St. Croix Avis (Christiansted, St. Croix [V.I.]) 1844-Current
January 27, 1865

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g A shipment of Cotton from this Island, made in October last, realized in England 40d. pr. Ib. g From the New York Herald, January 11.) e i THE SITUATION. 3 The prominent feature of the news from i ‘he Jumvesriver is contained in the despat- ches of our correspondents detailing the particulars of the relinquishment, by or- der of the President, of the commuud of the Army cf the James by General Butler, and the assumption of the position tem porarily by General Ord. Geueral Butler, received the orderatabout half-pasteleven o’clock on last Sunday forenoon, and be fore three o’clock on the afternoon of that day he had made all his farewell preparations, turned over the army to his successor, and taken his departure for the North. Our Shenandoah valley correspondence represents that the inhabitants are suffer ing from the scarcity oftood, and the re bel troops, who are quartered upon them, render their condition still more deplora ble. No new active military operations of importance have taken place in the valley. Our correspondenee from Springfield, Missouri, states that the Union garrisous have been withdrawa from all the pos!s south of thut place as far as Fort Smith, Arkansas, by order of' General Canby. A party of about sixteen hundred ln dians made an attack on Julesburg, Colora do Territory, on last Satarday, rchbed the overland mail avd express, dispersed a mule train, destroyed the stage station and a large amount of the telegraph ma terial, and killed wnineteen soldiers and citizens. A severe fight took place be tween the Indians and the troops, the lat ter numbering altogether less thaa a hun dred bat the former were finally driven oft, with the loss of their chief and twenty four others killed. "Their design was to massacre all the whites in the scttiement. Iu consequence of applications of mer chants of thus eity for permission to re sume trade with Savannah by shipping coods to that place, Secretary of the Trea sury Fessenden has iostructed our Cus tom House authorities to give no clear ances for that port on private account {Hr the present without special authority in each case from the Treasury Depart ment. This has already been granted in a few cases. Collector Draper, who has cone to Savannah to take charge of the captured cotton and rice, has tulien with him a full and efficient corps of assist ants, and is clothed by the government with the most ample power for proseeu ting his important missiou. The enforcement of the passport systemn Lasnearly put an end to the travel of Ame ricans in Canada. The passenger traios on both the Grand Trunk and Great Western railroads are now running uear ly empty west of Toronto. Guards of United States soldiers are to be stationed at Rouse’s Point and Moer’s Junction, to see that the passport regulations arce strictly complied with. Included in the contents of recent rebel newspapers is an inferesting anddetail ed narrative of the late Union raid of Gererals Stoneman, Burbridge and Gil lem in kast Tennessee and West Virgi nia, so damaging to the enemy in the destruction of the salt and lead works and a vast amount of other property. Though an effort is made to represent the extent of the injury as much less than it really is, the writer cannot avoid ac knowledging that it was very great, and derives some consolation from the faet that, as thie Yanlees have now doue all the harm in that region of which they are capahle, some rest for the rebel troops may be hoped for. The rebel Senate on the 6thinst. adopted aresolution of thauks to their Indian allies of the Cherokee Na tion. The Richmond editors. are still indulging in glorifications over the fail ure of the expedition against the Wil mington defences. Mosby is said to be still alive and in a place of security, and his early recovery is anticipated. In the sharp discussion now going on between the rebel newspapers, in which JFeff. Davis’ meddling is charged as the cause of all their recent disasters, some of them, in his defence, assuil General Lee as the Marplot. [Nr. .8

