St. Croix Avis (Christiansted, St. Croix [V.I.]) 1844-Current
October 13, 1865

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e (From the Edenburg LReveew,, THE WEST INDIES AS THEY WERE AND ARE. 4 o ART: V.—lL. Jamuica in 1860 or the _/‘.." toets of Sixteen Years Iree- dom tn Slare (,‘ll/(,;/'/‘li‘ J}:,' Joun Bie¢ELOW. BVO. New York: 1852. vk C(}]N'('.»‘ or Extracts tl»j' 1 -;/:'at.v'v/}: relating to ine Sugar-Growing 1 Colonies. Presented to Parliament by command of Her Majesty. 1854 —IBSB. 5. Returns of the Quantitics of Sugar Exported from the Britist West India Isltands, and Entered in the Uniited, ]{{/15'(13,'/3. Parliamentdry i Papers. 1858. A_ HUNDRED years ago, whea black men were seldom seen north of the Tweed, an old Scoteh gentlewoman mecting a negroin the street, cast up her eyes and bands, cxchimiog, ‘lech, sivs, what canva be made for the penry!” And well might the Biitish people do the same. Ata cost, not of one penny, but of five thousand miilion pennies, we bave pro- duced that curious specimen of human race, the free negro of the West Indies. Such was the outlay. Now, what is the result? What sort of thing have we got for our money Was that a wise investment of capi- tal The reply of.some high authorities has been given, and is this—Our l islands, they say, the richest and loveliest in the world, aie fallen from wealth to ruin—ecrumbling, deserted, desolate towns—empty harbours— trade gone—agriculture at death’s door—tle old staples vanished away— the owners of these once fertile lands languishing in poverty, or dead of Lroken hearts—the negroes, for whom all was doue, ‘sunk up to the ears in pumpkin,’ growing every day morc Savage, more idle, more beastly. Such, they tell us, is the work that our philanthropy has worked out un der the sun. Is that so, or is it not so? The subject may be somewhat W «Like a good thing, being often told, ey Grown feared and tedious;’ ~but getj it deserves some thought. England’s giving- freedom to her ‘slaves was-an act unique in"the history of man. '%Ve know not where an CERISTIANSTED, PREDAGEN den 13dc CCTOBER 18605, VE CHRESTFAY demn NINNDE as Guds Naade Konge til Danmark, de Venders og Gothers, IHertug til Slesvig, Holsteen. Stormaru, Ditmarsken, Lauen borg og Oldenborg, Z7JORE VITFERLIGT At Vi efter den as. S Laudsøverretsprocurafor FH A HL buth paa Vort Eiland St. Croix Amcrlea, som Sacforer for Planter 00 Kiobmand Wil liam Moore as Byen Frederissted paa for næevnte Eilynd St. Croix herom allerunder danigst gjorte Ansågning og Degjæring, allernaadigst have bevilget og tilladt, sau og hermed bevilge og tillade, at formeldte Planter og Kjobmand Williiun Moore ved Proclama sb pona præelyst et perpetui 81- senfit med Aur og Dags Varsel Iden Ber lingske politiske og Averiissementstidende, St. Croix Ags og t. Tlomæ Tidende trende Gange efter hinanden mua indkul de alle dem, som formene sig at have No eet at fordre hos ham, fornævnte Planter og Kjobmand Willium Moore as Frederik sted til med deres Puastand at fremkom me og sundant deres havende Krav inden foreskrevne Tids Forlob for ham, fornævn te William Moore at amnelde og beviislig gjore, dog Umyndiges Tiltale i Fremtiden etter Fororduingen as 20de Februar 1717 forbeholden og skal snadan Tndkaldelse an sces og være ligesan gyldig som om den var skeet ved Proclamo efter Loven 3 dow skal denne Vor alletnaadigste Bevilling oxample ean be found of so noble a sacrifice, made by a whole people. As to its prudence, some may think this, and some that; but no man can lay it at the door of any sclfish fecling. The people of the United King dow believed slavery to be eruel. It seemed tothem a breach of-the law of love which the Gespel had laid down, Feor these reasous, and for these alone, they made up their minds to be rid of it. But they were not hur vicd away by their zeal; they chose to pay the cost themselves; and 20.000 ,l','l LAV l‘ down k‘ the m, so pet the slaves set free. To us, who saw this done, it may secm an everyday affair. But seen from afar, in the comine ages, it may srrike men as sublime. Was it, after all, an act of shining folly 7 THas it really wrought Woo i not weal in the world 2 It is worth while to find out the true reply to these questions. For if all this were so, then that noble old saxim thit ‘B whit never comes wrong,’ would be overthrown. Here we have a uation plainly setting itself to do right, ‘because right was right beeause it thought more of what was due to God and man, than of itself. Has this been a failure, has this douve harm and wot good, then it mdy be unwise to do rizbt, Wrong, perhaps, might as