St. Croix Avis (Christiansted, St. Croix [V.I.]) 1844-Current
March 28, 1865

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ENTERED AT FREDERIKSTED March 11, —En_lish gchooner Jane, Outhouse, St. ''homas, Ballast. 18,—Danish barque Malvina, Basgte, Christiansted, Import Cargo. '3 90,—D0. do. Flora, Petersen, Christian- sted, export Cargo. f CLEARED AT FREDERIKSTED: March 16,—Danish barque G.rson, Kummer- lehn, Copenhagen, Sagar and Rum. 22 ~Koglish schooner June, Oa Louse, New York, Sugar and Molas:es. l Vegetable Evory Jeweliery. E RBracelets. Eroechcs. ‘i &e. &e. &e. f :‘T"IHS now exceedingly fashionable I__| article, manufactured trom the nut of a species of Palm growing in South Americe, by Mr. Taylor of F.ondon who has gained the Prize Medal in both Exhibitions of 1851 and 1862, is now offered for the first time for sale in the West Indies. ORNAMENTS Bracelets, Brooches, Thimbles and Thimblecases, Pufl’ Boxes, Rattles, Swiss Baskets, and an endless variety of other patterns can be scen at 1

-/E TR BHE e 4 4 M. P. Hicgins, A Company Street. i rei 1 l Come and see!—Thimbles and Bracelets that have grown on trees !l 3 2 N.B. The unsurpassed whiteness and delicate appearance of these ar- l ticles combined with their ex treme durability and hardness have rendered them an almost indispensable adjunct to the Toilette Table in Europe. K. Krebs Praiorius, AGENTS OF THE NORTHERN ASSURANCE COMPANY. FOR FIRE AND LIFE. CHRISTIANS £LSO, "IRSDAGEN den 28de MARTS 1863, T 1 A h ORRIN AN SEBASTTANS VALY AL ARV A RIAL r GREAT o /'A!\ \hg” ST o AR AR FUAR Y, T T S T S drecgrm s S Ny MR g Californi j alifornian Circus in their Npacious Elegant Pavilion ST. CROIX. FOR FIVE NIGHTS ONLY Tuesday- March 28 Wednesday 9 Thupsday g 0 Hyiday s 4 oo 3 and Saturday LAST performance, April Ist. With a change oi Pregramme every Evening, PRICE QF ADVMWISSION: Private Boxes, cach containing six seats.. &3 00 Bhftineeto same PressCirele 0 o 2 w 0 o 1 (00 N .-0 B Children under 10 years half price. DOORS open at 7. Performance to commenee at 8 precisely. e TICKETS to be had at the llotel, and at the Circus. NOTICE. The Company cannot visit West Ind go partics wishing to sce this great Performance must remember itis po sutively for five nights only. SPHE undersigned having been é formed, that it js the intention of his friends to propose him as a Candidate at the approaching elec tion for the Colonial Council, begs with many thanks, to decline their kind intentions, as from the state of his bealth he finds himself quite un able to undertake any addition to his present business occupations. St. Croix 27th March 1865. JOH. JACOB LUND. P. E Proclama. LLE og Enhver som maatte have No- TÅ get at fordre hos Slagtermester Jean Marie Villain eller hans Firma J. M. Vil lain Co. iudkaldes herved med 3 Maa neders Varsel til for undertegnede Skifte ret at anmelde og beviisliggjøre deres Krav. St. Thomæ Skifterets Contoir den 22de Marts 1865. ÆRosenstand, executed at this Office Jnß PRINTING with neatness and des patch. (ONCHPEARLS WANTED. troersoxs having a few desirable Conch K Pearls for sale will find a purchaser by addressing promptly J. B. Dunlop, Fred eriksted. Royal Insurance Office, Christiansted, St. Croix, 27th March 1865. Tire RerorT.—March 11: Tire at Estate Nicholas, about 30 acres of Caneland partly cut, was burnt off; cause considered to be careless ness‘of a laborer with his pipe; he was repri manded by order of government on report from the Brand Commission. March 13: lire at Estate Concordia [West Ind Quarter] in a Magass stack, considered to be caused by a sparkle from the chimney.' E. MONEFELDT, Agent. Ty e—— HE “AVIS.”

