should you say to about eight thousand dollars, for instance h "Safl Why I should like to see myself rolling In just Buch another ocean ol affluence. Eight thousand ! I'll make a note oflt. Why, man '.-and on top of all this I am to under? stand that you had still more iocome ?" "Ha-ha-ha! Why, you're only in the sub? urbs of lt, so to speak. There's my book. -The Innocents Abroad'-price $3 60 to $5, accord? ing to the binding. Listen to me. Look me in the eye. During the lost four months and a half, saying nothing of the sales before that but just simply during the four months and a ball ending March 15, 1870, we've sold ninety five thousand copies of that book ! Ninety five thousand ! Think of it. average four dollars a copy, say. It's nearly four hundred thousand dollars, my son. I get half!" '.The suffering Moses ! I'll set that down. Fourteen- seven-fifty-eight-two h und red. Total, eny-well, upon my word, the grand total ls about two bundled and thirteen or fourteen thousand dollars. Zs that possible ?" "Possible ! It' there's any mistake its the Tjtherway. Two hundred and fourteen thou? sand, cash, is my income for tills year if I know how to cipher." Then the gentleman got up to go. It came over me most uncomfortably that may be that I had mado my revelations for nothing, be? sides being flattered into stretching them con? siderably by thc stranger's astonished excla? mations. But no; at the last moment the gen? tleman handed me a large envelope and Bald it contained this advertisement; and that 1 would find out all about bis business in it. As 60on as he was gone, I opend his adver? tisement. I studied it attentively for lour minutes. I called up the cook and said: "Hold me while I faint. Let Maria turn thc bat'yreakes." Byr-and-bye when I came to, I sent down to the rum mill on the corner and hired an artist by the week to sit np nights and curse that stranger, and give me a mt occasionally in the day-time when I came to a hard place. Ah, what a miscreant he was ! His "adver? tisement" was nothing In thc world but a wicked tax return. It was plain that that stranaer had enabled me to make an ass of myself It was very, very plain, and I went out and hired another ' axtist. By working ob my vanity thc stranger bad seduced me into declaring an income of $114,000. By law, $1000 of trna was exempt from income tax, the only relief I could see, and it was only a drop in the ocean. At the legal Ave per cent. I must pay over to the gov? ernment the appalling sum ot $10,650 income tax. [I may remark In this place that I did not do lt] I am acquainted with a very opuleut man, whose house is a palace, whose table is regal, whose outlays are enormous, yet a man who has no income, as I have often noticed, by the revenue returns; and to him I went for advice, in my distress. He took my dreadful exhibi? tion of receipts, he put on bis glasses, he took his pen, and presto 1-I was a pauper ! It was the neatest thing that ever was. He did it simply by deftly manipulating the bill of "De? ductions.'r He set down my "State, national and municipal taxes" at so much; my "lossesby shipwreck, fire," Ac., at so much; my "losses on sales of real estate"-on "live stock sold" on "payments for rent of homestead"-on "re? pairs, improvements, interest"-on "previously taxed salary as an officer of the United States army, navy, revenue service" and other things. He got astonishini "deductions" out of each and every one of these matters-each and every or? ol them. And when he was done he banded me the paper, and I saw at a glance that during the year 1869 my income,In the way of profits, had