well be kept going. The laws of God and the riolits of man may be well enough in their way, but ;V,Almuhl we übcy the ¢ne, or observe the other, we may find ourselves made fools of. We are far indeed from denying that the owners of West Tndian pro perty have gone through a time of deep distress. T'he ery of despair that rose from them in 1847, and the next year was appalling. Many and many a family onee blessed with opulence sank isto poverty, while hun dreds of others had their fortunes shattered, if not destroyed. No won der sach an overthrow should have been loudly noised, not only through Foglaud, but through the world, and that emaancipation should be looked upon as having given the death-blow to our once thriving colonies. Peo ple were not likely to bear in mwind that, however sad these events might be, still the great outery arose fourteen years after slavery (ten years af ter the apprenticeship) had been done away, and at once upon a change of a wholly different kind. Nor could they have been expected to re mewber that the cries of distress eame, not from the whole population of those islands, but mainly from the proprietors living in England, whose voice therefore rang the louder, but might not be the voice of the mass of the people. 1t was natural for the woild to think that the whole of our sugar colonies were sinking into ruin, though the outery came from some of them, but not from others. It was natural for the world to think that when it no longer heard ‘that most outrageous dreadful yelling cry’ (to quotc the Fairy Queen), it was hushed in death, though in trath it ceased because the pinch was over. No wonder the world fancies that our sugar colonies are as good as swept off the face of theugfi;*p&.fwt they are gwiftly becoming a gem in the British crown; of higher‘value than they ever were before. SRR S e Ord til andet indrykkes I fornævnte oflent lige Tidender samt læses for Vor Lands-- Overret sumt los- og Stadsteti Kjoben luvn og ved Over- og Underretterne i Vore dansk-vestindiske Oer, og skal Bevillings bhaveren endvidere være pligtig til atlade denne Vor allernaadigste Bevilling forevise i Vore Bogholdereontoirer i bemeldte Be siddelser nf_; derom erhverve Åttest, da Proclama i andet Fuld ikke skal ansees 0 gjældende imod Vore Fordringer og audre Rettigheder. Hvorefter de Vedkommende sig allerun derdanigst have at rette og for Skade at I tage Vare. Under Vort Kongelige Segl. L. 8. Iåo) å f Efter Hans Kongelige Mujestæts aller muadigste Defaling. Couvernementet for de dansk- vestindiske Oer, St. Uroix den 23de September 1865. W. BIRCH. i ROSENSTAND. 1 BEVILLING FOR Planter og Kjobmand William Moore as Frederiksted til ved Proelama i Aviser ne at indkalde sine Creditorer. W Heuhold til foranstagende allernaadig Å sto Bevilling indkaldes herved med det deri nævnte Varsel Alle og Enhver som [Nr. 82,

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formene at have noget at fordre hos mig undertegnede til med deres Paastand for mig at fremkomme og saadant deres haven de Krav inden foreskrevne Tids Forløb for mig at anmelde og beviislizgjore. St. Croix, Frederiksted den ?sde NSep- i tember 1865. WILLIAM MOORE. e

DIVIDEND.

HE Board of Directors has this T day declared a semi-annual di- vidend of “Six and three quarter per Cent” on the capital Stock of the Company, payable at the Bank of St. Thomas, to-morrow and every day after during the hours of busi- i ness. Office of the Marine Repairing Slip Company, St. Thomas lith Oc- tober 1865. A. WOLFF, Chairman, iel A s S P RS T S S æae[|[—€2—m--|O-[DO, cc omegemmomomert Mortifications-Stevaing. e I Johan August Stakemann, 'l Justitsraad, Underdommer og Skriver, m.m. i Christiansted's Jurisdiction pada St. Croix i America å fåjor vitterligt: at efter Begjæring as Enkemadame Judith Cooper i Hen- hold til allerhøieste Bevilling as 12te Mai 1865, indkaldes herved med Aar og Dugs Varsel, at møde i Christiansteds Jurisdic- tions ordinaire Bythingsret, som boldes i Stadens offentlige Retshuus No. 10 til Kon genszade, eller paa det Sted som Retten da muutte nholdes, den zaåen Tirsdag i Decem- A long and thorough investigation of the case Las borne us irresisii bly to the conclusion, that in these assumptions the world has been wrone and if the reader will go with us through the following pages, we think be will agree with us in believing that, even if we set aside ull thouvlis but thoughts of pounds, shillings, aud pence—as u dry qu-stion of econo my—emaneipation has paid that it was a1 act of pradence for which we, as a nation of shopkeepers, nced not blush before that golden