St. Croix Avis (Christiansted, St. Croix [V.I.]) 1844-Current
September 29, 1865

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Sl. 10X Avis, UDGIVER: HANS HATCHETT. TRYKT I ENKEN HARRIET HATCHETT’S BOGTRYKKERL 21de Aarg.] The “AVIS” IS EDITED BY HANS HATCHETT; AND PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. 5 for the Proprietress. Terms of Subscription.—Bix Dollars per aun num, payable quarterly in advance. Single number to non-advertisers——lo cents gay~ Parties desirous of withdrawing their dubscription to the Avis’” are required to give three months previous notice. Terms of Advertising, Approved by Government, 25th June, 1855. For an advertisement of S lines, or under, one to three insertions—— Smail Type (Brevier) 1 to Slines....Bl 00 S B Blneg, we dine 16 Larger Type (Long Primer, Small Pica, Fiee, Columbia:) 1 to Slines 1 00 SIS B tnes, by lime 0000000 10 ¥ar hime of larpest Type 12 For 1 to 3 subsequent insertions, the halt amount of the first charge will be made. All advertisements for insertion must be delivered at this Office on Mondays and Thursdays, notlater than 4 o'clock P. M. accompanied with the CASH, 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. S Lutheran hurveh, Christiansted. _——~+‘-‘- On Sunday the st October, there will be divine service held for both Lutheran Congregations in this Chureh TABLE OF THE FALL OF RAIN during the week from 20th Sept. to 26th Sept. Christiansted. Frederiksted. King's Hill. Lines. Tines: Lines. Sept. 20, 2 1% 4 g -4, 0 13 0 2] 0} i 0 23, 0 03 0 o 8 0 0 0 ‘DR g 0 0 w 926 13 0 03 4 5% 43 h ømsmeneonrenenemenresrmrm E Bekjendtgjorelse. Til Forebyggelse as Koppesyg= dommens videre Udbredeise her paa Øen, finder Gouvernementet det nodvendigt, i lenhold til Kon gelig Forordning as 3die April 1810 $lO9, herved at paabyde, at alle Landarbeidere, snavelsom andre Bebocre pan Landet, som erc over 13 Aars Alder og ikke be viisligen have havt Kopper ci ler ere blevre revaccinerete, skulle snarest muligt revaccine res, og til det Øiemed indfinde sig eller være tilstede til den Tid og Sted, som den paa ve dkommende Fandeiendom antagne Læge be stemmer. Gouvernementet for de dansk vestindiske Oer, St. Croix den 26de September 1865. _ w. BIRCH. Rosenstand. CHRISTIANSTED, FREDAGEN den 29de SEPTEMBER 186 5. i Publication. A En ovder (o prevent the small pox disease firom spreading far ther in the Island, the Govern ment deems i1 necessary, in vir tue of 10 of the Roval Ordin ance of 3rd April 1810, hereby to order, that all agricultural laborers and every other person residing in the country above the ageof I 3 years and who cannot prove ecither to have had the small=pox orto have been revac cinated, are without delay to be revaccinated, for which purpese they must appear or be preseant at such time and place as may be fixed by the physician in aticend amce on the respective estate. Government of the danish westindia Islands, St. Croix, September 26th 1865. W. BIRCEH. ilLosenstand. lPz Ti i 2 BEKJENDTGJORELSE. AT Udsalget as justerede danske Vægt Jødder og Bismere her paa Oen, er as Gou vernementet blevet overdraget til Hr. Kjob nmand T.E. MENDES i Christiansted og til Hr. Apotheker L. B. FABER i Frederiksted, hos hvem tillige Bestillinger paa bemeldte Vægtredskaber til de as Gouvernementet fastsatte Udsalgspriser kunne skee, be kjendtgjores herved. f 5 Li Gouvernementets 2det Secretariat, »t. Croix den 29e September 1365. CARL HATTENSEN. NOTICE. i THE Public is hereby informed that the Government has commissioned Mr. T. I l MexDEs at Christiansted and Mr. L. B. Faßer at Frederiksted to sell stamped danish Weights and Steel-Yards, and to receive all orders for the said articles, at prices fixed by the Government. Governments 2d Secretary's Office, St Croix 29th September 1865. CARL HATTENSEN. ie e ee i XP) f

No. 36. 3 82 Cents. XIK 1865. Carl Hattensen. Rosenérn. n— Proclama. i ÅLLE og Enhver som maatte have No get at fordre paa Skiftet efter afgang- ne Mrs. MARIA SHERIDAN indkalkes her ved med 3 Maaneders Varsel til åt anmel de og beviisliggjåre deres Krav for un dertegnede Ret som behandlende nævnte Boe. Ligeledes indkaldes Arvingerne med Aarog Dags Varsel. Christiansted's Skifteret den 26de Sep —tember 1865. J. A. Stakemann. 1K SET OBITUARY. Yesterday morning the sad intelligence reach ed us of the death of Dr. Sophus Gronbek, a voung and promising Physician, who but a few months ago arrived here from Denmark. The tropical scourge, vellow fever, singled him out as its victim. Dr. Gronbek, during the short time of his practice here had already endeared himself to many in this community for his un tiring attention to the poor. Not only as Phy sician did he stand by the bed-sile of the pov erty stricken invalid, but, as a messenger of mercy, his purse was opened to relieve the ne cessities of the sick, where, often perhaps, medi cine would otherwise be of no avail. 3 His remains were followed to the grave by a circle of sorrowing friends. i fa 6 A% I THE “AVIS.” WYI s edtotrish oy E oyt GUVIZIIRU LY, BRI, STNE, g FRIDAY, 291tu SEPTEMBER 1865.