€3¢ O €0 2 ohrisliangiry, B Sroj:. i TUESDAY, 28tu MARCH 1865. e e We beg to call aitention so the vegetable Ivory articles manufactured by B. Taylor of London, specimens of which can be seen at the Store of My, P, Higgins in this town. These highly finished articles are manufactured from a nut crowing in South America, and which we conceive to be the identical nut found on our sea coast, and known to our boyhood as the so-called “sea-cocoanut.” It is thus described by Mr. B. Taylor This substanee is the albumen {perisperin) of the seed of a small species of palm growing in the valleys of the Andes, whence it is now haported in very considerable quantities into this country. HumsoLpr first drew attention to its hardness and whiteness, and the uses to which it is employed by the Natives of the dis tricts in which it grows. It is called the ¢Nig gers’-head 'l'ree,” on account of the form and «ize of the large black drupaceous fruit in which the seeds are contained. The fruit consists of several cells, in each of which is contained four sceds.. The seceds are covered by a tough fi brous testa, which, on being removed, exposes the albumen, which represent the soft meat of the cocoa-nut and the seeds of other palms. At one end of the geed is a little cell, in which is enclosed the embryo, which seems to germi nate without effecting any change in the condi tion of the hard mass by which it is surrounded. This is not the only paln whose seeds are hard enough for the uses of the turner, although the ounly one which is employed extensively for this purpose. The botanical name of the plant vielding these seeds is Plhytelephas Macrocarpa, and the order to which it belongs is that of palmece. It is a good substitute for ivory, and far supersedes it in colour, being of a delicate transparent white. The Indians cover their cottages with the largest leaves, and the En glish manufacture all kinds of fancy articles of the nut.” Mr. Taylor gained a Prize Medai in the Ex hibition in London in 1851 and again in 1862 for these beautiful articles. Messrs. Orrin Sebastin’s Cireus Company arrived here on Sainrday Evening and will per form this evening for the first time. As will he seen by their advertisement, the Compiny will perform every evening including Saturday evening, which will be the last perfermance. From the patronage which this Company re ¢eived in St. Thomas, during a stay of ilres weeks, we venture to recommend their perform ances as something worth seeing. [Nr. 25

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From the London Times, Febuary 27, 1865.) By this time the public will have been enabled to digest the intelligence com muuvicated by Mr. Seward of a proposition for terminating the American war by a combined attack of the belligerents on some foreign Power. In the speculation itself there was little novelty. It had been current in America for the last three years, and was produced at intervals by both Northern and Southern journals as an obvious method of escaping from a national difficulty. But we now learn, on official authority, that this character istic idea has been not only entertasined, but d eiberately discussed and considered by thel representatives of the belligerent Governments in conference assembled. With the Confederate envoys it was the solution which they “seemed chiefly to favour.” They suggested that the ques tion of union or separation should be left in suspense, that in the meantime there should be “a mutual direction of the “efforts of the Government, as well as “‘those of the insurgents, to some ex “trinsic policy or scheme for a season,” and that negotiations on the great point at issue should be resumed after this di version had produced its palliative effects. The Federal representatives, being no other than the President in person and the Secretary of State himself, took this proposal, says Mr. Seward, into their de liberate consideration, but came to the conclusion that it involved an armistice or cessation of hostilities, which was too favourable to the South to be allowed, and they rejected it therefore on that ground. This is a most remarkable piece of information to be conveyed to us with such promptitade and candour, and, in deed, the circumstances of the communi cation arc in themselves not a little sin gular. The Conference between the Northern and Southern representatives took place on the 3d of the present month. Within a week of the time—that isto say, on the Bth—Congress moved for papers in ex planation of the