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

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For an advertisement of 8 lines, or under, one to three Insertions— Small Type (Brevier) 1 to Slines....§l 00 ee pr line L 16 Larger Type (Liong Primer, Small Pica, Ticw, Coldmbin:) I so Blines 1 00 Clver 8 Hnos, pro e 10 for a line of largest Fype 12 For 1 to 3 subscquent insertions, the halt amount of the first charge will be made, Al! advertisements for insertion must be delivered at this Office on Mondays and Thursdays, notlater than 4 o'clock I’. M. accompanied with the CASIL. as otherwise insertion will be refused. The Postageon lettersto this Office from West End or St. Thomas must be prepaid, or no notice will be taken of them. A1 T A S P TS IT S ST T STy BEK JOABTEJDENI O DERJDAD EUJURELS Ifølge Meddelelse fra det Kongelige Consulat paa St. Domingo har den span ske Orvercommando sammesteds, p2a Grund'af at den natiovale Regjering har forkastet de opstillede Betingelser for en Overeenskomst, paany erklæret samtlige Havne og Kyster i det hidtilværende spanske 'Ferritorium paa nævnte O i Biokadetilstand. Hvilket herved efter Ordre bekjendt gjores. Gouvernementets 2det Secretariat, St. Croix den 18de July 1865. CARL HATTENSEN. /"\'l‘ the request of the Owners of (r]l Schooner 8 “Starlight” we the undersigned, repaired this day on board the said Vessel, to ex amine and give our .opinions about the repairs newly undergone here, and do declare, That the Schooner “STARLIGITT” now is in a good seaworthy Condi tion and fit to carry all kind of Mer chandize. To which declaration we have put our signatures. Christiansted, St. Croix 19th Jaly 1865. PETER LASSEN. H. J. PETERSEN. P. A. PETERSEN. JAMES BEHAGEN. FRHE bids made at the auctions of M. A Welcome and of Baron A. Bretton’s house in Christiansted respectively $2,100 $2,000 expenses included—not being acceptable,the underwritten invites purchasers to make higher offers to him privately, when, upon price and terms having been agreed on, the respective CHRISTIANSTED, TIRSDAGEN den 25de JULI 1865, property will be knocked down to such purchaser at a freshauction. If no high er bids are forthcoming within a reason able time, the propertics will be taken over by the levyholder for the prices mentioned above. St. Croix, July 25th 1865. HEILBUTH. Strayed from the Esiate SIGHT, a red Bteer, about 2% years old, with sharp horns, \origitally belonging to Estate La Vallee. The finder will kindly oblige by giving iuformation to G. BEIIAGEN. Christiapsted, 24th July 1365. a 1 N DRAFT OF A BUDGET FOR THE ISLAND OF ST. CROIX FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR, FROM 5 Ist APRIL 1365, To 31st MARCH 1866. N e f (Coneluded.) 8. The Militia and Brand Department l‘ Fixed salaries and Waoes Gob 00 FPor attendance to the engines and other expenses 250 00 906 00 9. The Rrad Department, Streets &e. The Chief Inspector of Roads, Salary 1,000 00 Stationary for the Quarter Ofticers 6L 00 Contribution towards repairs of roads 500 00 Expenses for repairing streets, wells and 'i bridges in the towns 638 00 i The Lighting of strects and other public Places 170 00 2,423 00 l 10. The Department of public Instruetion Salaries to teachers in the town schools 6,534 00 2 Messengers at these schools 192 00 For salaries to 8 teachers in the raral schools 2,560 00 To the Moravian Missionary Drethren, as o contribution for defraying the expenses of the rural schools 768 00 l Salary to an assistant teacher and 8 Female teachers in the rural schools 792 00 Other expenses for the schools in town and in country 623 00 11,524 00 t 11. The Sanitary Department Salaries &e. to the Landphysician and oth er public physicians 1,480 00 Salaries to 2 Midwives 640 00 Salaries &e. to 2 vetirenary Surgeons 452 00 Lxpenses for the Communal Hospitals 6,468 00 i o for the Quarantine Department and for precautionary measures against cpidemics 250 00 9,290 00 12. The Poor Department Support in money to paupers 4,320 00 Medicine to paupers 300 00 Expenses for burying paupers 260 00 4,880 00 13. The Prison” Department Salaries to Inspector, Jailers, Drivers &c. 1,821 00 For Servants and servants’ hire 336 00 The maintenance of prisoncrs 3,612 00 Various other expenses 760 00 6,529 00 T, P 14. Contribution to the Immigration fund 6,000 00 153,511 00 