been one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars and forty cents. "Now." said he. "the thousand dollars is exempt by law. What you want to do is to go and swear this document in, and pay tax on the two hundred and fifty dollars. [While he was making this speech his little boy Willii! lifted a two dollar greenback out of his vest-pocket and vanished with it; and I would be: anything that if my stranger were to call on that little boy to-morrow, he would make a fftlBe return of his income.] "Do you," said I, "do you always work up the 'deductions' after this fashion in your own case, sir J" "Well, I should say so ! If it weren't for those eleven saving clauses under the head of 'deductions'. I should be beggared every year to support this hateful and wicked-this ex? tortionate and tyrannical government.*' This gentleman stands away up among the very best of the solid men of Buffalo-integrity of unimpeachable social spotlessness-ana so I bowed to his example. I went down to the revenue office, and under the accusing eves of my old visitor, I stood up and swore to lie af? ter lie, fraud after fraud, villany after villany, till my immortal soul was coated inches and Inches thick with perjury, and my self-respect was gone forever and ever. But what o? it ? lt is nothing more than thousands of the highest, and richest, and proudest, and most respected, honored and courted men In America do every year. And so I don't care. I am not ashamed. I shall simply, for the present, talk little and wear flre-proof gloves, lest I fall iuto certain habits irrevocably. COMMERCIAL NJEWB. Exports. Kaw YORK-Per steamship Tennessee-73 bags sea island cotton, 1408 bales Upland cotton, 65 casks rice, 40 caskB clay. 134 bales domestics, 400 bbls rosin, 14 bbls ol), 81 packages sundries, 28 bbls new potatoes. 20 boxes .cabbages, 232 boxes vegetables, 22,000 feet lamber, 62 packages paper. rite Charleston Cotton. Klee and Naval Stores Market. OFFICE CHARLESTON NEWS, ) WEDNESDAY EVENING, May 18, 1670. f COTTON-.-Seilers to day wishiDg to dispose or the article had to submit to the views or buyers, and middlings In some cases came down to 21c, bat In other operations the article that was taken waa rather scant; factors were not, however, willing in all instances to accept these figures, prices showlDg irregularity. The sales were about 300 bales, say 17 at 13c; 7 at is;-;; 12 at 19; 15 at 20; H at 20>i; 16ut 20%; A^T at 21; 66? -I;..; 9 at 22c. We quote, somewhat nominally s* LIVERTOOL CLASSIFICATION. Ordinary to goou ordinary.18 (?20 Low middling.20>?t?201? Middling.21 ?F Strict middling.21 '?ra? BICE.-The market was steady for this grain; sales about loo tierces clean Carolina, say 30 tierces ate%; ?at 7; co at 7,','c fi lb. Wc qoote common to fair clean Carolina at C,'a'aTc; good NAVAL Sroi.es.-The market was somewhat ac? tive, but prices had an easier tendency. Sales 269 bbls spirits turpentine at 3lc, Say of rosins, 2 bbls window gloss at $5 00; 110 bbls p.Uc at $4 75; 29 bbls low pale at $4; 37 bhls No. 1 at $.1; 200 bbl3 extra No. 2 ct $1 70; 960 bbls No. 2 at $1 60. FBKi 3HTS.-To Liverpool, by steam, direct nomi? nal, v:a New York, 7-10d on uplands; 11-lGd on sea tfllamfs; by sall we quote 7-lCd on j aplane! cotton, and J? d ft BJ on sea island cotton. To Havre, by steam, nomi? nal; by eau, nominal at \c on a plano ind l*ic on sea islands. Coastwise to Sew York, by steam, }?c fi m on uplands ind He on sea Islands; by sall, Kc fi tb on up? lands. To Boston, by* steam, nominal; by sall, \ 9H<? V m on uplands. To Philadelphia, by steam, Ko ft a on uplands; by sall, somewhat nom? inal. To Baltimore, by steam, K@XC fi ft on uplands; by sall somewhat nominal. Ex CH AN SK.