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passage with all its discOmforts, we are
sure disgusts not few, and prevents many
from coming here who might otherwise
do SO. Besides, a great many travellers
who visit ST. Thomas and are detained
there, would be glad TO take a run over
here, if they could reckdn with a GER
tainty on being able to be hack to st.
Thomas at "a given time. In short, we
believe that the establishment ola regular
steam-communication would greatly hene-
fit both islands. 1t would not only draw
strangers to this island but by "a more
frequent personal communication between
the two sister.islands, their inhabitants
would learn to know each other better ;
greater intercourse and greater mutual
confidence would arise and a much
larger business be transacted. .ee5.aa
The attempt to establish a steamer be-
tween the two islands has been tried once
before, and failed. But, why9 Simply
because the steamer put on the route,
did not at all answer the purpose, and
was in the hands of a single merchant
who had little or no trade with this ISL
and. The present company is likely to
be conducted by gentlemen who will be
hoiC w SCCuIC W us VESSEL u COuSIuGId UIC
amount of freight.
We wish all success to the undertaking
and hope that the full amount of shares
allotted 10 st. Croix will be taken here;
ace will derive the greatest benefit from it,
and ought consequently 10 contribute
most towards it.
There are certain points to which we
would draw the attention of the Direct
orS. To secure the success of the under
taking it is absolutely necessary that the
greatest accuracy and punctuality should
be observed in the time of the vessels de-
parture and arrival from the different
ports. Any deviation from this rule will
be sure to ruin it. At the appointed
minute the boat must leave, regardless of
the personal considerations that now often
delay the departure of the %scbooners.
The interest of the community, is of far
greater importance than that ofany single
individual. BY consulting the former in
stead of the latter, the Company will find
that doing so will pay better, in the long
run. Another principle which it is just
as necessary that they should adhere to is
that of slow prices" A high charge for
passengers, or a high freight for goods,
will prove r%uinous 10 the Company. The
present charges of the schooners may,
considering the uncertainty of the length
of time used in the passage, be reason
able, but they would be perfectly un-
reasonable in a vessel pretending to per-
form regular and frequent voyages. One
of the essential items of ssincreased faci-
lities of communication, on which prin-
ciple the whole undertaking is based. and
with which it must stand or fall, is:
'lop pa senger tares' and s.low freight
charges"
, 1868-06-19
PHE undersigned offer for sale, OF
reasonable terms to an approved
purchaser
The LOT No. SO,
Company Street,

formerly the property of Mrs. Spi-
nellie.
They take this opportunity of soli-
citing from their friends and custom
ers an early settlement of accounts
due ON the Ist March last. Although,
against ain j their inclination, they will be
compelled to take coercive measure
to enforce payment of those outstand-
ings, which are now long overdue.
Christiansted, st. Croix, 18th June
1868.
ROCHE BROS. e. Co.
, 1868-06-19
The "AVIS"
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AND PUBLISHED
EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY.

for the Proprietress.
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Single number to non-advertisers-1O cents.
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, 1868-06-19
Shipping Intelligence.

ENTERED AT C~HRisTIANsTED:
June 16,-Danish brigantine Gypsy, Davis,
New York, Provisions and Estate
Supplies.
, 1868-06-19
TABLE OF THE FALL OF RAIN,

during the week from 10th to 10th June.
Christiansted. Frederiksted. Kings Hill.
Lines Lines Lines
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-02-04

THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION TO De.
eide GRANTS FATE.-As the New Hamp-
shire election is at hand, the Presidential
question receives fresh interest. This is
TO be the first gun Of the contest, and poll
ticians know we'll its significance. The
New Hampshire Legislature has hoisted
the Grant flag. The Republican party OF
the State has pledged itself to the support
of Grant as the next President. The con-
test in the State election will turn upon
this point. Grant and Radical reconstruc-
ton are the watchwords. Negro suffrage
is to stand or fall by this State election
1t is the opinion Of Republican politicians
that Grants nomination as President de-
ponds on the result Of the New Hampshire
election. If the State 60 for the Demo-
cracy, Grant, it is believed, will be the
nominee at Chicago. His defeat in New
Hampshire will be an evidence that bis
military fame cannot sustain his heavy
load of Radical policy. Maine and othe,
eastern States will follow the lead of New
Hampshire.
It is said that the Radicals are making
great efforts to carry this election, and the
supporters Of General Grant are particu-
larly active in the effort. Large sums OF
money have been raised for the purpose, ii
is said, by the capitalists of New York,
who have come to the conclusion that their
interests will be safer with Grant than any
other candidate yet Washington
Letter. Charleston Courier.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-02-04