PEp—— S—— L. Ezxpenses for buildings and other uncer- tain ISxpences 14,000 00 F. Part of expences for a steamer running between the danish westindia Islands 3,200 00 G. Pensions: Pensions according to the Law of 4th De cember 1863 2,000 00 Pensions granted by Ordinances or other- i i wise warranted v 992 00 Part of pensions to retired non-commission- ed officers, musicians and privates in o the wostindia forces 491 00 f"w 00 Total Expenditure M g@\* account of circumstances the sale of &J furniture advertised by Mrs. Bahne berg in the last number of the Avis” will not take place at “Bulowsminde but I with permission of the vendue-director the furniture, among which are several ma hogany bedsteds with hair mattrasses, tables, chairs, slob &e., besides some saddles will be sold at the auction of the l deed. Mrs. Philips Saturday the 22nd Inst. FOR SALE P i ff’{‘lll I: HHouse No. 5 Company Street in this town, the property of Mr. Al verty. Apply at the Ice Llistablishment. Christiansted June 29, 1860.

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From the Spectator, July 1.) PRIVILEGE IN AMERICA. Democracy in America, it is beconing evident, has to pass through one more trial. It has come victorious out of a war which would have erushed ary IKu ropean monarchy except the British, and has overcome a rebellion before which even Great Britain might possibly have succumbed. It has secured by four years of desperate cffort, during which it has had to discover the men who can orga nize force as well as to develope the force itself, the control of a continent and the emancipation of a race, and now it has to accomplish a feat greater cven than these. Our American friends will listen with annoyed incredulity when we deseribe the task yet remaining to be performed, but it 1s none the less one which will test their trusted system far more than the struggle which they have won. 'That was a question of force, and even 'Tories like Sir Archibald Alison have long since conceded that a democra cy when it possesses force at all, possess es it in a nearly irresistible degree. Noth ing can withstand millions of’ free-men, when all are willing to sacrifice all rather than the Republic should suffer a decline. But democracy has now to develope a quality indefinitely higher than force, a quality which democracies are apt to des pise, which the American democracy avowedly does despise—the delicate and subtle statesmaaship which carry through a social revolution without destroving the bonds by which society exists. T'he Federal Government, victorious in war and not successful in diplomacy, able to place a million of men in the field and to keep six hundred armed vessels engaged in a blockade—that, the strangest fact of the war, has almost escaped attention— has now, when resistance has apparently ceased, to change eleven oligarchical States into eleven democratic and free republics, and every mail which arrives displays more clearly the difliculty of the task. In eleven States, all faithful or submissive to the Union, Virginia, Ken tucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana, and T'exas, there is a silent struggle going on, nominally as to the position of the negro, really as to the question, old as civilization, whether the basis of society is to be equality or privilege. Equality of legal rights is the strength of the North, yet it is unwilling to establish it in the South by force; privilege is the passion of the South, and though defeated in the great struggle for its final recognition as the keystone of society, it cannot bear to surrender the long-enjoyed possession. Privilege there fore in some shape the ‘“South”—by which wein this instance mean all re cently slaveholding States—is determined to retain. In Virginia the masters, with the fine instinet of capital for its immedi ate interests, have combined to fix the rate of wages for coloured men at five dollars a month, just one-third the hiring price of slaves, and about one-fourth the rate which the coloured men, if free to work or be idle, would be willing to ac cept. In Tennessee, which has regained its restricted independence, the Legisla ture has deprived the blacks of the spe cial right of freemen, that of bearing wit ness, and has imposed a special penalty on rape if committed by the inferior co lour. In Louisiana