-Sterling 60 day bills 24%@25. DOMESTIC EXCHANGE-The banks purchase sight checkn at % off and Bell at M premium. Outside they purchase at %'@.L4 off, and Bell at >,'@,'4 premlam. GOL?.-Buying at 13>? and selling at 14>?. Markets by Telegraph. FOBEICN. LONDON, May 18-Noon.-Consols 94%. Booda 80S'. LIVERPOOL, May 18-Noon.-Cotton opened dull and irregular; uplands ll%d; Orleans ll.Vi; Boles 10,000 holes. Red Western wheat 8s 20; red winter 8s lld. Beef 106?. Bacon 58s ed. Evening_Cotton closed steady; uplands lida ll>id; Orleans 11%; sales 10,000 bale";speculation and exports 2000 bales. Naval stores firmer. PARIS, Moy 18.-Bourse opened dall. Rentes 74f 97s. HAVRE, May 18.-Colton opened duli anti de? clining; on the spot ir 30,'.; c ; afloat if 29c. Evening.-Cotton closed quiet. . DOMESTIC NEV YtffcK, May 18.-Noon.-Stocks weal:. Money easy at 4a5 per cent. Cold 14%. Sterling, .long, 9.?,'; short, 10.'4'. Tennessee ex-coupons 60%; new 65; Virginia ex-coupons 69%; Louisi? ana nixes, old, 75%; new, 73; levees, sixes, 74; eighth 94; Alabama eights 102; Georgia sixes 90: sevens 9?; North Carolina, old, 50; new 24%; South Carolina, old, 93; new 84%. Flour dull and tc lower. Wheat dull and declining. Corn dull and heavy. Pork qnlet at $30. Lard steady at ie.-?c. Cotton easier at 22%a23%c; sales 1000 bales. Turpentine dull at 40%c. Rosin firm at $2 07a2 io for strained. Freights dull. Evening.-Cotton dull; saies 1700 bales; mid? dling uplands 22% c; Orleans 23%. Flour-State $4 70a5 65; Western $4 70a6 30; Southerns heavy at $6a9 95. Wheat heavy and la2c lower. Corn lowe*; new mixed Western $105al 10. Beer steaty. Pork lower, at $29%a29?4. Lard dull; kettle 16%. Whiskey heavy at $1 09%al 10. Rice firm at 6%a7%e. Sugar steady. Coffee quiet. Molasses and naval stores dnll. Freights dull; cotton by steam J<d; sail 5-SJa.viCd. Money easy ' at 4a5. Sterling 9%a9%. Gold 14%. Govern? ments closed strone at a fraction decline; South? erns generally firm. BOSTON, May 18.-Cotton dall and lower; mid? dling 2l%a23.'4'c; net receipts 113 bales; coastwise 41; total 154; stock 5wo. BALTIMORE, May 18_Flour dull and easier and prices unchanged. Wheat dull; Maryland $150a 1 55; Pennsylvania SI 30al 35. Corn dull and lower; white $i20al SI; yellow $1 l?al 15. Oais firmer at 65c. Pork firm at $35. Shoulders 14a 14%c. Lard 17%c. Whiskey quiet and unchang? ed. Cotton dull and declined %'c; middlings 22?4c; receipts 192 bales; stock 2425 bales. CINCINNATI, May 18.-Corn declining, 95a9Cc, not offered rreely, $1 asked. Whiskey $1 07. Mes i pork and lard held firmly; ne sales. Bacon in fr.ir demand; shoulders 13,\,'al3)ic. ST. LOUIS, May 18.-Best gra.les yellow and white corn buoyant; other quotations dull; mixed 94ca$l. Whiskey $1 08. Pork $30a30 60. LonsviLLH, May 1?.-Corn unchanged. Pork $30. Lani 17c. Bacon shoulders 13%c. Whiskey , $105,U 07. NORFOLK, May 18.-Cotton dull and nominal; low middlings 2lc; receipts 703 bales; exports coor.twlse 516 boles; stock 3387 bales. ; AUGUSTA, May 18.-Cotton market quiet, but fra ; sales 380 bales; receipts 215 bales; middling ? SAVANNAH, May 18.-Cotton In moderate de? mand; middlings 21 \'c; sales 300 bales; receipts 1763 bales; exports' coastwise 629 bales; stock 36.742 bales. GALVESTON, May 18.-Cotton doll and nominal; good ordinary l8Jial9c; sales 120 bales; receipts 763; Stock 29,647. MOBILE, May 17.-Cotton doll and tending downward; middling 214?c; sales 60 bales; re? ceipts 174 bales; exports to New York 861 bales; to New Orleans 45 bales; stock 43,260 bales. May 18.