St. Croix Avis (Christiansted, St. Croix [V.I.]) 1844-Current
February 14, 1865

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Frederiksteds Byfoged-Contoir den Ade Februor 1865. C. Sarauis. 5i ä o _ —å Bekjendtgjoreise. c Ifølge den, i Ifenhold til Loven as 23de Juli 1853, den 6'e Februar 1865 foretagne Lodtrækning as Nummere pun de som Vederlag til de forrige Besiddere as Ufrie ide danske Desid delser i Vestindien udstedte Statsforskrivninger, ere efternævte Obligationer forfaldne til Betaling den Iste Juli 1865, og ville ingen Renter paaløbe samme efter bemeldte Tid, om Ihændehave ren endog skulde være berettiget til betaling ved en anden as Statskasserne end den, hvorunder Obligationen foreløbigen bliver anviist til Udbetaliug. 1. Vel Statskassen paa St. Croix: P D IUD D D D 100 200 2. Ved Statskassen paa St. Thomas 2, Atthe State-Treasury in St. Thomas Ingen. Noue. 3. Ved Finants Hovedkassen i Kjobenhavn 3, Atthe Chief-Treasury in Copenhagen Litra Å No. 6; 29, 61, 81, 108, 145, 149, 155, 182, 2291, 223, 969. 341, 565”809, 394, 396, 494, 456, 475, 50E, 538, 636 668, 579, 618, 691, 626; 645, 667, 675, 678, 684, 686, 701 734, 750, 755, 78%, 760, 791, S E $20,500 _ B No. 11, 168, 174, 184, 186, 188, 194, 210, 296, 274, 814, 844, 349, 364, 373, 393, 465, 475, 478, 489, 518, 521, 52?, 538, 539, 568, 575, 594, 636, 640, 650, 662, 670, 713, 716, 752, 765, Sll, 815, 837, 851, 852, 890, 908, 937, 958, 1058, 1064, 1076, 1127, 1136,—51 Stykker å $250.......--.---- 222202 00022-= 12,750 C No. 15, 34, 111, 120, 156, 174, 203, 916, 252, 255, 978, 280, G9l, 391, 338, 339, 359, 367, 415, 437, 449, 464, 485, 554, 587, 590, 591, 607, 641, 681, 737, 741, 762, 783, 785, 810, 818, 839, 842, 863, 885, 892, 927, 976, 986, 997, 1059, 1058, 1079, 1093, 1120, 1192, 1128, 1143, IHIBO, 1276; 1287, 1294, 1318, 1348,. 1855, 1381, 1399, 1440, 1453, 1477, 1534, 1545, 1554, 1597, 1633, 1660, 1664, 1693, 1706, 1799 17296, 1759, 176 1L,1777;—80 b'lyklu'l' 3ÆLOOS N S,OOO DNø. 18 95.90, 41, 48 60,. 73, 99, 101 109, £lO. 119, 147, 196, 199, 204+ 238, 290, 301, 355, 366, 375, 385. 395, '403, 4381, 439, 483, 475, 478, 497, 502, 506, 523, 679, .681, 712, 743, 820, 829, 843, 845, 953,9%4,999,931,93-'3,——l7Stykkcr&ä-'JU..-._-.__.-.--..-_._-..._-.--................--... 2,350 N 43,v00 $43,800 Belobet as de udstedte Statsforskrivninger, der endnu ikke Amount os Bonds issued and which have not yet become ere udtrukne til Betaling, udgjor payable: La 3. OU LNE H GUD 6eb rOp 6 tR Os 00 n O E LE i e EE 5 106 5 E E G s D DD D 9s9P L L D $81,700 Suafremt Ihændehaveren as nogen as de fornævnte Obliga tioner attraner Udbetaling ved nogen anden as de foranførte Kas ser, end den, hvorunder de ovenfor findes anforte kan Andragende derom indgives enten til Finantsministeriet i Kjobenhavn, eller til Gouvernementet paa St. Croix, og forsaavidt det kun angaaer Forandring as Udbetaling ved de tvende vestindiske Kasser, vil saadant skee, naar man henvender sig paa det Kongelige Boghol der-Contoir paa St. Croix, eller paa St. Thomas. Hvilket herved bekjendtgjores til Efterretning for alle Vedkommende. CHERISTIANSTED, TIRSDAGEN den Il4de FEBRUAR 1865. Gouvernementet for de dansk-vestindiske Besiddelser, St. Croix, den 9de Februsr 1865. W. BIRCH. CARL HATTENSEN. AT is hereby made known, that Go vernment has ordered the sale of such properties in which levy for taxes L for 1863 has been made, unless the f amounts due are paid before the Ist March next. Sheriff’s Office, Frederiksted Ve bruarv 4th 1865. Saraaw. e o Publication. According to the result of the drawing of the 6th February 1565, in conformity with the Law of 23rd July 1853, of State- Bonds issued for compensation to the tormer owners of unfree in the Danish West Tnudia Pessessions, the following Bonds are pay able at the undermentioned places on the Ist July 1865, and no interest will acerue on the same after said time, even if the Lholder of the Bond is entitled to payment at another of the Trea suries than that under which it is here speeified. 1. At the .‘4{:l‘.s‘~'}‘l'L':L.~jlll‘_\' ißt Croix; Is ihe holder os any os the abovementioned Bonds should prefer to have the amount paid by any other os said Treasuries than the one under which it is specified, a written demand to that effect must be made either to the Ministeros Finances in Copenhagen or to the Colonial Government in St. Croix, and is the question is only payment at the State Treasury in St. Croix instead os St. Thomas, or vice versa, such ehange may be obtained by a request to the Royal Bookkeeper's Office in St. Croix or in St. Thomas. l The above is hereby made known for the information ef all eoncerned. s 1 NOTICE. HIEE Burgher Council will sell T abouat 100 empty Cornmeal pun cheons application to be made to the undersigned. Burgher Council’'s Secretary’s of fice, St. Croix 7th February 1865, i JACOB MULLER. Nr. 13.

