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April 28, 1865
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TIHE CIVIL. WAR IN AMERICA. From the Times' Correspondent.) NEW YORK, Marcm 17. The draught up to this time has pro ceeded with remarkable quietude. Not withstanding all previous intimations, and the obvious necessity for reinforcing the Federal armies if the waris to be vigo rously pushed, the final announcenient that proceedings had already commenced took the public by surprise. The sur prise, however, it must be added, is not accompanied by much alarm. The be lief is so prevalent that the war approaches its end, that Richmond cannot hold out for another month, that if General Lee be not driven out he will be starved out by the occupation or destruction of his lines of supply, and that the occupation of the Confederate capital by Grant or Sherman whatever may be the fate of Lee’s army, will virtually vestore the Union and obviate the necessity of any future fighting, except against a few scattered guerillas, that the draughted men look upon the prospect before them without the dread which the mere men tion of a conscription excited in the sum mer of 1863. The Government has sa gaciously taken advantage of the state of feeling to render the draught more pala iuble, and declared its intention to treat every conseript, as far as bounty money is concerned, exactly as if he were a vo lunteer. In addition te this mode of breaking the weight of the unwelcome infliction, it has ordered that double the number of men required to fill the quotu of New York shall be drauchted, or 26,000 instead of 13,000. By this means two persons are Interested in procuring one substitute. In consequence the price of substitutes has risen rapidly. In some instances as much as SI,BOO or $2,000 has been paid by rich men for a duly qualified deputy on the battle-field. The poor, aware of the efforts thus made, ana” pacified by the assurance that although the draught be nominally, it will not be actually, enforced, if volunteering provide the requisite 13,000 men within any rea sonable period, resign themselves to the comfortable conviction that if the worst comes to the worst no man with a family who does not wish te become a soldier will be torn from his home, and that the country, the city, or private munificence will find the means to rescue him. The arrival of Sherman at Fayetteville unopposed, and with his whole army in good health and spirits, and the general ly favourable character of the war news from every quarter of the strategic hori zon, continues to fill the non-speculative and non-gambling portion of the public with delight. In commercial ecircles, however, there is wailing and gnashing of teeth., The “bears” are in ecstacies, and the “buiis” roar with rage and vexa tion. Since the beginning of the present year, or from the 3d of January, when gold was at 230, until to-day, when it touched 159, there has been a fall in the premium of no less than 71 per cent., mainly caused by the Federal successes consequent upon the capture of Atlanta, the unexpected march of General Sher man to Savannah, and the whole c¢hain of military events which have since that time totally changed the aspect and the conditions -of the war. Large failures have taken place in Philadelphia and New York—principally in the produce trade; and to-day in this city there is something nearly approaching a panic in Wall-street, William-stroet, Exchange- 3 Te CROLE AV S, place, and the Produce-market. This, however, is but temporary, or believed to be so and the “bull” interest—together with the whole retail and some portion of the whole-sale trade—refuse to lower prices, or, at all events, defer doing so until military events hecome more clear ly defined, and victory more thoroughly out of the reach of accident. Notwith standing the fall, the necessaries and the luxuries of life maintain their war prices, while in house-rent and fuel there has been a positive increase. The owners of real estate, alarmed at the increase not only of Federal, but of State, taxation have in thousand of instances refused to let their houses as in former years, and insisted upon selling them, at almost fa bulous rates of purchase, in greenbacks. The tendency of this has ‘been to create such a competition for the houses still remaining to be let by the year or on lease for a longer term that the landlords have as a rule added 60 and even 100 per cent. to their previous rentals. New York is unprecedently full. So much money is to be made in it by speculation in gold, in stocks, in