god, whom we arethought to worship so cagerly. We shall by ing forward, what seem to us conclusive reasons for the persuasion, that had Eugland not cared a jot for those noble principles that really nerved her to the woik, Lad she ouly kept a shrewd look-out for the main chance, it was not weak but wise of her to free her slayes. This, then, is the plain question to which we have sought out the re ply. Taking no thought, for the nonce, of humanity, moraiity, Christian ity—looking to the pocket alone—has emancipation answered, or been a blunder Good and kindly meant as it undouptedly was, is the woild the worse off for it, or the better off for it? Did the phifanthropists ruiu the West Indics ?2 or did they save the West Indies from imminen:, irretric vable ruin, and set them on the road to a prosperity ut once sound and splendid 2 Let that be the test of the great experiment of 1834 lus it plunged the former slave colonics into hopeless ruin, then nwever mind its nobleness, lot it stand condemned. Buatif the distress which foll on the West Indies in 1847 can be clearly traced to other causes; if it was only a passing storm if, those other causes being spent, freedom is now wolki ing out a well-being that was unknown in the days of sluvery— then, we say, let emancipation stand approved in the sight of all the world. Aund this it is which the facts before us secem to prove. They show that slavery was bearing our colonics down to rain with awiu' specd that bad it lasted but another half century, they must have sunk beyond re covery. On the other hand, that now, under freedom =nd frce trade, they are growing day by day more rich and prosperous with spreading trade, with improving agriculture, with a more cducated, industrious, sud virtuous people; while the comfort of the quondam sluves is increased beyond the power of words to portray. Never was a more radical revolution made in the fortunes of o who'e people, than when the 800,000 British negroes stepped {rom slavery iuto freedom. When the clock began to strike twelve ou the night of July 31, 1834, they were, in the cye of the law, things, chattels, beasts of burdeu, the mere property of others. When it had ceased to sound, they were for the first time, not only free-men but men standing on the same level as those who had formerly owned them. The whole form of things be came 80 thoroughly new, that it is now no easy matter to paint onesclf o living picture of a state of society which has been so utterly swept away but of its more salient features hints enough remain. And we must suy that in glancing through the piles of information on the state of the slave ST« GROLE AVL S, ber Maaned 1866 Formiddag Kl. 10 slet, den, eller dem der maatte have i Hænde en as Citantindens afdøde Masd Skibstommer mester George H. Cooper til Susan Lindehan, under 25de Murts 1843 udstædt Obligation paa $lBO. 00, eret Hundrede og fiirsindstyve vestindiske Daulere, med Iste Prioritets Panteret i Huus-or Lod No. 83 CC i Biersesnde 1 (Jin*i.—*ti;n.s!z:c!,-—i.!:iz:;;l;vst in den Christiansteds Bythiug den lite Juni 1844 til dermed at fremkomme og sin eller deres Ret til samme at anmelde og b;_”.'iirågi*__'"_'ji"»:'v, da Citantinden, om Ingen efter bemeldte Tids Forlob skulde melde sig, vil forvente og Jade puastane det nævn te Doenment ved Dom mortificeret og lade det as Puntebogen. udslette. Forelæe os Laugdae er afskaffet ved I"…'()!'(_3niu—_fl; 3die Junt 1796. St. Croix, Christinnsteds Doemmerceon toiry den 23de Mai 18565. J. Æ STAKEMANN, ATC C 10, D) Y request of Frederiksted’s Deal- D) ing Court will be sold on Satur i s 3 oy day 2ist Inst. at 12 o’clock, Sundry furnitures, a pouy other articles belonging to the dealing of G. C. P 2, Woods Sundie aetioles Balansing QOUGN. pwilildry arucies g s‘.}“‘.‘}‘l“\;? to the dealing of J. W. Jorgensen, g _;ai EJ:‘;’{{ o D XA gt a0 Bl Provisions, Wines, Liguors, FHard ware, Rope urniture belouging to the dealing of C. v. Beverhoudt, Frederiksted i6th OGetober 1865, i 3 J. ERobinson, Auctioneer, colunies accumulat d during the anti slavery struggle, we Lave been amaz-d at the breadih and depth of the eruclty Wizit!:—:al.';‘.