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ST. CROIX SAVINGS BANK. NOTICE! _/A\ MEETING of the MICMBERS of the St. Croix Savings Bank will be held on Monday next the 20th instant, at 2 o’clock p.m., at the Of fice of the Institution. St. Croix, 13th February 1865. BANK OF ST. THOMAN-S. !'\\]OT‘l(J‘E is hereby given, that a J Semi-annual General Meeting of Proprietors will be held on Tvrs pay the 23rd instant, at Mr. Bonel li’'s “Furopean Hotel,” in the Main Street. The Chair will be taken at 12 o’clock. By Order of the Board of Direc tors, A. WOLFF, Manager. St. Thomas, 10th February 1865. s E the undersigned, beg leave to W make known to the public, that in consequence of the great searcity of Sheep, and high prices demanded for same, caused by the exportation, we will from henceforward sell mut ton at twenty cents pr. Ib. St. Croix 13th February 1865. TIS. FUREY. J. DERICKS. R. WILLIAMS. L i e e THE UNDERSIGNED begs re- JJ spectfully to inform the inhabit ants of Christiansted and its vicinity, that he will open a private

Day School for the tuition of children of both sexes on MONDAY the 20th inst. For terms and other particulars please apply at his residence No. 10 Company street. THOMAS THOMPSON. Christiansted 13th February 1865. ET bekjendtgjires herved at Valg listen saavel for Christiansted Byes og Forsteders, som for Landdistrictets Valgkreds til Colonial Raadet, vil fra den 15de til den 28de dennes, begge Dage in clusive, fremligge til almindeligt Efter syn paa Thingstedet for Valgkredsene i dette Steds offentlige Retshuus No. 10 1 Kongens Gade, i 6 Timer hver Sognedag, nemlig fra Klokken 9 slet Formiddag til K. 3 slet Eftermiddag. Indsigelser imod Valglisten skulle 1 Henhold til Colonial Lovens 25 skriftli gen indsendes til undertegnede Formand senest den 3die Marts forstkommende. Valg Bestyrelsen for Christiansteds Byes og Forsteders samt Land Districts Valgkreds den 9de Februar 1865. J. A Stakemanmn, Formand. e T is hereby made known, that the list X of persons entitled to vote to the Colonia{)Council, both for the elective districts of the Town of Christiansted and suburbs and for its Landdistrict, can be geen at the public Court House of this lace, from tfie 15th to the 28th instant, goth days included, 6 hours each Week day, from 9 o’clock a.m. to 3 o’clock p.m. Objections to the list, must in accor- $Te CROLX AV L S dance with §25 of the Colonial Law be sent in, in writing to the undersigned Chairman, latest the 3d of March next. The Elective Boards for the Districts of Christiansted and Suburbs, as well as its Country Jurisdiction, 9th February 1865. J. A. sialcemmann, Chairman. BOKIINOPRIOREISG, BLGSi Jrziifiamiufiih J ISTEN over Valgbercttigede til Colo- 24 nialrardet er henlagt til Eftersyo pan detle Steds Thinghuus fra 151e il 28de dennes begge Dage indbefattede, fra Klokken 9 slet Formiddaeyg til KI. 3 slet Eftermiddag. Euvhver der har Ind- sicelser at fremfore imod Val listen op fordres, i Henhold til Coloniallov as 27de November 1863 25, scnest 3 Dage ester Udlobet as den ovennevate I'id, til Valg bestyrelsens Formand skrifiligen at ind give stadan Indsigelse med Opgivelse as deGrunde hvorpaa samme stottes. Valgbestyrelsen for Frederiksteds Byes Valgkreds den 9de Februar 1865. Saranw. Caril Hattensenn Faber. ?ffl“l‘) list of those qualified to vote for LN Members of the Colonial Council, is exhibited for inspection at the Court- House from the 15th to the 28th instant from 9 o’clock am. to 3 o’clock p.m. Whoever has any objection to make against the said list is hereby in accor- dance with the Colonial Law dated 27th November 1863, requested to state such objection in writing to the Chairman ot the Eleetoral Board with the reasons on which said objection or objections are based, within 3 days after the last men- tioned date. i The Electoral Board for the town of Frederiksled, 9th February 1865 C. SapraEw, Carl