St. Croix Avis (Christiansted, St. Croix [V.I.]) 1844-Current
June 6, 1865

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UDGIVER: HBANS HBATOHETT. TRYKT I ENKEN HARRIET HATCHETT’S BOGTRYKKERI. 21de Aarg.] The “AVIS” ISTDITED BY HANS HATCHETT; ANT PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. for the Proprietress. BEKJENDTGJORELSE. AT Gouvernementet i Henhold til Colo niallovens 36 har bestemt, at de ordent lige Måder as Colonialraadet for St. Croix i det forste Aar as indeværende Valgperi ode blive at afholde paa den anden Ons dag i Juni, August, October, December, d. A. og i Februar og April næste Aar 2 Gouvernementshuset Kl. 11 Formiddag, bringes herved til offentlig Kundskab. Gouvernementet for de dansk-vestin diske Oer, St. Croix den Gte Juni 18563. W. BIRCH. Rosenstard. GOVERNMENT'S NOTICE. IN virtue of 36 of the Coloniallaw I have determined that the ordinary meet ings of the Colonial Council for St. Croix shall for the first year of the present elective period be held on the second Wednesday in the months of June, August, October, December this year and February and April next year, at the Governmentshouse 11 o’clock a. m. Which is hereby brought to public no tice. The Government of the danish- westin dia Islands, St. Croix, June 6th 1865. W. BIRCH. Rosenstand. HE undersigned intends leaving the island for a few months. Mr. McWilliam and Mr. Tait will attend to any matters in his absence. W. WILKIN. Annashope 3rd June 1865. e No. 36. 32 Cents. *…X—D IX Q 1865. Carl Hattensen. Rosenérn. ÅLLE og Enhver som maatte have No get at fordre paa efternævnte Skifter, nemlig KETURAH (Cathrine) MADURA'S Dåødsboe. ANN HARRIS Dodsboe. Skipper HENRY GEORGE og efter levende Enkes Fælledsboe, iudkaldes herved med 3 Maaneders Var sel til at anmelde og beviisliggjøre deres Krav for undertegnede Ret som behand lende nævnte Boer. Christiansteds Skifteret, den 3ite Mai 1865. 5 "J A. Stakemann. CHRISTIANSTED, TIRSDAGEN den 6te JUNI 1865. FE .'ll.

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Proclama. LLE og Euhver som maatte hm'o_?x'o ÅÅ get atfordre paa efternævnte Skifter nemlig ELIZABETH MADURO'S Dådsboe. MARY HEYLIGER'S Dødsboe. indkaldes herved med 3 Maaneders Varsel til at anmelde og beviisliggjore deres Krav for undertegnede Ret som behand lende nævnte Boer. t Arvingerne i ovennævnte Boer indkal des herved med Æar og Dags Varsel. Christiansteds Skifteret, den 91te Mui 1865. J. A. Stakemann. BEKJENDTGJORELSE. UDET bekjendtgjores herved at Ud- J kast til Repartitionen i afgangne Hugh Lang's 80, vil blive fremlagt i en Nkiftesamling som vil blive af holdt Fredagen den 30te Juni forst kommende. Frederiksteds Skifteret, St. Croix den 29de Mai 1865. c. Sarauw. Proclama. ÆXLLE og Enhver som maatte have Noget at fordre paa afgangne Maria Mulvy's 80, indkaldes herved til at anmelde og beviisliggjore deres Krav for undertegnede Skifteret in den Udlibet as tre Maaneder efter denne Indkaldelses sidste Bekjendt gjorelse. Frederiksteds Skifteret, St. Croix den 29de Mai 1865. C. Sarauw., HE Creditors of Mr. M. A. TDaguilard are hereby invited to at tend either personally or by a repre sentative at a meeting to be held on Wednesday the 14th June next 12 o’clock noon at the office of Lawyer Bahneberg, in order to have a status of Mr. Daguilard’s affairs exhibited to them, and to take a resolution as to the course to be taken. St. Croix, 31st May 1865. M. DAGUILARD. HEILBUTH. BAHNEBERG. THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY begs to announce its REMOVAL to its NEW PREMISES, known as ROYAL INSURANCE BUILDINGS, LOMBARD STREET, LONDON, E.C. I In making this announcement, the Di rectors venture to anticipate they §hn\\ _experience in their new offices even In an increased degree, that hearty support from the Mercantile community, and the public generally, which has long sinee placed them in the first rank of Insurance Companies. They believe that the main cause of the popularity thus attaching to the Roy AL has been the confidence of the commu nity that the Company has ever met, with liberality and promptitude, all just claims. PERCY M. DOVE, Manager. JOIIN B. JOIINSTON, Secretary in London. May 1, 1565.