railways, and in the newest favourite, petroleum, and so ma ny refugees from the Border States have crowded into it to escape the horrors of war or of military government that if 3,000 or 4,000 additional houses had been built during the year there would have been no risk of their remaining untenant ed. Dut no such houseshave been erect ed. The only building that has been car ried on to any extent has been in Broad way and its tributary streets, where the whole busieess of the city is coneentrat ed, aud that only to the extent of convert ing private residences into stores, ware houses, and oflices, and sabstituting mar ble or iron piaces of trade for the modest brick houses that were formerly sufficient for all purposes either of utility or orna ment. How New York is to lodge it self during the spring and summer is a problem of which the only solution scems to be the erection of new hotels aund the overcrowding of all existing boarding houses. Lodginghouses are comparative ]y unkoown. The stranger cannot hire a couple of rooms or suit of apartments in this city, breakfast at home, and dine at his club or at a tavern, as he ean in Lon don or Paris, but he must *board” aud eat in public not only with men ayd wo men of whom he knows and desires to know nothing, but with their children under or in their teens—a state of exis tence which 1s trying enough to Ameri cans, and would be intolerable to any other people. The following advertise ment, which appears in the IHerald— though an obvious joke—may serve to convey an idea of the difliculty that be sets the quiet-loving mar, who desires in this Babylon to sit by his own fireside, with his wife and family :—'T'o let, a “one and a half story frame house, suita “ble for a man without wife or child “ren, partly furnished by the owner’s “grandmother. Rent only SI,OOO permonth, “payable in advance. No objection to ““tepant’s making repairs. Address K., “box 1,266.” A remedy for the evils of which this advertisement is not a very flagrant exaggeration has been suggested, though as yet without exciting much at tention. It is urged that if buildings were erected in a style of architecture si milar to some of the monstrous, but very beautiful, dry goods warehouses and banks that line Broadway and the cross streets, and separated into flats or apart ments suitable for families who desire to keep servanis and live privately, after the fashion of the houses of Edinburg, Glasgow, Paris, and Vienna, the specu lation would not only confer a public be nefit, but prove highly remunerative both now and hereafter to the capitalists who should invest their money in it. Specu lation, however, does not take this turn at present. 'l'he holders of real estate are alarmed at the prospect of being eat en up with taxes, general and local, and have no spirit to entertain the idea of new enterprises. The consequence threatens to be that Manhattan Island, which is only half ecovered with bujldings, and which, to the north of the central-park, presents the appearance of a newly-plan ned city in the wilderness thinly dotted with buildings, will be left unfinished, aud that the adjoining towns and villages, separate frown it by the Hudson and the Ilast River, and the beautiful Bay of New York, will profit by the greediness or neglect of the property holders of the metropolis. A much better house can be hired in London for 100/, per annum than can be procared in New York for 300/. Yet building speculation is dead vnless, as before stated, for the conversion of dwellinghouses into warehouses and stables. Rich and poor saffer alike from this state of affairs, but the poor, of course, the most grievously. The rich suffer on ly inconvenience, the poor suffer from malaria and fever, the conseqaences of filth and overcrowding, and a new cene ration rising up among them is either carried prematurely to the grave, or arows up to adolescence and maturity amid all the demoralizing and degrading influences so well understood in the Old World by all who have ever devoted a thought to the subject of the dwellings of the people. The authoritative announcement that Lord Lyous is not to return to Amerieca has been received with much regret in this city, and with more in Washington. It 15 amusing, however, to note the man ner in which the notification that Sir Fre derick Bruce Las been appointed to sue ceed him has been received by the privci pal journals. RMuch respeet has been expressed for the character and services of Lord Lyons, not unmingled with a moek regret that he should have had so hard a tine of it as to be compelled to write