transaciion, and on the 10th Mr. Lincoln duly transmitted the documents required. The business was thus despatched with extraordinary ex pedition; but this was not all. On the 9th of the month, the single day which intervened between the motion tor these papers and their production. Mr. Seward added a most important document to the series. He sat down and penned in his own style a long despatch to Mr. Adams, beginning with an enunciation of political aphorisas, developing the theme in a diffuse and candii narrative of proceed ings, and concluding with a pertinent but not very important reflection. The de gpatch thus writien was actually trans mitted with the rest of the papers to the Federal Congress before it was posted to Mr. Adams. It was published at Wash ington on the 10th, whereas the mail which was to carry it to Flurope did not leave New York before the Lith, and as it appeared in our columns on the 23rd Mr. Adams only perused the letter ad dressed to him by his Government at the same moment that the whole country was perusing it also. Did Mr. Seward antici ate any particular effect from the intel- Figence which he was so very eager to bring before us The President, it will have been ob gerved, said nothing in his communica tions about the ‘extrinsic policy or scheme” on which it was proposed to concentrate the efforts of the belligerents now consumed against each other; nor S T. CGROLX AV S, did President Davis make any allusion to this principal topic of discussion. Exeept for the timely despatch from Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams, we should never have heard a syllable of the proposition which was so deliberately considered, and, not on its own merits, rejected. There is vothing, however, in Mr. Davis’s speech so mike us incredulous on the point, and, indeed, a little confirmation is derived from the comments of some of the Rich mond journals. One of these prints stales that Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Seward did in the course of the interview recognize the prospect of foreign complications and the probability that Ingland rather than France would be the country involved. We must admit, too, that the “scheme,” if' it was thus recommended by the South, had been conceived with cousiderable in genuity in the interest of the Secedes. By these suggestions they evaded the insur mountable difficalty in the way of direct agreement, and oftered the present peace, of which they knew the North to be de girous, with the addition of an attractive enterprise, and yet without any rejection of their opponents’ principal.claim. -If both combatants weuld bunt consent to be allies instead of enemics *“for a seuson,” they might afterwards return to the dis cussion of their own differences with a chance of asrcement which counld not have been injured and might, very pos sibly, be found improved. That would be the aspect of the case presented to the North. To the South the scheme would promise stiil more. If the North could be indaced by the ecombined allarements of the prospect to put up with a temporary separation from the South, and malie even that provisional recognition of its inde pendenee which would be involved in the fact of an aliiance, half the battle would be gained. By the time the “extrinsic policy” had been carried into execution and brought to an end the Federals would have become accustomed to live without the Confederates, and to see in the South ern Republic ounly a Kindred State and natural ally. After habits of internal peace and intercourse had becn ouce re sumed it would have been hard to revive the trials of ecivil war for the sake of a Union which had already been dispensed with for some time with more profit than loss while if the scheme of diversion had but ended in the acquisition, say, of such a country as Canada, the accession of territory on one frontier mizht well dis pose the gainers %o resign themselves to some sacrifice on another. Nothing could be more ingenious than these conceptions. The proposition would not immediately offend the pride or ambition of the North, because it left the question of the Union just where it stood. It would gratify the presumed feeling of the North by the as sertion of the Monroe Doctrine, and the temporary concentration of American strength. It would yicld that immediate relief from civil war which all alike would welcome, and yet, with all this, it would do more for the South than the North by produacing an armistice on the instant and the best conceivable prospect