Elaitemsen. L. Baber, BEKJENDTGIJORELSE. E o ISTEN over Valgherettigedg til Colo- M nialraadet er henlagt til Eftersyn pan dette Steds Thinghuus fra 15de til 23de dennes begge Dage indbefattede, fra KI. 9 E slet Formiddag til KL 3slet Eftermiddag. luhver der har Indsigelser at fremfore imod Valglisten opfordres, i Henhold til Coloniallov at 27de November 1863 25, senest 3 Dage ester Udlobet as den oven- neevnte 'T'id, til Valgbestyrelsens Formand skriftligen at indgive saadan Indsigelse med Opgivelse as de Grunde hvorpaas gamme stottes. Valgbestyrelsen for Frederiksteds Ju- 1 risdictions Landdistricts Valgkreds den 9de Februar 1865. f -C. Sarauw. Carl Hattensemn. Barny B, Beech. JHE list of those qualified to vote for T members of the Colonial-council is exhibited for inspection at the Court-house from the 15th to the 23th instant from 9 o’clock a.m. to 3 o’clock p.m. Who- ever has any objection to make against the said list is hereby in accordance with the Colonial-law dated 27th Noember 1863 requested to state such objection in writing to the chairman of the electoral board with the reasons on which such ob- jection or objections are based, within 3 days after the last mentioned date. l The Electoral Board for the Country District of the Jurisdiction of Frederik sted, the 9th February 1865. Sarauw. Carl dattemsen. Barny E. Beech. 15 a eUndersigned Theln i have just received, pr. Schooner “DRA SO R e L ke (l().-\x; l,‘.\_t!x ;‘:;‘.::J:’, nY .\_.\),, il i s Cheese, Butter, Lavd, Pork, Hams, Pota tors, Onions, white Flour in whole and ID<= i 1 haif Barrels, Starch, Rye flour, Corn Mcal, Quarter Barrels fumily Beef, white Beans, &0, &ZC., &e. Ly v Qp= February Bth, 1265. Finlay inlay 0. s THE “AVIS.” wiaf] Grds B O v O €l9 (37 s ‘_,v,qnp;-;!.ownf::“-\-. (L A Yy 4 A U\‘/‘:ufiunwn'fivdnv, N A GF e ——e P PUESDAY. livn PEBRIUJARY 1865; ____4.o-o—- We beg leave to dircet the attention of oar readers ’un advertisement in this day’s issue, insertcd by Mr. Themas Thompson, a schooi teacTer of over twenly years’ espericuce in thiy Islaud, St. Thomas, and Antigua. Mr Thomp son we recommend to the community as a teach er who properly understands how to texeh, hav ing the very necessary sbility to make Lis pu piis anderstand and inwardly digest what they are taught. Phe cireumstances conunceted with Mo, Thompson’s discharge ns u tea ber of one of ovr rural schools have given rise to much discus:ion among those acquainted with them. He, as ru mor says, has fallen a victim to the displeasuro of Rev. Gaidin, the inspecior of the Coustry Schools, for having mantuily given his opiuion at a meeting of the S:hool Commission again st that ontrage on the luglish Languagze porp e trated by Rev. Gurdin in Zes plionciic ~ystem, On that system we have bad oceasion beforo to animadvert, but the wonder to us is that the supcrintmnlcmp of cur country schools +hould be so entirely lelt in the hunds of an individual, appointed, 16 may be suid, from DBolem'a, who sacrifices the interest cf the schools; by dis charging the most comy etent teachers, tv g atify his own private disitkes. 1 Furopean. THE GERMAN CONFEDERATION. THE BAVARIAN REPLY TO HERR VON BISMARK, Muuich, Jan. G. The following is the despateh forvarded by Herr von der Plordten the Bavarian Mivisier for Foreign Affairs, to Count Montgelas, the King’s Ambassador at Berlin, in reply to Herr von Bismuark’s Note of the 13th of December last “Munich, Dee. 18, 1864. “Your Lxeell. ney,—The Prussian Amlassa dor, Privce Reuss, left with me yesterduy the copy of a despatch forwarded to him by the Minister Herr von Bismaik upon the 13:h in stant, referring to the resolution passed Ly the Diet upon the sth of that month upon the ces sation of Fereral execution in Holstein and Laucnburg.. While I transmit to your Excel leney annexed a copy of this despatch, I feel myself called upon to osier the following re marks. “The despatch of the Prussian Minister is in tended, as appears to me, to serve the twofold purpose of ecxpressing a criticism upon the votes given against the resolution of the Dict upon the sth instant, and in especial upon the vote of the Bavarian Government, and then to point out the dangers which must result from such attempts to extend the competence of the Diet as, according to the opinion of the Prus sian Government, are contained in the votes of