more than a folio per week in con sequence, not of his own cacoelhes scri benidi, but of that of the versatile and ma ny-sided Secretary of State; but, al though the matter is somewhat jocularly treated, there is a real feeling of disap pointment that Great Britain has not thought fit to complement the great Re publie, in this its hour of apparent tri umph, by sending as its representative a man of higher rank than a mere knight, or even a baronet. When, after «Mr.” Crampton’s expulsion, the Gourt of St. James heaped coals of fire upon the head of the Federal Government, and retaliat ed an insult by sending it a “Lord,” the pride of the Americans was tickled. Lord Napier was a great success,—not because he was a gentleman, a scholar, and a man of the world, but because he was a “Lord.” His successor was acceptable for the same reason, and Lord Lyons, though not so fortunate as Lord Napier in having a lady to ingratiate herself with the fashionable society of Washington, and preside over the elegant hospitalities of the embassy, was highly esteemed on account of personal qualities that seemed all the more brilliant in Democratic eyes, because they were allied with a title of nobility. If the British Government had but sent a Duke,—the Duke of Argyll,
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laints about the material which h:s Eeu-n added to bhis ranks. DBut the army of Sherman, composed of the finest stuff which the ifederals have ever putin the field, flushed by a career of success un broken sivce it first advanced, ten monihs agzo, from Dalten, intoxicated by the pliudits of its conntrymen, formidable in numbers, and siill more so in morale, streams resistlss<ly wapwards from the South, and it is felt that if ever an Ame rican battle promised to be decisive it will be the battle seemingly destined to take place in the neighbourbood of Ra- Jeigh between Johnston and Sherman, Your readers will have followed Sher man’s course sinee he captured Columbia and flanked his enemy out of Charleston and Wilmington. In the first idstance it seemed to be Shermaw’s design to «d --vance along the railroad which connects Columbia with Charlotte in North Caro- Jina; but whether he was checked by Beauregard’s firm attitude (previous to the assumption of command by John<ton) on the Catawba River to the south of Charlotte, or whether he was baflled by the difficulty of movine sunnlics and J 5 ik artillery throngh the miry swamnps of the Carvolinas, Sherman, shonly after eaptur ing Columbia, struck eastward towards the sea coast with the apparent design of making a fresh sea base at Fayetteviile, which is connected with Wilnuinoton by the Cape Fear River. Simultancously a strong force of Ilederals, probably 20.000 strong, under General Schofieid, 1s stiifi ing inwards from the coast nt Newbern, with a view to effecting a junction with Sherman near to Goldsborough—an im portant station on the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, and distant vot more than 40 miles from Fayetteville. It seems probable that the coming battle will be fought on the line between Golds borough and Fayetteville, unless Johnston elects to give up Raleigh to his enemy with a view to getting him deeper iuto the heart of North Carolina before he ventures upon battle. Meanwhile the old Jesson of the war about the immeusi ty of Southern distances is #gain likely to be taught to Shermaun. lln order to gain a new base at Wilmington he has been compelled to set free the main arte ry of General Lee’s army from the South —the railroad from Columbia to Rich mond, vié Charlotte, Greensborough, and Danviile. It is my belief shat the impos sibility of starving out the Confederate armies while Johunston’s army derives supplies from South Carolina and Georgin, and the abundant resources of Virginia and North Carolina are available for Lee, will be learnt before many weeks liive flown. The obvious danger which me naces Secessia is that, in order to defeat Sherman, Lee may be compelled so (v weaken his army as to be unable to hold the lines around Petersburg and Rich mond. But 1t will, I think, be found that in the coming battles the Contederates will fizht with the old elan and impetu osity which carried against superior num bers the heights of Chancellorsville, and bracketted with Albuera the recent name of Gaines’ Mill. In that distant south-west of the Con federacy, which is both to Confederates and Federals a sealed volume, a promise of a brighter Confederate future scems n store. A despatch from General Forrest —a man who when the true history of the war is