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F'rom the London Times, December 28, 1864.) FRANCE. The France publishes the following re marks on the Pope’s lusi encyclical let ter “The encyclical letter was, it is said, prepared two years ago, but a determin ation wos only lately come to for sending it to the Bishops under date of the B'h of December. That fact would prove that the Court of Rome itsell was not quite decided as to the opportuneness of such a publication, and of such an interdict launched against the principles which at present serve as the basis of political so ciety. The late encyclical letter brings to mind the celebrated one of the 15th of August, 1832 it is inspired by the same spitit, and denounces tiie same condemna tions. Liberty of conscience, of worship and of opinion, and complete indepen dence of the civil power with respect to the religious authority are therein desig nated as peruicious aund detestable ervors. The theory which results from the docu ment is this,—The people are in the hands of their Princes ;3 the Princes under iho authority of the Pope; the Pope extent of which he alone is the judge, may interfere in temporal affuirs; the Princes cannot, under auy pretext, do so in religious matters; the Romau Catho lic religion alone is to possess the right of having a public worship; the Princes ave obliged to protect it and to repress the celebration of other forms of religion, not only in thie name of public order, but be cause those crecds are contrary to the true religion 5 the Church has the riglit to inflict corporal punishments on those who violate its laws, aud the erime of heresy, which has been efliced from all modern codes, is to be maintained and punished as in the Middle Age. The old public law, whichin France served as the basis of the relations of’ the Chureh and the State,.is not less reproved than our present one. What will be the effeet of this new maniftestation of the Roman Court? In our opinion it will be the same as the condemuation pronounvced by Gregory XVL. against moderu liberties in 1832. The encyclical Mirari vos has not prevented Liberal principles from everywhere penetrating into the bosom of Catholic society. After and in spite of that letter, Father Lecordaire preached all his life the conciliation of Catholicism with modern liberties; the Freonch elerov at the end of the reign of Louis l-’lsili;,;pb had energetically placed themselves on the ground of religious freedom; the proof of that fact is in the writings then published by Monseigneur Parisis, Mon seigneur Affre, and Monscigneur Dupan- Joup. At present our most eminent pre lates openly declare themselves to be in accordance with their times and with their country. The Liberal current is irresisti ble and while receiving the new eucyeli cal letter with the respect due to every thing which emanates from the Sovereign Pontiff, we canuvot readily admit that it will be more efficacious against the develop ment of Liberalism than that of 1832.” AUSTRIA. (FROM THE TIMES’ CORRESPONDENT.) VIENNA, DEec. 24. In my letter of the day before yesterday it was stated that M. vor Bismark’s reply to the last communication of the Anstri an Government was evasive, and the sub joined account of what has occurred will show that my assertion was well founded. About three weeks ago Count Karolyi, 1. BREULX VLS. the Austrian Minister at the Prussian Court, called o1 M. von Bismark and beg ged of him to make known to Count Meunsdorfl’ his intentions in regard to the Duchics. At the same time the Count, in the name of’ his Government, express ed a wish that the question councerning the right of succession might be settled without delay, the present unsettied state of things being as distasteful to the great Powers as it is to the German Govern ments. Some defialte I)‘.‘:@.\-‘3l2{‘:‘:‘l were then made by the Austrian stalesmen, and the Prussian Premier promised to take them into immediate consideraiion. Baron von Werther, the Prassitan Miois ter at this Conrt, was summoned to Der lin, aud after an absence of e¢izht or ten days he returned to this city, bringing with him a reply to the above-mentinned Austrian communicitions. lustead of saying what his intentions were, M. von Bismark cave exp- o ==ions to his own andl his eolleagues? W oca o tie attentinn or the 8 Love arent o the diff ‘rence win Vi ki sl i 3, 11 the poltiieal positionr of the dhree Phaches, The Py cvaranta oy i opinlon that the tiwo vroal Powers ¢an do what they plea:: with Laucnburg, s that duchy was an integral part of the Danish Monarchy. With Schleswig and Holstein the case is somewhat diffirent, as there was only a personal tie between those provinees und Denmark. The two areat Powers hold Lauenburg by right of conquest. Schleswig and Ilolstein thev hold in trast for the person ot pet sons who may b= ealled on to suceeel Prince Christian of Schleswig-Tlolstein- Sonderbure-Gliickshure, now King of Denmark. ‘The name of the BDuke ot Ol denburg is again mentioned, and in such a Way that it appears he has a ehanee of becoming Duke of Holstein, “it being evident that Duke Frederic of Augus tenbure has better cliims to Schleswig than he has to the adjoining Duchy.” To the foregoing I have nothing to add bug a passage from the Vieuna Faterland, which is known to be on a very friendly footing with M. von Bismark and his p;i.xt tisans. The passage alluded to runs as follows “Prussia and Austria have agreed, uun der certain conditions, to support the claims of the hereditary Prinee of Augus tenburg, and Austria approves the de mands which Prussia makes on him, ‘in order that she may be able to increase her political influence for the b nefit of Germany.’ The Austrian and Prussian diplomatists are now endeavouring to convinee the Governments of the secon dary German States that the claims of the Dake of Augustenburg can be recog nized only on certain conditions.. The semi-official Prussian press has received instruetions to avoid suyng anything which-could tend to increase the excite ment that prevails at Muonich.” The two great Powers have agreed not to make any further communieation to the Federal Diet, until they have come to terms with the one or the other of the Pretenders to the throne or thrones of the Dachies. For very many years the Augsburg Gazelte went “through thick and thin”? for the Austrian Government, but it now ecnergetically upholds the cause of the secondary German States. In the last number of the paper iun qgues tion it 18 remarked that it Austria really wished te bring the guestion atissue o a speedy end she would insist on the im mediate convocation of the Schleswig- Holstein Estates, *‘which must better know what the inhabitants of those coun tries require than a judicial-political com mission can do.” A few days since the Bavarian Gazelte called in question the correctuess of the report that the secon dary States intended to held a conference onthe 26th inst., bat il is a positive fact that Messis. von der Pfordten (Bavaria), i von Beust (Saxony), and von Dalwigk (Hesse Darmstadt) were closeted togeth er at Bamberg on Wednesday and Thurs day last. The King of Bavaria has given to Licutenantl-General von Hade, who commanded the Federal forees in the Dauachies; the Grand Cross of the Order of St Michdel, and the Kinr of Saxoiy, who is his Sovereign, has couferred on him the Grand Cross of the Atbert Order. it is evident that the Kings of Bavaiia anll Saxony are tuliy alive to the daungers wiiich menace them and their Royal and princely brethren, but the Kings of Han over and Wiirtemberg appear to have less foresight., The days of the Germanie Confederation are numbered, but no oune can say what will come in its stead. How would it be if the northern German States were to form a leagoee with Prassia and thi> southern States oune with Austeia Would not the alliance of twe virile Pow ers be a mueh better cuarantee for the maiutenance of the peace of ‘Eurape than the German Bund, whiech is well-nieh impotent? At the beginnine of this month, on the Bth or 10th, the Prussian Government efiicially informed the seecon dary States that it ‘was not disposed to countenance their “illegal” attenipts to extend the sphere of action of the Fede ral Diet. The Prussian cirealar has not vet been published, but it is said to con tain a passage to the effect that il a i o rity of the German States shoulid be fa voured to such “eneronchments’” the con duct of Prussia will be tn aceorrdnee with her duties as a great Power. It s the i old story of the lamb and the wolf! Prus sin wish s to ride roughshod over the se condary Sta'es, and upbraids them be cause th y will not lie still to be tramp led on. The King of Hanover ‘tagrees in principle” with his brother of Bavaria, but the geographical position of his States precludes the possitnlity of his jeining 1n any demonstration that may be made against his powerful and aggressive neighbour, The Istates of Irsse-Caszel have re i solved to Impeach the Government, which has repeatedly violated the Consti tution. The Landerave William of Hes se, a man of 77 years of age, who is heir presumptive to the Electoral Throne, is said to have expressed approval of the l resolution taken by the Estates, and I ecan well believe that he did so, as his son (Prince Frederic) is soy-in-law to Prince Charles of Prussia. Every now I and then the present Elector, who is 62 years of age, behaves as if he were not m swne mind. In November, 1862, M. von Bismark sent to Cassel a feldjiger” (Government messenger), who was the bearer of a categorical summouns on the part of the German Bund to restore the “legal” Constitation. For the moment M. von Bismark is much occupied with the Schleswig-Holstein question, but it is l here expected that he will soon find time to attend to the affuirs of Hesse-Cassel, a country which Prussia has long greatly coveted. A Paris correspondent of the Augsburg Gazelte states, as a positive and indisputable fact, that agents of the Freach Govervment are now negotiating with Pruossia the purchase of the coal miunes in the valley of the Saar. The price demanded is 80,000,000 f.,, and the negotiations are aiready far advanced.