of Independence at a later day. We think the idea an uncommonly smart one and creditable to the acutest intellects of America. In fact, as far as we can see, it would have been entirely successful had the actual fortune of war at the moment been so nearly balaneed as to render an armistice as desirable to one belligerent as another; but the recent victories of the Federals made them reluctant to sus pend the progress of their arms, and so they declined the proposal. We cannot say what moral Mr. Seward may have designed to inculeate on the oc casion which he improved with suel re markable avidity, but we hope the pub lic will not lose sight of the fact that the adoption of an “extrinsic policy” at the expense of innocent nettrals hus actually been entertained and debated by the chief autheritics of the two American Go vernments. If the ¢scheme” was hatch ed by President Davis and his col'eagues, it was at any rate taken into dispassion ate consideration by President Lincoln and his Sceretary of State, while Mr. Se ward himself 1s at the pains to inform us that it was not objected to for an instant on its own merits or from any considera tion which a turn in the events of’ the ci vil war might not tmmediately remove. This lesson we shall do well to remem ber. Mr. Seward has most considerately forewarned us it wiil be our own fault it we are not found to be forearmed. JULIUS CASAR. The Monitcur publishes the following preface of the History of Julius Cesar, written by the Emperor of the French, which will be published on the Ist of Mareh. lltisas followsi— “lHistorical truth ouglit not to be less sacred than religion. If the precepts of faith elevate our soul above the interests of this world, the lessons of history, in their tarn, inspive us with the love of the beautiful and the just, with a hatred for everything which 1s an obatacle to the advancement of tiie we!fare of mankind. Those lessons, to be profitable, require certain conditions. It is necessary that facts should be reproduced with rigorous exactitaide, that poiitical and social changes should be philcsophically ana lyzed, that the piquant attraction of the details ot the hives of public men should not distract attention from their politieal task or throw their providential mission into oblivion. “'l'he. historian too often gives us the various phases of history as spontaneous events without diving deeper into anteri or facts for their real origin and natural deduction ;in hke manner as the artist who in reproducir g the accidents of na ture devotes himself simply to their pic turesque «fivet without being able in his picture to give their scientific demonstra tion. T'he historian oucht to be more thau a paiater; he ovght, like the geolo gist, who explains the phenomena of the globe, to disclose the sccret of the trans tormation of our social world. “But in writing history, what are the mears to ascertain the truth? The only way is to follow the rales of logic. Let us take it for granted at ounce that great re sults are always due to a great cause, never (o a smatl one; in other words, an incident insignificant in appearance never leads to great results without a pre-exist ing cause which has allowed that small incident to achieve a great result. A spark does not create a great conflagra tion unless it falls ujwn combustible ma terials accumulated before-hand. Montes quicu confirms this idea ¢t is not -good fortune,” he says, whiech rulestheworld, There are general causes, either moral or physi cal, which act in every monarchy, elevate it, uphold it, or ruin it. All incidents are suabjected to these causes, and if the chance of a battle—that is to say, a spe cial cause—has ruined the State, there existed a general cause which implied that that State was to perish in a single battle in fact, the chief inducements ab-

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sorb all other special incidents’ (1). “If during a period of nearly 1,000 years, the Romans always issued fortn trinmphant from the mcst severe trials and from the greatest dangers, it is be- cause there was a general canse which al- ways rendered them superior to their en- emies, and which did not suffer defeats and partial disasters to lead to a fall of their sway.. It the Romans, after giving to the world the example ot a people es- g tablishing themselves firmly and growing great by liberty, have seemedsince Casar to throw themsclves blindly-into serfdom, it is because there existed a generai rea- son which fatally prevented the