CHURCH RITES VERSUS MONEY. ’g We have been informed of a very disgracefu}l scene which took place on the Estate Concordia a short time ago, and which we give publicity to in order to check, if possible, similar occur ences for the future. The clerk of the English Episcopal Church was seut for to inter the re mains of a child of one of the labourers. He appeared on the Estate in all the sanctity of his office, and preceded the coffin to the grave. After opening the book to read the burial ser vice, he, having an eye to the substantial re ward, asked for his fee. The parents, both honest, hard-labouring people on the estate but who had been sick for weeks, and consequently earning no money, replied that they were una: ble to pay it then. “Dearly beloved Jobn’' as Dean Swift had occasioned to address bis clerk when no one else was in Church, immediately closed his book and asxked for a horse. This the labourers refused to give him; and, thé manager, after performing the service himself, sanctioned their refusal, and “Dearly beloved John” journey:d, like the Apostles, on foot to town. In another part of this day’s impression will be found an article on Italian Brigandage, eo pied from the London Times Iv might seem t of very little interest to our readers how brig andagé in Italy may be suppressed; yet the suzgesiions of the Times are really worth 4 consideration. If a good Police force i Italy is preferable to an army for the maintendnce of internal order how much more preferable such force must be in a quiet, law-abiding place a8 this Island, and what a saving might we not effeeb in our annual expences if we substituted a good police force for our useless military. If ideas not originating themselves in the miinds of thos at the E’ea& us our affaird ard é%mw pf fi worth, we humbly beg ledve to thfow out tiis suggestion for their more mature consideration. [Nr. 78.

