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, 1869-05-04
OF
THE
Colonial Council
FOR ST. CROIX.

Continuation of the meeting of 18th April.)
The End member for Frederiksted's country
district (Knight) did not consider it proper that
the Budget should be adopted with an actual
deficiency of about 10 to 81 900, as the reduc-
ton in the expenditure proposed by the amend
ment was merely a nominal one. No reduction
whatever had been made in the taxation, not
withstanding the considerable annual saving,
shown now to amount to abont $40, 900, and
he would ask what this money was applied to;
it was deposited in the Colonialtreasury's chest
in the fort. IF there be so considerable a sur
plus, a reduction in the taxes ought to be made.
He would vote against the adoption of the,
Budget.
Phe Governor observed, that the last Speaker
was laboring under a mistake, if he really
thought, that the surplus each year was equally
as large as the amount which the accounts
showed below the estimated expenditure under
the Budget. This was not the case, and, as
pointed out by him on previous occasions, the
surplus must be calculated at about $4,000;
but ON the other hand the Colonial Treasury
was yet indebted to the State Treasury about
$4,000 OF the cash that was on hand on the
1st of April 1865. In compiling the present
Budget the Government had endeavored to
meet the wishes hitherto expressed in the CO..
lonial Council, that the amounts of the revenue
should not be calculated higher than what could
be expected actually to be collected, without
regard to the expenditure; and if even no actual
reduction in the taxes can be effected through
the Budget, still it shews at all events a rednc-
ton in the amount of the revenue, and the adj
option of the proposed addition to the chapter
on the expenditure was perfectly in accordance
with the result of the previous years. The
Budget wonld thus appear with an amount of
about $4,000 less on the revenue side as we'll
as on the. expenditure side, compared with the
former Budgets; and it will be remembered
that complaints have been made Of the very
high figures of these Budgets. That no very
great retrenchments could be expected all al
once in the taxes, had been expressly acknow-
lodged by the Commission, but the retrench-
ments proposed by the said Commission in as
far as they could be carried out at once have
been embodied in the Budget. Asregards the
declaration Of the last Speaker to vote against
the adoption of the Budget, he referred to 5 5s
of the Col. Law, according to which the Money
Bills having been discussed in the Council, only
specification of the draft of the Budget is to
be made agreeable to the resolutions passed,
whereuppn the Budget is to be forwarded to the
E#sz$# 4SES9E
, 1869-05-04
$ q. G. q o. lX Al S.

Superior Authority. The first year after the
Colonial Law came In force the Chairman Of
the Council did not put the Budget 10 The vote,
but the notifications were merely read up in.
the Council. In the following years the Budget
together with rectiications have been put, to
the vote, but he could only look upon his as
a mere form, because in reality the adoption of
the Budget cannot be refused, but must be
rectifed by the Council in conformity with its
W resolutions to the several Grants, and in
this shape it must be forwarded to the Superior
Authority.
ITO be concluded.
, 1869-05-04
Summaaira1iut.
To the Editor of the "St. Croix Avis"
Mr.. Editor