-Cotton quiet and weak; middling 2l>ic; Bales 250bales; receipts 135 bales; exports coastwise 35 bales; stock 43,360 bales. NEW ORLEANS, May 18.-Cotton dull; middling nominally 22,4c; sales 2000 bales; net receipts 1058; coastwise 45; total 1103; exports to Bremen 2120;Veracruz 370; stock 125,356 bales. Sugar dull and lower; prime li)?ali;?c. Molasses easier; prime reboiled 70a75c. Coffee dull; fair I6#al6%c; prime I7%al8>i. Sterling 26a26/'4'; sight ji pre? mium. Gold 15. Havana Market. HAVANA, May 16.-Tiiefollowing are the prices of merchandise at the close of the market on Sat day, Mfcy 14: SUGAR.-Nearly all the estates have finished grinding, and notwitBtanding the foreign advices there i? a large business doing; prices are un? changed; stock in warehouse at Havana and Ma? tanzas 553,000 boxes,26,ooo hhds; exported during the week from Havana and Matanzas 36,000 boxes, of which 2600 were to the United States. Lamber firm for white pine at $27 50 uer M.; pitch pine steady at $26 per M. Frelgbts active, but a rad In prices to the United States ls expected; per box of sugar to the United States $1; per hogshead of sugar to the United States $4a4 50; per hogshead of molasses $3a3 50; per ton to Falmouth and or? ders 35ua40s; per ton to France direct 46f. New York Rice Market. From the Daily Balletin, 16th instant: The market was without important change. Sales of 60a60 tierces, in job lots, st 7a7)ic for good to choice Carolina. Carolina, common to good, per cwt. $<> 75a7 25; do prime, do $7 37>io7 62% ; Ran? goon per pound 3tt6c; Rangoon, gold in bond, do From tho Journal or Commerce: The market is quiet, but prices arc steady ac 7a7>ic. Rangoon sells in lots at 7c, currency, and 3a3,'? c gold, if in bond. From'thc World: The supply offering contin? ues small, and is only available at full prices; sales of 50 tierces Carolina at ?a7#c From the Tribune: Rice dull and unchanged; sales of 50 tiercel, carolina at 7a7>ic. From the Herald: Carolina was quiet, but steady at former prices. The sales were ?0 tierces, at Tatjfo for fair to prime. New York Naval Store* .Hurirt. NEW YORK,May 16.-NAVAL STORE8.-Receipts of spirits turpentine 383 bbls; receipts of rosin 287 bbls. Spirits turpentine was quier, and the busi? ness transacted was mainly in a jobbing way; sales nf loo bbls in lots at 42>ia43c. Rosin was ac? tive, tut prices are uncharged; sales 3000 bbls common strained at $2 07a210, and 2600 bbls do at $2 OTK. We quote No. 2 at $2 45a 2 62,4; No. 1 $2 75S3 75, and $4a6 for palo and extra pale. Tar was quiet, but holders remain very firm, and wnere Bales are made fud prices are obtained. We quote at $2 05a2 15 for Washington and New? bery. Pitch-We quote at $2 37>ia2 60 for city, the higher figure on lots. Interior Co ti 0?Markt ts. COLUMBIA, May 17.-Cotton was in good de? mand to-day, bor little offering, at 21021,',,c for good middlings. ATLANTA, May 16.-The market closed at 20J?c for middlings; ioj?c for low middlings; 18,vc for good ordinary; I7#c for ordinary. COLUMBUS, May 16.-bur market dull, weak and nominal, 2o?a20&c for middling; sales 62 bales; receipts 44; shipments 17. MONTGOMERY, May 16.