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

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L A RS eeos 2 igBAS.T4 P e v pg PR3 et Tet e LR, o B S PP ek ‘.{7:"« 30l e S SRR Wi, R ks Ny o 08 oy e R AT ALY B TRt e Pk et Ao N b SRS iR RS e re 4 PR R G Wilesiein i\ R RS S R A R LR ARt AR REY T el WP B s AR S biy AR RAP y oy R e oTed B S R BT AT i R ety B AT Rt ks L L R i Sty 0N o P SIS e 2 1 ik st “‘;‘i S 2 e gt RN FISEY N R Aye A e AP eEO So s ek, PR |l3 SR .32 N W 3 x A s R RO s S R Wi 2 &2 e oS sEr) Britee SR BV S e e A R N P i) ot 0 Gy Ty R SSES s o A 8 et b TVUGIVER: HANS HATOHETT. --TBRYET 1 EREEN HARBRRIET BATUHETT’S BOGIRYEERERE 21de Aarg.] The “AVIS” IS EDITED BY HANS HATCHETT; AND PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. for the Proprietress. Terms of Subscraption.—Six Dollars per an- num, payable quarterly in advance. Single number to non-advertisers——lo cents gy~ Parties desirous of withdrawing their subseription to the Avis’’ are required to oive three months previous notice. Terms of Advertising, Approved by Government, 25th June, 1855. For an advertisement of 8 lines, or under, one to three insertions—— Smalt Type (Drevier) Ito Blines....sl 00 Over limes pe dile 0 16 Larger Type (Loung Primer, Small Pica, Tied Coluinbia) 1 to Blines 1 00 ere Lues e Hine 10 Ter o line of largest Type 1z 5= For 1 to 3 subsequent insertions, the halt amount of the first charce will be made, All advertisements for insertion must be delivered at this Oflice on Mondays and Thursdays, notlaterthan 4 o’clock P. M accompanied with the CASIT, as otherwise insertion wili be refused. The Postageon icitersto this Office from West End i or St. Thomas must be prepaid, or no notice will be taken of them. Lutheran Chusreh, Christiansted, On Sunday the 30th instant, there will be divine service held for the English Lu- theran Coungregation in this Church. TABLE OF THE FALL OF RAIN during the week from 19th July to 25th July- Christiansted. Frederiksted. King's Hill. Lines, Lines: Lines. July 19, 03 0 41 80, 1% 24 04 1 21 9 0} 0 i ;_):')’ 0 0 0 "g 0 0 0 94 0 0 0 25 45 6t 31 s I g S s 121 9 St E- 3 3 i w7 'HOTOGRAPHY, F l 4J" fl 4

TIHE undersigned begs to announnce that in a few days he will have made proper arrangement for taking Likenesses on Cards, Glass or Iron, as also a co'lee- tion of views of this town at prices ac- commodating to all. t He respectfully solicits the patronage of Ladies and Gentlemen desiring cartes de visite or Portraits beauntifully colored in cases or frames. Specimens of which can be scen at the Crown Hotel.

B. WELLCOME, i of St. Thomas. e s NOTICE. JJTHE undersigned begs to inform his customers and the public in general, 1 that he will continue to supply fresh beef at the rate of 15 cents per pound. Respectfully, JOHN Wu. DERRICKS. Bassin 26th July 1865. "R Al executed at this Office TING with neatness and des patch. CHRISTIANSTED, FREDAGEN den 28de JULI 1865. ROUTE OF STEAMER ‘“Clara Rothe,”