[l REDUCTION OF FIRE INSURANCE DUTY. [JHE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY l is now preparcd to offer the following important advantages to Insurers. Ist.—The full benefit of the Reduction in f Duty will be secured to all persons effecting Insurances with this Com- E pany from this date. 20d.—No charge made for Policy or Stamp however small the Insurance. 3rd.—Moderate Rates. 4th.—Unquestionable security. sth.—A continuance of the same promp titude and liberality in the settlement of Losses which have ever character ised the Company. The great increase of Insurances which will now be effected, gives most favoura ble opportunities for gentlemen of un doubted position and iofluence to obtain l Agencies for the Royal. Applications should however be made immediately. PERCY M. DOVE, Manager. JOMN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. Royal Insurance Buildings, Lombard Street, E.C., May 1, 1865. e From the St. Thomas Times, June 3.) By the arrival of the brigantine G. F. Peniston, dates from New York to the 7th May have been received, forestalled by dates to the 10th via Havana. The prin cipal labours of the Government would seem to be the preparations for the re daction of the Armies and Navy. Among other things many edifices that had been long converted into Lospitals, are now being emptied, cleaned, renovated, and returned to their former owners. Two of the columns of General Sherman’s Ar my, constituting the Army of the Tennes see and the Army of Georgia were on their march from Raleigh, N. C., for Alexandria, Va. The movement com menced on the 29th May and it was ex pected would reach its destination on the Ist June. Strick orders had been issued against foraging on the country, and everything taken was to be paid for. The ceremony of disbanding at Alexandria it was thought would be an imposing scene. [Nr. 45.

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From the Spectator May 13.) SULTAN NAPOLEON. The idea of handing Algeria back to an Arab ruler appears to have been postpon ed, and the Emperor as the next best course, is trying to act the Arab. Ina proclamation of the 6th inst., addressed to the natives as distinguished from the colonists of Algeria, he is visibly endea vouring to play the Sultan, to speuk to Moslems as he thinks a Mussulman so vereign would speak, to show them that though a Frank he can sympathize with an Oriental population. The plan is one which has constantly struck the ima gination of Europeans of genius invested by circumstances with the government of great Oriental tribes—it would, could it but succeed, be so successful. The Eu ropean feels that if he could but once get en rapport with his subjects, could but induce them to trust him, could but fairly use the boundless powers they con cede for the great ends which he desires, he might effect so much good. He knows that the immobility of the East is a fic tion, that the instinet of an Asiatic is to follow, that could he himselt but once excite confidence, he might lead in any direction and to almost any height. The temptation to any far-sighted man is great, and to one who is at once far sighted and ambitious is almost irresisti ble. Nor do we know that the end sought is absolutely and in itself unat tainable. It is true that while Asiatic thought has iargely influenced Europe, while one Asiatic tribe has moulded our theolozy and another laid the foundation of our science, no European, with the doubtful exception of Aristotle, has great ly influenced the thought, or the history, or the civilization of Asia. But still in dividuals have been accidentally success ful. There have been one or two Indian satraps who have changed nomad tribes into civilized races, one or two renegades who have saved the Mussulman power in Europe, one or two missionaries who, In Burmah and Japan particularly, have led Asiaties to encounter death rather than surrender new ideas. But the rapport in these cases has been ascidental ;"no Eu ropean, 80 far as we know, has establish ed it of design. Napoleon tried, and though his mind was in many respects Oriental he left no impress in Egypt. Lord Ellenborough tried, and he only en countered the ridicule of his own coun trymen. Napoleon IIL is trying under circumstances in many respects favoura ble, and he also will fail, and for the same reason—an inability to comprchend tho voughly the races with whom he is striv ing to sympathize. As usual, he