-Market quiet at 2lc for low middlings. Receipts by Kuliroud, May iv. SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD. 365 bales cotton, 47 bales goods, 140 bibs naval stores. To Railroad Agent, Graeser A Smith, L D DeSaus8urc, Frost A Adger. G W Williams & co, Gibbes A co, W B Williams A Son, Reeder A Da? vis, Pelzer, Rodgers & co, Smith A Chapeau, W W Smith, cleghorn, Herring A co. Goldsmith A Son, W c Courtney A co, B G Wilkins A co, G U Walter A co, A B Mid ligan, and T P Smith. Passengers. Per steamship Tennessee, for New York-Mr Green, Mrs E S Green, Mr and Mrs N P Clyde, Mrs Duur. Miss Clyde. Mr and Mrs McNeill, D E Bos? tick, Master McNeill. R H Hall. Mr Hall, Master Pot ?sr, Miss Flinton, Miss Hoye, Mrs Stone, Mrs Lee, Master Ward, W S Thompson, S L Woodford, G Gunn, Mrs Thompson and two children, Mrs Green, two children and'nurse, G Seeger, Master Falk, W J Falk, Mrs Falk and nurse, Miss Falk, E ll Strieker. C Walters, T S Grant* P Gerlach, Mr McGority, J E Gill, Mrs G H Pratt, Mrs Pratt and child, A S MarSttall, J Hilton. E L Pratt, TGoforth. T McAvoy, F Gurney. B A McCaud. M Laird and lady, E Malone, Mr and Mrs R ll Hall, R A Prin? gle, and others. Per steamar City Point, from Palatka, via Jack? sonville. Fernandina and Savannah-Mrs Hell, Mrs Ktlger, Mrs Hoppln. H A Hoppln, Miss A J Hoppin, Miss A Hoppln, Miss K Hoppln. W Grimly, J Nemond and wife, J LTennison, Mr Hildebrand and wife, A Whitney, Mrs Ambler. Mrs Cooper, N Edgar, Mrs Creary, Miss Crearyr^E F Creary. C F Creary, W Lawyer, Miss Lawyer, L Cheney, Sister Michaelle, Miss TTesco, Miss Schankley, Profes?or Perry. ERR Hoyt, L Frampton, Miss G T Vance, J W Cochran, Col S H Owens, Mrs Ly les, Mrs D Bedell, Mrs Mattltt and daughter, E C Buckin, J F Taylor. H D Walter. Mr Snell. B S Hasel?ne and wife, R Gourdin, C Leonard, Mr Baker, Miss Pink ham and daughter, S C Roberts, G W Knight, Mr Geer, Mrs Am it age, and 62 deck. Per steamer Emilie, from Georgetown, Ac R B Taggart, W Lee, Mrs F L Stowe. Master Abra? ham Ward, B F Wickereham, J W Balley. C Ma? lone, Captain Griggs, Mr Potts, G R Mercer, J K Mercer, W L Buck, Miss Henning, Dr B G Hen? ning, General A M Manlgault, Captain Gregg, Mrs flood win and four children, Miss Gibbes, Mrs L T Frost, norse and two children, Miss E R Snnts, Miss Kattie White, Miss S Ellis, W B Pringle, F S Rhodes, Captain Isaac Davis, B Kills, and 6 deck. Per steamer Pilot Bov, from Beaufort, Edlsto, J J Uale, A Schien, A A Mack, Miss Leverman. G W Wells, Miss Chaplain, Miss Litchcre, J E Word? ing. P C Cole, P H Woodard. E N Cblsolm, John Wright, W M Wlnderook. W Patten, Misa E Day? ton, B J Whaley, Mrs M J Whaley, and 6 on deck. POET O AL KN VAR. MOON'S PHASES. First Quarter, 8th, 10 hours, 17 minutes, morning. Full Moon, 15th, 12 hours, 43 minutes, morlining. Last Quarter, 22d, 12 hours, 49 minutes, momiug. New Moon, 30th, 4 hours, 37 minut?e, morning. Monday,..-.... TuestHy. Wednesday.. Thursday_ Friday. Saturday.... Sunday. BUN. RISES. 6.. 2 6.. 1 6.. 0 6.. 0 4.. 1.0 4.. 68 4.. 68 SUN SETS. 6..61 6.. 62 6..63 6.. 53 6..54 6.. 65 6..55 MOON R. 4 8. 8..40 9..48 10..45 ll..37 morn 12..23 1.. 0 HIGH WATER. 8..30 9..13 10.. 5 10..57 ll..SS 12..48 1..47 MARINE NEWS. CHARLESTON, 8. C., MAY 10 ARRIVED YESTERDAY. Steamer City Point, Peck, Palatka, via Jack? sonville, Fernandina and Savannah. 6 bales sea island cotton, Ac. To J D Aiken A co, Pi nc li? ne v Bros, col W Ludlow, M Goldsmith A Son, I) H Jacques, Morrell A Wharton, W B Williams A Son, J Lutjen, S C Railroad Agent, Kinsman Bros, and J E Adger A co. Steamer Emilie, Lewis, Georgetown, S C. 60 tierces rice, 5 bales cotton, los bags rice nour, mdse, and sundries. To Miackclford A Kelly, G w Williams A co, Klinck, Wlckenberg A co. Boll mann Bros, Mrs J D Ward, Terry A Nolen, Rev R STrapler, W B Pringle, Mrs W M Hazzar?, and others. Steamer General Manlgault, Cordes, George? town, a C. 13 bales cotton, 22 bbls naval stores, and sundries. To Shackclford A Kelly, Barden A Parker, Frost A Adger, and T P Smith. Steamer Pilot Boy, White, Beaufort. Edisto, Ac. 13 bales sea island cotton, 50 packages sun? dries, Ac. To J I) Aiken A co, Ravenel A co, F Campbell, and Holmes A Calder. Sloop Isabel, Londrich,. Santee. 