the white is privi leged to do nothing, while the black, even if he prefers to starve, must work under somebody’s orders; in North jCarolina SSTe CROLX AVIE S the free schools are restricted to whites; in Arkansas and some other States the free locomotion of blacks is forbidden, and in all political power is cenfined not to property, or education, or even ancient birth: but to men whose skins are devoid of a shade of the detested colour. Many of these rules are 1n themselves, as tem porary rules, defensible, and probably all deserve less opprobrinm than freemen will be disposed to believe. We are not prepared to contend for a negro suffrage except upon the simple ground of ncces sity—though that greund is uwassailable —or to condemn any community for pas sing severe vagrant laws. The masters in the Staffordshire iron trade tried the other day to insist on a rate of wages, and the difficulty about the schools hasshaken Belgium and Ireland. Even as 'to the law about evidence there 1s something to be said in palliation. Apart altogether from morals, all races are not truthful alile, and ouly ane can as yet report facts without either wilful distortion, or preju dice, or an uncounscious colour. An En clish gentleman, or an lEnglish workman of strong religious feelings, ean when he tries very hard report facts exactly as they occurred, and he Is, so far as we know, the only human being who can. Had the negro’s evidenee been admitted only quantum valeat, and the white enti tled for twenty years to a majority of the jury, justice might not have suffered, thongh equality would. Dut all these laws, @nd general orders, and suggestions for laws, and praetices having the force of laws, are based on the same idea, namely, privilege—the right of the white man to a hizher legal position than the coloured man by reason of his whiteness, and if privilege is to exist Republican society must cease. It does not matter much whether the individaal planter 1s to control the individual negro, or the aggregate planter community is to rule the life of aggregate negrodom, the gre sult in either case is an oligarchical sys tem, tolerable, it may be, in itself, though in our eyes detestable, but, tolerable or intolerable, inconsistent with society as it intends, counsciously intends, to exist in North America. It is absolutely essential to construct a system under which two races differing widely in eivilization, in physical power, in those tendencies which spring ot race, and those desires which arise from culti vation, shall live together, it not in ami ty, at least in mutual respect. low is the necessity to be met? Let the Go vernment, says the American Radical, and the English Liberal, and the Anglo- Indian, enforee for aseries of years equal and somewhat stern justice, and the end will be attained, as it isin Ireland be tween Catholics and Protestants, in Russia between serfs and nobles, in In dia between natives and settlers. Men however prejudiced, always submit at last pretty placidly to justice if backed by force, and a white cannot hate a qua droon harder than a Graham of the De bateable Land once hated an Eliot or a Scot. But how if the Government will not fulfil the condition, cannot be relied on always to do justice, can hever be trusted to make its justice visible to the weaker side? Government in the United States for all political purposes means the individual State, and the individual State is obviously not prepared to be just, is rather prepared to be unjust as far as it ean and dare. 'The States left to themselves will not make the two classes equal in rights, aod yet without equality there is no chance of that decent asquies cence in each other’s claims which is es sential to freedom the white will use force, as he did a month since in Wash ington, to enforce his claims the black wiil mutiny, as he did a fortnight since on the transports, to resist a dreaded de mand. ‘There will either be an interne cine civil war fatal to that civilization which to men of the nineteenth century is almost as valuable as freedom, or a submission which will restore slavery in all but name. It is all very well to talk of compromise, of the influence of dis cussion, and of opivion, but as a matter of fact these processes, though possibly certain, are too slow for human endurance. A thousand years have