is able, he has hit upon the one point in which bis family creed and Oriental philosophy appear to come in contact, namely, fatal ism, and he hopes through that to show those he addresses that he and they think alike. Conscious that he is a fatalist, he appeals to the fatalism of the Arabs as a thought which must respond to his own. «Aceept,” he says, ‘“accomplished facts.” God has given you to me, why not then submit? I honour the military pride which induces you before yielding to ap peal to God in arms, but God has decided. Acknowledge “that what God directs is well directed,” and all will be well. It is very clever, as clever as Lord Ellenbo rough’s misunderstood attempt to prove to the hundred millions of Hindoos that he had avenged their cause upon the fif teen millions of Mussulmans, and it will fail as the Somnath proclamation failed, ST-. CROLXE AVIS. and for the same reason. Neither spealk er understood the religion to which he appealed. Lord Ellenborough did not kunow that, idolatry being always local, the mass of Hindoos cared nothing what ever about the temple of Somnath, rather repcated tales of the Ghaznevide’s gran dear with a national prnide which over came all religious hate; and Napoleon does not know that there are fatalisms and fatalisms, that the Mussulman fatal ism is one thing. and the Christian fatal ism quite another. His fatalism, quite unconsciously to himself, is that of the old Christian world—the disposition to believe in judgment by ordeal. IHe sees in victory, 1n any accomplished fact, as Cromwell saw, as modern Calvinists still see, a proof that God wishes that victory, is favourable to that fact. Resistance to the victor therefore, he suggests, is impious, as impious for Arabsas resistance to Cesar is for Frenchmen; it is a duly to submit willingly to the destiny hidden in Freneh arms. The Asiatic does not take that view at all Ile also believes in fate, but it is as an evil power, as something above and behind God, something which, so to speak, is struggling against God, to which he mast perforce submit, but only until the Almighty sees fit once more to exert his omnipotence. He accepts his defeat as he accepts the cholera, as something which mmay destroy himn, which he must in any event wait ou', but which is not necessarily good because it is irresistable. To-day fate compels him to yield to the Frauk, to-morrow God may call him to battle against the Frank cither poweris resistless, but the right has always becn with God. He meets the argument that the victory proves the favour of Heaven with the simple reply that it proves only the favourof Fate, that God's ultimate verdict must always be in favour of the Faithtul. Crime may be irresisitible, or even the temptation to crime, bat it is not there fore of Gad, and calamity must be hum bly accepted, but not because God willed it. T'he truth is, that while the Chris tian fatalist has at his heart the convic tion that God rules all things, that good and evil, as shown in events, only differ in seeming, that all things work together for some end indefinite!y hisher than the steps which lead to it, the Asiatie still has at his heart the more ancivnt and evil theory—the vever-ending struggle of two almost equal forees. lach creed gives them different names; the Parsee talks of Ormusd and Ahriman, the Budhist of Spirit and Matter, the Mussalman of God and Fate, but each in his heart be lieves that they are battling for the sole rule. Each principle wins by turns, and when victor, i 3 resistless, and to be ac cepted with resignation, but the duty of man never changes—-to be the soldier of God, and not of the adverse power. So completely does this philosophy pervade every act of life, that the Asiatic, whe ther Moslem, or Hindoo, or .Budhist, when speaking his own thoughts, never by any chance applies the word *fate” except in connection with misfortune. If the Arab is foiled he says ‘Kismet,” if the Hindoo is beaten he remarks ““What is on the forehead will be;” if you pun ish either unjustly he declares that his fate isunpropitious. But if he wins his game, if fortune favours, or he is in any way delighted, then Fate has nothing to do with it, then “Godis merciful,” “God has heard him,” “Praise be to the name of the Lord.” The Algerine will admit therefore to-day that all Napoleon has said is true, that he himself is defeated, that submission is just, that there is noth ing to be done, and spring at His Majes