St. Croix Avis (Christiansted, St. Croix [V.I.]) 1844-Current
April 25, 1865

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SR [y wegky ey "-j‘ g 4 St s To% A fi?“;‘ "‘:.J» UDGIVER: HANS HA@TCHETT.——TRYKT I ENKEN HARRIET HATCHETT’S BOGTRYKKERL 21de Aarg.] The “AVISY ISEDITED BY HANS HATCHETT; AND PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. for the Proprietress. Terms of Subscription.—Six Dollars per an num, payable quarterly in advance. Single number to non-advertisers——lo cents 8@ Parties desirous of withdrawing their subscription to the Avis’ are required to give three months previous notice. Terms of Advertising, Approved by Government, 25th June, 1855, Foran advertisement of S lines, or under, one to three insertions—— Small Type (Brevier) Ito 51ine5....%1 00 Do b 00 ime 16 Larger Type (Long Primer, Small Pica, Pica, Columbiai) 1 to Blines 1 00 eS I o e 00 10 YOI Lime of lerpent dyvie 12 {7 For 1 to 3 subsequent insertions, the balt amount of the first charge will be made. T B TA A T IgsAR S A ASRM SR 455 BEKJENDTGJORELSE. Ifslge Meddelelse fra Finantsministeriet til Gouvernementet ville de i Hertugdøm merve Slesvig, Holsteen og Lauenborg hjemmehorende Skibe med deres Ladnin ger ikke kunne nyde godt as de i Loven 830te Juni 1550 om Handel og Skibsfart paa St. Croix 11, sammenholdt med 8 og Lov as 16de April 1862 3, og de i Lov at 16de April 1862 om Skibsfart oz Handel paa St. Thomas $4, 111. c. og 17, jfr. Kongeligt Reseript Gte Oetober 1850, om handlede Fordele. Hvilset herved efter Ordre bringes til offentlig Kuudskab. Gousernementets 2.et Secretariat, St. Croix den 25de April 1865. carl Hattcnscn. Piano tuning and B" g N Repairing!!! HAVING been requested by several N families in this island to undertake the tuning of Pianos by the year the un dersigned has the pleasure of offering himself in that capacity at the rate of $lO 06 per annum, binding himself to tune each instrument once every (wo months. C. E. TAYLOR. N.B. C. E. T. has just received a com plete assortment of Buff, Strings &c. from England and is now pre pared to execute repairs with all possible despatch. FOR SALE HE Lot No. 49 King’s Street. For T terms apply to Jos. Julien Esqr., St. Croix or to, JACOB MONSANTO, St. Thomas. April 25, 1865. i i et s THE Taventory of the Crown Hotel. Apply to H. H. SIEMSEN. April 25, 1865. CHRISTIANSTED, TIRSDAGEN den 25de APRIL 1865, YWholesale and Retail. m largesupply of New Goods being just received at the Cash Establishment at lower rates than heretofore,. enables the Subscriber to offer the samc to purchasers at greatly reduced prices, be therefore recommends an early inspection. PRESENT PRICES: Domestics pr. yard at 14 to 22 c¢ts.—Pr. Piece 28 yards at §3 50 to 85 50. Shirtings at 12t033cts.— 40 ats42stoßll 50. 7-8 Fancy Calicoes at 15 to 20 cts.— 30 at %125 to 85 40. S PBlk Whitedo. at 13 tol6¢cts. 30 ats36o to $4 26. 