Republic from retarning te the pure torm ot lis former institutions; it is because the wants and the new interests of a society in labour required other mears to be sa- tisfied. In the same manner that logic proves to us in important events the rea- son why they are imperative, in like manner we must recogunize both in the long duration of an institution the proot™ of its worth, and in the incontestable in- fluence of a man upon hisage the proof of his genius. “The task consists, then, in endeavour ing to discover the vital elemeunt which constitated thestrerath ofthe institution, like the predominating idea which made the man act. Following this rale we shall avoid the errors of those historions who collect facts transmitted by preced ing ages without arranging them accord ing to their philesophical importance; glorifying what deserves censure and leaving in the dark that which calis for light. It ils not a minute analvsis of the Roman organization which will make us understand the duration of so great an empire, but a deep investigation into the spirit of its institutions; it is not, more- ver, a detailed narrative of the lesser acts of a superior man which will reveal to us the secret of his ascendency, but a care- ful examination of the elevated motives of his conduct. “When extraordinary fac!s demonstrate an eminent geniug, what ¢an be more con- trary to good sense than to attribute to him all the passions and sentiments of mediocrity 7 What more erroneous than not to- recognize the pre-eminence of those privileged beings who appear from time to time in history as brilliant bea- cons, dissipating the darkness of their epoch and throwing light upon the future? To deny such pre-eminence would, more- over, be aninsuit to human nature, by believing it capable of submitting for a length of time and voluntarily to a domi- nation not based upon real greatness or incontestible utility, Let us be logical, and we shall be just. x “Too many historians find it more easy to lower mea of genius than to raise themselves by a generous inspiration to their level by peunetrating their vast de- signs. Thus, asregards Casar, instead ot showing us Rome torn by civil wars, corrupted by wealth, treading its ancient institutions under: foot, threatened by powerful nations—the Gauls, the Ger- I mans, and the Parthians,—incapable of maintaining itself without a stronger cen tral power, more stable and more just; instead, I say, of drawing that faithful picture, Cesar is represented to us, from his very youth, meditating already upon supreme power. If he resists Sylla, if,he disagrees with Cicero, if he enters into alliance with Pompey, it is all the result of that farsighted cunning which (1) Montesquieu. Grandeur et D¢ cadence des Romains, xviii. $Te CROLE AYV]QS has divined everything to enslave every thing if he dashes mto Gaul, itis to acquire wealth by pillage (2), or soldiers devoted to his cause; if he crosses thie seia to carry his eagles into an unknown country, the conquest of which will strengthen that of the Gauls (3), it was but to secik for pearls supposed to exisg in the scas of Great Britain (4). [lf, at ter having vanquished the formidable enemies of Italy beyond the Alps, he me ditates upon an expedition against the Parthians to avenge the defeat of Cras sas, it is, say certain historians, because activity suited his nature, and that he en joyed better health when in the field (5) if he accepts with gratitude a laarel crown from the Senate and bears it proudly, itis to hide his bald head; if| finally, he is assassinated by the men whom he has overwhelmed with his bounty, itis because he wished to make himselt King; as.if he was not, for his coutemporaries as well as posterity, much greater than anv King. Since Sueto nius and Platareh, such are the miserable interpretations which have been given to the noblest acts. Duat by what sign are we to recognize the greatness of a man? In the sway of his ideas, when his prin ciples and his system trinmph despite his death or his defeat. sit not, in fact, the prerogative of genius to outlive de struction, and to extend its empire over future generations 7 Cresar disappeared, and his influence predominates still more than during his lifetime Cicero, his ad versary, is oblized to exclaim. All the acts of Caesar, his writings, his words, his promises, his thoughts, are more power tul after his death than if he were still alive’ (6). During centuries it has suffic ed to tell the world that such was the will of Ceesar for the world to obey. “That which precedes sufliciently in* dicates the object I have proposed to myselt in writing this history. That ob ject 1s to prove that when Providence raises up such men as Casar, Charlemag ne, and Napoleon, Itis to trace out to nations the path they ought to follow, to stamip a new era with the seal of their genius, and to accomplish in a few years the work of many centuries. IHappy the naticns who compreliend and follow them! Woe to those who misunder stand and resist them! 