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Frem the Spectator, December 24. ENGLISH HOULIDAYS. The English people are beginuing ap parently to perceive that among the needs of civilization is a little lersure. The wotion that *‘ail work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,” so carefully iu culcated on childhood is at last penctra ting the aduit miud, slowiy of course, as such ideas always do spread in this country, but still with visible effet. The shopmen, we rather think, began the movement. They found out, after try ing to work without stopping exeept for sleep for nearly thirty years—we believe Englishmen never worked so hard as between 1815 and 1845, the period of crushing taxation and matufacturing ad vance—that their life was a little too like life on a slave plantation, that keep ing shop from seven a.m. to midnight with no break except for seanty meals was worse than Immprisonment, and at last they mutinied. T'he better class of employers had during the previous cene ration made a great deal of money, and were willing to risk a little, and besides they percerved that the practice of shop ping, on which they depended for their profits, would not be diminished by a limitation of hours, so they did not resist very hard. The avaricious among their class were coerced, prticularly 1n the county towns, by something very like physical foree, plate glass, for example, disappearing with unpleasant rapidity, and early closing e, closing at eight o'cloek, became in the better 'shu;‘s the rule. It would be therule in poor shops also, but for the ingenlous perversity with which employers adhere to the practice of paying wages at night, and usually on Saturday, a practice appa rently intended to give workmen every opportunity of getting rapidly rid of their cash. The artizans followed with their demand for short hours, now an invari able item in their catalogue of grievances, and they too partially carried their poiut. Their leaders say they have failed, and are still trying for one more hour, bat they forget whit the state of affairs was about 1820, when the hours of labour, now eleven per diem, were very nearly fourteen. Then came the proposal to imitate the school-boys, and make Satur day a legal half-holiday, a movement which failed partly because the Sabba tarians took itc up, and neither press nor workmen would follow them, partly he cause the workmen themselves did not see their way to such a sacrifice of mo ney, but chiefly because Saturday is of all others the day country shopkeepers can least spare., It i 3 market day all over England, and to change a market day is the most difficult of enterprises, as the Jews, for example, know to their cost. They have tried In many pinces to alter it over and over again, but have always failed, the farmers being deter mined to have their “day ouat” before the day of' rest, and not just before ano ther working day. The day, too, isfixed by many Acts of Parliament, habits have been adjusted to it for centuries, and a change would involve a small social revo- Jution. Had the shopmen asked for the time at the other end, Monday morning instead of Saturday night, they might have got it; but people do not like be ginning work in the middle of an ecasy day. Thehalf-holiday failing, the new demand is for more holidays, a request made suddenly urgent by the accident of Christ mas and New Year’s Day falling upon $Te CROLE AV] Y Sunday. The vast army of clerks and shopmen employed all over England, who work more continuously than arti zans or day labourers, and are almost as rigorously confined as prisoners, grew pathetic over the loss of one of their two fixed holidays, besieged the papers with letters, scowled at employers to whom it did not matter, aund even petitioned the Treasury. Os course they got their wish, though there are a good many dit ficulties in the way Dauks, for example, must open for a few minutes on any day not closed by law, people in business have a right to present bills which