‘;'f‘_‘,' was shown tab get, I'here are thos: who jog along in the easy and pleasant belio! r that the plantations had been under kindly goverument, and that tle tales of barbacity that nsed to be rife yeais und yceors ago, wore for the most part mere wind, We have had but too much reason to change our x minds nn this head, Aud yet, though the shadows of slavery were dark, and too ofien terrible, there secms to bave been a gocd play of sunlight up.n it as well 5 and, luckily, a charming picture of the bright sides oi Siavery has been preserved for us Ly *Mouk® Lowis, who was nut ouly w maa of pooetical feeling, but of a most kind nature, aed who v ent to see his estate mainly from a sensc of duty towards his slaves. He reached Jawaica on the Ist of January (1816), the severe work of ciop time just over, aud the negroes at their best and merrie:t. The air was delicious., The fragranee of the sweet woed and other scentel trees put Lim in mind of ‘the buxom air, embalmed wiih oders’ of Purudise, while the scecery I was Lighly pictaresque, from the lively green b vegetation, and the hex mitage-like appearance of the negro buildings, all situated in little gar deus, and embosomed in sweet-smelling shrubberics, The joy of the slaves at secing massa, if not deep, was at least woi~y. Lhey sang, date ed, showed, and tumbl@@over cach other, aud rolied wbout or: the ground, whitle cvery man, woman aud child chattered its loudest. The mothers bLeld up their little sbining b'ack imps, g iuning from ear to ear, with ‘Look, massa, look Lere; Lim nice lilly neger for massa” Nor was fe wale loveline.s wanting to compleie the pieture but was well represent.- {cd by Mury Wiggius, whos: complexion bad o yeliow in it teeth admir ably, eyes mild wed bright, aud a face merely broad enough to give it ‘all possibie soituess and granduess of contour.’ Many old servants of the family (which at that time lived on the esiate), came to cee him, aud showed such warmth and entbusiasim that after the cold manners of Eng land the contrast was infinitely agrecable, and his heart expanded in the sunshine of the kind looks and words which met him at ‘every turn, and scemed to wait for Lis smiles as auxiously as if they were so many dia- E monds, Ou thiee sides the landscape was bounded by purple mountains, aud the variety of oceupations going on all around gave an iuco ueciyablo air of life and auimation to the whole scene, cspecially as all those oeeu pations looked cleanly. The trades-people were dressed in jackets and trowsers, either white, or of red and sky-blue stripe. Here a band of ne groes carrying the ripe canes on their hieads to the mill; another set con veying away the trash, after the juice had been extracted flocks of tur keys sheltering from the heat under the trees the river filled with ducks and geese the eoopers and carpenters hammering at the puncheons carts drawn, some by six, some by eight oxen, bringing loads of Indian corn from the fields; the black children gathering it in to the grapary, or quarrelling with pigs as black as themsclves, who were equally busy in TR ey oA T AEPOR’ Ot the Recetnt of Deposits at the St. Croix AVINGS BANK ‘»Qj L 3] 1 On Saturday, 7th October 1865. e e e e Degelivers: IN CHRISTIANSTED i Carl Hattensen, Esq, Trustee. IN FREDERIKSTED L. Faber, Esq,, Trustee. Autount ol toviner c__‘:cims'!t::_ £244.323 45 6 deposits of 20 cents each. L 17 gbove 20 etaiand under 8 1, e i 5. P D B e 10. :3 ok i 5t 48 ':w,;‘.:-.;:", Os witich 42 in Christiansted amouunting 2 DO e Lt o] :.’»35 L %in rederiksteddo. 127 B 3 —e 209 0% o s {otul $244,532 53 t Lalunee vl deposils 651,884 07 i 6 new deposit gecounts, viz.: 1. Coak. 1 Servant. g 1 baborer. 9 Various. J '\;:‘:'Lib\‘x‘i'. L 9 Withdeawa:s amonnthie to. aok 41). i Receivers for Saturday, 14th Oct. 1864, IN CHRISTIANSIED £RI 1 2 N Capt. riosiein, irustec, James Moore, Lsq., Meniber. IN REDERIKSTID i 11. N. Mallerav, Esq. Trustee. P. Stevenson, Esq., Member. i GEO. BEHAGEN ot. Oroix, 9th Oclolier 1505

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ROUTE OF STEAMER “Clara Rothe,”

From 9t To 171TH OCTOBER. £PPROVED BY GOVERNIIENT. Monday 9 Tuesday ../10} Remains in St. Thomas. Wednesday {ll S Thursday .12 Leaves St. Thomas for West Enc el 2 atd 308 M. D 0.... .12 Leaves West End for St. Thoma: b at 5 P M. Friday ...[l3 Leaves St. Thomas for Bassin a 7 o 0 AL Do.- |l3BiLeavey Bassin for St Thontas o Satarday .{l4ißemaips in St. Thomas Sunday ..|ls Leaves St. L homas for Bassin a i ’n ANk D 0... .laLeaves Bassin for St Thomas a i o P M. Monday .16/ Awaitsarrival of EuropeanStean Tuesday ..'l7! er and conveys Mails to Bassin Christiansted 10th October 1865, T i T&N T NTRTIrEVy 11 T JULIUS KNUTIISEN, Agent. 1{';?';&% Sk RS pS 10,

