St. Croix Avis (Christiansted, St. Croix [V.I.]) 1844-Current
September 12, 1865

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o A l.i:fi'!!',~ St. Croix den SBde September 1565. C. sarauw. sth AUCTION E£ B NO BID HAVING AS YKT BEEN MADE FOR THE ESTFATE OSEETLI. a Fal E‘c ::_mzaa a sth Aunction tor the absolute sale of this Property will be held in this Offlice on Thursday the 2lst instant at 12 o'clock noon. Auction=Office Frederiksted, St. Croix S;‘ph'll]‘wt’i‘ Sth 1865. C. Sarnunw. Mrs. Sheridan’s _— vow &k 'th ik will continue on Moenday the 18th instant at 12 o'clock and following days on her STOCK IN TRADE consisting oi Dy Goods ete. ete. ete. Christiansted's Vendue Office 11 th &ep tember 1865, J. A Stakemane. s L AUCTION. ;_ FTER Begjæring i hristiunsteds Æg sSkiferet som behandlesde afgangue Mrs. Marin Sheridans DBo, vil i Over ecnsstemmelse mvd Placsten 22de April 1817, vorde ufholdt 3de offentiige Åuc tloner over HUUS og LOD No 62 A.i Compagnict» Gute heri Hver, tilhdrende bemeldte Bve. Iste Auction at as holdes Loverdagen den 30te September d. A. 9den Auction at afholdes Låverdagen den l4de Octoher d. A. Sdie Auction at as holdles Loverdagen den 23 le Ocioher d. A. de 2e første pan Anctions Contoiret og den Bdie paa Austedet, alle om Middagen Klokken 12 slet. Ciristiansteds Auctions Contoir, den 7de Neptemiber 1865 y. A. Stnakemanrn. L AUCTION. F1 T Request of Christiansted’s Pealing AN Court in behalf of the late Mrs. Ma ria Sheridan’s dealirg, will be held in aceordance with the Placard of 220 d April ISBI7. 8 pub'ie Auctions on HOUSE and LOT No. 52 A. Company Street in this town, belonging to said dealing. Ist Vendue to be held Satarday the 30th Neptember 1865, 20d Vendue to be held Saturday the 14t Ohetober 1865, 3rd Vendue to be held Saturday the 2Sth Qetober 15865 the 2 first at the Vendue OTice and the 3:d on the premises, all at 12 o’clock al noon. 1 Chyristiarsted’s Vendee Office, 7th Sep tember 1865, F. A Stakemasi. AUCTIOR i a l gn FTER Begjæring as Christianeteds sUX Skufteret som behandlende sfgausne Mirs Maria Sheridavs 80, vil 1 Overvens stemmelse med Piuesten 22de April 1817, vorde afholdt 3de offoutlige Auctioser øver Æs n ÉZHZLUS CG LOD l No. 40 D. i Compagniets Gade hert Jjyen z tilhøreude bemeldte 80. Iste Anction at afholdes Léverdagen den F 30te Septenmber å A. 2den Auction at as holdes Loverdagen den 14le Oetober d, A. 3lie Auction as afholdes Loverdagen den

ae _J— il'lz.n'(s)tlé (1);';_'1(:.'…1 Å'uéftm:s gonuaret DE den 3 he paa Anstedet, alle om Eftermid daven Kokken 2 slet. Christiunsteds Auctions Contoir, den 7de September 1863. 5. A. Stakemannmn., V ff f f f|[ AUCTION. o E },’é T Reqnest of Christiansted’s Dealing AR Courtin behalf of the late Mrs. Maria i Sheridan’s dealing, will be held in aceord ance with the Placard of 22ud April 1817, 3 l)‘!:'.:z?-;‘ Anctions on i HOUS: and LOT No. 40 B. Company Street in this town, Leloeging to said dealing. Ist Vendae to be held Satarday the 30th Sejtember 1865, 20d Veunduae to be held Saturday the 14th October 1865, 3rd Verdue to be held Satu:day the 28th October 1865, the first at the Vendue Office and the 3rd on the premises, alllat 2 o’clock p. m. i Christiansted’s Vendue Office, 7th Sep tember 1865. J. A. Stakemann. AUCOTION. f F_"ÆEFTER Begjæring as Christiansteds F Skitteret som behandlende afgangnø Mrs. Marin Sljeri lans Boe, vil vorde af -5 ho'dt påan Anstedit Æ n 2UUS og LOD No. 4L A. B. C. i Compagnic Gade beri l Byen, tilhør«nde bemeldte Boe, ern f fentlig Auction over bemeldte Eien on- Mandagen den 6te November 1865 Bid dag Kl. 12 slet. S Christiausteds Anctions Øontoir, den 7de September 1865. O. J. A. Stakemann. [Hr. 73,

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(From the London Times, August 14.) The Schlvswig-Hulsleiu question has at last entered a phase which everyboily can understand. That untathonmabie cou troversy whica it is said that one man oniy ever suceee ed in ¢omprehending, and he at the eost of his reason, has now been made transp rently clear. It meant Bl 1y this—that Germany coveted a bit of Donmark without Koowing exactly how to oct it or into whase hands it ghould be lodged. For years together German Protessors labouyed hard to prove that the titie of the Danish Scuereigas to a certain portion of their domiuions was pot entirely perfect, and at the last de mise of the Danish Crown the minor States of Germany assembled in Congress declared that the Duchies devoived by right, not on the present King of Den m k, but on the Duke o1 Augustenburg. To this resolution they prepared 1o