have arrived at maturity, aund generaily legal obhigations cannot be shifted from oneday to another. Then there are crotchetty employers, and avaricious employers, and employers with a grudge agaiust holidays as ‘“ansetthng folks’ minds,” and the sizlit of one shop open in a street makes all other shopkeepers who have elosed restless and unhappy. A day’s delay of busiuess in a city iike Londou, too, real ly costs money, the additional shipping expenses, for example, being expressed by thousunds of pounds, and altogether the employés did not frel guite eertain of the concession. T'he world, however, when not irritated is fairly good-natured, the gencral feeling is that Christimas has no business to fall on a Sandav, that it is a kind of oppression on th .p'zx‘\' of the astronomical authorities, the Goveranment offices and great employers have given way, and.we doubt not on Mouday Lon don will look as dreary, and empty and tired of its own exislence as on a gala day it usually does. The class agarieved by the almanack, however, siill feels that it will obtain its huli«lu}' as of favour, and a movement 1s spaken of to induce Go vernment to bring in a Bill next Session authorizing the Queen in Council to de cree a legal holiday on any day in the }'Uflr: We are not quite certain that this pro position, reasonable as it looks, is alto gether wise in its simplicity. 1t is of course a little anomalous, not to say absurd, that when people are unanimous in wishing for a holiday there should be no power in Eugland authorized to de clare one, that a few captious, or ill tempered, or over-grecdy persons should be permitied to interfere with the rea sonable enjoyment of an entire people, but the remedy proposed might prove to be an excessive one. Seusible men do not want to see England, which ahstains from labour on Sunday, re-introduce the holidays so frequent among the Couti nental nations, whieh treat that day as a half-hohday oulyv. 1t is very difficult indeed to recali a holidav once conceded. for nothing, as wo hLave seen this year, produces more rosistanse aud rcitation. I'he classes affected make enczagements, covtract habits, and spend wioney on the security of enjoying a particular day of leisure, and cannot endure to have 1t interrupted for what always seems to them some wholly inadequate reason. Every new day therefore added to the red-letter list has a tendency to become permanent, while as the years roll on new occasions for anniversaries are pret ty certain to be discovered. We shall have one, for instance, the moment the law is passed, to keep alive the memory of the Prince Cousort, and probably for the next victory which happens to in terest the peaple, besides legalization of the irregular holidays Easter Monday, Whit Manday, and for London the Der by Day. We may very soon, say in one generation, find ourselves saddled with some dozen holidays in the year,—a change very nearly equivalent to a 4 per cent. income-tax levied mainly for the benefit ot innkeepers. It would be wiser, if this is the plan, to add a short clause to existing Acts declaring that whenever a legal holiday falls upon Suuday it shall be held to extend over 3[;:.»:34:;: and so put it out of the power of seatimental, or ¢crochetlly, or i vor-enthusia<tiec Minis ters to iuterrupt business on days when the nation desires that it should preceed. It it is really desired to do more thaw this, —and we are aware that to the hundreds of thousands who are paid by the month or the quarter such a concession would seem a givat boon,—the number of days must be strietly fixed, and we would ask wirether 1t is absolutely impossible to bring them closer together. 