ANY one wilfully killing other persons cattle
or animals, shall make good the loss and forfeit
40 pieces Of silver; any one wilfuIly wounding
or in any other manner injuring other persons
cattle or animals, shall make good the injury
according to the valuation Of honest men, and
besides that forfeit 60 pieces Of silver or less
agreeable to the injury COMMUNICATIONS ars
the enactmentS of the good old Danish Code.
That the punishment must be quite different
and far more severe in cases where any one
secretly ~ill+reats or kills other persons animals,
may be deduced from those two enactments and
also from those contained in the Ordinance of
goth October 1742 and The Rescript of 2Ist
June 1880, and We have il Royal Ordinance for
these Islands, dated oath April 1850, prescribing
punishment for ill-treatnent of animals.
If any one were secretly to place poison at
your door, Mr.. Editor, for the purpose of in
juring your animals, and your dog were to eat
thereof and die, you would use all possible,
means TO find out the person, and he would,
when you had found him out, be arraigned be-
fore the Court; the Policemaster would examine
the cuIprit in and out to find ont his guilt and
he would not escape several years work on Mr..
WeiSS'S plantation.
But we see the Police-Authorities here will
fully getting Strychnine from the Apothecary,
making them in nice pills and sending the Pri-
soners or Policeservants to place those pills Sc
cretly, at night time, at the doors of sleeping
citizens, for the intent and purpose of killing
the domestic animals of the citizens. This is
done PERIODICAL a Policeman once told me
that it is almost always at Full Moon.
Now this is Illegal and objectionable.
The Police-Authorities are certainly not at
liberty to infict injuries on the citizens of a
State the Police-Authorities can not set fire
to my house nor deSpoil my property without
responsibility to the Laws; nor can. they with
impunity tranSgresS those positive actment
of the Law. We also find this clearly set down
in many cases for instance, when infectious
diseases prevail among domestic animals, the
Police can do nothing without higher orders,
after previous notice, and after consultation with
a veterinarian; and wherever an animal has
to De sacrificed for the sake of public interest,
compensation has to be given,-see the Law of
goth Decbr. 1857. 1t is true that the Police
Authorities must necessarily sometimes have
greater extent of power; but this is accurately
defined by Law and Regulations see for in
stance the Regulations recently given for the
PoliceserVice in Copenhagen. Nowhere do we
see Police-Authorities invested with the arbi-
tfafy power of killing and destroying persons
stock, as seems best to them. It is a gross
violation of all principles of justice for the Po-
lice here to deprive us of our dogs, by clandes-
timely and secretly putting poison at our very
doors nay in our very yards.
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Inability TO do full justice. Tho tide sufficiently
indie atos the character of the work which con-
eists of some twenty or more pictorial exposl-
tons of events in the life Of the whIte-coated
philosopher OF the Tribune from the cradle to
not the grave, but to his withdrawal from the
New York Constitutional Convention. The cover
is embelshed with portrait of Horace i'm the
act of writing his famous "Recollections of a
Buey Life" and we are invited TO inspect the
contents of this rather broad burlcsque in the fol-
lowing stanzas;
'Would you view the nineteenth wonder,
Funniest thing that eer was seen,
Scotchy. Irish, blood and thunder
Greeley Wearing of the Green?'.
''Look within and see the critter
Baby, boy, and growTr'up man;
And II you're compelled to litter,
BE as sober as you cam
The artistic qualities Of Mr.. Bowlter's designs
are not such as we can conscientiously commend,
but the deficiencies in this respect more than
compensated for by the breadth and puugency
of the satire, and there are doubtless many base
enough TO esteem the brochure excellent fun.
Mr., A, Winch, Of No, sos Chesnut street,
sends us the latest numbers OF the leading Lon
don magazines-the CorRltH, ST. James, Temple
Ear, and London Society.
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THE LAKE,.
frRoM LAMARrrNH.