give eff. ¢t by force ot arms, when they found themselves rudely elbowed off the scene, by Austria and Pras<ia, which Powers adopling the German cause in princip'e, took the execution of the work upon themselves. How they accomplished it we need vot deseribe, The Danes were driven not ouly out of Holsiein, which was German, but out of Schleswig, which was Danish, aund the first result was that the counquerors estabhished iu their own favour exactly that state of things which they had declared to be unendurable while it prevailed in favour of Denmark. A mixed populaiion of Dancs and Germans had been subjected to a Danish Govern ment it was now subjreted to a German Government, and with at least as much dissatistaction on the part of the commu nity. Then arose the critical question—Who is the heir? The crusade was originally undertaken in the interests of the Duke of Augustenburg, whose claims had been acknowledged and supported by the pro moters of the first agitation. These claims have now been utterly discarded by Prus gia, and Prussia has also rejected with equal decision the pretensious advanced in favour of other claimants. It results, therefore, that after the King of Den mark has been forcibly dispossessed, those who dispossessed lim can produce no title to the property in anv way sunenoer to his; in fact, the very latest proposirion in the matter was this—that, whereas the rightful heir for whom the Duchies had been conquerors was found to have no ex istence, the conquerurs shou!d divide the co quest between them by prolonging in definitely the “joint occupation™ which bad subsisted since the war. Now, if we consider for a moment that the King of Denmark, against whose claims it is thus found impossible to produce any others, had at any rate Been previously recog nized by the Powers of Europe as the most desirable successor to the Duchies, we shall be able to estimate the value of the pretensions on which Germary pro fessed to rely in this famous quarrel. King Christian derived av undoubted title 10 the Dachies from the consent—we might almost say the guarantee—ot Ea rope. and his title by inheritance is now roved to be 8o good thai any rate no getter can be shown. So much for the justice of the war. Prussia scarcely condescends to dis guise the fact that she invaded and con quered the southern p-ovinces of Den mark, not for Germany, nor for any Ger man pretender, nor for anybody, in fact, but herself alone. And she would have appropriated this spoil without shame or SSTe CROIDX AV S ~hesitation had not the jenlousy of a rival stood in her wav. Austria is not dispos ed to permit this iggrandiz. ment of Prus sia, The balance of power in that minia ture of Europe called the Germanic Con federation is very carefully watched. The weight of Austria long preponderated, but events have favoured Prussia almost uniformly, till at List a praenicai equality 18 very vearly estanlished. Austria has the lurger tervitory, the larger popuiation, aud the more numerous armies, but she has unruly subjects and vigilant enemies to fear. Prussia is already ber match with the addition of the Damsh Duchies she might be something more. So Aus tria _has been resisting, procrastinating, and negotiating, in the bope of striking a tolerable bargain in some way or oti:er. She would gludly have s-en any third party put in to enjoy or divide the com moa prize, and would have entertained the pretentiors of any Prince rarher than none. She would have protracted the present provisional Government of the Duchies, or, failing all such echances, would have retired altogether in Prussia’s favour on condition of a little equivalent or “rectification” of frontier in Silesia. But Prussia kuows her position too well to accept any such terms. The congner ed territories lie near her own, and not near those of Aus'rin. Austria cannot conveniently reach them nor meddle with them, nor is she.ever likely to go 1o war for them. Indeed, for that matter, nei ther one Power nor the other can aftird to fight, and each knows well that the diff'rence will not come to blows. So, wherens our correspondence from Vienna and Berhiw refleets the attitudes of the two Courls as nn'(,.ujing in the extreme, the telegrams annou ce that an adjasi ment has been effected and that no war need be apprehend -d. This 1s precisely what might have been anticipated. Prus sia 1s not absolutely stronger than Aus tria, but she has all the advantage of position in the particular question at is sue. If she will neither yicid to Austria nor compensate her, Ausiria must give way or