'There is a little waunt of inventiveness amoug us in this respect. We select for holidays ounly single days, during which the peo ple .are eutirely dependent on the wea ther, in which they have no time to car ry out plans, aad daring which they are extremely apt to seck _enjoyment in a very irrational quautum of drink. Is it quite impossable to dispense with all holidays exeept Christmas and Good Iri day, and insiitute a sabbatical week, sonie seven d:lys ('(i:)li"l'\luutfly, say at Easter or just after harvest, during which all but indispensible toil shall halt? That is done in Calcutta, one of the ba siest eitivs of the world, where tradesmen do half their work between eight p.m. and midnizht, and where the trade of the port rivals that of any eify except Lon don or Liverpool, and done too, for eight days. The 'Treasury shuts, the banks close, the Castom House isemptied of all but tidewaiters, all Government depart ments except the police are abandoned, and shops as a rule are hermetically sealed. Nobody can colleet a bill, and as for purchases, you are fortunate if you can buy food. Orif a week is too Jong, as it might be, considering that in this land of ¢high ecivilization” the bulk of the people could neither do without the week’s wages nor induce employers to bare their share of the loss, couid there not be two periods of three days apiece? That time would allow those who are most confined to get a full breath of air and would not iaterrupt the business of the country in any perceplible way. People wounld make arrangemeuts to pre ventinconvenicnce,andaffairs would adjust themselves, as they do n Caleutta, with out any loss to the commuuvity not fully repaid in the gain alike of health and happiness. Royal Insurance Office, Christiansted, St. Croiz, 26th January 1865. FIRE REPORT, Monday Morning the 23rd instant about 5 o’clock, a fire broke out in a house on Estate Profit, which was entirely destroy ed. The fire arose from carelessness of a watchman who occupied a room in the house. When the investigation are closed I shall report further. E. MONEFELDT, Agent. XJBEP bekjendtgjores herved, at Forteg- AJ nelsen over de as Stadscondueten ren, i Ai;:edi]ing as foresnnede Bbyniugs forandringer i Byerve Christiansted og Frederiksted i sidstafvigte Skatteaar, foretagne Maalinger, henligge til Efter syn i Christiansted, i det Kongelige Kas-

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serer Contoir, og i Frederiksted, paa Po litikammeret sammesteds, og opfordres, I Henhold til Anordningen as 26de Novem ber 1854, de Vedkommende til at frem komme med deres mulige Anke over Maa lingen til det Kongelige Gouvernement in den 3 Maaneder fra Dato. Den Kongelige Skattecommission for St. Croøix den 20de Januar 1865. Carl Hattensen. J. J. Hvin. J. A. Hoyer, auib. Proclama. LLE og Enhver som maatte have Æx Noget at fordre paa Boet efter afgangne Catharina Brans indkaldes herved med 3 Maaneders Varsel til for undertegnede Skifteret at anmelde og beviisliggjore deres Krav. St. Thomæ Skifterets Contoir den 16de Januar 1865. Rosenstand. rOR SALE BY THE SUBSCRIBER: Brandywine Corn Meal in Puncheons Barrels, Super Fine Flour, Mess Prime Pork, Red White Oak Staves Heading, Wood Hoops, Spruce White Pine Board Plank, Spruce Joists of different sizes, Albany Cedar Shingles. West End, January 18th 1865. WILLIAM MOORE. NOTICE. HE Copartnership hitherto existing in this place under the firm of is this day disselved by mutual consent, Mg. TiMorHY NELSON PEARSON retiring therefrom. M. TaHoMAS PEARSON having by mu tual consent assumed the assets and lia bilities of the concern will conduct the busiress for his sole account and under his own name. St. Thomas, 31st December 1864. (Signed) TIMOTHY N. PEARSON. (Signed) THOMAS PEARSON. With reference to the above, the un dersigned respectfully requests a settle ment of all overdue accounts with the least possible delay. 'T'hose having claims will please render them to THOS. PEARSON. Proclama. A.LLE og Enhver som maatte have Noget at fordre paa afgangne Elizabeth Eiver’s og efterlevende Mands James Eiver's feelleds Bo indkaldes herved til at anmelde og beviisliggjore deres Krav for under tegnede Skifteret, inden UdlGbet as tre Maaneder ester denne Indkaldel ses sidste Bekjendtgjorelse. Frederiksteds Skifteret, St. Croix’ den 24de Januar 1865. C. SARAUW. ST. CROLX AVI S« RETORT Wl L B s 4 Os the Receipt of Deposits at the St. Croix o 7 SAVINGS BANK, i On Saturday, 21st January 1865.