9-BCaticoes* at 9 toPets.— W B 0 16 Stripes—Various® at 15 to 25 cts.— 32 at $4 00 to $7 25. 1% Intermediate prices in all of the above Goods. Also received with the above Brown Ducks, Oznaburgs, Long Cloths, Blue Denims, Ginghams, Silesias, Linen Diaper, W. Cotton Cambric, Brown Linen Drill, White Alpacca, Wh. Muslins, Cotton Linen Tapes, Elastic Cord, Tarlatans, Steel, Shirt Pearl, Pearl Agate, Bone, Linen Buttons, Ribbons and numerous other articles, all of which are marked at low prices. C. E. Bryan. 21st April 1865. For Sale E’FQIHE House and Lot No. 9 Prindzens B Street (Opposite the Roman Catholic Church) in this towan. For price and terms please apply to BARNY B. BEECH. Frederiksted, April 24:h 1865. ffAA A A A AAfAA A A Å A AAAAÉÆ]Å] ÉÉ A TF AUCTION. A FTER Begjæring as Procurator Bah f neberg pua vedkommende Punte- og Udlægshavers Vegne vil blive oprasbt til Bortsalg ved trende offentlige Auctioner overeensstemmende med Placat 22de April 1817, SUKKERPLANTAGEN ROSEHILL, med alt Tilbehør, beliggende i denne Oes Nordside Quarteer Litr. A. No. 17 A. tagen ved Execution fra Planter F. Lock hart. Auetionerne afholdes som folger Iste Auction Torsdagen den 18de Mai førstkommende; 2den Auction Torsdagen den Iste Juni førstkommende 3die Auction Torsdagen den 15de Juni førstkommende de to første Auctioner paa Åuctionseon toiret i Frederiksted og den 3die paa den sælgende Eiendom, alle Eftermiddag Kl. 1 slet. Auctionsconditioner, Vurdering, Pante attest m.v. ville være til Eftersyn pua Auctionscontoiret i Frederiksted samt paa Procurator Bahnebergs Contoir i Uhristiansted fra den 12te Mui førstkom mende. Frederiksteds Auctionseontoir, den 20de April 1865. C. Sarauw: AUCTION. HY request of Lawyer Bahneberg in 29 behafofthamortzare and levyholder concerned will be put up for sale at three public Auctions in accordance with the Placard of 22nd April 1817, THE CANE PLANTATION ROSEHILL, with everything thereto appertaining sit uated 1n this island, Northside Quarter Letter A. No. 17 A., taken by levy from Mr. F. Lockhart. The Auctions will be held as follows: Ist Auction on Thursday the 18th May, next 2nd Auction on Thursday the Ist June, next 3rd Auction on Thursday the 15th June, next the first and second Auction at the Auc tion Office in Frederiksted, tie third Auc tion at the premises, all of them at 1 o'clock p..m. Conditions, appraisement, mortgage certificate etc. can be seen at the Auc tion Office in Frederiksted and at Lawyer Bahnebere’s Office in Christiansted from the 12th May next. Frederiksted’s Auction Office, April 20th 1865. e C. Saraaw. The Undersigned, in returning thanks for received cus tom, begs to. remind. his friends of, the necessity of settling last year’s overdue ballances, and entreats a SP;@@J}'. arrangement of this years ac coynts. whe it Ao Bt. Croix 18th April 1865. J. BALZER. [Nr. 33.