No; 86. 32 Cents. L B 1865. Carl Hallensen. Rosendrn. é;fl} T Kjobmand Clavdius van Beverhoud A under ste denunes har overgivet sil Bo il Skiftebehandiine bekjendteijore: t i 3 o =l NN eUy Al Floahveor goe BB BT AL U 1R vVer SO Rladite Jid Ve INOZ e stealine the corn whenever the children were lookis 7 anothuer way such was the scene which met Mr. Lewis’s eyesas he stood in his verandal aud “in short,” he adds, ‘a plantation possesses all the movement and interest of o furm, without its dung, sud its steneh, and its dirty accompaniments.’ Sach was the Arcadian felieity of a slave plautation under the eye of a kind and opulest owncer. But it would seem that eveu such an Tiden as tliss shared the lot of the rest of the cart of which Goeethe’s angel Gabriel te/ls ne— ‘dus wechselt Paiadieses-Hel'e Mit tielor sihaucrvoller Nacht.? For though unde: the mild sway of Mr. Lowis all flowed so sweetly, by degrees Lie found things out that did I+t pleuse him, Nay, Lis own w;;:\ of putting 1t is, that ‘wothing eould equal’ his ‘anger and surpris:’ when he discovered what had been going on before his coming was leoked for, His father had always filied his letiers with the most positive orders for the good treatment of the slaves, and hud chosen a firstrate agent. Yet this man, fiom more sloth, had let an overseer treat them so savagely that at ope time “‘hey had been driven absolutely into rebellion, and almost every slave of respectability hud beeu compelled to Lecome a runaway.” ‘lf 1 had vot come to Jumaica myself,’ he adds, ‘in all probability 1 should never have had the most distant idea Zow abomi nably the poor creatures had been ill used.” And then his own agent said nothing plainly, but shook Lis head, and gave poor Lewis evidently to undesstand that the slaves ecould not be goverved without the cart-whip. Iu fact, the need of that stimulus soon grew pluin, for the production of sugar fell from thirty-thiee hogshead a week (befure his comivg), down to thirtcew *The negroes certainly sle perverse beings,” is the reflec tion he made. DBut Lie was not long in finding that whitcs.are ‘perverse beings’ too, for some: alirmed planters actually wanted the grand jury at Montego By to presecute him for over-indu!gence to his own slaves! While to his great mortification, on visiting bhis other estate, which he ‘had espected to find a perfect paradise,” it proved to be ‘a Lell upen carth.’ Acd what a Lell upon earth a plantation was, under a sharp master, is so vividly set forth in a plain, unvaruished account written by Mr. Whitely, who was book-keeper (clerk) on the New Ground Plantation, near St Ann’s Bay, in Jamaica, iu 1832, that we shall venture to ex tract one of the many scenes that he deseribes. ‘l2th instance.—The first of these two cascs was that of a married woman, the mother of several children. She was brought ap to the overseer’s door one morning, and one of the drivers who came with her accused her of having stolen a fowl. Some feathers, said to have been found in her hut, were exhibited as evidence of her guilt. The overscer $Te GROLEXE AVIL S, at fordre paa ovennavnte 80, indkaldes herved til at anmelde og beviisliggjore deres Krav for undertegnede Skifteret inden Udiobet as 8 Maaneder ester denne Indkaldelses sidste Bekjendtojorelse, Frederiksteds Skifteret, St. Croix den 7de October 1865 C.SARAUW, Sl Sl oe e F*U“ ]“:x:nniimli'uus le: the (,'hihh'g’u at tending the Catholic Schools West d l?“.] vill talke nlace on Mandow tha lei U AW LLL TR KE piace ol jionaay tae 106th s ot October, commencing at 12 o'clock. i The Friends and Patrons thereof are o most respecttully invited. M. NAUGHTEN. t

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FE E 7 å e f b P oS6YL OFJ G 11 101; 5 5 asked hor if she could pay for the fowl. She :aid somctidug in reply which did uot ulc;::l_\' understand. The question was repeated, and a similar 1 ply again given. The overscer thea said, “Put her duwn? Un this the woman st up a shrick, and rvent the air with her erics of terror. Her countenanee grew quite ghastly, aud Ler lips became palo and livid. ‘1 was elose to ber, and particu'arly noticed her remarkable aspecs and expression of counteuance. The overseor swore I'c:z;t'nlly, and repeited bis order. “Put her down The wooaan was then cx teaded on the ground and Leld down by two negroes, ler gown and shift were literally torn from her buck, and, thus, brutally exposed, she was subjocted to the cart-whip. The punishment inflieted on this poor creatu.c was inhumanly scvere, She was a wom:n somewhat plumip in i her person, and the whip being wielded with great vigour, every stroke cut '\’&cc") into the flesh. She writhed aud twisied Ler body violently under the ivfliction.