REUSS. 



KHODE ISLAND. 



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with great animosity. At the elections for the 

 Presbyterial Councils in January, the "Liber- 

 als " came off victorious at Havre and Rouen, 

 but in Paris the "Orthodox" ticket, one of 

 whose candidates was M. Guizot, was elected 

 by a small majority. The Presbyterial Council 

 of Paris also showed its determination to ex- 

 clude "Liberal" pastors from the pulpits by 

 rejecting a minister presented to it by A. Co- 

 querel, Senior, as his assistant. 



The Reformed Church of France numbered, 

 in 1865, 105 consistories, 489 parishes, 692 an- 

 nexes, 895 churches, 1,304 schools, 661 pastors. 



The controversy between the Evangelical and 

 Liberal schools continues also to divide the 

 Dutch Reformed Church in Holland and in 

 South Africa. In Holland considerable sensa- 

 tion was produced by the resignation of Dr. 

 Pierson, of Rotterdam, one of the leaders of the 

 " Liberal " party, who, in a memoir addressed 

 to his congregation, expressed the opinion that 

 clergymen of the Liberal school who continue 

 to baptize and adhere apparently to the old 

 doctrinal standard of the Church, are guilty of 

 the worst kind of equivocation and artifice, and 

 can, therefore, not fail to exercise a most de- 

 moralizing influence upon society. In the Re- 

 formed Dutch Church of South Africa, the Rev. 

 Mr. Kotze had declared (1862), in Synod, that 

 what the catechism said of natural depravity, 

 namely, that " man is inclined to all evil," is 

 not true, and not fit for even a heathen, yea, 

 that the devil only could say so. He was told 

 to retract this assertion, but declined, where- 

 upon, by a vote of Synod, he was deposed from 

 office. He appealed to the Supreme Court of 

 the colony, and this court, at the close of 1864, 

 pronounced the deposing act of the Synod il- 

 legal, and reinstated him in office. This brought 

 on a bitter controversy between the two parties 

 in the Church. 



REUSS, the name of two German princi- 

 palities. All the males, members of the prince- 

 ly house, since the commencement of the 

 eleventh century, have been called Heinrich. 

 The individuals are distinguished by figures, 

 which run on to a hundred, beginning after- 

 wards again at one. I. REUSS GREIZ. Reigning 

 Prince, Heinrich XXIL, born March 28, 1864, 

 succeeded his father November 8, 1859. There 

 is no representation of the people. Population 

 in 1864, 43,924 (in 1861, 42,130). Area, 148 

 square miles. Revenue, about 200,000 thalers ; 

 contingent to the Federal army 334 men. II. 

 REUSS SCHLEIZ, reigning Prince, Heinrich 

 LXVII.,born October 20, 1789, succeeded his 

 brother, Heinrich LXVI. on June 19, 1854. 

 Heir apparent, Prince Heinrich XIV., born 

 May 28, 1832. A representative form of gov- 

 ernment was introduced by decree of Novem- 

 ber 30, 1849, but modified, April 14, 1852, and 

 again June 20, 1856. Population in 1864, 86,472 

 (in 1861, 83,360) ; area, 297 square miles. Con- 

 tingent to Federal army, 783 men. In the 

 Budget for the financial period of 1863-'65, the 

 annual revenue is fixed at 281,850 thalers. 



RHODE ISLAND. The second session of 

 the Legislature elected in 1864 met at Provi- 

 dence in January, 1865, and adjourned sine di 

 on March 18th. Among the measures passed 

 was a joint resolution, by an almost unanimous 

 vote, ratifying the antislavery amendment to 

 the Constitution ; an act authorizing a loan of 

 a million of dollars, payable in thirty years: 

 and an act, which, by providing that six per 

 cent, shall be the legal rate of interest unless 

 some other sum is expressly stipulated, practi- 

 cally abolished the usury laws. 



The political canvass of the State commenced 

 in March. The Republican Convention assem- 

 bled at Providence on the 15th, and renomi- 

 nated for Governor the present incumbent of 

 the office, James Y. Smith. Their resolutions 

 were as follows : 



Resolved, That it is our paramount duty, as citizens 

 of the United States, to preserve and perpetuate the 

 Union and Constitution, and that this duty has be- 

 come only the more sacred by reason of all the pa- 

 triot lives, and of all the blood and treasure, which 

 during the past four years have been sacrificed in its 

 fulfilment. 



Resolved, That we approve the measures adopted 

 by the Federal administration for the prosecution of 

 the war, and that we pledge ourselves to support its 

 continued prosecution unto the complete extinguish- 

 ment of the rebellion. 



Resolved, That we congratulate the soldiers and 

 sailors of the army and navy upon the brilliant suc- 

 cesses which they have recently achieved, and that 

 we render them our most hearty thanks for all their 

 glorious and inestimable services to the cause of the 

 Union. 



Resolved, That in order to avoid the inequalities of 

 a draft, it is the true policy of the State to fill its 

 military quotas by voluntary enlistments, and to that 

 end to make provision for the payment of liberal 

 bounties to volunteer recruits. 



Resolved, That the thanks of the people of the State 

 are due to His Excellency James Y. Smith for his 

 fidelity in the discharge of his office, and especially 

 for his untiring efforts to fill the quotas of the State 

 by voluntary enlistments. 



The Providence "Journal," one of the leading 

 Republican papers of the State, refused to support 

 the nomination of Gov. Smith, on the ground 

 that his administration had been "so pernicious 

 to the State that it would be at once a disgrace 

 and disaster to Rhode Island to continue it." A 

 committee of colored voters also published an 

 address, adopting all the Republican nominations 

 except those of Governor and Lieut.-Governor. 

 In place of these they nominated the Hon. Ed- 

 ward Harris for Governor, and Rowland Hazard 

 for Lieut.-Governor, who were pledged to sup- 

 port the colored population on the foDowing 

 issue presented by the address : 



It has been the policy and interest of this slavery 

 to prescribe all colored men, to heap contempt upon 

 their heads to act unjustly by them to treat them 

 as if they had no rights that white men were bound 

 to respect. la keeping with this policy the school 

 authorities of Providence and Newport have unjustly, 

 in disregard of the Constitution, forced colored per- 

 sons into separate schools schools which are very 

 poor in comparison to those which have been sus- 

 tained for others, sustained in part by taxes exacted 

 from colored men. We object to this, not only be- 

 cause of its obvious unjustuess, but because it con- 