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From the St. Thomas Times, April 22.) A Cycle in American affiirs has been reached at last. Events that ordinarily would need half a centary for their fuifil ment have been passed through in the short space of less than five years. LEe the indomitable, and hisinvincible Armies have been routed, badly routed, thorough ly routed. The left wing turned, the right pushed back, and the centre made to flee. His dead and wounded by the thousands left on the field for the mud silis of the North to bury. He fled not with his army, but with the last frag ments of the cradle and the grave. He would have asked for time, but he knew that hard hearted GrßaxT, would not, or weould not see into it,” remembering no doubt that the heroes of Fort Sumpter did ask for time and were refused. LEer like a bird has flown, his grand Army routed, and Richmond captared! Verily who would have believed it? Yes Rich mond taken LixcoLn, the re-elected Pre sident of the United States for the next four years and the Constitution “Amend ed”qabolishing slavery on American ter ritory for ever more! Copperheads, in and out of America, bear these facts in mind, for the admonition is strong and the rebuke effectual. Before the winter solstice of 1865 we shall see specie pay ments resumed in that land whose ene mies predicted that inevitable bankruptey WOul(Y overtake it. We shall see from out of all this calamity, a wise, dignified and fair Republican Administration come forth, that will command the respect of the world. We shall see that old “Apg” is no gorilla that SEwaARD i 3 no traitor; that CHASE is no fool that StaNTON 18 gsomebody instead of nobody; and that GipeoN WELLES is discoveraid to be a man instead of an old woman; that GRANT, SHERMAN and SHERIDAN may take rank with any soldier of the age; that Farragur, PorTER and DAHLGREN are genuine old salts. That the United States will once again be like BARNUM'S happy family, rat and cat living harmoni ously together. We have long been waiting for our turn to laugh and our turn seemed a long time coming—at length, however, it has come, but sorrow for the dead and dying, maimed and wounded, forbades our laughing, and we can only declare in all humility that we never doubted that when freedom was pitted against slavery, slavery would be turned,” “routed” and “crushed,” pre cisely as the proud Army of Virginia has been by Northern freemen. Oun our part we have borne mocking and sarcastic reflections, jeers and jibes, but we still remained firm in our opinion that liberty would trinmph, never wavering in our conviction that slavery could not with stand a contest with her more enlighten ed antagonist. The slave holders for the past thirty years have desired this conflict with the Norih, and like Semele of old they have perished by the light ningsthey invoked and longed for. Truly how those shots on Fort Sumpter have told! 'The last that was seen of JEFF. Davis and his Cabinet, they were sitting in Council in an ambulance. Lol vAmeriean. (From the N. Y. Journal of Commerce.) RICHMOND OURS! OFFICIALL 'WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, April 3—lo A.M. Major Gen. Jokn A. Diz, New Yorks It appéars (from a :despatech of Gen. Waitzel, just received by this Depart- $Te CROLX AV ment, that our forces under his command ARE IN RicaMonD, having taken it at 8.15 this moruving. EDWIN M. STANTON, Sccretary of War. WAR DEPARTMENT, WasniNGgToN, April 3, 12 o’clock noon. Major Gen. Dix T'he following official confirmation of the capture of Richmond, and the an nouncement that the city is on fire has been received. E. M. STANTON, Seeretary of War, Ciry Point, April 3,11 a.m. o Edwin M. Stanton, Seccretary of War Gen. Weirzel telegraphs as foilows «“We took Richmondat 8 15 thismorning. I captured many cans. 