—moaning loudly, but uttering no exclamation in words, except once, when she cricd out entreating that her nakedness might Lot be iudecently exp sed,—appearing to suffer, from matronly modesty, even more acutely ou account of her indecent exposure, than tue crucl laceration of her body. But the overscer ouly noticed her-ap peal by a brutal reply, aud the flogsing continned. Disgusted as I was, I witnessed the whole to a closc. I numbered the lashes, stroke by stroke, and counted fifty, thus exceeding by eleven the number allowed by the cclonial law to” be inflicted at the arbitrary will of the master or manager, This was the only oceasion on which I saw the legal number of thirty pine laslies exceeded; but I never knew the oversecr or head book-keeper give less than thiciy-nine. This poor, victim was shocking ly lacerated. When permitted to rise she again shrieked violently, The overseer swore roughly, and threatened, if she was not quiet, to put Lier I dowin again. Ie then ordered her to be taken to the hot-hcuse or hos t pital, and put in the stocks. She was to be continusd in the stocks for several nights, while she worked in the yard during the day at light work. She was 100 severely mangled to be able to go to the fisld for some days.’ Nor could these sickening severiiies have been at all unusual, For in the four ‘ecrown colouics,’® the home governiment was able to do what it pleased, and accordingly it required every planter to give in sworn rctures of the punishmeunts inflicted ou his estate, By these sworn returns there were registered, in the two years 1828-—-9,68,921 punish ments. The law allowed, in the crown colonies, tweuty-five suipes to a punishment, which limit was incessantly passed. Taking the average, however, at but twenty stripes, this puts the total amouut of stripes inflicted, in regular floggings, for these four colonies alone, in two years, at no less than one million three hundred and fifty thousand! Twenty d s R S e Guiapa (at that time divided), Trinidad, St. Lucia. m: Tirslny den 17de Ostober for Baboerne s syt hf y begge Ostende Qvaritercr, paa Qvagplantagev Saliysfaney. Ousdag den 18de Oetober for Boeboerne i 5 Compaguiets Qvartecr, pa2 Plantagen Work T 16251. Forsdag den 19e Oetober for Bebnerne i Dronuningens., Konzens- og Nordside B Qvar teer i Retshuset paa Kivostill. mes i 3 a Firsdag den 21de Oetober for Deboerne i ø E Piiudsevs Qvarteer, paa Plintagen Grove Plaeo. Torsdag don 26de Oetober for Bebosrna i Væsteude- og Nordside A Qvarteer, I Røtshu= sot I Frcderiksted. 20> For Byen Fredoriksted SHamine Dag for Byboerre i Strand, Kungens: og Dovvingensyade. Freduy den 27ds Ovtøber for Bebøerno i P f F F i Prindsyns-, Hosvitals- og Nverade, Konrens o 6 E y s l 3 *.'—*x'_;.i.'i y LDPVOR O b_;*_':';f.f o n'rl_jl'!::_';':uw, il i geledosiovenmeldtø Retshuus. Foiuden de Oplysvinger, dør ere fornødnø til DG al MKUTETNE, Om som CLOVer l'.:h.'l I.'I;C- L.ir as Husei, or udevfor Byerne, samt at Piautisor, er pligtir at meddøjs Commissioneu, hir Gouvernementet ansvet dø! 'i'Ji'fl;l_l—*äi'-k*-.*»***-';f ul sammne Tid at erholds Underretning om Ån tallot as Arbsidere pia Plintarorno'ov as andre D.sG£ fi F Pursoner som ooholds Sia der, såamt om Krea turholdet paa Eandet, m. i» til hvilket Oiemed yt e z i R 3 Blankeitene til Skatielisterne cre forsynedø KL med dy is Hounscends forn6dnø Rubrikker. 1 Plantaze Elor: bavo at indgive ndiogtige Op lystinver om livormecet Land der er udligt i Sukkerdvikoine, Bomuldvrkoine, 18nlon Dyrk X.:.;.;'_' og Cicr Søan, 7 E i 3 FL E3 Pt Forsaavid:t »-nogeu Decl as Landet ikke er til nogen Nytta elier Brur, elier ufsiver nogen E N HEL k B II.A: D4 A Å_A_L.Ll.*_;. at antforo PÅJ» l Skatte-lstes, ov cn Åtitest derom, udstædt uv w RM G i A OF S D é f GEF SOUS LLDUE RT: ØED OMEVEnDG DAVTEFO 1 S OE BE z E ”U…. (__!'.'.'2:& rTel, Bamt DEKTÆTGT a k.:'--k: tecrofiie« VOI, L PN å at inlevere til Commissionen hvorefter det 58 L E 65 vil kommeunder værmerø Overveieksø om o hvorvidt Eftercivelse as Grun lskatten, as sa dnut Land kon tilovtaæstr. HL h H L uUSvIGre, HVIS LEUSG ftavo staaet 1_:'_1:;;-3 16

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Maaneder og derover, og som desnarsag forlan ge Nedsættelse i Skatterne, have at indsende ulstrækkeligt Beviis for, at Ifuset har staact übeboet i det angivne Tidsrum. Enhver som forsømmer at afsivne de fornævnte Oplysninger til ovenmeldte Tid og Sted, maa tilskrive sig selv det deraf flydende Tab. Blatiketter til Skattelister ville blive omdeelte nogle Dage forinden Skatte Commissionens Mode, og blive nøisgtigen at udfylde as Ved kommende, samt derefter at afgive til Commis sionen, i Byerne paa den for hver Gade, og paa Landet paa den for hver Qvartecr bestemte Dag. Statte Commissionen for St. Croix, den lste October 1865. Carl