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those Governments who have not approved the resolution of the sth of Dececember. “As recards the first point, I regret itis im possible fur me, as matter of princip'e, to enter Into any discussion. It is ceriainly but natural and bas always been the case, that when a re solution of the Diet is impending, individual Federal Governments have endeavoured to cain over others to their opinious. DBuat, unless am mistaken, 1t has nct been hitherto usual to cuter upon a criticism of divergent votes afier the resolution has been passed, and to co gage in correspondence upon the subject out side the Fedcral Diet. At any rute, I find inyscif unabie to do so at present, in order to avoid even the appearance of the King’s Go verament recogniziog the light of any other I'ederal Government to ca'l it to account for its votes. In fice of this objection the idca thiut such subsequent discussion might lead to a cer tainly desirable agiecm: nt of opivions can lave no weight, aud the less so as expeiicnce shows that retrospective polemices hardly ever bring about an understanding. “In so far, on the other hand, as the Pras sian Government wishes to call attention to dangers which threaten the continuance of the Federation, we sre perfectly willing to follow it upon this ficld of c¢xamination, for we sinecrely de:ire the preseivation of this bond of the entire German nation, aund recognize the duty ot :\H l“\'(l\‘l:ll (,;-’\'(*l'!:m(‘:.?.-; Qo puru:v for the removal aud guarding agaiust dangers which might be prepared for the preservation of the Diet. “From this point of view we have very eare fully cousidercd the despateh of the Prussian Minister of State, and, with Lim] have arvived at the conviction that the continued existence of the Confederation was ceitainly serivusly threatened wpon the ocension of that (uestion which was deeided the FFederal lesolution of the sth December jast. But we ure unfortu nately unable to adwit the same identity of view as 10 the ground and origin of that daneer, “The danger of a Lreak-up of the Confedera tion did not lie in the views of the minority upon the 7ih of December in the preceding year, aud the sth of Decemler last, as to the right of the Coufederation o oceupy the Du chics, but in the views of the Prussian Govern mecot a3 to its right to take the law iunto its own hands, “It will probably not be disputed that it is not an individual Gevernment, but the Federal Assemb'y itself, that has to decide upon the compeience ol the Diet, and th: only question which can then arise is, wuether the case is of such a nature that unanimiy is esseutial to a valid resolution. “Upon the other band, it is indisputable, ac cording to article 11 of the ledcral Act, that the Federal Governments, among themselves, have upon no assumption the right of independ eat action, but are bound to bring ali their dis putes into the Federal Assembly for reconcilia tion. Ikven with the best desire possible we are therefore unable to see, in the determination of the Piussion Government to await the resolu tion of the Federal Diet, anything further than the simple fu'filment of the first and most indis pensable Federal duty, equally as in the oppo site case we should have been compelled to recognize an open breach of the Confederation in any active proceedings against the Saxon Government. “The question of occupatiou is in other re spects now sctiled; but the Prussian Minister of State at the same time considers it not super fluous to leave us no doubt as to the determina tion of the Prussian Government, in face of every wrongly-passed resolution of the Diet, to make full use of the liberty of action for the preservation of its rights accruing to it from the violation of treaties. We are, therefore, almost forced to belicve that the real object of Herr von Bismark’s despateh is to deter the King’s Government fiom every further vote in the Fedcral Assembly to which the Prussian Go vernment does not acknowledge its right. Should this be so, we must equally leave no doubt to the Prussian Government that it is our firm de termioation, as hitherto so also in future, to base our votes solely upon our own convictions, and only to permit the fundamental laws and resolutions of the Federal Assembly to decide upon its competence, and not the will of an in dividual Government. ST« CKOLX AVYVI S« “We attach value to the continuance