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE-A LARGE FACTORY
TOTALLY DESTRoYED.-On Saturday morn.
ing last the extensive barrel and stave fac.
tory of Messrs. Storms, Baird, Roper g. Co
was destroyed by fire, including some
1000 barrels ready for market, large
amount of heading ready for shipment
and over 800, 900 slaves ready for use.
The eastern wall of the main building
fell, crushing the two adjoining shops o
Addison g. Tumbleson, horseshoers, and
of A. J. Oglivie & Co., block and pump
makers. During Saturday they succeeded
in saving most of their tools, &C., from
under the ruins.
The loss Of Messrs. Storms, Baird, Roper
& Co. is estimated at not less than $40, 00(
on stock and machinery. They were in.
sured for $4,000 in the following offices
each Office being liable for 81, 500-yiz., Ma
tional, of Baltimore, Maryland; Merchants
and Mechanics Of Baltimore Georgia
Home, of Columbus; Home, of New Haven
Insurance and Savings, of Richmond; Pc
tersbug Savings, of Petersburg.
The buildings were owned by Kimberly
g. Bro, Of Baltimore, and were insured IL
that city or New York.
This calamity throws out of employment
over one hundred men and boys.-NoJoH
Journal.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-02-04
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS,
Congregational.

WAsHINGToN, February 3.-House.-
Among the bills introduced on the regu.
lar Mondays call were the following: Tt
provide for the settlement of contracts
payable in gold directing the courts to en-.
force coin payments; to establish depart
ments of justice to build postal railroad
between Washington and New York; to
iredge the Potomac river by convic,
labor; to repeal the fifth section of an ACT
relative to the registry and recording OF
vessels to issue sI5o,ooo,Ooo legal ten
iers, replacing those withdrawn : toremove
the national capital to st. Louis !; to tax
United States notes, treasury notes, and
fractional currency, for State and munich
pal purposes; also, several regarding
naturalization and finance.
The Secretary of War was called on for
the corresp ,uience between himself and
General Grant. Copies of all orders
issued by district commanders are de-
manded.
John Young Browns case was resumed,
and postponed until the 18th instant.
Senate.-Mr. Cameron Republican,, of
Pennsylvania, presented memorial re-
calling Charles Francis Adams, Minister
to England.
The bill taxing national bank shares for
State purposes was passed.
The reconstruction bill was resumed,
and discussed until adjournment.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-02-04
From the Charleston Mercury.
MNhocracv

Early in the afternoon Of yesterday we
were informed, through the attention of q
military officer in person, that the mil;tar,
we're In possession Of facts which led them
20 apprehend that serious attempt was in
contemplation on the part of an armed
aegro mob, put forward by their white CO.
'djutors, to assault with violence the office
If the Charleston Mercury. Precautions
we're taken by the military to preserve
order, and the city police were put upon
the alert, and force kept in readiness in
case Of need.
We state these things as facts; and we
have few remarks to make upon the
subject.
We deprecate exceedingly a public dis.
turbance, but If it Is desired by the
aegroes or negroites in Charleston to have
4 row, they can have it, and good one.
The white men Of Charleston are not all
lead, and although they would avoid COL
Iision, violence be inaugurated by Radi
calls and negroes, the responsibility of the
consequences will rest with the latter.
In any event, we have but to say that
the Charleston Mercury will pursue its
course unmoved by the threats Of ruffians
,r the demonstrations of negroes. WI
publish WHITE MANS PAPER in Dlitf
mans country; and it is our intention t.
uphold the rights of white men and ex.
pound their expressions, whether against
the clamors Of revolutionary body Of
whites in Washington or an uuconstitu-
tional assembly of blacks in Charleston.
And we are much mistaken if there are
DOT friends enough Of the Mercury amongst
the white men of Charleston etfectually 10
protect this Office, and with it their rights
and the liberty of the press, against all the
negroes and their instigators between the
Ashley and the Cooper rivers.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-02-04
Yjrhmond 1ispatth,
FEBRUARY 4, 1868