not cared the roy al caste of. the beliet that they reign by some divine right, two thousand have scarcely sufficed to remove the antipathy to the Jews, five thousand have not in duced Asiaties and luaropeans to recog nize each other as absolutely equal be fore God, entitled to the same laws, pro tected by the same rule of right. ‘The object is to secure the end now, within haman hfetime, and it is clear that the dominant class in the Eleven States will not willingly consent to secure it, will not of its own free choice leave the negro alone to develope into a Toussaiut, or sink into an Indian as his capacity may lead. If the dominent race is to decide with out intervention privilege is re-establish ed, the war, with its fearful expenditure of blood and treasure and energy, will have been waged in vain, and the Union must sooner or later be again assailed by a competing civilization. We do not therefore wonder that shrewd Americans, perceiving this, are splitting into three camps of opinion, fighting for three dif ferent schemes of polity. One section would permit, perhaps would welcome, the resalt they perceive at hand, but the section 1s small, and to our readers at least not worthy of very eareful exposure. The othiers are two brauches of one arcat party which is resolved to prevent the re-establishment of privilege, but be ing resolved, has split upou the policy by which its resolve is to be attained. The individual State, the Republicans clearly perceive, must either be coerced into doing the necessary impartial justice, or made to see that it is for its interest to do it,—must in fact either be placed ueder the Federal power, 4. e, in party phrase, under “military control,” or must be induced to establish negro suffrage. Under the former plan, which is, we re gret to pereeive, slightly gaining ground, being not only much the quicker, but supported by the negroes themselves, ex ternal justice would be secured, but at the certain cost of State rights which are of doubtful value, and the possible risk of freedom, which is simply invaluable. Under the second scheme justice would be secured from within, the rulers seeing it done not because they love justice, but because they must conciliate the men whose votes can turn the scale for or against them. Without external pres sure applied in one of these two modes the Eleven States, as they revive and recover their internal independence, will re-establish the ancient system, modified only by restrictions on the division of fa milies, by a right to bare maintenance in cash instead of in kind, and by a restrict ed privilege of fransfer from one estate to another. Those changes are gains to the negro, but they leave the grand structure of privilege untouched, and al low society in the South to re-construct itself on the basis of the right of a domi-

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man who favours the Government cannot breathe frcely. Bayonets alone can control the country. The greatest distress prevails among the people. Several have starved to death. The feeling against the frece negroes is most in tense. They will be murdered or driven out of the country if provost guards are not maintain ed at all the coantry seats. It is idle to hope for any love of the Government in this section of country until a ncw generation grows up. No reconstruction movements have as yet begun in any other States. Governor Brown, of Georgia, is in Washington. The President, it is said, is preparing a proclamation for recon struction in Georgis, which will soon be issucd. Brown is indicated as the most available man for provisional Governcr, but their is no cer tainty of his appointment. Governor Aiken is proposed for provisional Governor of South Ca rolina, but there is no rumour even of the time when that State will be reconstructed. Several other citizens are proposcd for Governor as well as Aiken. From all quarters of the South the most gloomy reports of the poverty of the peo ple and the stagnation of trade are received. It is thought that President Johnson’s jro clamation sweceping away all the restrictions upon Southern trade will have h beneficial of fect in allowing cotton and other products to be brought to market. It goes into cffect at once, and abolishes the cutire horde of 'T'reasury agents and the heavy taxes that