'They act like the Jews; they crucify their Messiah. They are bLlind and guilty—blind, for they see not the impotence of their ef forts to suspend the final trinmph of cgood guilty, for they only retard its progress by impeding ils prompt and fertile application. In fact, neither the assissination of Cewesar nor the imprisonment of St. Ilele na could destroy beyond revival two po pular causes overthrown by a league dis guising itself with the mask of liberty. Brutus by killing Cesar plunged Rome into the horrors of civil war; he did not prevent the reign of Augastus, but he rendered possible those of Nero and Ca ligula. Nor has the ostracism of Napo leon byagonspiring Kurope prevented the resuscfition of the Empire, and yet how distant are we from that solution of great questions, from the appeased passions, from the legitimate satisfaction given to nations by the first Empire (2) Suetonius, C'esar, xxii. (3) “Casar resolved to cross over to Britain, the people of which in every war had supported the Gauls.” —Cesar, Guerre des Gaules, iv., xx. (4) Suetonius, Cesar, xlvii. (5) Appian, Civil Wars, i., ex. 326, Schweighzu ser’s edition. (6) Cicero, Epistole ad Atticum, xiv. (v.) “Thus, ever since 1815 has verified itsel{ that prophecy of the captive of St. Helena “¢What struggles, what bloodshed, what years will yet be required that the good 1 wished to do to mankind may be voalirad (1\ 93 1L aiiLvu L) 1 “NAPOLEON. “Palace of the Tuileries, March 20, 1862.” *“(1) In fact, what disturbances. civil wars, and revolutions have occurred in Burope since 1815 In France, in Spain, Italy, Poland, Belgium, Hungary Greece, and Germany, SN T T Nye see st Lost Magazine and Insurance Monitor, Jan. 28 ON THE BEST MODE OF PROTIEICTING LONDON FROM THE RAVAGES OF FIRE. By Cuas. 1, Young, Esa,. C K (Coutinuced.) The enormous advantages to ba-gained by tho establishment of efiicient Volunteer Fire Brigades throughout the United Kingdom, can hardly be sufficiently realised, the idea being a comparatively novel one but of its superior economy there cannot be the least doubt. Let us take Loudon, for example, with an arca of 700 square miles, on which tho present firo engine establishment acts, which is assumed to bha protected by 32 fire engines, nineteen sta tions, and one hundred and fifty men, costing the Insurance Companies some £27,000 per annum for its only partially eflicicut services, and replace them by a well drilled corps of voluuteers, some HCO or more in number, and with some G 0 stations and the requisite plant, jndicionsly distributed over the area of the Mmetropolis, thereby affording equal and instant I‘ruhé‘i n alike to the insured and the unin sured. at a cost to the Insurance Offices of less than Lalf of their present coniributions. The advantages gained by such a change would not Le long in making themselves apparent, I'rom the evidence given before the Select Committee, we learn that the Assurance Com panies paid for extra labour only in the great fire in "Cooley Street no less a sum than £l.lOO, and this to utter strangers, men who kunew nothing about fires, or salvages; and it hus been admitted in evidence betore the committeo above alluded to, that the gratuitous services of the volunteers were mest valuable. Paking the present annual espenditure of the London Fire Kngine Establisiment, and dividing it by the number of callst to fires re ccived within the year, we get nearly £l7 as the cost of each run. By the volunteer sy-tem eil this expense might be avoided, and cach dis trict in London can be protected by its 500 vo lunteers without any expense at all, and as each suburb springs up the means of protecting it would be immediately found, and that too wiih out interfering with the more populous and en dar gered districts, In Londim something of the kind I have pro posed is becoming an absolute necessity for it will be found that at each of the large corfla grations which have occurred of late, nearly all the men and engines belonging to the Fire En gine Listablishment bave been