Hattensen. C:R.Magecns. J.J. Hein. Publication. Pursuant to order from the Government the 'ax Commission for St. Croix will mcet on the andermentioned days, to receive information in writing relating to the taxes for the present year. i'or the Town of Christiansted at the Royal Treasury’s Office at 10 o’clock, forenoon, viz: Wednesday the 11th October, for the inhabit dnts of Kings, Company. Queens, Strand, North and West Streets, also Western Suburbs. Thursday the 12th October, for the inhabit ants of Smith, West and Ulke lanes, Watergut, Market and Princes Streets, Kings and Queens Uross Streets, Church, Hospital and Green streets- and Kastern Suburbs. Iriday the 13th October, for the inhabitants of Hill, Kast, Liagoon, little Hospital, New and Fisher Streets. For the Countlry 4t 11 o’clock forenoon, viz Tuesday the 17th October, for the inhabitants five thousand and ninety-four punishments, or, at that rate, half a million, of those stripes were sworn to as having been inflicted upon females® That the whip, and the dread of the whip, must have caused an un speakable amount of physical and moral misery, is then plain enough. in this respect emancipation has beyond all question eaused a vast acces sion to human happiness, in that it has substituted the attraction of re wards for the compulsion of terror. Duat by far the most portentous and striking features of West Indian society under slavery was this, that while the free negroes were steadily advancing in pumber, the slaves were dying off at a rate which was described at the time as ‘appalling.’ It was not by stories of atrocious cruelty that the eyes of Pailia ment were opened to the wickedness and folly of slavery. If any of our readers would turn to the pages of Hansard, they would find that what gave the death-blow to slavery, in the minds of Knglish statesmen, was the population returns, which showed the fact, ‘the appalling’ fact, that although only eleven out of the eighteen islands had sent them in, yet in those eleven islands the slaves had decreased in twelve years, by no lessthan6o,2l9; namely, from 553,194 t 0 497,975 !t Had similurreturns been procured from the other seven colonies (including Mauritius, Antigua, Barbadoes, and Grenada), the decrease must have been little, if at all, less than 100,000! Now it was plain to every one that if this were really so, the system could not last. The driest economist would allow that it would not pay, to let the working classes be slaughtered. To work the labouring men of our West ludies to death might bring in a good return for a while, but could not be a profitable enterprise in the loog run. Accordingly, this was the main, we had almost said the only, topic of the debates on slavery in 1831 and 1832. Is slavery causing a general massacre of the working classes in our sugar islands, oris it not, was a question worth debating, in the pounds, shillings, and pence view, as well as in the moral one. And debated it was, long and fiercely. The result was the full establishment of the dreadful fact. The slaves, as Mr. Marryatt said were ‘dying like rotten sheep. Whatever then may be said for West Indian slavery, this damning thing must be said agaiust it, that the slaves were dying of it. Then came emancipation. The tide at ouce turned, In the wext 12 years, there was an wcrease of 54,076 in the number of the negroes of but ten colonies (mo return having been sent from the larger ones), This one fact is enough by itself to justify emaucipation. Whatever evils might have sprung from that act, nothing conld be so bad for both master and men as to have all the latter killed off. Yet such was the limit towards which things were .actually tending, and that swiftly. Had the same Protector’s Reports, Parl. Papers. Parl. Papers, Population Returns for the West Indies. Os course the de crease by manumission is not included. $Te GROLE AVI S, in both East End Quarters, at the Stock Estate Sallys Fancy. Wednesday the 18th October. for the inhabit ants in Companys Quarter at the Estate Work and Rest. Thursday the 19th October, for the inhabit ants in Queens, Kings and Northside Quarter Letr. B, at the Courthiouse at Kingshill. Tucsday the 24th October, for the inhabitants in Princes Quarter, at the Estate Grove Place. Thursday the 26:h October, for the inhabit ants in Westend Quarter and Northside Quar ter Letter A. at the Courthouse in Frederik sted. For the Town of Frederiksted same day for the inhabitants of Strand, King’s and Quecen’s Streets. I'riday the 27:h October, for the inhabitants of Prince’s, Hospital’s aud New Strects, Kings Cro:s Street, Maiket, Hill