APPROVED BY GOVERNMENT. From 31st JuLy TO 15TH AUGUST. Moz 12 Aw mt‘.xtlu mm.xl of the l,u]'o- Bie. peanSteamerand conveys Mails ol S cither to West End or Bassin. Wednesday 2 Remains in St. Thomas. Thursday 3 Leaves St. Thomas for West End at 7 30 A, M. D 0..... 3Leaves West lEnd for St. Thomas E at 530 P Friday 4Remains in St. Thomas. Saturday o Leaves St. Thomas for Bassin at L P M. Sunday 6 Leaves Bassin for St. Thomas at 550 P M. Monday 7 Leaves St.'Thomas for West End L ot 7 .30 M D0.....| 7Leaves West End for St. Thomas o at 530 M. Tuesday S Leaves St. Thomas for Bassin at 7308 M, Do, f S Leaves Bassin for St. Thomas at 530 P M. Wednesday 9 Leaves St. Thomas for Ponce b (Pto. Re.) at 6 A. M. Thursday .10 Leaves Ponce for Arroyo and St. i Thomas at 8 A. M. Friday .11 Remains in St. Thomas Saturday ‘;lffll‘um’«-.\' St Thomas for Bassin at i 7 30 A, N Do. _s|f—",f_uu\ os Rassin for £t. 'Thumas al P 5302 M, Sunday ../13 Remains in St. Thomas. Monday .-|l4 Leaves St. Thomas for West End f I at 730A M. Do, -H'l,l.eu\'c:\' West End for St. Thomas at 530 P. M Tuesday ..|[lsßemains in St. Thomas. Christiansted 23th July 1865. JULIUS KNUTHSNEN, Agcent. T the request of the Owners of Schooner 1 o iight” tarlight, 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 “STARLIGHT” now is in a good scaworthy Condi tion and fit to carry all kind of Mer chandize. To which declaration we have put our signatures. Christiansted, St. Croix 19th July 1865. PETER LASSEN. H.J. PETERSEN. P. A. PETERSEN. JAMES BEHAGEN. PAHE bids made at the auctions of Mt. 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 property will be knocked down to such purchaser at a fresh auction. If no high er bids are forthcoming within a reason able time, the properties will be taken o er by the levyholder for the prices mentioned above. St. Croix, July 25th 1865. g HEILBUTH. e FOR SALE FJUHE House No. 5 Company Street in A\ this town, the property of Mr. Al verty. Apply at the Ice Establishment.

Christiansted June 29, 1865. D W 6 )%3 DE Os the Receipt ot Deposits at the St. Croix Ry sAT E SAVINGS BANK, On Saturday, 22nd July 1865. i ae TR Receivers: IN CHRISTIANSTED i Robt. Finlay, Esq., Trustee. l IN FREDERIKSTED H. N. Mallgrav Fsq., Trustee. Amount of former deposits. 237,850 67 4 deposits of 20 cents each. 1o above 20 ¢te. and under sl. 88 v 5. o 8 10. 4 18 z 20. 5. 9 50. 8 8O T 100. l (-3‘;;_‘@l»os’.ls, of which t 51 in Christiansted amounting 0. 0000 68 0 9in Frederiksted do. 171 16 e SBL B i e Total $238,311 71 i Balance of deposits 46,855 75 17 new deposit accounts, viz. 15 Laborers. 1 Wheelwright. 1 Various. 10 Withdrawals amounting t0..5714 83. Receivers for Saturday, 29th July 1865. IN CHRISTIANSTED Carl Hattensen, Esq., Trustee. J. Jacobsen, Esq., Member. IN FREDERIKSTED R. Moreton, Esq., Trustee. P. Stevenson, Esq., Member. GEO. BEHAGEN. President, St. Croix, 24th July 1865. [IRS. LOREN'TZ gives lessons in J music (piano and song.) Like wise she tunes pianos. Apply at Dr. Knudsens quarter, the barracks. K 6. dlenddl, AGENT FOR ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY FOR FIRE LIFE IN ST. CROIX. W Sididiew, SUB-AGENT IN FREDERIKSTED. [Nr. 60.