cr,ssys Court PowsRLEss.--The
THE Sc orrans and leaders congratulate
R,d'si' os mon the alleged fact that re-
,henseS,S;oo r on the negro suffrage basis il
coasir 1n'rond the reach Of disturbance by
sr;E: sSprsme Court. Every excluded STATE axe
,t! N:s,ii elect six representatives to Con.
bsHl WI, WV in February, at the same time
gss e ;sas her new Radical State Consti.
SIC aud nd they will be immediately ad.
t.'@,, o., % seats. Nine Of the ten States
rt'ea ~ will be thus radicalized, admitted
resented by the first of May. The
81 ,o Conrt cannot cause a decision
>, Pc, The validity of the reconstruction
&;''a n't,rr May, and by that time Radical.
- 'STIb have full sway over the South and
10 W., rholc country. But besides the ex,
il 70, nrcmpt action Of the ten States
T%... relies mainly for aid in battling
me :.n-pmc Court upon the vigilance AND
~ ,.,ynnlousness of its Judiciary and Re,
1..3rc.;ou Committees. These commit,
eli iii At an hours notice of danger from
~ ,,nrce TO the Radical policy, bring for.
8 \, new and stringent reconstruction an6
w. ,-,s<ive and oppressive measures, and
'. ~, them in day. Besides all this, they
%. 49, he Secretary of War and the Gene,
lin ~ Chief to obey and execute their
I ..3,tes. Not much practical good car
., '.sorc be expected from any action o
:, Sr,rcmc Court, for Congress will head
:: -, = 1.-THE first place, and then, if need be
~. .......,rrishit.- Washington Letter-Charles
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-02-04

-gg CASE OK JUDGE FIELD.--The an
cement is made tonight that the first
,-,,e,s 10 he sworn in the investigation OF
=, ,hsrges against q judge Of the Supreme
:,.. for alleged private expression OF
lion as to the constitutionality of the
-.aNruction acts is Mr.. Wilson, chair
.. of the Judiciary Committee, who was
q. Of = social party at which the Judge was
r,seat. 1t is said the thing will prove a
tnle witness can be found who ever
ba-d Judge Field express an opinion sach
s,iss,lributed to him, and it is alleged that
here have been three Socialparties recent
= which were attended by the three Re
,-blican members Of the court and Judge
reld. The investigation is to extend to
"a, was said by all of the judges at each
/. these gatherings.-Data, in Sun.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-02-04

The TAX ON MANUFACTURES letter
ton George W. Allen, member Of Con-
cess from Ohio, addressed to the secretary
1 the National Manufacturers Union,
peaks of the prospect of repeating the
axes on manufactures as follows:
The pressure brought to bear upon
Congress is more than it can withstand.
There is general feeling Of retrenchment,
and am mistaken or there will be radical
reforms before long. The Committee of
Ways and Means have already resolved to
report a bill repeating all taxes upon
manufactures, except luxuries, and we
hope 10 get the income tax off also, and
expenses reduced sufficient to admit of it..
10 this end we are laboring with individual
members and the different committees in
Whose hands are expenditures, appropria-
soas, etc. think l am safe in saying that
Oh labors will be crowned with success,
lHi II mast be watched and pressed to the
ead."
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-02-04
Foreign News.

LONDON, February 3-Evening. -Finances
unchanged.
Saturdays gale was very destructive TO
life and property here and in Liverpool.
Houses were unroofed, many persons struck
by the flying timbers, and some killed
outright.
LONDON, February 3-Noon.-United
States bonds quiet at IN. Afternoon
Consols, 934g93H; United States bonds,
721s@72A.
LIVERPOOL, February 3-Noon.-Cotton
dull and dropping; estimated sales, 10000
aales. Breadstuffs steady. Afternoon
Cotton easier; middling uplands, on the
spot, rs; to arrive, ~. Pork dull. LARD
irmer az SIS. Other articles unsettled.
LIVERPOOL, February 3-Evening.-Cot-
ton closed quiet at decline of Lie; up
lands, 7AG7%. Turpentine, 28s. cd.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-02-04

Sailing S1DEwALKs.-The Press says
it has been for several years, during which
the streets of Philadelphia were sailed, q
well-grounded complaint that pneumonia
fatally prevailed during the cold season
This year, there being no sailing, the
health of the city is much better than
usual, and pneumonia is comparatively
rare. The Common Council has before it
a resolution instructing the City Solicitor
to bring suit against the Germantown pas
senger railway for sailing of tracks. The
Press says that this sailing is to the great
gain of doctors, undertakers, and shoe
makers.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-02-04