fizht, and fizht she wili not. s satisfactory to thisk of the uneon cern with whi-h we can regard this quar rel. Those who bewailed the ¢isolation” of England in the Spring of last year may now ask themselves what would have been our plight if, Instead of leaving the invaders to soarl and wranele over their prey, we had uunited them in a cordial and compact alliauce by our opposition. Whether the Duchies erald have been saved is doubttul, but that Kurope wonld be in a blaze is certain. As it is, Den mark has lost the Duchies, but for whose uitimate advantage it is stll not quite possible to say. ‘T'wo out of thee al tacking parties undoubtedly suflered for their pains.” The smaller States of Ger mauy, whose mischievous agitation first kindled the slime, have missed all they aimed at, and have been snabbed into the bargain. No war could have visited them with greater humiiiation. Austria wili prob.bly be compeiled to witness the agerandizement of Wy rival by means to whiteh she herself contrivuted, and o see all that she did 1 the Dautsh war re dound to the advantace of a formidable and aggressive neighbour, P ussia it may be said, will gain; but for that con clusion we mast yet wait. Certainly, her chance of appropriating and absorbing the Danish Duchies apprars a good one, and she is already threatening to extin guish the German spirit in those provia ces as effectually as the Danish spirit was supposed “before.- But this alienates Germany, while Prussia herself, disturbed and resrless, is on the brink of political convulsions which no man can forecast. There is but one moral to such a tale, and Ihat is, that we are happy in being spectators only. —m—— CHOLERA. To the Editor of the Times. Sii,—The Times of the 10th inst. con tains an article remarking on the proba ble atdvent of cholera before long in this country. Permit one who has had con siderable experience of the horrors of this disease in Inlia to describe a simple and, in eight cases out of ten, an effectual re me iy, possibiy of equal value in this temperate cimite, as 1t certainly is in tihe trop cil. The specific was introduac ed with the as<istaonce of Government by a De. Honinbargher in Caleatta, during a period (1857 and 1858) when the rava ges of cholera were really awful. At the time above quoted I had an in terest in an indigo concern 42 miles from Calcutta, many entire families of the ryots were swept away by.the disease, ad I had a quantity of indigo seed lying iu their huts, which they were unable, or, from a fatalst feeling of terror, were uawilling, to put into the ground. Government at this time had provided Dr. Honiuburgher with a building for a cholera hospital, to test the merits of his treatment, a weekly list of c.ses being pubhished. 1 went to Calcutta, introduc ed myseli’ 1o the doctor, saw his practice at the hospital, and returned to the fac tory with a pair of iancets and a bottle of tineture of quissia, with which I once inoculated three natives, all of whom ap pearcd in a very hopeless state. Two recovered, as usual, very rapidly, the third 81K, being too far gone beforel arrived Th+ native doetor, or hakim, was asto nished. and pronounced it to be like *ji da” (witeherat’), aud entreated me to n struct him in the mystery, which very gladly did, and be practised it with asto nishine success. At other parts of the country in th+ North West Provinces my eftoris with the quassia were the means of savinr several lives, one of a servant whom I much valued. I could quote miny instances were it needful, bat fear ing 1o trespass an the fair amount of spaco you may aceord to this letter, let me add, that th+ inoculation may be done by any boldy ‘with scuse enough to avoid making an meiston v one of the principal veins, the qussivis deropped into the wound, the boady should be shiampooed, and noth inr given to the patient but cool water in sw.dl goantities. Cramps rapidly cease, and tair cireulation of the blood 18 resiored. the invariable exclamation of tha Invahd on recovering consciousness bei g “Hum gurhm hola hei” ('m getting warm), with a greal sizh of relief; a re lapse during the first few hours may bae feared, in such case a second inoculation in two or more places must be perform ed. have wo pretence to a knowledge of medicive or surgery beyond that so need {ul and so ofien forced on a man who tra vels for months aud years out of the reach and advice of professional doctors, who, however, have thought well of in oculation with quissia as a remedy in many cases, a relics from the agonies of cramp in almost all attacks of cholera, In sp-aking of Dr. Honinburgher let me add that he was of venerable age, and vast Indian experience, in the service ofa native Prince the greater part of a long life the Government of l‘::dia in recog-