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may recollect, Prussia, some months ago, suddenly proposed to call a Representa tive Assembly, wishing to secure popular support and gain a new ally of her own creation against Austria, who had just placed her veto upon the conversion of Kiel into a Prussian harbour. Herr von Bismark at that time intended to enfran chise every living soul in the Duchies, hoping to outvote the middle-cless re presentatives by a numerous peasantry, who, he supposed, were less likely to care fur independence and Liberalism than for cernomy and the best means of escap iz the settlement of his little bill for the war. DBut the King was uufavourable to a plan savouring of democratic prineiples, and the Parliamentary events which have since supervened in Prussia render it hardly advisable for him to eall to his aid the votes of any Representative Assembly in this part of the world. In Schieswig tlolstein people have begun to believe that after all that has happened at Berlin, Herr von Bismark canuot count upon a majority for his schemes in the Duchies, and that the regard he has iately shown to the Danish clement among them arises from a wish to have at least one party on his side, whether a Parhhament be assem bled or no. We learn from luspired correspondents that the Pruassian Crown lawyers now engaged in completing their report on the right of’ succession in the Duchies have acknowledged the validity jot the former title of King Christian of’ Denmark, thus recoguizing Implicitly the legality and narestricted form of the title now owned by Auastria and Prussia. Lo case oniy of the two latter acreeing to reisonnce their newly aeqnired rights, there would, in the opmion of these profound legists, be any oceasion to revert to the claims of the Duke of Augustenburg and his rivals; and 1o this case it would appear that none of the various candidates being entitled to the whole of the Duchies, the question can be decided onily on political not on geitcalogical grounds, ainless, indeed, the country is to be portioned out, and divi sion to follow in the wake of the war. With reference to the mysterions attitude assumed by the Grand Duke of Olden burg, it may be as well to remark that this limitation of hereditray rights bears more directly upon him than apon any other among the five or six candidates in the field. The Holstein-Gottorp or Ol denburg line never owne:d more in past centuries than a small siicc of the very respectable whole; and having in the person of the limperor of Russia renounc ed their rights to this portion only, when the existence of the Danish Monarchy was to be perpetuated under King Christian, it is thus proved that they never thought of asking, on the ground of their descent and family connexions, for any further share in the prize under dispute. The negotiations pending between the Grand Duke and the King of Prus:ia are not re garded as of any particular significance. The Grand Duke, it is thought, may be used as a means of teaching manuers to the other pretenders, and, above all, coerc ing that disagreeable Dulke of Augusten burg, who will insist upon ihe exclusive ness of his claims; but it will be difficult to turn him to better account. In the first instance, the Grand Dake, having no personal rights, is indebted for what he owns to the Emperor of Russia, the head of the senior branch of his family, who thought it politic to cede his title to a relative, that happens to be a member of the Confederacy. But the Emperor of Raussia it is well known, some years ago Sfi'e @@fl& @\o[]@@ relinquished those very rights in favour ot King Christian of Denmark, and it 1s a matter of doubt, to say the least of It, whether this process can be repeated for the benefit of some other client, on the mere ground of the first prodégd having lost his title and the country to which it referred by an unfortunate war. Again, it 1s a fact that in ceding his claims to his cousin of Oldenburg, the Emperor reserved to himself the reversion ot the same. Hence before his O!denburg cou sin has anything worth having to offer 1n the mariket he must take care to obtain an unrestricted and unqualified title for himself. If some supplementary instru ment to that cffect had been drawn up since the famous letter the Imperor wrote hum a year ago from Kissengen the fact, there is little doubt, would have been published forthwith, Dr. Jacoby, of the Prassian Landtag, has been seutenced to six months' impri sonment for having at a public meeting at Berlin called upon his coustituents to refuse to pay the taxes to «n uncounstitu tional Government. The Liberals ave ia good hopes that the shuttinz up of a man of his weicht and renown will bene it them nearly as much as the death of Herr Virchow at the hands of Herr von Bismark, had sach a eatastrophe actually occurred. Dr. Jueoby, I»]!