of the Confederation, not, indced, because it affords us greater advantages or security than any other members of the Diet, but because, as wec have already stated, we consider it a duty to uphold the political bond of the entire German nation. But it is not our intevtion to allow the character of the Confederation, as an association of States baving equal rights, to be shackled in such a manner that a single m-mber should be able to preseribe the measure of its action. “L rcquest your Lxeelleney to communicate this despatch to the Minister of State at the Court to which you are aceredited, and to leave with him a copy of the sime; and I embrace this opportunity to renew the assuranee of my mo-t distinguished consideration. “¥ON DER PFORDTEN.? “To his Execellener the Ambassador Count Montgelas, at Berlin. From the Spectator January 7.) THE LAUENBURG *‘PROTOCOL.” The very cutious document called the “Pro tocol of the twenty-second sitiing of the Istates of the Duchy of Lauenburg,” just published in the Geazette of Ratz-burg, tells the woild a good deal. The *protoeu]” isreally a formal report of the resalts of certain interviews be tween the representatives of Launenburg, Herr von Bismark, and the King of Prussis, to de cide fivaliy upon the proposal of the Duchy, aud is oddly frank in tone. ‘T'he Duchy, it ap pears, is willing enough to accept the King of Prussia as Duke, but it had rather not be ab sorbed in the general Prussiin system, wishos a guarantee for some of its privileges, and is ex ceedingly avorse to paying any taxes whatever for its own “liberation” from the sway of the Dauish House. Os course the rulers of Prussia being beyond all things dynastic, and anxious for the aggrandizement ¢f the House of Holen zollern, do wot object to the first es these rc guests. T'he King, s:id the Prussian Premier, was not at a'l averse to reign in Loauenburg, as he once reigned in Neafchatel, by a separate title, the arrangement having the obvious cou venienee that it places Laucnburg out of the reach of people like Ilerr vou Sybel. 'T'rue, the Chamber, which would have to find the mo ney for the war, might object to this disposal of the epoil, this stultification of the dicam of Prussian ageeandizement, or, as the draftsman Hli}(“y "s. tho fsabjeet mieht be 3;""'!;".'” forward in the Prussian Zavliament?” but Herr von Bismark sees “no reason to fear opposition in that quarter,” which must be satistictory to Piussiun ILiberals. 'T'his statement was made on the 7th of Novewber, and three days alter was confirmed by the Royal mouth itscif. The King told the [Sstates that, though he was greatly surpiised at their confidence in himeself, be was willing to aceept their allegiance, and thought that any elight “difficulties, such us he reditary claims, or protests from German or Ku ropean States, would be easily overcome.” There was in fact only one real obstacle, and that was the necessity “for coming to an under standing with the Emperor of Austriv.” Eve rything else, including the opinion of Parlia ment, of the Diet, and of Louis Napoleon, was unimportant, but annexation must wait till “Austria’s consent has been obtained.” As to the expenses, the King said nothing about a matter so insignificant, but Herr von Bismark had previously informed the Estates thut they were at liberty to “protest” on that head with out being punished, which they accordingly have done, with great relics, let us hope, to their minds, but we fear with no more substan tial result. For, gracious as King and Premier were, they showed pretty clearly that they in tended to govern Laueuburg, and not simply so administer the constitution of the Duchy. The Estates, somewhat timidly, as we guess from the way they have worded the report, ventured to hint to Herr von Bismark that they should like some kind of a guarantee for their consti tution and privileges, not apparently attaching implicit faith to promises which when made to Prussia itseif had been so shamelessly broken. Suppose, they hinted, the “new relations of the Duchy” were placed under the guarantee of the German Diet. One can almost see Herr von Bismark’s face suddenly clouding over as he listened to the unacceptable proposition. Money is one thing, though Berlin is thrifty and the Treasury by no means too full, bat the Royal power lis quite another,—something which Estates must not even “‘protest’ against, The suggestion must b: *definitively rejected, as His Majesty the King would never submit to any such control.” [t might, who knows? be necessary for the King-Duke to canferee in Lau enburg, as in Prussia, his pet dogma that the “throne is the legal pivot of power,” and to give the Diect the power of interfering with ab solutism, of interpicting populsr rights, of siti ill;{ 1n jlltl':_fmi Bt on coups détat effected lly Kings and Juankers, was clearly impossitle, aud we only wonder it was not proaouaced sacrile gious. The deputics retired satisficd that the Kiog of Prussia would graciously accept their country, but doubtful about the constitution, and so uncasy about the taxes that they protested formally against any future demand. This conveisation establishes two or three points very clearly. First, that the House of Hoheunzeliern. or at all events its present head, is a great deal more anxious for its own power, and dignity, and extent of dominion, than for the coutentment ¢f Prussia or the unity even of Northiern Germany under one scepire. T'lere ne ver was anarrangement made more grossly unfair toagreat people than this transfer of Lauenburg to the King of Prussia. lis people fought the battle, surreadering their hberties to do it, in order first of all to liberate a German race fiom what they believed to be thraldom, secondly, to increase the power aund territory of Prussia, and thirdly, to bhelp forward as far as they wight the ultimate unity they desire. ‘Those may bo bad objeets or good oljects, wise o tuolish, but they are those for which the people shed their blood and spent their money. Yet the moment they are apparcnotly attained the King refuses to carry out the popular will, and takes Lauenburg, not for Prussia, not for that cwpire in which Piussia is one day to merge, but for a personal appanage, giving his people in return for their sacrifices nothing but the re- Heetion that their King is a little more indepen dent of them than he was before. It may be said that the Liauenburgs desive the ‘“personal union,”” but since when has Frederick William acknowiedged the popular will as his suprema law O there might be difiiculties with Aus tiia Austria does not care a straw whether its ally be King or King-Duke, in cither case he will be equally streugthened by the soldiery and the taxation obtainable from his new terri the sovereiguty once recognized, the Duchy iy ue induced at any moment with very little pressure to vote its cwn fusion in the kingdom which offers such comparatively wide careers, T'he slightest extra exertion would have {used the two States together, and their separation will, we conceive, be bitterly resent ed by Prussians who, though ready like most races to barter freedom for politieal status, can scarccly be willing to sell without receiving the price. The seventeen hundred and odd citizens of Konigsberg who have recently petitioned their King to be bold, annex all the Duchies, and so lay the foundation of a great maritime power, plead in the interest of Prussia and of the Katherlund, not of the reigning House alone. They want to sec Germany great, or if not Ger many then Prussia, and not the Hohenzollerns. In consenting to the proposal of a personal union, the great idea which alone justifies Prus slan aggression is openly laid aside. The unity of North Germany into oue strong State would be so great a gain to Germany and the world, that the Hohenzollerns might be justfied in dis regarding all rights but those of the majority of the people, in setting aside treaties and break ing through Federal bonds and terminating arrangements which have kept Europe quiet for nearly half a century. Statesmen would searce ly murmur if the Hohenzollerns, declaring tho publie good the supreme law, fused Prussia, and Hanover, and Schieswig-Holstein, and Saxouy, and Mecklenbuarg-Schwerin, and all the smaller German States north of the Bohemian frontier mto one powerful empire. But to take them one by one as appanages, to destroy all existing arrangements while increasing the existing con fusion, to diminish variety without substituting uniformity to reduce States into provinces With out making them members of an imperial whole, this is not policy, but mere aggression, a tre mendous blow at every conservative principle, levelled in order to aggrandize a single House and au utterly effete caste.