ty’s throat to-morrow with all the addi tional zest given by recoil from an en forced submission. He bends to fate most humbly, but answers the call of God to fight fate only the more zealously beeause of his resignation, acts in fact just as Englishmen do when they talk of irresistible circamstances. They, too, bend as he does, but the circumstances had better not leave them a loophole, for if they do, circumstances will prove no obstacle to aroused human energy. To appeal to fate therefore in Algeria 1s simply to identify oneself with an evil power, and for the rest the proclamation is almost laughable in its simplicity. It is addressed to Orientals not as they are, but as Earopeans imagine them to be,— might have been written by Voltaire af ter he had composed his absurd represen tation of Mahommed. Arabs do not want to be told that the object of France was not to oppress, but to relieve them from oppression; they think, like all other Orientals, that the business of Kings is to conquer and of conquerors to oppress, and only object to the Faith ful beineg the vietims ot that nataral or der of things. The reference to the struggle between the Gauls and Romans will sound in their ears as words only. words doubtless strictly trae, being de rived from Frank traditions, buat having no meaning when applied to people who have received the fiuith. [By the way, the Arabic translation of that extraordi nary reminiscence of the “Life of Casar”’ will be a curiosity. 'The translator will be clever if he avoids conveying the im pression that the quarrel was one be tween the I'ranks and the subjects of the Sultan, the only “Romuns” known to the Moslem world, and that the Frankish ercatness has been built on Mussulman degradation.] The reference to compa rative numbers will strike a race innocent, of stalistics ss a bit of very ungraceful boasting, while the quotations from the Koran will fail as dead as texts from the Bible would under similar eircumstance s fall among ourselves. A thief who as he stole a coat quoted the text about giving the cloak also would not be held to bave increased his claims to mercy, nor have Kings ever soothed their sub- Jeets by preaching the dogmas of non resistance. If Napoleon practises the Christian virtues of justice and merey and truth Arabs will respect him as well as his own subjects, but Mussulman phrases used according to the ideas of Christian philosophy will conciliate nei ther race. It is possible to govern, though not to improve, Orientals by ap plying the principles of Ecrope, -by se caring justice and maiotaing order, by allowing wealth to accumulate and releas tng labour from every shackle it is pos sible to improve as well as govern by en abling Asiatics to work the social and political systems of the East in the spirit and for the ends which are accepted in the West. but of all useless efforts that of the European to reign as Mussulman, or Hindoo, or Lama would have reigned is the most inept. Napoleon in a haik is not an Arab, and will find before long that the unaccustomed garment embar rasses the play of his swoyd.

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Answer to Revd. Dubois’ communications re garding the Country schools in St. Croix. (see Minority Report, May 1865.) Professedly the object of the Revd. Dubois, in publishing my annual report for 1864, and commenting on it, is—*“to secure to our people the full benefits of one of the most liberal edu cational endowments in the Westindies.” First we must understand in what the libera lity of this endowment consists. I fear it would be charging the Revd. writer with a want of sincerity, if we were to imagine, that he means any thing besides the amount of money, which is granted for scliool-expences, mainly for the salary ofthe teachers. 1f this be his meaning, no objection can be made, in this respect the liberality of the country with regard to the schools which have been established must be acknowledged by all. But, unfortunately, if even the grant of money were still more liberal, we cannot buy with it a greater amount of schooltime for the ccuntry children, nor can we effect by it a more regular attendance, nei ther would we be able to establish such an ad ditional number of schools, as are wanted, to prevent overcrowdedness, and without a suffici ency of these things the Country schools cannot effect a more liberal education, however liberal the grant of monrey may be; it is plainly absurd to deny this, for no man can do in one day what he would be able to do in three, or four days, let his wages be raised ever so miuch, and the best endowed teacher cannot teach children, who do not attend. 