known will share with Jackson and Lee its choicest honours—aunounces _—that fie has a force which is, in his judg ment, more than a mateh for General Thomas, and that the campaigu of 1865 ST« CREODX AV S. opens better for the Confederates than any of its predecessors. Such an utterauce from the mouth of a man who is as little given to boasting as Lee Limself will com mand respect, even in Washington. But of more Importance than the words of General Forrest is the tact that in Georgia and Alabama a great revival of Counfede rate enthusiasm is announced. The plucky little town of Mobile will not fall mto Uuuh.y-"s hands without a sharp struggle, and, 1f anything like disaster arrests Sher man, we are promised assistance from lukewarm Georgia, to an extent which seemed Little Lkely two months ago. The inhumaunity of Sherman, the rabid exulia tion of the New York press, the consci ousness of the unutterable horrors which Yarkee dominion will entail, are driving Souatherners to the front with something of the enthusiasm of 1861, and, be the result of the imminent battles what it may, tirey will, I thinl,reflact no disgrace upon Confederate arms. [rom ueross the Mississippi, where, aceoruing to the tantalizing rumours which have reached us for the last 12 months, 50.000 Con federates in the highest state of «fliciency have long been revelling on the fat of the Livud, there eames a voice which says that some fizhiting will this year be doune. Al tocether, I am daily more convineed that if Richmond falls and Lee and Johunston are driven from the field, 1t is but the first stage of this colossal revolution which will then be completed. There will ensue a time when every im[u,ni'lnl town ol ibe South will require to be held by a Yankee garrison when a problem which Lord Ntanley well deseribed some months aco as fur transcending in difficulty wuvihing that the edera's have yet accomplished will be I‘):‘\’S:'Htm] for their solation when the exultation of New York will be ex changed for soberness and richt reason, and when it will be realized that the closing scene of this mightiest revolution ary drama will not be played out, save in the times of our children’s children. F*?,ET bekjendtejores herved at Udkast 2J til Repartitionen i Planter John van Brakle's Fallitbo vil blive fremlagt i en Skiftesamling som vil blive afholdt Fre dacen den 26de Mai førstkommende, Frederiksteds Skifteret den 20de April 1865. O. Sarauw. PN RN\ B ro—DALE \JI .J'.) el oy FTIHE Lot No. 49 King’s Street. For E terms “I"i’i)' to Jos. Julien J‘;b(ll'-, i, (roix or to, JACOB MONSANTO, St. Themas. April 25, 1865. B s FUR SALE YN ORALG JUHE Inventory of the Crown lotel. ‘K Apply to 11. 11. SIEMSEN. April 25, 1865. L For Sale VJUHE House and Lot No. 9 Prindzens A Street (Opposite the Roman Catholic Churel) in this town. For price and terms please apply to BARNY B. BEECH. Frederiksted, April 24:h 1865. e g executed at this Office JDB PRINT'NG with neatness-and des patch. AUCTION. B EFTRR Degjæring as Procnurator Bah £3 veberg paa vedkommende Pante- og Uilægshavers Vegue vil blive opraabt til Bortsalg ved treude offoutlige Auctioner overcensstemmende med Pilacat 22de April 1817, SUKKERPLANTAGEN ROSEHILL HA, Ø KOSEF med alt Tilbehør, beliggende i denne Oes Nordside Quarteer Liir. A No 17 A, tagen ved Execution fra Planter F. Lock hart. Auctionerne afholdes som f6lger lste Auction Torsiagen den 18de Mai forstkommende; 2Jen Auetion Torsdagen den Ilste Juni forstkommende Sdie Auction 'Torsdagen den 15de Juni forstkommenide 3 de to første Auctioner paa Auctionscon toiret i Frederiksted og den 3die paa den sæigende Eiesdom, alle Eftermiddag Kl. i sSler. Auctionscouditioner, Vurdering, Pante attest m.v. ville være til Eftersyn paa Auctionsgontoiret 1 Frederiksted samt pia Procurstor Balhnebergs Contoir i Christiavsted fra den 12te Mai forstkom menile, Frederiksteds Auctionseontoir, den 20de April 1865. C. Sarauw. AUCTION. Y 3 Y request of Lawyer Bahneberg in L) bebatof the morteage and levyholder concerned will be put up for sale at three pubiie Auetions in accordance with the Piacard of 220 d April 1817, THE CANE PLANTATION ROSEHILL, with everything thereto appertuining 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, the third Auc tion at the premises, all of them at 1 o’clock p. m. Conditions, appraisement, morteage certificate ete. 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. C. Sarauw. e Office of the Marine Repairing Slip Co. A\JOTICE is hereby given that the divi- M dend of Six per Cent and Bonus of T'hree 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.