'The enemy left in great haste. The city is on fire, lam making every effort to put it out, “'The people.received us with enthusi astic expressions of joy.” Gen. Grant staried early this morning with the army toward the Danville road to cut off Lee’s retreating army, if possi ble. President Lincoln lias eone to the front. (Signed) T.S. BOWERS, A. A. G. o Wir DeEPARTMENT. WASHINGTON, April 3—lo A To fl’[ajor Gen. Dix The following telegram from the Pre sident, announcing the EVACUATION OF PETERSBURG, and probably of Richmond, has just been received by this Department., EDWIN M. STANTON, j Secretary of War, City Point, Va, April 3—B 30 To the Hon. Edwin DI. Stanton Secretary of War This mornine Lieut. Gen., Grant re ports Petershurg evacuated, and he is confident that Richmond also 15, He is pushing forward to cut off, if possible, the retrcating rebel army. A. LINCOLN. Frox Sec. StantoN 10 GEN. Dilx. WaAsHiINGTON, D C, Apitl 4, 11 o’clock} Major Gen. Diz The foliowing particulars dated at Ci ty Point, April' 4th, 8 A. M., gives the Jatest ioformalion received from Rich mond. Gen. Weitzel telegraphs’ from Rich mond that of railroad stock he found there 28 locomotives, 44 passenger and baggage cars, and 106 freight cars, At 3.30 this morning Generai Grant at Sutherland Station, ten miles from Pe tersburg, towards Burkesville, telegraphs as follows Gen. Sheridan picked up 1,200 prison ers to-day, and trom three to five hun dred more have been gathered ])y our troops. The majority of the arms that were left in the hands off Lee’s army are now scattered between Richmond and where his troops now are. The country is also full of stracglers. The line of retreat is marked with artillery, ammuni tion, burned or charred wagous, caissons, ambulances &e. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. President Lincoln occupying Jeff. Davis's House. _ PHILADELPHIA, April 4. The Bulletin, of this city, has received the following special despatches: WasHINGTON, April 4. Mrs. Lincoln received a despaich from the President to-day, dated as foliow: “From Jeflerson Davis’s late residence at Richmond.” _ LATEST FROM GENERAL GRANT. [oFFiCIAL SECRETARY STANTON TO GEN ERAL DIX. P Waßr DEPARTMENT, WasHINGgTON, D. C., April 4--11 P.M. Major General Jokn A. Diz The following telegram from General Grant has just now reached this depart ment. What hour to-day it left him does not appear, but probably in the af ternoon, 2 No details ot the casualties have been received, but they are expected here to morrow. T'he statement that official information had beew: received of General Custer be ing killed is not trae. He was unhiarmed late this atternoon. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. WiLson Station; Va., April 4. Hon. E. M Stanton, Secretary of War The army is pushing forward in the hope of overtaking or dispersing the re marnder of Lec’s army. Sheridan with his eavalry, and the Ith corps. is between this and the Appomattox; Gen Meade with the 21 und 6th following. Gen. Ord is following the line of the South~ide Ravirond. All of the enemy that retains anything like organization have gone vorth of the Appomattox, and are appa rentlv hewling tor Lynchburg. Their losses have been very heavy. Houses throngh the country are nearly all used as hospitals for wounded men. In every dircetion I licar of rebel soldiers pushing for home, sonie In large and some in small squads, aund generally without The cavalry have pursued so closely that the enemy have been forced to des troy probably the greater part of their transportation, caissons and munitions of war. The number of prisoners captured yesterday wiil exceed two thousand. I'rom the 28th of March to the present time our loss in Killed, wounded and cap taved wiil not probably reach seven thou sani, of whom from one thousand five hundred 1o two thousand were captured, and many buat slightly wounded. I shalt continue the pursuit as long as there appears to be any use in it. (Sigued) U. 8. GRANT, Lieutenant General. e s SUMMARY OF NEWS. Richmond is captured. Petersburg and Richmond were evacuated by the rebels during Sunday night, and the rebel capi tal was occupied by General Weitzel at quarteg past eight o’clock Monday morn ing. The city had been set on fire, but immediate measures were taken to ex tinguish the flames. General Grant had at an early hour started the union army in the direction of the Danville Railroad, to cut off General Lee’s retreat if possi ble. The four days of strife have resulted triumphauntly for the Union arms! Grant had muassed 100,000 men on his left to execute his long cherished purpose of seizing the South Side road and compel ling the surrender or evacuation of the rchel capital, Sheridan with 10,000 ca valry, and a strong co-operating force of iufantry and artillery, led the advance. Lee did not wait for the brunt of the as sault, but sought to take advantage of the