'That part of the endow ment of our Country schools, on which the pros perity, or success of these schools, i. e. the edu cational benefits which the children ought to enjoy, chiefly depends, is by no means one of the most liberal in the Westindies, but the very contrary, and probably the most illiberal of all There is no school of some note in the other Westindia islands, where the children attend only a few hours in the forenvon generally the attendance is three hours in the forenoon, and two or three hours in the afternoon, with an hour for lunch and recreation at noon. There is no negroe-school in the english islands from which the children must be dismissed at the age of ten years, after an attendance of from two to four years. In those islands the children attend eight years, viz. from the sixth year to the age of fourteen, and frequently to their fifteenth and sixteenth year; and this advantage must not be computed only by the number of years, for with ten years, when we must send our children from school, their minds first really open, and the best time for learning begins Mereover every experienced teacher knows, how much in a large school depends on the competency of the monitors, and that competent monitors are rarely found among children under twelve vears. Qur monitors are poorly fitted for their office, and they in particular are often kept from school. Again there will be but few schools in the ‘Westindies, where the attendance, though vo luntary, is so wretched as in later years it has been, and is to this day, here in St. Croix, more especially in the larger schools, for instance in Friedensfeld. After the most careful investiga tion, made in the beginning of this month, there are found on the list and bound to attend 277 children, besides 21 who have left for one of the towns. Now, with two or three exceptions, these 277 children do all attend, but so irregu larly, that last month, and generally, 138, or precisely one half of the number, were daily staying away. As regards overcrowdedness, there are cer tainly some large schools also in the english isl ands, but they are rather exceptions, and they have the great advantage of good monitors, well qualified by their age. Generally the schools in the english islands are small, but there. are many. Already 25 years ago there were in Antigua about siurty elementary schools, among less than twenty thousand country peo ple. In 1863 there were in Antigua forty-eight clementary schools, which reccived grants from the Government. I add a list of the average attendance English church schools gg: 6558. 3245. lesé 325 53‘.;595. 95. 23. 160. 76. 59. 25. 68. 45. 26. 56. 37. 36. $STec CROLX AV Se Moravian schools 94. 84. 52. B 9 87. 81, 105, 74, 81. 69, 116. 54. 46. 50. 44. 41. 67. 97. Wesleyan schools 70 59.43.46. 38.76.26.45. o.one closed in 1863. The grant of Government for these schools in 1863 amounted to about £824, or nearly $4000; of course, not including the salary of the Go vernment inspector. There are many more children on the lists, but as the attendance is voluntary, most of the nov-attenders stay away entirely, and therefore do not trouble the teach er, or the school. Taking all that has been said together, we come to the conclusion, that if that part of the educational endowment of our Country schools, which in any reasonable sense can be called liberal, is “comparatively wasted,” it is done 1, By unduly limiting the school-time. 2, By dis missing the children at too early an age. 3, By the great indulgence shown to parents ete. who, contrary to law, keep their children from school, and consequently deprive them even of those benefits which they might enjoy, and which are not limited to reading only. 4, By the overcrowdedness of most schools, for a school which has on the list more than hun dred children, who attend, (if irregularly so much the worse) is overcrowded It is quite evident what kind of reform in our present school-system we want let those evils which here again have been stated, as often be fore, be first remeved, for no man can reasona bly deny that they are absolute, or unquestion able hindrances to the success of the schools, and then, ¢f necessary, we may speak about me thod, or system of