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pition of his indefatigable exertions at the cholera period, gave him a pension of 120(. per annum, although he did not be long to eitber the Indian or Her Majesty’s service. lam, OLD INDIAN. _ PN —_——————————————— e From the Barbados West ndian, August 13.) HAY L The President of Hayti in opening the Chambers, delivered a inghly interesting and satistuctory speech. He congratuia ted the wmembers of the legislature on the aericulterai prozress of the country, es peerally in the article of cotton, The ffee crop, hewever, had been less than for the previous years; and there had been a diminution in the treasury receipts, which was attributable to toreign com mercial derangements. Besides, the year 1863 had been the most prosperous of ail preceeding vears. *“Our agricu'ture,” gays the president, “is far from having attained thdt degree ot development and prosperity as in past times wou for this glorious island the name of Queen of the Antilles, and which stil opens a wide fi 1d for labor by the fertility of its soil. Let us encouraze this work; let us aid the cultivation of the scil in tructifying it. Free labour, encouraged and hiberaily pro tected, can never be less productive than that which is had by slavery. On the ot’.er hand, give 1o indus'ry and com merce esery aid; free these two sources of prosperity trom all useless restraints; and according to our means, with pru dence and care, the same uappy results which have been experieneed by other nations will attend us.” After reecapiiu lating various reforms which are project ed, his excellency meations the following facts with regard to education :—*Public instruction has received fresh develop ments. A small theological college, where superior education is Tmparted, has been tounded at Port-au-Prinee. At the same time, two establishments have Leen ereated which promise happy re sults. Oue 18 a school directed by the Brotuers of Christian lastruction, and the other u school condueresd by the Nis ters of tha Order of St Joseph de Cluny. These two iostitutions have cbout 300 gscholars. Qar other scholustiec establish ments have been augmented to the nun ber of 18 new schools, and the number of scholars from 14,600 has been in creased to 15,697. In Europe we have 18 students in the colleges at Paris and Versaitles, and 20 placed 10 a grand theo logical college. The Hytian people, the guide of the African race in the paths of civilisation is destined to prove 1o the other nations that the decendants of that race are not inferior to the other races disseminated on the fice of the glube. THE FRENCH ISLANDS. By the last steamers, we have received our usual exchange files from Martinique and Gaadeloupe. The next Freach steam+r will, as we announced in our last edition, open the new roureto Trinidad, Demerara, Surinam, and Cavenne. The new boat intended aud but for the car rying out of the route, is, we ohserve, not tikely to leave France before next month, and it therefore devolves upon the Car aibe to open the wayv to our South Ameri can brethren. We have before us the ta ble of fares as well as the time-table framed by the French company for this route, -and notice that the steamer will leave this island once a month for the southwdrd, arriving at Trinidad on the $S$Tc CROLXE AVIL S, 24th, Demerara, 26th, Surinam, 2Sth, Cayenne, 29th then remain at the latter port five days, and retarn to Surivam oo the 4th, Demerara, s:'h. I'rimdad, 7th, and Grenaila, on the Bth. ‘Tl'he fares are very moderate, indecd 5 and, in our opin -lon, hold out strong inducements to those wiling and ab e to see the muddy strean:s ot the Demerara, the Surinam, or the islands on the coast koown as French Gurana. From Grenada to Demerara, in the cabin, the tare is fixed at 75t (8195) to Surinam 120 f, ($20); &e¢. The eutre-. pout, or second cabin tares, are put down al hait the cost of the cabin; and deck passengers will be taken at a foarth, or, for instance, for a little less than ISs. to Demerara. The papers from this island notice the arrival oa the 30th Jaly of the Floride, in 14 dys from St Nazaire, with 300 pus sengers, 490 of whom were men of the Foreign Legion of the Army bound to Mexico. Afrer coaling, the Floride left oun the 31st, for Vern-Cruz. The France arrived at Fort-de-IFrance on the 23rd, and I¢ft tor St. Nazaire on the 260 