1600 bushels rough rice. To W C Bee A co, J R Pringle k Son, aud Fraser A Dill. CLEARED YESTERDAY. Steamship-Tennessee, Chichester, New York W A Courtenay. . Sehr John H Hancock, Crowe!!, Navassa Island -W Roach & co. , SAILED YESTERDAY. Steamship Tennessee, Chichester, New York. FROM THIS PORT. Bark Clara, Nichols, Montevideo, Maren 29. Bark Anna Torrev, Libby, Liverpool, May 14. Sehr Jesuie S Clark. Clark, Philadelphia, May 13. UP FOR THIS PORT. Sehr ES Potter, Potter, at Baltimore, May ic. ? CLEARED FOR THIS PORT. Sehr May Morn, Stetson, at Baltimore, May 16. SAILED FOR THIS PORT. Steamship South Carolina. Adkins, from New York, May 18, 3.30 P M. LIST OF VESSELS UP, C LEAKED AND SAILED FOU TD IS FOBT. . F 0 R E~7 O N . CARDIFF. 1 The Village Queen, McGray, up.March 31 DOM E~S TIC. >t BOSTON. Brig Lewis L Squires, Tyler, up.?...April 21 3chr Montana, Hearse, up.April 29 NEW TORE. steamship South Carolina. Adkins, sid.May 18 Sehr N W Smith, Tooker, cleared.May 9 Bitters. J^IPPMAN'S GREAT GERMAN BITTERS! THE BEST TONIC AND 1NYIGORATOR KNOWN I They are un surpassed as a cure for Dyspepsia and General Exhaustion. ASURE PREVENTIVE OF FEVER AND AGUE, BILIOUS. REMITTENT AND INTER? MITTENT FEVERS. IT IS INVALUABLE TO FEMALES ! 'TTS A CORDIAL FOR THE AGED, AND A SURE PROTECTION AGAINST ALL MALA? RIOUS DISEASES. _ Ci lt is un (I oui) t e dly the best Medical Cor? dial ever offered to the Public I SAVANNAB, March 16,1870. MESSRS. JACOB LIITMAN A BRO., savannah.*Ga.':' Ce??s-I have beiore me your esteemed letter of? fne 14th Instant, containing vari?os documents relative to your "German Bitters." After a care? ful examination I must confess that your Bitters is really what you represent it to be, an old Ger? man recipe of Di". SlUolierllch, of Berlin, Prussia. It will no doubt be excellent for Dyspepsia, Gen? eral Debility and Nervous Diseases, and lt is a good preventive of Chills and Fevers. 1 find rt to be the most delightful and pleasant stomachic. I remain, jours truly, (Signed) Aro. P. WETTER. KIRKLAND MILLS, GA., March 22,1870. MBSSRS. JACOB LITTMAN A BRO., Druggists, Sa? vannah, Ga.: GenClernen-'l have introduced your Great Ger? man Bitters here to my customers and friends, and I find better. Bale for them than aoy I have ever kept before. Those who have tried them ap? prove of them very highly, and I do not hesitate in Baying that they are far superior In value to any other Bitters now m use. Yoars, respectfully, (Signed) W. KIRELAND. We reier, by permission, to Doctors King, Sulli? van, Duncan, and other leading physicians of Sa? vannah; to ex-Mayor Anderson, John L. villa longa, and other distinguished citizens of Savan? nah. Mo license at all necessary to Bell these Bit? ters. Retail Depots In Charleston, S. C., forLlppman's Great German Bitters: At the Drug Stores of W. G. TROTT, DB. H. BAER, A. W. ECKEL A CO., ED. S. BURNHAM, W. A. SKB1NE, DB. P. M. COHEN. G. ". LCUN. Wholesale Agents: DOWIE, MOISE A DAVIS, Druggists, CLACIUS ? WITTE. STEFFENS, WERNER A DUCS.ER, and HENRY BISCHOFF <fe CO., x WHOLESALE CROCEBS, aprie cmos In Charleston, S. C. dljina, Orockcrrj, Sst. BENCH CHINA. The undersigned would most respectfully in form his friends and the public, that he is selling FRENCH CHINA at very reduced prices; also a fine stock, well assorted, of Glassware and W. G. Ware as agent, and s tte h a stock generally to meet the wants of that liberal patronage as here? tofore bestowed upon him. R. H. MCDOWELL, Agent, King street, corner of Liberty street. aprl4 thatu_ ^IIXIAM G. rVHILDEN & CO., DEALERS IN - WATCHES, JEWELRY, Silver-Platedware, F A. TV C Y GOOD?. IMPORTERS Or CROCKERY, CHINA AND GLASSWARE. CHINA DINNER SETS from $36 to $75. CHINA-TEA SETS from $8 to $25. CUT GOBLETS, $2 so to $12 per dozen. CUT CHAMPAGNES, $2 50 to $10 per dozen. CUT WINES, $1 25 to $8 per dozen. CUT CORDIALS, $1 26 to $6 per dozen. CUT LEMONADES, $2 50 to $6 per dozen. (TUT TUMBLERS, 75 cents to $12 per dozen/ DECANTERS, $2 to $12 per dozen. THE IMPROVED GEM S ELF-S'S A LING JARS all sizes EXTRA PIECES FOR CHINA SETS. PRESERVE DISHES. BOWLS. BCTTERS. SCtiARS. CREAMS. CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE FOB COUNTRY TRADE, LV ORIGINAL PACKAGES. AT WHOLESALE, No 137 MEETING ST. OPPOSITE HAYNE STREET. AT JIETAIL. No. 255 KING STREET, C'0K>NEK BSACPAlX. may 3 ' Murray & Lanman's Florida Water, The most celebrated and most delightful of all per? fumes, for use on the hand? kerchief, at the toilet, and in thc bath, for sale by all Druggists and Perfumers. For sale by ' BOWIE. MOISE A DAVIS, . H. BAER. jan24 mtmmos Caa$eston, S. 0. Scales. ST-AJT^TO-A-IR/ID SCALES. AGENCY TRANSFERRED TO . HART & CO., Ko. 30 HAYNS STREET, AND CORNER KING AND MARKET STREETS, CHARLESTON, S. C. MST A F?LL ASSORTMENT CONSTANTLY ON HAND AT MANUFACTURER'S PRICES, m ch5 3mo WTUQB, Crjomcala, Sit. AN H iE SO I C REMEDY HENRY'S CONSTITUTION RENOVATOR! Based on science, prepared with all the availa? ble skill, and combining in concentrated form thc most valuable vegetable juices known in the his? tory of medicine for PURIFYING THE BLOOD, IMPARTING NUTRI? TION TO THE SYSTEM, TONE t TO THE STOMACH, . And a Healthful Action to the Liver, Kidneys, Se? cretions and Interior Organizations. Thousands of Precious Lives are to-day rapidly sinking to an untimely end, suffering with AGO? NY, WRETCHEDNESS and . IGNORANCE of the cause. We alt know that science can arrest Disease, and nourish the body into new Life and Vigor, and cause the Bloom of Health to again visit the withered and wan cheek of ?he invalid. DISEASE, LIKE A TDIEF, steals upon its victims unawares, and before they are aware of its attack, plants itself firmly In the system. Do you know the cause of Thc Wasted Form-The Sunken Check. . Thc Withered Face-The Sallow Complexion. Th?.Feeble Voice-The Glassy Eye. The Emaciated Body-The Trembling Step. The Treacherous Cough-The Torturing Sores. The Burning Eruption-The Inflamed Eyes. The Pimpled Face-The Colorless Skin. And all the Debilitating Ailments of the present day ? The answer is simple, and covers the whole ground In all its phases. THE FANGS OF DISEASE and hereditary taint are implanted in the blood, which ls the very fountain or life, ..nd must be eradicated to secure Health and Long Life.. We present to you herc an HEROIC REMEDY, known as HENRY'S CONSTITUTION RENOVATOR On reaching the stomach it assimilates at once with Ure food, passes into the blood, and attacks thvdRease at its fountain head. It drives disease from the body through the proper organism with unerring certainty, and sends new, fresh ami In? vigorating blood BOUNDING THROUGH EVERY AKTLKY AND VEIN. The tubercles of Scrofula that line the inner coating of the abdomen are dissolved and eradi? cated, and thc diseased part nourished Into health and vigor. Thc torpid Liver and iuactive Kidneys are stimulated and healthy secretions perform their natural functions. The action of HENRY'S CONSTITUTION RENOVATOR Is Tonic, Purifying and Disinfectant. At. Ita touch, disease droops and dies away, and its would bc victim leaps into New Life uud Vigor, lt Imparts a Sparkling Brightness to thc Tye, A Rosy