preventcd the export of products. The South cannot buy anything until it gets money by selling, and a very short time will solve the problem and start Southern trade briskly, if there is any to start. Foreign commerce is on the same footing as do mestic commerce after July 1. It is reported from Richmond that scveral vessels laden with goods that have been lying at the wharves bave left, in search of a better market. Let ters from Mobile warned dealers too great a ship ment of goods from the North, the market being overstocked by the supplies from New Orleans. Cotton was arriving at Moblie very slowly, and the old factors were doing nothing. One of the merchants writes :—<“We can do nothing without greenbacks, and, as we have but little to give in return for thesec, it will be impossi ble to lay in supplies even to the extent of our ordinary wants.” As an incentive to Southern trade, General Schofield in North Carolina and General Sheridan at New Orleans have both ordered their subordinates to remove all re strictions on the sale of cotton. 1t is estimated that there are 1,000,000 bales of cotton in the States cast of the Mississippi. A gentleman who arrived at New Oi:leans on June 10, after a tour of 1,000 miles through the cotton States, reports that nearly all the cotton lands are un der corn culture. The corn did not look well, the absence of labour being painfully visible in the great growth of weeds. The gentleman’s opinion i 3 that the whole South will be starv ing inless than a year. 'T'wo very admirable measures are just reported which will do not a little good to aid the South. The obstructions in the James River have been removed, and a large society of merchants has been formed in Baltimore to furnish as a loan to Southern farmers implements, seeds, &c., to enable them to cultivate their lands. ‘People in the North are getting very much frightened at the great increase of the public debt. $2,000,000 a day in time of peace, add ed to the present enormous debt, is frightful to think of. The gold premium has advanced 10 per cent, within a week, no doubt accelerated by the hopelessness of making Government ex peénses come within the revenue. In addition to the national demand for money, many of the States dre askiog for loans. New Jersey wants to borrow to meet its bounty liabilities at 6 per cent. New Hampshire to more nearly compete with the Government proposes to give 7 3-10 per dent, for money for the same purpose. New York is issuiig bonds in liquidation of like claims to the amount of some $18,000,000. The New York bonds are to be exchavnged for 12 years’ 7 per cent. stock, at the option of the holders, unless at the next election the peo ple decide against a State debt, and then the bonds are to be paid off as quickly as possible by the taxes collected from the State. John Mitchel, the exiled Irishman, cditor of the Richmond Examiner, but more recently of the' New York Daily News, has been arrested in New York and sent prisoneér to Fortress ST.CROUODX AVI S Monroe. When Richmond fell Mitchel came and succeceded Mr. B. Wood in the editorial control of the News About a week ago he put at the head of his columns an announce ment that when wanted, cither by the Govern ment or individuals, he would be found at the Daily News oflice during business hours. Ac cordingly the Government took him at his werd and arrested bim., I cannot say that this sei zure has caused much regret cven among the friends of the South. The general impression is that Mitchel’s audacity merited some such treatment, and popular opinion fzwours as a proper punishment the proposition that he be sent to England, under the extradition treaty, as an escap:d convict from Australia. The auction sale of the wheels used for draughting in New York was largely attended }’L'S‘Cl'dfly. Two of the wheels, made at a cost to the Government of €250 each, were sold for §5 Hoe. each. Barnum bought one, and it will Lercafter decorate his Museum of Curiositics. A declaration of PPoles has Lad an interview with the President. They say that 20,000 ex patriated Poles desire to cmigrate to America. Efforts are being 'made to get them to scttle in Virginia, The Mexican emigration fever has entirely died out. The only place where it is still spoken of is in San Franciseo. The cvidence to be taken in the assassination