h, 190 passengers and 1500 tons of freight The dntilles says— Ordinarily, at this time of the year, the rains in the hurri cane mouoths, mpose vpon the planters the necessity of stopping sugar-making, and aliow the estates to profit by the occaston aund repair their works, ad giv ing their well-worked stoek a chance of a little repose, But this time so frequent have been the stoppages on the sugar estates, owilng to the severe wenther which marked the first haif year ot 1865, we are of opinion that they have nog been able to atteud to these essential mat ters, having at any cost, to reap the canes which 1n the vighit scason could not be conveyed to the miil. lEven at this mo ment, spite ol the ha itual duatlness of affvirs. the Place Bertin shiows much aai mation, and there 1s an abundance o1 pro duce ou our wharves and afloat, no less than 13 ships being on the berth and ready to sail for the home ports.”’ WoyeN AND THEIR DRESS.—The true expianation of the prevaliing extrava gauce In eostume is that women dress for oie atother. 1o other words, they dress tor eyes which can appreeinte the mate rial and es'imate the cost of every sepa rate articie they have on. It s quite tiue that many men care as mnueh for, an'l are as comp ‘tent to give an opinion on, the appearance of their wives, or sis ters, or friends, as any number of female acquaintances; but the grounds upon which the two classes of erities wiil tuse their several judgmenis will always be distinet, and the conclusions themselves not unfrequently quite opposite. Ask a man and a woman to tell you who is the bust-dressed eirl at a ball, and you will hardly ever find them agreeing in their answer. Go a step further, and compare the costumes wheeh have been selccted, and you will discover almost to a certain ty that the woman has singled out the most expensive dress in the room, where as the man has simply asked himself which is the most becoming. The one has suffered herselt to be so impressed by the richness of the material, the elabo rateness of the embroidery, the costliness of the trimmings, that inethe end she has found it simply impossible to leave these things out of the calculation. ‘l'he other, happy in his ignorange, has looked only at the general effect, and has probably given the preference to a young lady whose gown has no other imerits than those of being scrupulously neat, becom ingly cut, and perfectly well made.. V" submit, therefore, that if that deferen: to the masenline taste which is so fi« quently professed rea'ly existed.in any a: preciable measure, it would supply antidote to many of the grievances und: which society now labours. A week two back, the correspondence of an ever ing contemporary was largely taken uj with the sorrows of parents who have t sce that their daughters look like othe people, and at the same time to mnk. both ends meet and we have no dou that, as soon as the elections are ou. the columuns of the Times wiil be throw open to an endless repetition of s ile complaints, My daughters’ gowns mus? sweep thie pavement as they walk, erie one heart-broken mother, or, it they so far counsult their pockets as to loog them up, their under skirts must be fl wuicet, and embroidered untic they be come as costly as the gown. There is no necvssity in the case, interposes a sterner mo:talist; voung women should have no wish tao dress be rond their means me ely tor the sake ol rivalang thewr richer friends. It i 3 here that our theory comes tn and harmonises these oppostos vieas. No man ever telt arything bat Irrttation at seeing a woman’s gown do -Ing the business of the cio-sing-sweeper, or attached any value to ilie anotat of open work displayed beneath alooied up skirt, If young ladies wonid bui o lieve I'—or satheraf they did but attach any Importance to it when they do be lieve it—a man will be peifectly sati-fied with their appearance, so fir as Jhese considerations are cone rued, if their yet ticoals are spotlessly c'ean and their stuckings guiitiess ot a wiink'e, Wo do not say that even these eharaete:isies, when added to the well-fiiti-o gowns 1 which we have already ~t'pulatet, are 1o be attained without some expenditure of money, for cleanlioess, at least 1o London, i~ not a cheap virtue, and it is not every dressmaker who knows how o niike a dress. But, at any rate, the progosed standard is a good deal casier of attz.s ment than the spurious fin -ladyis.n aiter which so many women toil in vain; and we cannot but believe that, if giris did bot think more of pleasing the other ses and less of vieing with their own, their ptirents would see reason to bless the change the next time they came to look over theie milliners bills.