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deep mud which followed the rains during the middle of the week and pushed ins troops to meet our advancing columns, He secured only a temporary advantage, however, on Friday, and was everywhere diiven back by overwhelming nambers. After three days of hard fighting Grant's object was accomplished and onr lines were ‘comepleted, the extreme right and left resting on theriver. Then followed, in rapid succession the fall of Poterstinrg aud Richmond, while Lee with the rem nant of his army retreated on the nurrow exit left him, with a heavy columa in his rear, another on his southern flank, while omincus sounds of a gathering force menace him from the North. Many of the brave have fallen in these teriific strugeles, but they are not lost the nation wiil duly honor their memory, and they will live evermore in the grati tude and affection of the people. The scene in frout of our office as the news canme lin, eannot he deseribed in words. The eager crowds read the sue cessive bulletins and kept up a continu ous roar of echoing cheers. An impromptu meecting soon after ga thered a little further ap Wall street, in front .of the Custom Houase, uand the whole city was a bluze of excitement. Firom kHayti and San Pominge.—lA New Governmeni Advices received fiom San Doniingo deny the rumors of a counter revolution there. The republie is free from tamult and a new government is quietly organ -IZID G neral F. de Rojas has been elected President, and vine eminent Dominicans —seven of them generals in the army-—— have heen appointed as his Cabinet or advisers—among them Antonio Polanco, brother of the ex-President. A Sovereign Constituent Congress,” cougisting of nine representatives from each commure, has been ealied, and was to have convened at Santiago de los Ca baileros. Intellizence from Port au Prince, of the 23cth of March, has been reccived in this city. The disastrous conflagration in that city was still the absorbing topic. {From the Barbados iVest Indian, April 7.) BARBADOS. The weather continues favorable for reaping the crop, in which good progress has been made, About 6000 hhds. have been sent away ineluding the cargoes of four vessels which wiil fill up by to-mor row. The yield both in quality and quantity is fair. The wind has been stronger accompanied with licht showers. The canes are juicy and scarcely supply as mach fucl as is required to boil down the juice. Large supplies of coal have been taken up from town in consequence 10 assisi in ihe furnaces.” On account of the complaints of our sugar in the mar kets last year and the low prices, the planters are taking the greatest care to improve the guality this year, and as we hear with suceess; inprovements in the manufictare having been adopted at Lu cust Hall, and elsewhere; the improve ment of the sample being perhaps, in most cases, more owing to increased care and-cleanliness in the manufacture than to the introduction of any novel process. The best Sugar, it is said, is still produc ed by a.dhgrj‘pg,_tpthe‘ old methods in use for the last 60 years, and what is of equal importanee to the Planter—it proves to be the: cheapest process; Sugar is sell ing at 88, and-mpwards, for best qualiiy. ST-.CROLXE AV S. Molasses, 19 cents in Merchants’ pun cheons, and 18 cents in Planters. H. I 3 the Gavernor leaves by the pre sent Steamer tor Bugland, for the benefit of his health, H. E.is accompanied with his family, and will not return before the beginning of next year. In his absence, Major Muanly, Lieut. Governor of Grena da, will adimuister the Government, who 1s looked for o the retura steamer The \bdoess of the Assembly to Mr. Walker, CcXpressive oi e regret telt by the Inia bitants ot Barbawdos for the cause of his departure, and of the kind feelings enter tatned towards him and his amiable fami ly, will be found in the last ¥l.