° S —_—————— Receivers: IN CHRISTIANSTED T. E. Mendes, Esq, Truostee. F. C. W. Weiss, Esq., Member. T mi‘vrv\v\nv"cfll‘l."l'\' Aly L IVILADAGINAINS Vhas Geo. Walker, Esq., Trustee. Amount of former deposits. ¥226,451 17 4 deposits of 20 cents each. 21 above 20 cts. and under 1. f 24 ‘6 Sl 3 5 5 6 6 l”‘ 4 3 20), Ly 20 £l 50. s e 50 100, l 60 deposits, of which 51 in Christiansted amounting 6.. et 9in Frederiiksteddo. 79 33 287 98 Total 226,742 15 T e e i Balance of deposits 48,166 99 g 8 new deposit accounts, viz.: 1 Carpenter. 1 Shopkeeper. 3 Laborers. 1 Teacher. 1 Servant. 1 Various. Receivers for Saturday, 28th Jan. 1865. IN CHRISTIANSTED: Abr. Meyer, Esq., Trustee. l L. Coakley, Esq., Member. IN FFREDERIKSTED L. Faber, Esq, Trustee. _ J. G Ripperger, Lsq., Member. GEO. BEHAGEY, President St. Croix, 23rd Jaunuary 1865. @]\\’NERS of dogs are hereby reminded of the rvgulations prescribl!lg pw_naltws for neglecting the renewal of the licenses which expired on the 31st ultimo. l Christiansted’s Police Office, 14th Jan uary 1865. J. A Stakemanmn. l N PHE Undersigned, intending to leave A the Island, requests all persons hav ing claims against him to present them for payment before the 25th of the pre sent month. Christiansted, January 16, 1864. g C. KEHNROTH. AUCTION. gidlile s WY request of the parties concerned, Il will be sold at the Auction Room No. 1 Strand Sireet at 1 o’clock on Sa turday the 28th instant a quantity of AT NMTRVERNDD ANY FURMTURE MAHOGANY FURNITUR Iy 5 Dry goods, P 181 rovisions, geneys, Jarts, Pheetons, Harness etc., etc. Frederiksted, 17th Junuary 1865. R. J. Robinson, Auctioneer. Y executed at this Office jUB PR,'NTING with neatness and dis Se wW patch. BEKJENDTGJORELSE. IL Brugved Fordelingen den T ved Anordningen as 25ic D cember 1862 angaaende Forsniirs» as nogle Skatter og Afgifter vas >i. Croix dens $3, fastsatte Afrift til Statskassen, svarende til 36 ceni= f; hver Ager Land, der anvendes ciic: er udlagt til Sukkeravl, opiosiv herved i Henhold til Anordu Forskrift enhver Plantage Ei: hans Fuldmægtig til, inden I' fra Dato, at indsende til un nede Commission den i Anord: paabudne skriftlige Erklærh Netto-Vægten as det Sukker, cor bleven produceret paa de vedi: mende Eiendomme i Tiden fr: Januar til 3ite December 1864. Exemplar as den ved Anordn:::: paabudne Fortegnelse fra Toldia rene over Netto-Vægten as Bukior, der er bleven udfort fra hver Fi::: tage i samme 'Tidsrum, findes h:-- lagt til Eftersyn i Retshuset i Ciir stiansted og i Retshuset i Frederii;- sted. Den Kongelige Skattecommiss:on for St. Croix den I6de Januar 1865. CARL HATTENSEN. J. 3. HEIN. J. A. HOYER, auth. B Publication. POR the use of the Tax-Commis sion in assessing the Tax of 36 cents to the State-Treasury on every acre of land, either actually planted with Canes or being prepared for the cultivation of Sugar, the said Tax to be levied pursuant to the ordinance of 29th December 1862 relating to a modification of certain Taxes and imposts in the Island of St. Croix, all owners of Estates, or their attor neys, are hereby, in accordance with the enactment of the ordinance, re quested to forward to the undersigned Commission, within 14 days from date, the declaration in writing prescribed in the Ordinance as to the Nett weight of the sugar produced on the proper ty in question from the Ist January to the 31st December 1864. A Copy of the statement of the Nett weight of sugar exported from each estate during the same time furnished from the Custom houses, pursuant to the Ordinance, will be found exposed for inspection in the Court house in Christiansted and the Courthouse in Frederiksted. The Royal Tax Commission for St. Croix January 16, 1865. CARL HATTENSEN. J. J. HEIN. J. A. HOYER, auth. ¥For Sale superior cast iron force Pump with A&\ every thing complete, manufactured by Messrs. Mirrlees Tait of Glasgow. St. Croix, 17th January 1865. ALEX. WOLFF.