teaching. To attribute to the latter what plainly and sufficiently is other wise accounted for, would neither be wise nor just We have strietiy followed the injunction of the Apostle: “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.” In former years, when sewing and writing were not taught in the Country schools, and- when consequently we could devote much more time to reading, when at the same time the attendance was very good, we were not able, by the good old rote system, to make as many good readers as we have made later, by the phonetic system, under far less favourable circumstances; it would therefore be folly and unfaithfulness to return to the former, and to give up intellectual teaching for parrot work. The report of the Minority contains a great many things which do not require any refuta tion, or reply: a desire of the Rev. writer to criticise, and to find fault, is quite manifest more particularly in one case, viz. when I say that the children are early trained to transgress the laws of Government; 1 deny that these words convey the meaning there put upon them. The only aim of the parentsis, to keep the children at home, the means which they use, and the consequences which attend the latter, are of necessity; if these people could gain their point without making their children re peatedly transgress the law, and without thus training them to do it, they would not make themselves guilty of the latter. Moreover, the report betrays a great want of acquaintance with the subject of which it treats; an instance of this is the strange view, that in an overcrowd ed school the evil is remedied, when only one half of the number of children in attendance are present at one time; as if it were no harm, when the teacher has every day almost a new set of children, who have stayed away long enough to forget what they have previously learnt, and who constantly are a draw back to those who attend more regularly not to speak of the disorder into which by such attendance the school daily is thrown, and the time which is wasted in daily arranging the classes anew Bad attendance does not remedy the evil of over crowdedness, but it aggravates it. A suspicion has been thrown upon the cor rectness of the statistics in my reports to the School-Commission, against this I decidedly protest, and also against the accusation, that children who have died, or have removed to other school districts, or islands, are still num bered, and this to such an extent ‘““as to make the evil of irregular attendance appear still greater than it really is.”” My reports are made with care, but it cannot be expected, that never a mistake should be made; however, such sin gle cases will never materially affect the total number, and I have far more frequently found that children who are bound to attend, were not numbered by the teacher, in consequence of theirnot appearing in school for many months, though without legal excunse. This will show that the numbers in our lists, which point out the irregular attendance, are more likely below the mark than otherwise. Last year the num ber of children, bound to attend, was not 1303, as stated in the Minority report, but 1420, and the general average attendance in the Every day school was not 23 but 3j5 (in ¥fld. Ij2 and in the Sat. school 3))p. The first number re fers only to the month of September 1864. Among the excuses, which parents make for keeping their children from school, may also be that so positively and repeatedly mentioned in the eriticism of Rev’d. Dußois; but that this is so generally the case, as there stated, I have suflicient reason to deny on the other hand, it seems to me very likely, that in some places this excuse is put into the people’s mouths, by those who wish to bring the Country schools into bad credit with our people, for the very purpose that they should keep the children from school, and this is now done by the report of the Minority pullicly, though, of course, not with such an intention, but the effect will be the same, and in proportion to the importance which will be attached to the words, or declara tion of the writers. In former years when the children learnt neither to sew, nor {o write, and less to read than now, the attendance was very good, and such an excuse was never heard. If the writer of the report has heard children read in the examination, who have not had the least claim to the name of readers, he may de pend upon, that they