From WRsfiingtOn-TO b a c Tax
Commissioner ROllin s-Rars. Lin.
coin Insane, &c.
WASHINGTON, February 9.-Carl Schurz,
who is abroad, has no connection with the
Government.
General Sherman leaves for the West
tonight.
The Ways and Means Committee had q
long conference to-day with a tobacco
delegation. The committee favors stamp
duty on tobacco in all forms.
The President has nominated Colonel
Wisewell as Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, vice Rollins.
Private letters from Chicago represent
Mrs. Lincoln as unquestionably insane.
The revenue receipts to-day we're
81, 4S4, 900.
The bill authorizing the States to tax
national bank shares has now passed both
Houses.
Commissioner Rollins decides that wine
from ground raisins or tamarinds, by ad-
ding sugar, is exempt from taxation.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-02-04

The PUBLIC DEBT.-The monthly cx'
ii5il Of the public debt is not to be issued
before February 5lh, owing to the large
drafts from yarious Departments of the
Government and the small receipts from
customs, and the payment during the
month of about 100000 interest on the
five. twcnties and 1851 bonds. The exhibit
will not be so favorable as the last one, pub.
G>Ard early last month. On the lst OF
January the Treasury held sos, 100000
on the LIST Of February there will be about
$4,000, 600. For the next two or three
moaihs the prospect will be better, as there
will be little demand for gold, and by re-
solution Of Congress the immense claims
Il: damages by the border States have all
been stopped. Chronicle.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-02-04

va Friday the Wheeling Senate en-
tossed a bill authorizing the county of
43a'oe TO vote again upon the question of
describing to the stock Of the Chesa-
ia r'aAe and Ohio Railroad Company. Dis
,'uciSed persons to vote. The result,
, .,4 al accounts, will be in favor of the
Subscription.
A.. ar. 'allandigham seems to have come
n.y. ~. uecldediy against the Democratic
o.? ., Ohio. His organ announces that
S TG" Will 60 next fall for the Radical can
,ws as Tor President by from twelve to
''D'y thousand majority.
cot 4ue Ylncennes Times says that vein of
d. d. IL The upper end of Knox county, In
ls nas hsen probed fifteen feet, and yet
~. parties have not succeeded in getting
6L,uH2l The vein. The coal lies imme-
rart,1! Oh The indianapolis and Viucennes
,oa 1LE WORD WBITE.-Ohio is going tho
guy through all the laws of the State,
""De lie word" whiten in it's statutes.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-02-04

Avery important meeting of the "West-
= Anti Radical Club" was held in Wash
ACTON city on Saturday evening. Senator
D1otle presided, and, on taking the
chair, remarked that "the enemies Of the
t;yernmcnt are in possession of the great
military and legislative branches of the
& eminent, and are using them in the
n5,t INSCRIPTIONS manner to assist them
j, securing another lease of the despotic
,aaers they have assumed through the
nero votes of the southern States. He
7ght it woald be sad day for the
c..,lrv when this was accomplished. lie
ID not think the people Ct the great middle
ui ,ie>tern States aco,tld peacefully submit
. he dictaIton of a President secured by
/, roteS OF the negroes, but thought it
vlld result in terrible war;"
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-02-04

FATAL ExPLosIoN.-Noracich, Conn.,,
February An explosion of non-ex-
plosive $50 called) burning fluid lamp &C.
Cured Friday evening at the house of A.
n. Chapman, near the city. The children
had been left in charge Of the house, and
after filing the lamp, one of them lighted
and placed it in front of the can. An ex.
plosion occurred. A girl, aged eleven
years, died this morning from the injuries
she received, and boy, aged sixteen, and
girl ten years, are so badly burned they
will probably die.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-02-04
latest by the. Cable. :
ENGLAND.