_\'sit'iam at Kounigsburg, is a man well known for courage, integrity, and the services he has rendercd his country in its constitu tional struggles. It was he who 25 years aco, in a famous pamphlet, began the war against absolutism who, in 1848, had a very extraordinary euncounter at Sans-Soucl with Kine Frederiek William IV., which, if it did not endear him to the moderate Liberals, made his name the most respected and revered among the many Radicals in the land, and who in the present Parliamentary conflict alone refused to accept from a Government which, 1n his opinion, has no right to dis pose of the pablic moneys, the 10s. a day aliotted to the members of the Lower House. llis many pamphlets—striking compositions, ot more logical than politi cal force—have frequently brought down legal prosecution upon his devoted head, but always ended in his acquittal. This is the first time he has been actually con victed. Dr. Frenzel, another able mem ber of the Lower Ilouse, has had also two months’ imprisonment awarded to him, for speaking disrespecttully of the King at a public meeting. Both sen tences have produced a deep impression in the country. Now that the Govern ment has had recourse to these stringent means of repression, it is morally certain that the remaining members ot the Land tag will speak out more boldly than ever. (L'rom Chambers's Journal, May 27.) SCIENCE AND ARTS. Twenty years ago, scientific conversa zioni were rare in the metropolis; but now, every Society, whether small or great, seems to consider it essential to hold a soirée at least once during the sea son 3 and in this way the Professors of all the arts and sciences, and some who pro fess neither, indulge in a little gentle dis sipation. The President of' the Linnaan Society has given two soirées, at which birds, beasts, fishes, and plants were ex emplified by remarkable specimens; Sir Roderick Murchison has given one as President of the Geographical Society, which, enlivened by the presence of ladies, was a very brilliant gathering, besides its illustrations of much that is new in geo graphical science; and General Sabine, President of the Royal Society, has given two at Burlington House, which, though not graced by the fair sex, were singular ly attractive by reason of their illustra tion of the progress of art and scicnce, as will appear from a few particulars. We have on former ocecasions noticed aluminum-bronze as a metal combining in an extraordinary degee the qualities of sirength and lichiness. Hitherto, it has been only used for cups, trays, jew eilery, and various domestic articies; but at the meeting above referred to, ex cellent proot was shewn of the adaptation of aluminum-bronze for scientific purpos es, chiefly in parts of surveying-instru ments, and supports and axes for tele scopes. In apparatus of this kind, it is hardly possible to overrate the advantage gained to observers by the combination of strencth and lightness poss':rssvd by the metal and although the bronze is an in tractable metal for casting, the difficulties have been so well overcome, that large tripods have been cast in one piece, the metal being nowhere more than about one-tenth of an inch in thickness, and yet capable of bearing a heavy weight. From this, a falr notion of Its strength may be inferred. It is worth notice, by the way, that machinery is coming more and more into ase in the manufacture of philosophical instruments, which is important, inas much as machine-made instruments must be accurate apd identicai. Hence, ob servers in places widely separated, using similar instruments, will be able to com pare their observations with greater cer tainty than before. Moreover, it is found that women can be e nployed to attend the machines, which will be a subject of congratulation among those persons who have been trying to solve the problem as to how unmarried women shall earn their own living. There were examples, also, of the fur ther application of platinum to scientific uses, I which a considerable advance has been made since Deville’s discovery that platinum can be cast in large masses. For manufacturing chemists, platinum in invaluable, for in boilers and other ves sels made of that metal, they can con centrate the most powerful acids. One of these boilers, looking something like a large bright tin kettle, was shewn standing on a table its price was two thousant pounds. A few years ago, magnesium was worth forty guineas an ounce; now it can be bought at ten shillings an ounce, so greatly has the cost of its manufacture been cheapened and it is now produced as valves and screw-tubes of considerable size and thickness, as well as in the form of wire. It is also highly useful for illu minating purposes, and experiments have been made with a view to its adoption for street-lighting instead of gas. Os its brilliance, there is no question it throws gas and all ordinary lights into shadow. A Company in Rio Janeiro, where gas is sold at seventeen shillings the thousand feet, wrote not long ago to the secretary of a scientific society in London, to ask whether magnesium could not be afford ed at less cost. The inventive faculty is so lively at the present day, that it is not impossible a satisfactory answer may be given before the world is many years older. Electric and telegraphic signals appear to multiply every mouth; some simple and effective, others curious and compli cated. Among the former are signals for use in mines, whereby the man at the

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