congregated, thus leaving the remainder of London totally unpro tected, and in a state of the greatest danger. When we reflect that the metropolis is daily enlarging in extent, its trade and population in ereasing, and the value of its goods and mer chandise becoming hourly of greater amount, added to which is the great and increasing loss caused by each fire from these very facts, whilst the existing estublishment is less able to cope with them, and cannot afford to increase its power from the constant and great expense in curred ia its maintenance, which does not de crease, we can form an idea of its importance, The great fire in Tooley Street (which con tinued burning for a fortnight), and the great number of others, almost as destructive, which have so frequently occurred since, cannot fail to have shown to the public the total inadequa ¢y of the means at present provided for the re pression of fires in the metropolis, the City Press, in an article in a number for January, 1863, says:—“We want more engines, more men, more steam, power, a general fund of some kind, to which alishall contribute in the ratio of their possessions and one source of powe 5

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for the administration of the whole,” The system of volunteer firemen to supersede the abominally deficient plan of protection by parish engines, or, as is too often the case, no protection at all, and ulso the expensive though not more eflicient plan of paid brigades, is taking a strong hold on the minds of the public, who arc begioning to ses that by wanning their own engines they obtain that efficient protec tion, that energetic will to combat the ravages of fire, which can only be obtained under a well-disciplined system of voluntecrs, a system which on all occasions proves its enormous su periority to any paid system. The Post MaGazINE AND Insurance Mo- NITOR of the 10th December, 1864, in speaking of volunteer fire brigades, says that many of its readers will be as much surprised as we are ourselves at the number of these valuable vo- Juntary associations that have been formed for the protection of property and human life against the terrible casualty of fire.” I find that we have in Great Britain, at the present moment, no less than 43 Voluntcer Yire Brigades, with all their engines and appli ances. Os thesc there are, in Loudon and the suburbs, 11 brigades, with a total of 194 mem bers; 19 engines, one being a steamer; and the power in the number of men required to work the manunal engines represents 367 nien; the total value of their plant and appliances being £8,670. The country brigades have 800 members; 70 engines, 1 steamcr; represent ing a power of 1,200 men to work them; and the total value of their plant aund appliunces is estimatcd to be £14,000. Os the country brigades that of Alton is tho first to employ a steam fire engine, baving ob tained it at the close of the last year; and the Lambeth Volunteer Brigade was the first to use it in London, having ecmployed it nearly two years. [To be continued.] e e Y 75 I NI A T R PR Os the Receipt of Deposits at the St. Croix 1 T Y SAVINGS BANK, On Saturday, 25th March 1565, e Receiversg: .IN CHRISTIANSTED: N. Iwersen, Esq., Trustee. IN FREDERIKSTED R. Moreton, Esq., Trustee. Amount of former deposits. §231,007 90 8 deposits of 20 cents each. 21 above 20 cts. and under 1. 20 231 i 5. 8t 5 5 1. 8 -0 e 20, o 100. 66 deposits, of which 52 in Christiansted amounting o 16} 14in Frederiksteddo. 100 74 333 90 Total 231,341 80 Balance of deposits 49,392 40 5 new deposit accounts, viz.: 2 Minors. 3 Various. 6 Withdrawals amounting t0..5120 206. Receivers for Saturday, Ist April 1865. In CHRISTIANSTED T. E. Mendes, Esq., Trastee. F. C. W. Weiss, Esq., Member. IN FREDERIKSTED W. Peebles, Esq., Trustee. J. G. Ripperger, Esq., Member. GLEO. BEHAGEN, President. St. Croix, 27th March 1865. U AVING received several applications M from different parties in this district to permit himself to be nominated as a Candidate for Election to the new Colo- ST. GROLEX AVI nial Council, and having, notwithstand ing his refusal on each of these occasions, lately seen his name on a list of such Candidates, the Subscriber while thank ing his friends for this token of their con fidence, is compelled to take this method of assuring them that, with every desire to serve the Community, he yet cannot, consistently with the faithful perform ances of his more sacred duties, accede to their request. JOHN C. DuBOIS. Frederiksted March 16th, 1865. For Rent f’;'}fi THE Upstairs of House No. £uZ 40, Company Street, belonging Mrs. Philip Roche. For particulars apply to the Own er, Contentment, or to Mr. J. J. Hein. Cash