LONDON, February Fin accordance
with the request of Lord Stanley, the
Pacha Of Egypt has Withdrawn the auxili.
.ry corps which he sent to join the Abys.
,inian expedition.
FRANCE.
PARIS, February 2.-It is reported that
the new bill for the regulation of the press
will be withdrawn by the Emperor, in con-
sequence Of the opposition shown by the
Liberals.
PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, February 1.-THE bill granting
largo indemnity to the King of Hanover
and the Duke of Nassau passed. MucL
opposition was shown, but toward the close
Of the debate Bismarck declared that II
the appropriations were not passed he
would be compelled to dissolve the Parlia.
ment. This threat was effective.
ITALY.
FLORENCE, February 2.-The announce
ment was made in both Houses of Parlia-
ment yesterday that the Crown Prince
Humbert was betrothed to the Princess
Margherietta, Of Genoa.
MADRID, February LIN accordance
with the expressed determination of the
Government TO uphold the temporal power
of the Holy Father, steps have been taken
for the formation Of a corps to be known as
the Papal Legion.
CADlz, February IA severe famine
prevails in Tangiers.
DENMARK.
COPENHAGEN, February king Chris
tan has signed the treaty with the United
States for the sale of the West India
islands.
A special courier has left for Washington
with the document.
GAMBIA.
LONDON, February Late dispatches
have been received here from Athens
giving an account Of another battle be-
tween the Turks and Cretans, in which the
latter were successful.
The Spakiotean mountaineers were the
attacking party. The Turks stood their
ground, and the battle lasted all day. The
Turks acknowledge loss Of $50 killed.
The Cretan loss is not stated.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-02-04

The following are the latest connterfeits !:
Tens on the Croton National Bank and
lie First National Bank Of New York
,.y; tivcS on the National Union Bank of
Undertook, New York. The clouds above
tie female have scratchy appearance,
;le shading under the words National
union Bank are coarse and irregular, the
paper is of blush tint, and the engraving
IN the back is coarse. Tens on the Anne
:icaa National Bauk OF New York city
Tie signatures are printed, and poorly
done, and the number is blotched. Elves
81 the Peoples National Bank, Jackson
Michigan. A poor affair, both as regards
printing and paper; still the imitation is
close, and may deceive. Twenties on the
FIRST National Bank Of Portland, Connec-
f.rvt
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-02-04

An improvement that will be hailed with
pleasure by the travelling public is men,
toned by the Railaoay Journal, of Chicago,
which says that the Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific railway are soon to put q
refreshment car upon their road. 1t is to
be put in the middle of the train, easily
accessible, and so arranged that one car
take a luxurious meal at ones ease, thus
avoiding the miserable wayside eating
houses that are generally such nuisance
The Chicago Times Of Friday states that
the actual loss by the recent fire IN that
city will be about 81, 100000.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-02-04

;, ALLEGED INSANITY OF MRS. LINCOLN
I'Nate letters received from Chicago state
sat Mrs. Lincoln is insane beyond all
e'uol. She recently sold all the furni-
s-'e IL her house, and has two old men as
UHsy-guard, believing she will be robbed
Qua murdered. Her mania is for selling,
Ga dread lest she come to want. All
~'' Trends are said to be conscious of her
~Sa'al condition, but think, so long as she
aaFtnieSs, her removal to lunatic asy-
IN would increase her arrangement
1lS.0n Herald.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-02-04

A REVENUE AGENT ATTAcKED.-PatS-
burg, February 1.-THE room of Major
Linton, United States revenue agent of
Philadelphia, at the Monongahela House,
was entered yesterday morning, and an
attack was made upon him by two stran-
gers. 1t is inferred from the fact that Ma
ior Linton was an important witness in the
Lycoming whiskey cases that the attack
was made to prevent his evidence.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-02-04

Jail Delfvery-Prfson officer Killed
ST. LOUIS, February Eighteen prison
ers escaped from Jail at st. Joseph's, Mo-,
yesterday. In the melee Horace Fish, a
brother Of the sheriff, was killed, and q
prisoner severely wounded.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-02-04
JeaUeIers, &c.

VEWELRY AND SILVERWARE, con-
81 sisting of beautiful patterns OF Diamond
Sets, Rings, Pins, SC. A large variety OF
Stone, Cameo, Pearl, Amethyst, Carbuncle,
Etruscan, Garnet, Jet, and other sets Of Jew
elry. Ladies' and Gentlemen's WATCHES,
first quality, beautiful styles, and warranted:
beautiful patterns SILTERWARE in full
sets, and an extensive assortment Of silver
articles in cases. &C., for presents; also, Sill
YER Spoons, Forks, Ladies, Butter Knives,
Mugs, Gobets, Casters, Card Gases. Porte.
monnaies, Napkin Rings, and Cream Pots and
Sugar Dishes Call and select 1T the old es-
tablished stand, 1912 Main street.
JOHN II. TYLER CO.,
de2l successors to Mitchell Tyler.