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Secondly, itis cloar that the King regards the Confederation as ‘de_fucto if not de jure at an end. There are in his mind but two Ger man Powers in existence, Prussia and Austris, and itis for them, and them only, to dispose of (rermany. Legally speaking. Lauenburg, which has always been a State of the Confederation, Jies at the disposul of the Dict, can be trans ferred from one dynasty to another only by its vote. The King, however, refuses blankly to admit the Diet to any voice in the matter,— vefuses, that iz, to allow to Germany as a whole any voleetin the disposal of one of its integral parts, announces emphatically that the guestion rests between him and Austria alone. The smaller States Lave no right cven of protest. If he and Austria can agree to divide the spoil, well and good, if not, they must wait till they can, but united or divided, Germany has noth ing to do with the affair. That cxplicit an nouncement is the death-warrant of the Con federation, which, always belicved to be a sham, has now ccased to be respectable even in the eyes of those who have employed it. T'he lit tle Princes are deprived of their sole guaran tee against rapid or gradual absorption, aud must therefore either yield, or rely upon somce external power, or form themsclves into a sepa rate and a fighting Confederation. In cither case the peace of central Kurope, unbroken for fifty years, must ere lopg come to an end. Lastly, the King’s declaration that he waited only the consent of Austria was mede on the 10th November, just two months ago. Siuce then no further step has been taken, and the conclusion is obvious. Austria and Prussia arc not yet either in open or in secret accord. They have not arrived at the “understanding’ of which the Kiog spoke, and until they do, the fate of all the kinglings in Germany trembles in the balance, and the Diet, which commenced the imbroglio, awaits in uneasy impaticnce the order for its extinction. The negotiations arc still going on, the Prussian King having at last sent his own brotlier to move the Kuiser’s mind, and the {uture of Germany may be banging on the intrigues of the next few days. 1f the two poteutates can agree the three Duchies will be como Prussiap, the Dict will be set aside, the winor powers will be overridden, and Germany will be divided cither in fact or openly into two great States. If they cannot, Herr von Bis mark will be driven either to conciliate a Par liament which can be tempted only by national aggrandizement, or to show that he has the courage;to defy a Power which, unlike Den mark, can move armies more numerous than Lis own. From the Weelly Dispatch, January 15.) REMARKABLE PHOTOGRAPHIC EX PERIMENTS. The Florence correspondent of the AMorning Post, writing on the 7th inst., reports the de tails of most remarkable photographic experi ments on the eye of a murdered person. It appears that on the 13th April, 2ud June, and 22nd August last year, three murders were committod in Florence, in almost precisely similar circumstances, the victims in cach case being lodging-house keepers. In each case The corpse was discovered lying on the floor, with the throat cut from ear to car, a pool of blood below her head, but only there—mno marks of biood in any other part of the room— and a pocket-handkerchief, the property of some unknown, close to her person. ‘The trinkets and money which she was supposed to have about her had disappeared, as well as other articles in the house. As no cries had been heard by the neighbours, the conclusion come to by the Florence police was to the ef feot that the murder had been perpetrated, in all probability, by two assassins, who had ob tained admittance into the house when the poor woman was alone, under the pretext of wish ing to see and hire her rooms; that one of them had suddenly thrown a pocket-handkerchief over her mouth and brought her to the ground, and that, when thus beld fast and her cries effectually stifled, his accomplice had cut her throat.” Such was the conclusion come to by the po lice, and, in partioular, by its chief cflicer—the Capo Commesso di Publica Vigilonza, Leopol do Viti—who, amongst other steps taken by him in each case, applied to the higher admin wtrative and legal authorities on whom he was $Te CGHEOLE AV] Y dependent for permission to have the eyes of the murdered woman photographed—an application which, in the belicf that the granting it could lead to mno practical result, was twice refused. Suspicion meanwhile pointed to a young man, Bepjamino dei Cosimi, who on the occasion of the first morder suddenly disappeard from Flo rence, and was known to have reappeared at the time of the third murder. He was arrest cd, 10 Lis possession were found articles belong ing to the last murdered woman, Emilia Spag poli, and a blood-stained knife, the blood fresh ly shed. He now awaits his trial. DMeantime the application by the Chics of Police in the third case w:s granted, and the experiments with the results, are thus reported by the cor respondent Under the dircetion of Marabotti, the ex amiving judge, or Giudice d’'lstruzione, u series of photograplic experimonts have becn camicd on, tot for the special purpose of furnishing ad ditional evidence for conviction (as the other evidence, with that view, is believed to be su perabundant), but in order to establish a gene ral priocicle, or law, of universul or very fre quent application. Emilia Spagnoli was fouud lying on her left side, her large, glazed right eye being turned upwards. The eye was pho tograplied immediatcly after her deccase. The photograph then taken has been reproduced in a greatly magunificd formn, so greatly maguificd as to allow the lineaments of a human face, two inches in length, to stand out distictly from the same. When I meatiou that Alinari, the first photographer of Florence, and indeed possess ing a Kuropean reputation, was the artist by whom the work was executed, I peed say nothing more as a guarauteo of the fidelity and