Admiral Sir Jas. Hope, K.C.B, arriv ed in Carlisie Bay on Monday evening, from Martinique, on board the Duncan, having becen lying off the Bay all the day exercising his men at firing gans. The Aurora, 35 guns ship, Capt Nir Leopold MeClintoek, was Iytne in the Bay at the time of the Duncan coming to anchor. With these two noble vessels, and quite alirge concourse of merchantnien,—su gar-ships from* the United Kingdom, others bringing tamber and fish from the British Provinces, or Breadsiuffs from New York and other Ameriean ports, our By preseats an unusually Livelv appear ance. The Wharfis erowded with sucar hhds. and goods landirg from the numes rous vesseis, and so itadequate is the space along the Carenage, that it has been found necessary to suspend the or der permitting the coasting vessels and small ceralt to come alone side the Wharf to discharee, much to the satisfaction of the Lightermen and boatmen, who are employed to land the goods from the ves sels lying outside in the Bay. R 1 2 Quite an exeitement was cieated yes terday and the day before by the depar ture of a numberof'emierants for Liberia, on board the Cora, a Briish American Brigantine of 309 tons. ‘l'he em'erants were all blacks, 291 in number; 156 adults, 96 children from 2 to 12 years of age and 39 infants under 2 yeafs. Amongst them were 39 married women with their hasbhands; the wife of a previous emi grant, the widow of another who died in Liberia some time aco and several unmarried women accompanying their parents. The men were of the labouring class chiefly, as we hear, agricaltural lu borers, besides carpenters, c'mpvrs, shoe makers, tatlors, &e., amongst the num ber a skilful \\.’ln-vl\vrigh!f and black smith. On the whole a well eonducted set of men. ‘T'he Cora is a fine vessel, and the arrangements for the reception of the emigrants were muade under the eye of Dr. McLain, the Liberian Colonizition Society’s Arent, by whom the Cora was chartered to take the emisrants on io Liberia. This gentleman deserves the grealest credit for the admirable way he has provided for the accommodation of so large a number of persons on board, and the jadgment disnlayed in selecting from a much larger namber who applied to him for a passage, those who were best adapted 1o make their way in a new country like that to which th'y were bound. The Liberian Socigly has fur nished the vessel with ample provisions for the voyage, as well as u free passage to the emigrants and their families; and we trast that this liberality will find its reward in the settlement of these people in Liberia, and the addition of 'so many well conducted families and nseful hands to the growing strength of’ fifeßepublic FEL B Pl UYL We wish the emigrants a safe passage across the Atlantic, to what many of them fondly regurd as their fatherland, and a happy settiement therein. These feelings are worthy of every respeet, although they may not be found to sarvive for any length of time, the bitter experiences of an emigrant’s lifein the African jungle. It hasbeen their wish, in some, perhaps, their ambition—no unworthy wish—an ambition for which there is no reason to be ashamed—to go back to Africa, in the Lope of finding a wider field for their la bor, and better opportunities for their abiiities than this little Island afforded and there is no one, we are persuaded, who will not unite in wishing them God speed. The April Sessions of the Criminal Court was opened on Monday, with the usual formalities. The Calendar contain ed 31 cases, chicfly petty larcenies and assaults, which were got through with during the next two days, and the Court has been discharged. So far as it goes, it is a favourable evidence of the condi tion of the [lsiand as to erime. But the Chief Justice does not seem to take this view of the matter. Altho’ he begins his Charge to the Grand Jury with the state ment of the diminished number of cases on the Calendar, amongst which “there is not any charge of the highest decree of erime;” 18 larcenies of different kinds; 5 assaults and injuries of the persouv four charges of forgery against one individual (a soldier), and a charge of uttering coun terteit coin 5 all of which was disposed of in two days; and altho’ he goes on to mention, that in the Bridgetown Gaol the namber of prisoners under confine ment has been reduced from 146 in Decr. last, to 124; or 15 per ct.; and soon thro’ the other Prisons in the Island and the total number of prisoners reduced from 408 in Decr. last 1o 375, or about S per ct.; and altho’ with respect to the existing system of discipline, he finds, it has been earefully carried out in our pri sons, and has nothing to say against it. His Honor concludes his address with no better assurance than that “for the last 15 years at least crime has been on the inerease and as a means of checking it, he has no other recommendation to