Glow to the Cheek, A Ruby Tinge to the Lips, A Clearness to the Head, Brightness to the Complexion, Buoyancy to the Spirits, And Huppincss on nil Sides. For all attestions of thc kidneys it is unsurpassed. People have beeu rescued, as it were, from thc very jaws of death, by a timely use of this great remedy. IT EXTINGUISHES Affections of the Bones, Habitual Costiveness, Debility, Diseases of the Kidneys, Dyspepsia, Erysipelas. Female Irregularities, Fis? tula, all Skin Diseases, Liver Cora laint, Indigestion, Piles, Pul? monary Diseases, Scrofula or King's Evil. FOR ALL DISEASES OF TUE KIDNEYS, RETENTION OF THE URINE, Ac, Ac. And for Female Diseases, Nervous Prostration, Weakness, General Lassi? tude, and Want of Appetite, lt ls unsurpassed. CAUTION!-In ordering our remedy always place the number of our Postottlce Box on your letters. The new law In our New York PostoOlce compels this. Address, DR. M. E. HENRY A CO., Director General Berlin Hospital, Prussia. AGENCY OP THE UNITED STATES. ? Laboratory, 267 Pearl Street, Postottlce Box vFi2, NEW YORK. SS-CONSTITUTION RENOVATOR is fl per bot? tle, six bottles for $0. Sent anywhere on receipt of price. Patients are requested to correspond confidentially, and reply will bc made by following mall. Sold by all respectable Druggists. Agen ts for South Carolina, DOW1E, MOISE i DAVIS. Janl7 mwslyr ROSADALIS. ? ROSADALIS. Sold by GOODRICH, WTNEMAN & CO., Direct importers of European Drugs and Chem? icals. Charleston. S. C. mays Btolhly DYSPEPSIA* INDIGESTION ' & WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS N. B. The Commissioner of Revenue has decided that any dealer can sell this article without a j special license. mch 2 .ft _Spool Cotton. THE CELEBRrVTED A.T.STEWART&CO. GOLF AGENTS FOR THE UNITED STATES. For aale In Charleston by mayl6-i J. R. READ k CO. Star Shirts. -yiyrM. MATTHIESSEN, NO. 231 KING STREET. CORNER "WENTWORTH, AGENT FOR THE MANUFACTURERS OF TUE CELEBRATED STAR SHIRTSI EACH QUALITY OF SHIRT IS NUMBERED. 'RICES AS FOLLOWS: NO. 42...$300 No. 52. 3 60 No. 72. SOO No. 92. 3 60 feb3 ?moH i?liscellaneons. YOU CAN SAVE HONEY BY HAVING YOUR PRINTING EXECUTED AT THE NEWS JOB OFFICE. ?-ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED.-?? QH?PEIN k WIN'KLER, DENTISTS, omci MO. 276 arno STsnrr. Dovi3 Piros JgNOCn MORGAN'S SONS' (ESTABLISHED 1809.) (211 Washington street, N. Y. SAPOLIO THE BEST THING OUT For Cleaning WINDOWS (without water;) re-, moving Stains from MARBLE an<l PAINT; Polish? ing KNIVES, (no scratching;) Washing DISHES, scrubbing FLOORS, FLOOR CLOTH, TABLES, BATU TUBS, Ac; Polishing Tin, Brass, Iron, Copper and Steel Wures; Removing Gums, Oil, Kust and Dirt from Machinery. Indispensable Tor House Cleaning, and all uses (except washing clothes.) It costs but a few cents, and is sold by all good Grocery, Drug and Notion Stores. For sale by GOODRICH, W1NEMAN A CO., Wholesale Druggists, and DOWIE, MOISE A DAVIS, Wholesale Druggists, Charleston, S. C.^ mehi mu? cm os THE STANDARD REPUTATION AT TAINED by this unrivalled and infallible YEAST POWDER darin.? t welve year? past, ls due to Its perfect pnriry. lienlthliilnew and economy. Put up in tins, actual weight, as represented, and will keep for your*. The quantitv required for use is from one-fourth to one-half ?isa than other Unking Powders. Sold hy Grocers t?irwuitbout the Uni'ed states. DOOLEY A BROTHER, Maiiuraoturor? and Prorrietors. No. C9 New stree:, New York. mchi4 mws3mos TOE BEST, CHEAPEST AND MOST DURABLE Material for Roo?ng known. For sale by CAMERON, BARKLEY k CO., Corner Meeting and Cumberland streets, ? mch24?mo Charleston, S. cr