Must we forever seek some newer cline,
Return we cannot, may VIC not delay,
Or anchor on the shoreless sea of time
Ey'n for day?
Last year she sat beside me on this stone,
And WHISPERED we would look again on thee;
Gee me, sweet Lake, but ask not why, alone,
Nor where is she
such was thy murmur meath yon rocky caves,
The sullen cliff so didst thou idly beat
While the light foam that rippled off thy waves
Fell on her feet.
Ono owe dost thou remember silence bore
such absolute sway that sound hal ceased
put for the measured cadence of an oar
Flashing thee
Sudden a sound, more sweet than mortal broke
The sleep of Echo in her lonely cen
All how treasured as the Siren spoke
Each word that fell!
Time, stay your speed, little stay,
To let us taste the joys you bring;
DO not each moment brush away
Some pleasure with your wing.
'Where sorrow pines, or labor delves,
Oh, there in mercy linger not,
But leave the happy to themselves,
Forgetting and forgot.
an vain, in vain Time seems in scorn
More rapidly to urge his flight;
Sweet night endure! And 10! the morn
Already chaseth night.
'Oh, let us then, in mere despair
OF holding him, with him press on,
And love the more intensely, ere
The hour for love be gone"
Too Jealous Pow'r must that enchanting cup
From which the draughts of love and pleasure
flow
Fail, ahi so soon, and wilt thou neer dry up
The urn of woe?
Is there no charm to fix one happy hour
Twas here but now, and it will be no more?
Doth Time, scarce granting e'er he takes the
dover,
Never restore?
Thou past Eternity thou dark abyss,
The years by thee engulfed, oh, where are
they?
Give back, give back the youth, the bounding
bliss
Borne far away
Jov'd lake, mute rocks grottos, and waving
groves
You whom time spares, or wastes but to
renew,
Eternal be the memory of our loves
EAT least with you!
Keep it, dear lake both in thy calm and storm,
In ev'ry varied aspect of thy shore;
In these dark pines, in you rocks rugged form
That beetles DER,
Threat'ning thy beauty; in the light warm gale
That wreathes thee into smiles, in ev'ry sound
That Echo watts DER thee while mooubeams
pale
Hallow all round.
Let the soft-sghing rose, the murm'ring wind
Breathing her name the bird that fits above,
Ali, ALL that through the senses wakes the mind,
Record our Love!
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FISHING IN AMERICAN WATERS. By Genio G.
Scott. Published by Harper 81 Brothers. Phi
ladelphia Agents: ClaXton, Remsen ~ Hatfel-
finger.
This work has been written con dmOre by
thorough sportsman and it is none the less valu-
able on account of the familiar and entertaining
style adopted. The author, indeed, while apollo
gizing for lack of artistic finish contends .iIat
his sketches are correct in all the essentials. For
thoroughness of information about the fishes of
American waters, their habits, appearance, and
the most approved methods OF entrapping them,
this work is superior to any that has yet been
given to the public.
Part first treats Of coast and estuary fishing
with rod and line, and it gives some valuable
hints about the general characteristics of fishing
and full descriptions of the various kinds thai
afford the best sport to the angler. The second
part is devoted to fresh water fishing with fly
and bait; the third part to commercial fisheries
the fourth part TO ancient and modern fish cul
ture; and in part fifth is given "a Glimpse o
Ichthyology." An appendix gives various items
of value to sportsmen, including cookery adapted
TO the manners of sportsmen in the wilderness
and on the wave, American game laws, etc
The work is Illuminated with one hundred an,
seventy yood-cuts Of the most important fshe
described, the various kinds of flies and bats
and few comical sketches which suit the jovia
spirit in which the book is written. Mr.. Scot
goes over a large area of ground, and as he eyi
IDENTIFY understands his subject thoroughly in al
its details, his work viii be a valuable addition
IA the libraries of the disciples of lzaak Waltoi
who ply the angle in our American waters
full index is given, which viii prove valuable y
those using the work.
From j. B. Lippincott& q Co we have receives
'sTbe Rife and Hound in Ceylon, by Sir Samue
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VIEW OF NEW B o x g.

REMINIsCENCEs OF FELIX MBNDELssoHN BAR
THoLDY by Elsie Polko. Translated from the
German by Lady Wallace. Published by Ley
poldt & Holt. Philadelphia Agents: Claxton,
Remsen d. Haffelfnger
This work is designed as q commentary on the
letters of Mendelssohn, which have been given
to the public within few years past and as a
sketch of his life and works in anticipation of a
more complete biography to be prepared at a
later period. Madame Polko writes with enthu-
sasm. and while her sketch is lacking in the
details of an elaborate biographical work, it
shows thorough artistic appreciation Of Mem
Gelssohns genius. Her meeting with the COM
poser is remembered as brilliant epoch in her
life, and the personal "reminiscences of him and
his beautiful wife have charm that might be lost
in more elaborate work. Besides her own re-
collections Madame Poko has gathered her ma
terials from the dearest friends of the musician,
and she has verified her dates by the sketches of
Wilhelm Lampadius, which appeared immedi-
ately after the death of Mendelssohn. The
translation has been admirably executed by Lady
Wallace and the value of the work has been
enhanced by several letters hitherto unpublished
which have been added TO those collected by
Madame Polko. This book has been issued in
handsome style by Leypoldt IL Holt, to match
their editions of Beethoyen's, Mozarts, and
Mendelssohn's letters, etc, and it will make an
attractive addition to their library of musical
literature, which now includes some nine or ten
volumes.
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am always prepared Repair and Paint Roofs at short
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Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-06-17