make, than a more stringent system of prison discipline. The Chief Justice arrives at this con ciusion on comparing the Gaol returns since 1545 in periods of 6 years. In the first period, from 1845 to 1849, there were 432 cases tried and punished by the Court. In the next period from 1849 to 1854, the number of cases was reduced to 357 near 10 per cent; from 1854- 59 there was an increase from 387 to 461, or near 20 per cent; and from 1859-64, an tnercase from 468 to 630 or near 30 per cent. The increa-e has been since 1354, duiing the last 10 years. Previ ously the returns show a decrease in the number of convictions for the period 1849 to 1854 compared with the preced ing period 1545-9. Sir Bowcher also makes the remark that the smallest num ber of cases in any one yvar was 64 in 1851 and the smallest number of ¢cases on one -Calendar was 15 in Auzust Qr'l'le same year 1851 whilst ,‘hc.;£r€?.§¢st number of cases 0 any one year occurred in 1863, and the greatest number on any one Calendar was 82 in Decr."'qf: the same year 1863. E i neek i oad Now what was the character of these two years, The year 1851 was remark ably seasonable the ensuing crop :of 1852. was the largest ever reaped before or since and the crop of 1851 was an AR DGR R TRRA BT enpong iy

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average one. Assoon as the crop was reaped, the rains set in, the people got employment in the fields, and provisions were abundaant. Hence a fewer number were driven to pilfering and other courses which bring them under the cognizance of the Chief Justice. The year 1863 was one of severe drought and privations amongst the laboring people. Gangs of eople went about robbing the potato gelds on the estates to relieve the pangs of hunger. It wasin the July of this year a derelict vessel, laden with provi sions, was abandoned off the Island by its crew and was cast on the St. Philip coast, which was the occasion of almost a riotin that Parish, leading the way to other un lawful acts elsewhere, resulting from the severe privations which the laboring classes suffered from the long continu ance of the drought and the high price of provisions. The Legislature was obliged to have recourse to a severer mode of repression than that which the laws or dinarily permitted, and emigration to the neighbouring colouies was encouraged. Thus it is, the increase or decrease of crime ‘depends in great measure upon the character of the year, and upon the con dition of the labour market. There is another thing to be taken into considera tion, as the Grand Jury very properly observe, in their Reply to His Houor, in connexion with the increase of crime gince 1854 it is the increase of popula tion, and no doubt the inreased exertions and vigilance of the Police in the detec tion of the larcenies and such petty offen ces in town and country, as form the great staple of the trials before the Cri minal Court. Itis in the number of these petty delinquencies, not in the heinous ness of the acts committed, that the Chief Justice points out the growth of crime; ghowing that it is conuected more with the circumstances than the character of the population. When the rain talls, and there is work tobe donein the fields; when wages can be earned, and food can be procured, the people keep out of Gaol but when the drought sets in, and the famine is sore in the land, and the people can’t get employment, or procure the means of subsistence, they take to pilfering, and are locked up in the Gaol. That is what these figures tell us. We thank the Chief Justice for inviting at tention to them. A Drerexce or Waist.—Whist, in a pre-eminent degree, exacts the exercise of a large range of faculties, and facul ties, 100, of a very varied and dissimilar order. [t is very common to hear a pre ference accorded to chess over whist, on the ground that in chess no element of ¢hanceenters,andthatthe whole conductof the %ame is resovable to mathematical certainty. Now, it is precisely for this very difference that we claim the superi ority for whist. It isin this same ele ment of chance that whist so closely re gembles real life. It is in this same ele ‘ment of what may or may not be that we have a field for the exercise of those powets which calculate probabilities, and argue from the likely or unhikely, and draw conclusions from premises not ab soldte certain, but