trials will close to-day. Tlie arguments, in cluding one arainst the jurisdiction of the Court, prepared by Beverly Johuoson, are now being presented, the somewhat anamalous course hav irg been adopted of hearing the arguments be fore all the witnesses have testified. T'he me dical examiners of Payne declare him to be per fectly sane. It is reported that Kord’s Thea tre, where the President was killed, has been sold for a church to the Congregationalists of Washington. This is the Chnurch that Heory Ward Beecher belongs to. It is thought the indic'ments against Gene ral e and others found by the Norfo'k grand jury will never be brought to trial. President Johpson and his Atttorney-General both refuse to countenance them, and the entire country regards them as an wet of perfidy. Ex-President Buchanan will soon publish a history of his Administration. It is anticipated with oreat interest, as much of the secret his tory of the beginning of the American War will no doubt be exposed. We have strange reports from New Orleans, Tt is stated that General Sheridan began on June 1 to send all the available Federal troops in Louisiana towards the Rio Grande. T'wen ty-five thousand Texan Confederates have also started towards Mexico, it is reported, The Government has suddenly become startled and is in great dread of complications with Mexico. Banks gave up his command at New Orleans on June 2, and affiirs are now controlled by Sheridan and Camby. A petition has been for some time circula ting in New York for aid for General Lee— -860,000 have been raised. A delegation from a Scotch emigration socie ty visited the President to-day to consult him about Scoteh emicration to the Southern States. [l\f]RS. LOREN'TZ gives lessons in J music (piano and song.) Like wise she tunes pianos. Apply at Dr. Knudsens quarter, the barracks. :'ä/INDI.(")STE Breve i Christiansteds Postcontoir:— Manuel Abram, John B. Bowers, Thomas Brown, C. Brust meyer, Mrs. C. Coakly, Mrs. Diana Can ton, C. S. De'Mendes, Margareth Francis, Cathrine Fransis, L. W. Frederiksen, Peter Groan, Wilhelmina Gumbs, H. H. Hansen, W. B. Hodgs, Sergeant Hermann, Gev. Hutchison, Alex. Jackson, Martha James, Jayme Junsem, Lars Larsen, John Leslie, Peter Lund, Senor Marrin, Clarisa Petersen, P. Sclioester, Mrs. N. Tegner, Richard Towers, Miss Virgina, Adegf'aide Williams, Charlotte Williams, Mrs. Mad laine Williams. ÆINDLGSTE Breve i Frederiksteds U Postcontoir:—Louisa Battise, Mrs. Canson, Mary Carden, Miss S. F. Caul, Eliz. Christian, Mrs. H. Christophor, An ny Constand, Miss O. Dons, Mrs. Fritz berg, A. Gabeul, Cath. Gausper, Naney Hatchett, Elizb. Henderset, Mary Heyli ger, Mr. Huge,, Wm. Hylagh, Marcy Jackson, Capt. James, Elizb. James, El len James, F. E. James, Sarah James, Adeline Joliunnes, Saml. T. Johnson' Louisa Joseph, Maria Joseph, G. I. Krause, Sus. Louis, Christefina Maduro, A. Mayuard, Miss M. Meyer, J. Ondruf, E. Peterson, Nancy Petersen, Mrs. P. Pittersen, D. Piza, G. Prince, J. J. Quin, Mrs. O'Reily, Mrs: L. Richurd, Miss A. Roberts, Cath. Roberts, F. Schuster, Ba rah Thomas, Christiana Williams. AUCTION. Y request of C. E.Bryan Esqr., will ZD be sold on Monday 31st Inst., at No. 40 Company Street, a large lot of Dry Goods &e., to make room for shipments of New Goods expeeted. Sale to commence at 12 o’clock. Bassin 21st July 1865. J. A, St{akemanmn. AUCTION. %q] FTER Begjering as Christiansteds F4 Skifteret som behundlende Planter Alexander Wolfis Fallitboe, vil en offent- Jlig Auction vorde afholdt Løverdagen den 29de dennes Eftermiddag Klokken 1 slet, pua PLANTAGEN Lowryhill over DBoets LOSORE og EFFECTER deriblandt en Phæton og 2 Ponier. Christiansteds Auetions Contoir, den 20de Juli 1865. J. A. Stakemann. Æ RE ØE DeA. E AUOLTION. T' Request of Christiansted’s Dealing AN Court as administering the Bankrupt Dealing of Mr. Alexander Wolff, a public Vendue will be held, at ESTATE Lowryhill on Saturday the 29th instant, 1 o’clock p.-m. on the FURNITURE EFFECTS belonging to the dcaling, among which a Phaton 2 Ponies. Christiansted’s Vendue Office 20th July 1865. J. A. Stakemann. HE house No 36 Strand Street, belonging to Mrs. Keutsch, at present occupied by Mrs. Didrichsen. Possession can be had Ist August. Apply to J. C. BRANDT. H. Krebs Praetorius, AGENTS OF THE NORTHERN ASSURANCE COMPANY. FOR FIRE AND LIFE.