and Lagoon Streets, all at the said Courthouse, Besides thos: elucidations, which are re— quired for the culculation of Taxes and which every owner or lessce of hous s in and cut of town, or of estates, is bound to give to the com mission, the Government considers it requisite at the same tinse to be informed of the number of labourers on the cstates or of other persons residing there, as also of the quantity of stock on the estates &e., for which purpose the blanks for the tax lists are furnished with columuns to contain such information. Owners of listates are to specify in writing the exact number of weres in Sugar cultivation, in Cotton cultivation, in other cultivation and in pasture. If any portion of the land is considered to be useless, and yieids no levenue to the owner, the number of acres of such portion must be stated in the tax list, and a certificate on oath, issued by the propricter and two burghers residivg in the quarter and furthermore attested by the quarter officer, delivered to the commission when it will be taken into consideration if' and to what extent cxemption from taxes can Le gr:\nh-r]. Owners of houses that have been unoccupicd rate of decrcase gone on, one century wou'd have seen the extivction of slavery, by the extincetion of the slaves. We put it to the good sense of our re:ders, whether it would have answered io let this state of things proceed. We have shown, then, how deep and how murderous was the wretchedness into which the working class ot the West Indies was thru-t by slavery. We lhave given some glimpses of the oppression they en dured, and how they perished under it. So far, then, as the mass of the people went, it plainly was not only a good but a wisz thing to cut their bouds. Aud, perhaps, now-a-days, it may seem odd that it should ever have been wished to keep such a state of things going, for the sake of a small body of gentlemen. But what mide the matter wholly unbearable was, that it had not even the poor merit of enriching those for whose good the system was held to. Never did the tru h come out with greater clearness than in the West Indies, that it is short-sighted folly to thrus aside natural arrangements, and set up artificial ones in their stead. Here was a body of men owuing some of the richest land in the world. They had plenty of labourers,-and might lash as much work cut of them as they pleased. T'hey had a tight monopoly, so tight that not even the sugar of Kogland’s other domiuions of India or Singapore was allowed to compete. Yet, despite all this, even from the beginning of the cen tury, the planters were continually laying before the Colonial Secretary and Parliament, memorials which might traly be said to have been ‘writ ten within and without, with lamentation and mourning and woe.” Even in 1205, before the abolition of the African Slave Trade, the planters deseribed their condition to be one of increasing embarrassment and ini pending ruin, as indeed it was. It we reproduced these now forgotten complaints of the planters, they would scem worse bores than Cowper’s friead who ‘thought he should have died, he was so bad— His peevish hearers almost wished he had.’ We will only thercfore show what the pecuniary condition of the plan ters was in 1830, when slavery and monopoly were at their zenith. Nor let it be said that their deep distress was owing to the anti-slavery agita tion. They do not so much a3z allude to it. [To be continued for six mounths and upwards claiming reduction in the taxes, are to give satisfactory proof of the Louse haviug been vacant during the period stated. Persons neglecting to procure the informa tion and prool preseribed by the regulations in the above shape, time and place, must ascribe to their own ncgleet all losses resulting there from. Blanks for tax lists will be distributed some days previous to the meeting of the Tax Com mis:ion, and are required to be accurately filled out by the concerned, and delivered to the Commission on the day, which is sized on for cach street in the towns, and for each Quatter in the Country. Tax Commission for St. Croix, the Ist Octo ber 1865, Carl Hattensen. C. R. Magens. J: J. Hein. For Sal 0P 3ale HE House No. 25 Hospitalstreet in this "Fown on easy terms. Ap ply to' R. J. Robinson West End or to HEILBUTIH. Bassin, October 3rd 1865. @B 19 9. E,\\.om,e\,ekx\kb) AGENT FOR ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY FOR FIRE LIFE IN ST. CROLX, it Gl \\J .;;\\-),u\\.\\fl\b,c.\\\ SUB-AGENT IN FREDERIKSTED B, Krebs FPractorius, AGENTS OF THE NORTHERN ASSURANCE G SURANGE GOMPANY, OR FIRE AND LIFE.’