—Saturday Re view. (L'rom the New York. Herald, August 24.) UNSATISFACTORY STATE OF THE MEXICAN INTERVENTION. Paris correspondence, London Tumes, July 12 The military intelligence from Mexico has not yet assumed the character which waould be most agrecable to those per sons who desire to see the war at an end and the French troops withdrawn. Often heaten, repeatedly, as we have been told, ultvrly scattered and disp(‘rsc'd. the Jua rists still manage to keep the field and to give a great deal of tronble. Instead of shipping the French troops bick to En rope, the French papers published in Mexico are clamorous to have them largely retnforced. From one quarter we are told that twenty-five thousand more men are wanted, while in anothor it seenis to “be considered that twice that number woulid not be at all more than are reqnir ed 10 terminate the conflict. The Mex ican enterprise, certainly not the best a(.l vised of those that have been engaged in under the present reign, may yet, some

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gome fear, have unpleasant results. It is impossible to say kow long the United States will show themselves tolerant to the changes brought about by foreign agency close to their fromtier and, even if their government abstains from open inlerference, it may very probably be found impossibly to prevent bo dies of disbanded soldiers and.- other adven turers from going to the assestance of the in surgents, who already, unaided, contrive to keep up a sort of ranning fight, a fly ing warfuare, produciive of vo possible gain for them, but by persistance in which they doubtless hope to exhzust their ene my. Every mail brings news of encoun ters, of combined movements of Juarist commanders in full retreat or hurried flicht, closely pressed or driven into the desert, but -still the war does not end. «We always,” says the Débats, gravely ironical Register the successes of our soldiers in Mexico with a lively feeling of national amour propre, but we caunot help point ing out that those very successes prove, by their continuance, that the war, which is always said to be on the point of end ing, does not in reality end. It may be permittvd to us, therefore, to await with impatience the annonucement of a defi pite success which shall be the crowning of the expedition and shall allow our troops, so often victorivas, to return to France. THE LATEST:YANKEE EXPERI MENT IN NAVAL ARCHITECTURE. [From the London Times, August 12 In a few weeks more another eceentrie ship, even for this most eccentric ship building age, will be afloat vpon the Thames. We have jointed ships, unsink able ships, ships of seven inches of iren and the Great Eastern. Now, again, we are promiscd another addition to the motley fleet, and yet avother improve ment, in the launch of the cigar ship. The vessel is of wrought iron, and is being built as the private yacht es an American gentleman—Mr. Wynan—who, as we have said, has desigoed everything connected with the ship. T'he execution was at first entrusted to Mr. Hepworth, and he expended upou it the most per fect workmanship of which wrought Iron is eable. The hull, as the hu'l of a ship, looks one of the most extraordinary things it is possible to imagive. It isimmense ly long, perfectly round, resembling the shape of a cigar, being, however, finely pOimed at both ends, ~lnstead of, as iu a cigar, only one. The form is so at vari ance with all our generaliy received no tions-of nautical beauty that we can only gtare al it in mate astonishment, though there is something in its long, tapering lines so suggestive of immense speed that one is almost ashamed that no one ever sugeested such an idea before. In justice, however, to our own time, it must be said that such a vessel could only be built at a period when iron ships were in use and iron ship building had reached its highest state of development. Look at her now, she appears to be little more than a gigantic iron mainyard for some vessel of the Great Eastern class, having a rather wide diameter in the midile, and tapered at each end to a point almost as fine as that of a needle. Her boilers, like all the other parts of the vessel, are on a new plan. Four of them are on the lo comotive principle, with vertical tubes. A blast fan is to give them draught, and they are to work at one handred and fifty gop_gg's nressure. ‘This is a great power, ut as t‘l)ie boilers are built fur stronger ST« CROLX AVLIDS. than even locomotive