people consistently with extrava-
giant notions. -mr.r ...H }5
On New Years day, Mrs. Farley
received plain gold ring inside of
which was engraved these words ::
"OUR NEW LEAF-PAY AS YoU Go p'
The once broken merchant has
found this profitable motto. He is
now able to pay as he goes, and at
the same time makes his wife a more
costly New Years gift than the
dress and the bonnet which the
money of the usurer bought.
To those who would turn over a
new leaf on next New Years day,
recommend the merchants MOTTO
PAY AS YOU GO! 1t will never allow
dues to, perplex nor bailiffs to har-
rass you-compared7 with the man
OF woman who runs up bills at the
grocery, the store of the bakeshoI
or who indulges fancy in any par
ticular on credit, you will be mos
happily independent.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-06-17

ABoRTIvE SPITE.-The Democrat
ic Legislature passed Visible Ad-
mixture Law, intended to exclude
from the polls citizen having col
orable suspicion of African descent,
and grossly insulting those even
family suspected. The Supreme
Court disposed Of the iniqutous
measure by declaring it unconstitu
tional. Another Visible Admixture
Law, amendatory to the first. was
passed, denouncing extraordinary
penalties on those who violated the
law. Attorney General West, on
the application Of a citizen. has pull
ed the tangs of this last Democratic
viper by showing that it cannot
affect those already declared by the
Constitution and the Supreme Court
to be voters-the half white; that it
has not and cannot change the
status of voter; and that conse
quently it is ''mere sound and fury,
signifying nothing"
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-06-17

A singular contest is in progress
in Indianapolis. The police of the
city made descent upon the liquor
sellers for violation of the Sunday
law. and obliged them to close their
places of business on that day. The
liquor sellers thereupon fled COM
plants against all the people in tho
city whom they could find to be en-
gagged in work on Sunday, and COM
PEELED their arrest. The victims of
this counter movement include the
editors, reporters, and compositors
employed on the daily journals,
street car drivers and conductors,
livery stable keepers. and others.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-06-17
A Countrynlan Bent on Suicid

A Butler County farmer came to
town day before yesterday and got
drunk. Being drunk, and having
no use whatever for weapon Of
any kind, he bought pistol Hav-
ing pistol, he went into barber
shop, No. 1919 West Fourth street,
and signitied his intention of shoot
ing himself Immediately below the
fifth rib. He might have released
himself from the cares of this world
outside the shop, but he wanted a
few hair -dressers of good repute to
die and become partakers of glory
with him. He made this known to
all in the shop, and besought the
puzzled BARRIERS, one and all, to
throw themselves on their razors
and expire like men. Several of the
knights Of the brush and curling
tongs expressed themselves adverse
to SO sudden a departure from their
present sphere of usefulness, when
Mr.. Fitch,-that's the farmers name
became very much excited, pulled
out his revolver, and swore by
Jehosaphat that they should go
with him to the realms of bliss,
willingly or reluctantly, and that if
they did not choose their own in
struments of death, he would make
selection for them. He had drawn
good sight on one of the colored
gentleman, when the ''boss' shaver
sprang upon him, bore him to the
ground, and wrenched his pistol out
of his hand. Mr.. Fitch took very
unkindiy to the floor, and with tears
in his eyes begged to be allowed to
die, even expressing his willingness
to undertake the journey to the
other land alone, if the boss would
but let him up. But the head
scenter of the somber circle refused
to give him his pins, but sent him,
instead, to the Ninth Street Station
house, where he remained all night
He appeared in the Police Court
yesterday morning, and for his ex-
traordinary behavior was fined SIS
and costs, the Court admonishine
him to keep sober in the future, and
to permit his colored brethren to
take their time in preparing fol
heaven. Mr.. Fitch was, to tell the
truth, much nearer his eternal rest
than he supposed. just let him
exchange Butler County for Cincin.
natl whisky few times more, and
we will guarantee that no pistol will
be necessary to secure him the
heavenly tranquility which he was
so anxious to enjoy last Wednes
day.-Cin Commercial.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-06-17