have not been put down as readers. Our beginners, it is true, read at first very slowly, and yet they really know far more of reading, than those many who rattle down what they have learnt by heart, or nearly o, and which without hesitation gains for them the name of good readers. (T'o be continued) ADOLRPIL ROSENNTAND Underdommer og Skriver paa Oen St. Thomas i America Gjor vitterligt, at ester Begjaring as Skifteretten paa St. Thomas og 1 Medhold as Kongelig allernaadigst Bevilling, ud feerdiget ad mandatum as Gouvernemen tet for de dansk- vestindiske Oer den 16de Dennesindstevnes herved med Aar og Dags Varsel Den eller De, som maatte have thiende et den 11 April 1856 imellem nu afdode Enke Anna Lavinir og Hrer: E: Chretien Indgaaet og den 14de nwestefter thinglaest Forlig, hvorved er givet Hrr: E: Chretien Panteret i Eiendommen No. 7 Prindsensgade, Kronprindsens Quarteer 1 Byen Charlotte Amalia paa St. Thomas for $863. 30 cts. skriver Otte Hundrede Tredsindstyve og Tre vestindise Daler, tredive cents med Renter at :node inden St. Thomee ordinaire Bything, som hol des i Huset No. 24 Dronningens Gade og Quarteer her 1 Byen eller paa hvilket an det Sted Retten til den 'Tid ordentligviis maatte holdes den forste Mandag i Sep tember 1866 om Formiddagen Kl. 10 siet for der og da med bemeldte Forlig at fremkomme og deres Adkomst til ssmmeat godtgjore, da Citanten vil forveute og lade paastaae, at Forliget ved Dom vor der kjendt dodt og magteslost at veere, saa at det derefter kan afleses og as Pan tebogen udslettes. Foreleg og Lavdag er oph®vet ved Forordn. 3 Juni 1796. Til Bekraeitelse under min Haand og Embedssegl, St. Thomas den 27de Mai 1865. ROSENSTAND. Bekjendtgjorelse. Ifolge det Kongelige Gouvernements Ordre bekiendtgjores herved, at Skatter-

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ne for Aaret 1864 til Colonial Kassen, memlig Grund Skatten, Bygningsskat ten, Lcie- Afgivten, Afgivter as Sukker productionen, pCt. Skatten as Huus- og Plantage- Panter, Nyskatten, Huusskat ten, Cavallerie- og AÅrtillerie- Skatter, samt Immigrationsskatten, forfaldt til Be taling den Iste Mai dette Aar. En For tegnelse over Debitorerne med Specifi cation as Skatterne og disses Belob, vil til alle Vedkommendes Eftersyn, findes henlagt, for Christiansteds Jurisdictions Vedkommende, i det Kongelige Kasserer- Contoir, og for Frederiksteds Jurisdic tion pas Byfoged Contoiret sammesteds. Det Kongelige Kasserer Contoir, St. Croix den 29de Mai 1865. C. R. MAGENS. o Translation. Pursuant to Orders from the Royal Government it is hereby made known that the Taxes to the Colonial Treasury for the year 1864, viz: the Ground- and Building-Tax, the Procentage-Tax on the rent of houses, the Tax on the Pro duction of sugar, the Quart pro Cent- Tax on mortgages in houses and Estates, the New-Tax, the house-Tax, the Caval ry- and Artillery-Tax and the Immigration- Tax, became due on the Ist of May this year. A list of the Tax-payers and the res pective amount of Taxes, will, for the Jurisdiction of Christiansted, be found exposed for inspection at the Royal Treasury’s Office, and for the Jurisdiction of Frederiksted, at the Sherif’s Oflice in said Town. Royal Treasury’s Office, St. Croix 29th May 1865. C. R. MAGENS. AUCTION. ÅUCTIONS-Dirccteuren bekjendtgjor herved, at ifølge Requisition as St. Thomæ Skifteret som behandlende Slag termester J. M. Villains Fallitbo vil blive opraabt til Salg ved 3 oflentlige Auctioner i Medfor as Pl. 22de April 1817, og som afholdes Iste Auction Onsdagenden 28deJuni forst kommende Kl. 12 Middag. 2den Auction Onsdagen den 12te Juli forstkommende Kl. 12 Middag. 3die Auction Onsdagen den 26de Juli forstkommende Kl. 12 Middag, de Boet tilhdrende 2 as No. 20 Regjeringsgade. lste og 2den Auction paa undertegnede Contoir, 3die Auction paa Aastedet. Conditionerne, Panteattest og Vurder ing ville blive fremlagte ved Auctionen, hvortil Lysthavende indbydes. St. Thomæ Auctions Contoir, den 29de Mai 1865. Rosenstand, Auctionsdirecteur. AUCTION. THE Vendue Director hereby makes known, that at the request of St. Thomas Dealing Court in administration of the bankrupt estate of Mr. J. M. Villain is offered for sale by 3 Auctions in con formity with the Royal Ordinance dated the 22nd April 1817, of No: 20 Regjeringsgade belouging to said estate. Ist Auction on Wednesday the 28th June prox. at 12 o’clock noon. ST CROLX AV S, 2nd Auction on Wednesday the 12th Ju ly prox. at 12 o’clock noon. 3rd