care cmployed on the oceasion. IFrem the tracing of the dim and ncbulous outline, as ac tually found on the eye, to the completed out line of the face excceuted from that tracing by an artist who had never scen Benjamino dei Co simi, orany portrait of the man, and, again, from that completed oudine to the two photegrapls of himself fouud in Lis possession at the time of his arrest—tbc tezusiaun, whether viewced as an artistic study ¢r as a great question of medical jurisprudence, opens up inquiries of unsurpassed interest and importance. I am not, indeed, prepared to affirm that the first tracing in the serics, as shown to me yesterday, by the courtesy of the Judge of lustruction, Siguor Maribotti, at his official chambers, so completely resembles the photograph of the living wan, that, were I placed in a jury box, my verdict would be determined by the belief in their identity, but of the fullowing fact there cannot be the possibility of a doubt. What cver there is of marked, prominent, individual in that first ncbulous profile has an cxactly cor respouding featurein thelikeness of the living pri soner. A peculiar dilatption of the nostril, a depression in the centre of the upper lip (Ben jamino dei Cosimi has lost his two front teeth), an unusual elongation of the mouth, a square but double chin, a certain massiveness about the region of the check-bone, and the outline of a whisker, are common to both, purposely confine myself, in the present letter, to a sim ple statement of facts—of the circumstances under which these murders were perpetrated, the consequent photographic experiment insti tuted, and the result obtuined, of which was myselt yesterday an eyc-witness. T'here are very distinguished anatowists—persons, too, dceply versed in all the laws of optiecs—who affirm that the whole thing is a mecre freak of nature, to which no importance whatever should be attached. I am happy to add that Signor Marabotti, with whom, from bis officiaj position, the prosceution of these inquiries rests, has evidently brought to his task a spirit wor thy, in all respects, of a countryman of Galileo. The photographbs, with all the accompanying and illustrative details, Lave -been transmitted not only to the Medical College of Florence, but also to the Medical Colleges of Naples and Milan and, by the authority of the Prefect of Florence, Count Cantelli, a series of photo graphic experiments will be instituted on the eyes of the patients in the bospital immediately after their decease.” From the Grenada Chronicle. THE FRENCH ISLANDS. The following general order of General Ba zaine, ¥French Uommander-in Chief in Mexico, signalizes the return to their bomes of the Creole Volunteers of the Expeditionary Ar my GOVERNMENT OF GUADALOUPE. The Governor bastens to publish the follow ing document in Lonour of the sons of the coun try. “GENERAL Orper.—The cxpeditionary corps of Mecxico has made itself now a gallant treop that has rezdered, in hot climates, real services which have been well appreeiated by the in habitants of those regions. The company of Creole Volunteers are about to return to the West ludies. That company, formed at Fort de-France in Scptember 1862, is composed ex clusively of Creoles of Martivique and Guada- Joupe, who voluntanly cflercd to come to Mex ico to participate in the glory of thie metropoli tan army. They landed at Vera-Cruz on the 12:h of December 1862, As igncd privcipally to guard localiiies alovg the coast, they Lad not oppoitunitics of zssisting in the larger ope rations of the army in thie interior of the coun try but, wherever employed, they evinecd a fuluess of devotion and ardeur, and a woddl of discipline. Oceupying in turn Vers-COruz, Medellin, Tampico, and Alvarsdo, ihiy gave daily chlase to the guerillas infestivg the euvi rons of those towns. In the month of Decem ber 1862, they as-isted in the battle of Mcadero; and in July 1864, they took a gloricus part in the Conejo expedition, On these occasions they gave proofs of a valour, which cnly re quired a larger field to show itself to full advar tage. Oan the pouint of taking their departure, the Marshal Commanding i Chiel tenders his thanks to these brave young wen, who have voluntarily devotcd two years of their lives in Leing useful to their cuuntry in Mexico; in which circumstance they have shown them selves the werthy childien of Fiance. “(Signed) BazaiNE, “Marshal Com. in Clicf. Mexico, 8 November, 1864 FIRE REPORT, With respect to the fire at ¢“Profit” on the 23d January last, already reported, 1 have perused the Investigations, which were closed on the 3rd instant, and which corroborates the opinton given in my first report, that the fire arose from the care lessness of a watchman who occupied one of the four rooms in the house destroved. He had left his room at 4 o’cicek in the morning to call the Overseer cte., and while milking the cows about 5 o’clock, he saw his room on fire and attributed it to his having left a candle burning iu the room stuck fast on a cross beam close the woeden partition, in the next room to which some cotton was stored; which origin of the fire is corroborated by the other evidence given, and the prevalent dangerous customs of the luborers of fixing their candles in the manner deseribed iu stead of using candlesticks. Besides the house itself all it contained of cotton and the cffects of the 3 indivi duaals who oceupied the rooms were des troyed, the value of which has been com patedio c.0...0 vl 0 300 but the respective owners having renoune ed on compensation, no further prosecu tion has been ordered againstthe individa als in question, who got oft’ with a severe reprimand. The premises were not insured so the whole loss falls upon the respective own ers, who by paying a trifling amount of $5, would have had the opportunity of having the whole amount of'loss SSOO re imbursed. Damageon h0u5e,............... S3OO Do. in effects included cotton.... 200 SSOO Royal Insurance Office, Christiansied, St. Crox, 26th January 1865. MONEFELDT, Agent.