boilers, it is assert ed that they could be worked up to one thousand pounds, or even one thousand one hundred pounds per square inch with safety. ‘There are one hundred and thir ty-six feet of fire bar surface, and 1t is expected that, with the aid of the blast fan, each of these one hundred and thirty six feet can be made to burn fitty pounds of coal per hour. It the furnaces can accomplsh this, then, accocrding to the rule which gives one nominal hoise pow er for every two and a half ponuds of coals consumed per hour, Mr. Wyuan’s yacht will be working at nearly two thousand five haondred horse power. In our best mail steamships, on their fastest trips, it is found diflicult 1o burn thirty pounds of coal per foot of fire bar surface per hour. If Mr. Wynan’s, then, burn fitty pounds, he will be working up to nearly two thousands five hundied horse power, or at the rate of eieht Indicated horse power to every ton burden of his vessel, In very fast ocvan goinge steanm ers the ratio of horse power to toanage is only about two and a balf tons 1o ore nominal horse power. ‘l'he advantage which the cigar :hip posseses in this resp-ct, together with those which her slender form, smooth swtace and vory small midstip secetion (ouly one hundred feet) will give, should enable her to go at an extraordiary speed. It is said that, as regavds motion at seca, rolling and pirehing will be reduced to a mimimum, and certainly her form seems to surgest that such o result will very probably be effreted. With very small masts and all her weights well below the water iiue, she 1s not hkely to roll. But it she does not pitch, but cuts through the water, she will stake it in over ail,” and in that case, with her upper deck =0 neur the sca, we should fancy that 1t would be Swept fore and aflt. The exireme length of the vessel over all 1s two hua dred and fifty-six feet, and her greatest width and depth is, of comse, amudsinps, where the cirele is sixteen fret diameter. Thas, then, her length is no less than sixteen times that of her greatest width, ordin;u‘y vessels be'ing thouoht very nars row if their width is only one one-seventh of their length. AUCTIOIN. H T Request of Christicusted’s Dealing 1“’& Cotiri in behalf of the late Mrs, Ma rin. Sheridan’s dealing, one public Auc tion will be neld on HOUSE and LOT N0.4l A B.C in Company Sireet iu this town on Monday the 61h November 1865 12 o’cloek at roon. Christivnsted’s Vendue Office, 7th Sep tember 1865, J. A, Stakemann, "PHE public examinations in the LUJ Country-Schools will take place this year as follows: East Hill, Sept. sth, 110’clock.a.m. 100 Wpsse, R, V 8 Peleraßßest, IWn, o« o Friedensfeld, 15th, La Vallée, i TEER B« Diamond, T Bk& Two Williams« 26th, Mt Yosoey, 39h, Christiansted August 31st 1865. In behalf of the Country-School- Commission, G. WILLEMOES. For Sale T Light young prime EET S OXEN S Ws} for draft, at Estate el ;,__", '?_,‘,,vl Sil“ RlVb‘l’. W. 11. HEYLIGER. St. Croix 6'h September 1865. ROUTE OF STEAMER “Cl Rothe,” ara Rothe,” FroM 91 TO 15TH SEPTEMBER. APPROVED BY GOVERNNEZNT. Saturday 9/Leaves St. Thomas for Bassin at L. p. M, Sunday ..|lO Leaves Bassin for St. Thomas at 6 P. M, Monday .’l I .Remuins in St. Thomas Tuesday ..[l2 Leaves St, Thomas for Bassin at b 1 30A M D0.....|{12 Leavos Bassin for St. Thomas at 5300 M "\7;1:1‘ ""3{‘:2 Xt i 4 Sl Pemains in St. Thomas. I'hursday .111 s Friday .!l.il‘w'«.'es St. Thomas for West End l at 7 30 A. M. D0.....|15 Leaves West End for St. Thomas at 530 p. M. C'hristinnsted Bth September 1865. JULIUS KNUTHSEN, Agent. e \yned S/ A SR o b2l D f§ AR o RS gl S 0 A B A L] 0N NG M K Os the Receipt of Deposits at the Bt. Croix c y A £t O N T 7 SAVINGS BANK, On Saturday, 9th September 1565 A eSR Recaivers: In CHRISTIANSTED N. Iwersen, Esq., Trustee. IN Freperiksrep R. Moreton, Exq, Trustee. Amount of former deposits. 240,416 69 2 deposits of 20 cents each. 15 above 20 ets. and under 1. 7 5. o 10. ‘l_ !g) ot 2(’. 3 i 20 50 9 e 50 0t IUO. 50 deposits, of which 42 in Christiansted amounting 10 .o o iiisn il DB Bin I'rederiksted do. 179 83 ——e 6532 73 Total $£240,949 32 Balance of deposits 48,358 35 7 new deposit accounts, viz.: 1 Overseer. 1 Shoemaker.. 1 Servant. 4 Various. 9 Withdrawals amounting t0..5123 02. Receivers for Saturday, 16th Sept. 1865. In CHRISTIANSTED Upper Commissary of War W. Sim melkjer, Trustee. A. Just, Esq. Member. IN FREDERIKSTED W. Peebles, Esq., Trustee. W. Moore, Esq., Member. GEO. BEHAGEN President, St. Croix, 11th September 1865. 'YL executed at this Office jnß PR'NT'NG with neatness and des patch.