Aunction on Wednesday the 26th Ju ly prox. at 12 o’clock noon. Ist and 20d Auction at this Office, 3rd at the premises. The terms of sale, extract of register of mortgages and appraisement to be seen at the Vendue, to which purchasers are invited. St. Thomas Vendue Office, the 29th of May 1865. Rosenstand, Vendue Director. AUCTION. g UCTIONS- Directeuren bekjendtgjor herved, at ifolge Requisition as St. Thiomæ Skifteret som behandlende Han delshuset M. M. Monsanto Co. Fallitbo vil blive opraabt til Salg ved 3de offentlige Auctioner i Medfor as Pl. 22de April 1817 og som as holdes lste Auction Onsdagen den 28de Juni forstkommende Kl. 1 Eftermiddag, 2den Auetion Onsdagen den 12te Juli forstkommende Kl. 1 Eftermiddag, 3die Auction Onsdagen den 26de Juli først kommende Kl. 1 Eftermiddag de Boet tilhørende faste No. 20, 21 og 24 Prindsensgade. lste og 2den Auction paa undertegnede Contoir, 3die Auction paa Aastedet. Conditionerne, Panteattest og Vurder ingsforretning ville blive fremlagte ved Auctionerne, hvortil Lysthavende indby des. St. Thomæ Anctions Contoir, den 29de Mai 1865. Kosenstand, Auctionsdirecteur. AUCTION. VAAHE Vendue Director hereby makes Z{\} known, that at the request of St. Thomas Dealing Court in administration of the bankrupt estate of Messrs. M. M. Monsanto Co., is offered for sale by 3 Auctions in conformity with the Royal Ordinance of 22nd April 1817,

The Properties No. 20, 21 and 2% Pnigscnsg;ule belong ing to said estate. Ist Auction on Wednesday the 28th June proximo, at 1 o’clock p. m. 2nd Auction on Wednesday the 12th July proximo, at 1 o'clock p. m. 3rd Auction on Wednesday the 26th Jualy proximo, at I o’clock p. m. “~lst and 2nd Auctions at this office, the 3rd at the premises. The terms of sale, extract of the regis ter of mortgages and appraisement to be secen at the Vendues to which purchasers are invited. St. Thomas Vendue Office, the 29th May 1865. ROSENSTAND, Vendue Dircetor. JE[HE Undersigned has opened a Pho tographic Skylight Gallery in King’s Street, No. 29 opposite the English Church, where Photographs and Fereo types can be obtained at cheap rates. For particulars see Posters. Christiansted 30th May 1865. P. BUSCH. se o SRR s B H. Krebs Pratorius, AGENTS OF THE NORTHERN ASSURANCE COMPANY. FOR FIRE AND LIFE. Route of Steamer Clara Ro the from St. Thomas to St. Croix and Vice Versa Approved by Government. June 1865. 3. Saturday leaves St. Thomas at 1.30 p m. for West End. 4. Sunday leaves West Endats.3o p.m. for St. Thomas. 5. Monday leaves St. Thomas at 6.30 a.m. for Bassin. Do. leaves Bassin at 6 p.m. for St. Thomas. 6. Tuesday remains in St. Thomas. 7. Wednesday leaves St. Thomas at 12 o’clock for West End. 8. Thursday leaves West End at 12 o’clock for Bt. Thomas. 18 g;?}]:’bl}} remains in St. Thomas. 11. Sunduy leaves St. Thomas at 7.30 a.m. for Bassin. 12. Monday leaves Bassin at 5.30 p.m. for St. Thomas. 13. Tuesday leaves St. Thomas at 12 o’clock for West End. 14. Wednesday leaves West End at 12 o’clock for St. Thomas. 15. Thursday leaves St. Thomas at 7.80 a.m. for Bassin. Do. leaves Bassin 2t 5.30 p.m. for St. Thomas. 16. Friday remains in St. Thomas. 17. Satarday leaves St. Thomas at 7 a.m. for Bassin if European Steamer is in. 18. Sunday leaves Dassin at 5.30 p.m. for St. Thomas. 19. Monday remains in St. Thomas. 20. Tuesday leaves St. Thomas at 12 o’clock for West End. 21. Wednesday leaves West End at 12 o’clock for St. Thomas. 22. Tharsday leaves St. Thomas at 12 o’clock for Bassin. 23, Friday leaves Bassin at 12 o’clock for St. Thomas. 24, Saturday remairs in Bt. Thomas. 25, Sunday leaves St. Thomus. at 6.30 a.m. for West Eud. Do. leaves West I'nd at 530 p.m. for St. Thomas. 26. Monday remains in St. Thomas. 27. Tuesday leaves St. Thomas at 1.30 p-m. for Bassin. 28. Wednesday leaves Bassin at 530 p-m. for St. Thomnas. 29. Thursday leaves St. Thomas at 7 30 a.m. for West kind. Do. leaves West End at 5.30 p.m. for St. Thomas. 30. Iriday remains in St. Thomas. FPLRssiel RATES Fist Lavin...... %3 Second do, AL for particulars apply to J. KNUTHSEN. PJTHE well known, Clipperbuilt, Schoon fix er “MAGGEL,” in perfect order she is a very comfortable Sea Boat, and bas splendid accommodation for passengers for particulars please apply to ROBERT FLYNN. Frederiksted, St. Croix 15th May 1865. U Q,";"l g;) E)\\o.m‘xuks, AGENT FOR ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY FOR FIRE LIFE IN ST.T\CROIX. @k&‘(\&g\wfl, SUB-AGENT IN FREDERIKSTED