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Such is, indeed, always to a greater or less extent the terrible legacy of war. It inevitably renders men familiar with the destruetion of human life, and accus toms them to view scenes of violence with a fatal indifference. Where cerimes of violence are preva'ent those of traud are sure to follow, and the whole system of social relatious becomes disorzaniz -d War is, in fact, a gigantic disease, which would be unenduarable except as the effort of nature to through off some deadiy poi son, and it cannot work itselt to a con clusion without shattering for the time the whole moral constitution. Its very nature consists in an abandonment of all the influences of reason and moral persua sion, and in an appeal to brute force. It is a return for, the moment to a state of savagery. Infer arma silent leges 13 truc in more than a technical sense, and the voice of laws of all sorts, not political only, bat social and moral, is drowned in the din of arms Buat 1f this 18 always more or less the resait of war, 1t s Im possible to affect surprise it itis more than usually conspicaons in America. There are few wars in which the noise of arms has been louder, or in which violence has been more reckiessly pushed to its bitterest end. Side by side 1n oar Tues day’s impression with this terrible pie ture of social disorganisation was a letter from our late Southern Correspondent on the alleged ill-treatment of Federal prisoners of war. The South, 1t will have been observed, retorts hy charging the North with similar eruelty to Confe derate prisoners, and it is to be feared that both accuasations, however exagge rated, have too much basis in fact. DBut whether North or South have the more justice on their side in these mutual re criminations, there is, we fear, one thing but too apparent—that as the war rose to its height it was conducted with an al most savage disregard of the human suf fering it entailed; and even 1t the North ern armies did not directly cause the suf ferines of their fellow-soldiers by their destruction of the Souathern supplies, it cannot be denied that they set a terrible example in their ruthless devastations and merciiess destruction of life. As we are reminded of these terrible passages of the last four years, we ceased t@ be sur prised when we witness their natural frait, and see that the violent passions which have been allowed to race uncon trolled for four terrible years iave not yet been reduced under the resiraints of morality and law, When such is the unhappy condition of the country, and such the obvious cause, the true remedy is equally plain, It should be the first effort of the Govern ment to banish, as far as possible, the spectacle of that rule of brute force which has had so demoralizing an eftect, and to re-establish in the pub.ic mind a sense of the supremacy of Law. Everything should be done to efface the memory of past scenes of violence and to restore the peaceful dominion of justice and reason. Unhappily, whatever may be the wish of the President and his advisers, the prac tice of their subordinate officers furnishes not the least melancholy feature in our correspondent’s picture. From all parts of the South we hear of the most violent interference with both public and priva}e rights. Battles have ceased, but force continues to be the arbiter of Southern higtory. The whole power of the milita ry is every day brought to bear upon such solemn seaceful acts as elections to Congress and to State Assemblies. In STe CROLX AV S Tennessee the Governor, who distin guished himself by unusual ferocity dur ing the war, has in the first instance en deavoured by means of the army to si lence all voters who were not of his own party, and when in spiteot hisinterfercnce hisopponents have been victorious, hee fu:es to give effet to the decision of the pol. It Ko atucky three-fourths ofthe vo trrs were driven away by the soldiers, and the 1~ quiry is rendered possible “whe “ther the outrages that were practised “when the war was raging are to conti “nue 1 times of peace.”” Subordinate Generals are allowed to execute the most summary martial law in the pacified States ;3 the sword suppresses newspa pers, and the bayonet disperses pubiic meetings and dinner pariies, with as much rigour as in the midst of an armed insurrection. What chance is there of cx‘;uhu;lting the evil habits of four years ot violence it the authorities thus set the exampie of perpetuating it? [t wounld seem that such a policy has not even ihe excuse of being effectual, for, in spite of all that the military ean do, the Soathern party appears to hive suceceled in al most every eice'ton that has been hither to held, In.fael, ibis impossible to be lieve that such a course can be cither ne ssary or politic. Further armed resist ance 18 Inconecivable 3 slavery is eff'ctu ally abolished, and all sources of informa tion cominne in assuring us that the South have made up their minds to ac cept their position. All the efforts, there fore, of the Administration shouald be ex erted to place the Southern people agiin in the exercise of their legal rights, and to give them the opportanity of restor ing by peaceful legislation the order and counfidence which have been destroyed by an appeal to arms. Such. indeed, ap pears to be the object of President John son’s constraction policy, and it is, there fore, as much an object of wonder as of regret that he shouid allow its progress to be delayed and marred by this con stant display of military violence. In truth, if such a system of adminis tration be continuned, it must necessarily defeat its own ends; for the disposition it cannot fatl to foster in the public mind would be fatal to that regeneration of the South which must now be the first aim of every American statesman., While the spinit of lawlessness pervades the North it cannot bat infest the South in a still greater degree, and if disorder woud be damaging even to the full vicour of Northern industry it would ab soiately paralyze the feeble energies of the South. The great evils of that un happy country are now rather social than political. The political difficulty has, for the present, been decided by force, and it now only remains to repair the ruin which has been wrought in the course of the decision. The danger con not be better described than by the trite maxim, of still greater truth in public than in private affairs, that idle hands al ways find mischief to do. On the one hand, the whole industry of the country is disorganized and, on the other, the prople have bret made familiar by a savage war with every species of violence and traud. These two evils are correla tive, and the one cannot be destroyed without the other. There is no chance of the conntry becoming orderly unless it resumes its industry, nor is it possi ble for indastry to recover its:lf except under the peacelul rule of civil law. Is is from this point of vicw that the negro question is of such vital importance, and there are no more mischievous politicians in the United States than those who are now endeavouring to divert attention from its social bearing, and 1o make it a sub- Jeet of political agitation. The negro was an essentizl element in the old Nouthern industry, and by his sudden and violent emancipation that industry is at once disorganized, and two great class es of the Southern people deprived of their customary occupation. The plan ters are reduced to comparative poverty, and see no immediate opening for their energy. The negro has become a tree man, and interprets his freedom to be the privilege of not working unless he likes. ‘There is no hope of order or pros perity for the country until the industry of both these classes is resumed. The negro, above all, will be nothing but a burden to the ration antil he can be made, as o freeman, a not less industrious and useful member of society than he was when a slave. While this question is yet unsolved, to waste time in discussing his political position is mere child’s play, or something worse. Such difficulties may well bafll» the Government, and we are far from judging it harshly for not seeing its way clearly at once. Butit is evident that nothing can be done while the spirit of lawlessness we have noticed is abroad and 18 cncouraged by public example. When the North gives coufidence to the South by adopting a generous policy, when it takes every possible means of restoring the ordinary operation of law, and when it employs its capital in repair ing the wholesale devastation which the war has wrought, there will then be some hope of the nation recovering its old prosperity. There will be no hope whatever so long as these social remedies are neglected, and everything is staked upon the violent operation of political panaceas.—llbid, August 31. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 14. Whether the sudden close of the war made minor sensations seem of greater importance, or whether it left this coun trv more depraved and reckless of life and property, is hard to tell; but it is certain that at no period of our history have there been more shocking accidents and terrible crimes. A new chapter of murder, fraud, and embezzlement is un folded with cach rising sun. It has been estimated that on an average 500 persons have been killed and wounded weekly by accidents and affrays of various kinds since General Lee’s surrender, yet no one is punished for any of these erimes, and it is very seldom. even, that steps are instituted to bring the perpetrators to justice. At first, assassthations were of d.ily occurrence, and men were killed in all parts of the country by concealed foes who were never apprehended. The poor negroes, 00, in all guarters have been made to pay the penalty of a dark skin. Soldiers have been drugged, or murdered, and robbed. The amaunt of crime is fearful, and in no part of the country are the police able to prevent it. Either the war has left us far more depraved than it found us, or the average amount of indi vidoal wickedness the world is capable of has greatly increased since our war ceas ed. Other evils have increased at an even more alarming rate than these premedi tated murders. Since the beginning of 1865 there have been at least three rail way accidents a week, yet courts of in vestigation have not been instituted, nor have those who controlled the roads been

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