We should profit by the past.
How many Democratic platforms,
built by cunning and skilled work
men, were constructed with the ex-
press view of keeping the question
of slavery out of politics. But was
it ever less an issue because of them 2
The roar and tumult of the battle
went on though the trumpets of
uncertain sound called a truce to the
combatants. We can no more evade
or ignore the question whether po-
litical equality shall prevail through
out the United States, than the De-
mocracy could ignore the question
of the naturalization Of slavery.
Let it then be met in a manly way,
and whether defeat or victory fol-
low, we shall have the consciousness
of having given our best effort TO
the constitutional incorporation
of a principle that has common
sense. justice, and the spirit of De-
mocracy on it's side-Cin. Com.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-06-17
PAY AS YOU GO.
BY WILLIAM T COGGESHALL.

There is not quite as much orig
inaHty as there is prejudice in the
world, else men and women would
not so often be led into extrava-
gance and difficulty by the example
Of others. Too many people are
prone to do as their neighbors. sim
ply because said neighbors have
numerous servants, own a front
pew in a fashionable church, and
ride in handsome carriage. 1t is
very we'll that we should initiate our
neighbors when they do right, but,
unfortunately, we are oftener in
clined to pattern after coats. or take
the style of their bonnets. than to
initiate their social excellence or
private virtues.
Many times passion to look as
well as other people, is encouraged
at the expense Of more. important
matters. Then as poor Richard
says in his almanac, 1--WE pay. too
dear for the whistle"
Turn over a new leaf" is a good
| woman in every community. There
can be no better time tor opening a
new page than on the opening of a
new wear. .. ..
| know a man who, on New
Years day (1s6A, turned over Il
new leat. which has proved great
profit to him.
He was Young merchant. His
store had been ope.sed but few
months, he was doing good busi
ness, he. could afford to he quite
liberal in his household His wife
had as pretty a home as any young
merchants in the city, and she had
as pretty, dresses as any woman on
the. street where she lived, and she
took great delight in the conscious
ness. of the fact that she was pretty
and prettily attircd, and SO did her
husband.
There was some talk. that the wife
was a little extra Yag;,nt, Uilts il. did
NOT effect the merchants business,
anaa the@numher AofAher admirers
cuHtHiued to increase. "a
Theszprettyz little woman had so
many pretty things that, it would
have lfeen a great, pity for her to
stay at home all the time. aud show
tlen only j to her husband = She-was
OF a benevolent turn OF mind, and
consequently she desired that other
people should take pleasure in them
as well as he, SD she went fre-
quently to balls, and concerts.
The season advanced; winter SET
in, business became dull and mon
ey was scarce, but balls and parties
becames numerous. and to all the
best went the young merchant and
his pretty wife. : They made fash
ionable friends, and there were in
vited suppers given at their house.
As the Nsn ear rews1igh, Mr.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-06-17

AN AFFECTIoNATE BRoTHHR.-A
correspondent of the Boston Trav-
eler, now wandering over the battle
fields of the rebellion, has been at
some pains to hunt up and identify
the graves of Northern soldiers, es
-pecially from New England, and
notify the relatives. In answer to
one of his letters of notification,
giving information Of a grave iden-
titled in Norfolk, he received from a
brother of the deceased the follow
ing curious epistle:
MAY I'd, 1869.
DEAR SIR: Glad to have heard
from you always. Our Bill was
always bully sort of fellow, and
we thought good deal on him,
especially the old woman. Glad,
too, that yon have found him after
SO much fuss. He wrote home that
he had shot two or three rebels, and
I be damned if that wasn't just what
I wanted to have him do. We have
got his last letter to the old woman,
which he wrote when he was sick.
and he was a taking on then about a
cussed sanitary commission that
sent him nothing only sweetmeats.
He wasn't used to that fodder. If
you will tell the grave digger to
send Bill along by the Express Com
pany, when he gets time to box him
up, why I'll pay the express on him
at this end. Am obliged to you,
sir. Just send me your bill.
Yours truly,