still as probable as are 'l%e greater number of the unaccomplish ed events in our actual lives. If there be a game which sets the fine edge of the reasoning powers of the man of the world—of him who is to be conversant with the daily incidents-of life, and those who ‘set them in mbtion—it is whist. Show me's ‘first-rate whist player, and I will engage to show you a man to whose $STec CROLX AV S knowledge of the world, to whose tact, to whose powers of computing the cost of any action, and striking the balauce of advantage or disservice it might entail, you may apply in a moment of doubt or difficulty. Show me a first-rate whist player, and you show me one who com bines patient powers of a judicial order with the energetic rapidity of a man of action, who has the keenest appreciation of the laws of evidence, aiong with the steady courage of the soldier, and in whose balanced iontellect no undue pro minence is ever accorded to one class of faculties at the expense of another.— Blackwood's Magazine. i B O M) AD T EPORT Os the Receipt of Deposits at the St. Croix SAVINGS BANK, On Saturday, 22nd Apiil 1865. Receivers: IN CHRISTIANSTED J. F. Colberg, Esq, Trustce. IN FREDERIKSTED L. Faber, Exq, Trastee. Amount of former deposits. £232,510 32 7 deposits of 20 cents each. 14 above 20 c¢ts. and under 1. 20 B 5. H o bt 10. T 7 15 ot 20, &5 i 50. 1 60 i 100. 53 deposits, of which 45 in Christiansted amounting B 42§ Bin I'rederiksteddo. 21 87 e 263 29 Total 232,763 61 Balance of deposits 48,470 30 2 new deposit accounts, viz.: 1 Laborer. 1 Various. 6 Withdrawals amounting t0..5222 00. Receivers for Saturday, 29 h April 1865. IN CHRISTIANSTED Upper Commissary of War W. Sim melkjer, Trostee. G. B. Meyer, Exq., Member. IN FREDERIKSTED H. N. Mallgrav, Esq., Trustee. P. Stevenson, Esq., Member. GEO. BEHAGEN President, St. Croix, 24th April 1865. ET hekjendtgjores herved at Udkast til Repartitionen i Planter John van Brakle's Fallitbo vil blive fremlagt i en Skiftesamling som vil blive afholdt Fre dagen den 26de Msi førstkommende, Frederiksteds Skifteret den 20de April 1865. C. Sarauw. Office of the Marine Repairing Slip Co. OTICE is hereby given that the divi- A%& dend of Six per Cent and Bonus of Three and a quarter per Cent, on the paid-up Capital of this Institution, de clared at a meeting of Proprictors held this day, will be payable at the Bank of St. Thomas to-morrow and every day after during the hours of business. A. WOLFF, Chairman. St. Thomas 19th April 1865. i exrcuted at this Office ’BB PRINT|NG with neatness and des pateh. For New York. The Bark N H Gaston, Captain Parmeclee will call at this Port for Passengers, on or about May Ist. For parti culars apply to _ WILLIAM MOORE. Frederiksted, April 17th 1865. F V"js'"ä,'lNDL(")STl'l BREVE i Christiansteds f&) Posteoutoir :—Joln A.dams, Mrs. M. Berry, Frank Burns, Mrs. E. Canton, Mrs. C. Coåkly, Cuthrine Dutton, Jane Dyer, Mary R. Edward, Abr. Emanuel, Lucy Frederichsen, Capt. H. George, Cornelius Groy«l, Adlis Hadmen, J. Hø ilegar, Mrs. M. James, Judy Joseph, Welhelmina Joseph, James King, Rebec ea Lang, Mr. Lewis, Susanna Lurris, Louisa Mavuel, Cathrine Martin, Amelia Martis, Augusta Miller, Undercorpøral Nielsen, P. L. Pedersen, P. L. Petersen, Blizabeth Pettersen, H. C. Petersen, Wm. Rodgers, Alex. Sampson, Mrs. Eliza Ste vens, Miss Stridiron, Ellen Tetersen, Ce celin Wiiliams, Elizabeth Williama. Advrertisement. HE undersigned begs to invite public a‘tention to a little pam phlet, of which he is the author, printed in Denmark and lately sent out here, entitled: *Four ‘songs in the Knglish langruage, composed by John Nicolas Mo sseen, Danish stu dent.” Subscription-lists may be seen in Christiansterd (in the Crown Hotel), and in Frederiksted in the Apothecary’s hall. \"he price of a copy is for subscribers 20 cents for non-subscribers it will be 25 cents. Subscription will be left open for a week yet. F'rederiksted, the lith of Aprii, 1865. JOHN N. MOSSEEN. As prescribed. OTICE is hereby given that, the d Bay-road leading to the Prison from the Western suburb of the Town, and the Avenues through Richmond are private. Richmond 7th of April 1865, JOHN G. STRIDIRON. AGENT FOR ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY FOR FIRE LIFE IN ST. CROIX. SUB-AGENT IN FREDERIKSTED. H. Krebs Pratorius, AGENTS OF THE NORTHERN ASSURANCE COMPANY. FOR FIRE AND LIFE.