Establishment. TlU‘] above Fstablishment has just received a supply of “New Goods,” viz Fancy Prints, Domestics, Jaceo nets, Swiss Mull, White spotted Grenadine Dresses, White lace Dres ses, Mohairs, Rich Moire Antique, Black, White Colour’d Cloak MTassels, Gents Ladies White and Colour’'d Kid Gloves, Ladies Broad Belts, Silk, Cotton Velvet, Satin, Silk Ribbong, Gents Cricket Flan nel” for Pants, White Marseilles, Linen shecting, Blankets, Cloth Caps, Felt Tlats, Razors,” Braces, Girls Eugenie Combs, Ladies, Gents, Boys, Girls Elastic Sides Kid Calf Boots, Highly scented Toilet Soaps, Tissue Paper, Braids, White IKid Slippers, White Satin per yard, Sash Ribbons &ec., &c. 17" N.B. IMaving just taken Stock, I beg to inform my friends and Customers, that a considerable reduction has been made in the prices of the Goods generally, with a view of reducing the pre sent large Stock. C. E. Bryan. Bassin 21st March 1865. AA A A A BEKJENDTGJORELSE. I Anledning as at Baron A. von Bretton efter Ansogning og påaa Grund as Sygdom har fratraadt sin Constitution som Toldforvalter i Christiansted, er under Dags Dato Hrr. Toldcontrolleur J. Moore con stitueret som Toldforvalter og Hfrr. O. Mårch som 2den 'Toldcontrolleur 1 Christiansted. Hvilket herved efter Ordre bringes til offentlig Kundskab. Gouvernementets 2det Secretariat, St. Croix den 20de Marts 1865. CARL HATTENSEN. OF THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. FIRE Towx—Dßrick and tiled 1 pCt. Stone and shingled 14 pCt. Stone, timber and shingled 13 pCt. Timber 2} pCt. Goods: Risk estimated not only by the nature of the Goods, but also by the class of buildings, as also hy the character of the goods deposited with them in the same building. CounTrY—Dßrick and slated 1 pCt. Other Construetion 1} pCt. Magass IHouses Built and Covered with Iron 415 pCt. Brick and slated 5% pCt. Other Construction 6 39 pCt. Stock listates i Brick and slate pCt. Other Construction 1 pCt. LIFE. Annual and lalf Yearly Premiums for an Assurance of £IOO for the whole term of Life on acclamatized lives. et e P Ae e i ANNUAL. HALF-YEARLY. {,};T.( without Witn Without With |.'{::l|-§x!“§ Protits, l l’l‘uii'»'.‘ }i Age. Profits. Profits. £]s.|d 8 d. Ll g tdi L 8 d. 20 312111 4 4] 41! 20 l 116] 9| 2| 2| 6 21 3lislio 4} 5 31| 21 117 3 2] 8| 0 22 3]l4| 9/ 4 6| 2 22 117} 8 2| 3] 6 23 alte] 7| 4| 8 2 23 1)18] 8] 2| 4] 6 24 3llß| 7| 4] 9| 2 i 24 1)19] 8| 2| 5| 0 25 3119 7] 410 ;‘)!l 25 |2| 0| 2| 2| 5| 6 2 4 (1)i 7| ~i<lr,:i 1 26 ;2l 0| 8 2| 6 7 oy L 4l 1l v aila all 2v {2112 7 8 28 4] :3! 8 4‘143E 6 !l 28 1 2 ll ‘t, 2 SI 8 29 i 11 3l nf 418 l 7|l 29 |2 le 3 299 30 4| 4110] 419] 9 30 2| 210 2/10f 4 31 4 G| 0] 5 2] 011 312 35 2/11] 6 32 4 7| 2 5 4 o|| 32| 2| 4] o] 22| 7 89 |4}B 5| 8 (;l 51 33|32 4 8 213 9 31 I 1 9| 8 5 8| 9| 34|25 4 2|lall 55 4l11) 0 511] 21| 35 |2| 6| 0] 2|16/ 2 36 4,,1:5 4‘\ 513 711 86 1 2 21171 5 37| 4115 9’516 I|} 37 |'2 8 %18 B 83 4118 3l 5118] 8| 35| 2| 9| 8| 21911 39 5“ 0/10) Ggl 4]l 89| 211| 0| 3| 1) 4 40!5,:: 6/ G 4 11| 40 212 43| 2/ 8 41 |s| 6 3,6‘611‘ 41 213] 9| 3| 4| 2 42 5]92}0!911 42 2[ls| 3} 3| 5| 8 43 512 23 6i13 Ol 43 2116 Q‘l 3 71 2 A1 515 3 Gl6) 2| 44 215 41 3| §lO 45 518 5‘ 619 6| 45 219011 3[lo| 7 16 1| ol 7| 211 46 3 1| 8| 312 4 47 6 5| 3/ 7] 6 6| 47 |3|3| 5 3|14 2 48 |6| B|ll| 7|lo 31| 48 |3|s/ 4 316§ 1 19 612} 8 7/14| 2| 49 3 7| 3| 3[lß] 1 50 6/16) 7| 71| 31| 50 3| 9/ 3} 4] 0 2 51713 8 3 0| 513|118 42 8 52 7] 6 0 8| 7|ll 1| 52 3114} 1) 4] 5 2 53 7/10{10) 8/12/11 53 316' 7| 4 7] 9 51 I 7/15(10| 8/18| I|| 54 3|19 2| 4/10; 5 55 1. 1| 9| 3l 6|| 55 4 110 ahs| o 56‘8;679!10'2 56 |4|4| 8| 4|l6] 7 57 1812 o 917‘ 1l 57 (47 750 2 58‘8}8 3|lo 4/ 2| 58 4/10 8| 5| 310 2| 9 4 G'IO!lll 7| 59 413‘11 5} 7| 8 co 011! olroltal 4 6o 417 13l sl s L T 6.8, T. 8.8 Proposal, Forms ete. can beseen at the Agen cy. Proposals for Assurances payable to the Life when attaining a certain age entertained. Large Participation of Profits by the Assured amounting to two-thirds of their Nett Amount, which yielded in 1855 1860 2 pCt. on Amount insured, believed to be the largest Bonus ever continuously declared by any Company. A permanent system of liberality in settle ment of claims. Loans after a Life Policy has been in exisfence at least 4 years, may by agreement he obtained for the Amount of its Office Value. St. Croix Agency, 21st July 1864. E. Monefeldt, Agent