KEEDER, ANDREW IL 



REID, DAVID B. 



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Atlanta, Gen. Ransom had suffered from a 

 severe attack of dysentery, but no considera- 

 tion would induce him to leave the post of 

 duty. While his corps was in pursuit of 

 Hood's army he directed its movements though 

 obliged to ride in an ambulance, being too weak 

 to sit upon his horse, and soon after sank under 

 the power of his disease. His career, though 

 short, was brilliant. He was a man of tine 

 genius, great military capacity, and of un- 

 blemished personal character. 



REEDER, AXDI?EW II., ex-Governor of Kan- 

 sas, born near Trenton, X. J., about 1808, died 

 at Easton, Pa., July oth, 1864. When a boy 

 he removed to Easton, where he spent the 

 greater portion of his life. He studied law, was 

 admitted early to the bar, and by his own merit 

 rose to a position of distinction. He was a 

 prominent and influential member of the Demo- 

 cratic party, but never would accept any office 

 until 1854, when, without solicitation upon his 

 part, or any knowledge that his name was pre- 

 sented, he was appointed first governor of Kan- 

 sas. He went out with the intention of execut- 

 ing the law in accordance with the squatter 

 sovereignty doctrine of Senator Douglas, but the 

 troubles arising from the election frauds made 

 him a Republican. In July, 1855, Gov. Reeder 

 was removed from office. He, however, remain- 

 ed in the State, and was unanimously elected by 

 the people their delegate to Congress, and after- 

 wards, by the legislature convened under the 

 Topeka constitution, the first United States 

 Senator from Kansas, but the constitution not 

 having been ratified by Congress he did not 

 take his seat. At the outbreak of the war the 

 first military appointments made by the Presi- 

 dent were Xathaniel Lyon and Gov. Reeder to 

 be brigadier-generals of the regular army. The 

 latter, upon mature deliberation, arrived at the 

 patriotic conclusion that he was too far ad- 

 vanced in life to learn a new profession upon 

 the field of battle. His contributions to his 

 country have, nevertheless, been large, his three 

 sans having immediately entered the army. 



REFORMED CHURCHES. The following 

 is a summary of the statistics of the German 

 Reformed Church in the United States in 1864: 

 Genera] Synod, 1 ; Synods, 2 ; Classes, 27 ; Min- 

 isters, 460; Congregations, 1,134; Members, 

 107,394; Unconfirmed Members, 73,576; Bap- 

 tisms, 10,829; Confirmations, 4,903; Received 

 on Certificate, 1,612; Communicants, 89,115; 

 Excommunicated, 160; Dismissed, 674; Deaths, 

 4,675, Sabbath Schools, 852 Sabbath School 

 scholars (one Synod only reported), 20,551 ; 

 Benevolent Contributions, $97,041.80. This, as 

 compared with the report of the previous year, 

 shows an increase of one Classis, 13 Ministers, 

 35 Congregations, 8,619 Members, 7,275 Un- 

 confirmed Members, 1,744 Communicants, and 

 $77,512.46 contributions for benevolent objects. 

 There are 42 Sabbatk Schools less reported, but 

 an increase of 3.147 Sabbath School scholars. 

 Baptisms were &iO less, the Confirmations 649, 

 and Deaths 4. The most prominent feature of 



the past year in this Church was the Convention 

 held at Reading, Pa., in May. to 

 propriato services, the three hundrcth 

 versary of the adoption of the Heidelberg 

 chisin. The tercentenary contributions were re- 

 ported to amount to over $103,000. These con- 

 tributions gave a new impulse to the theologi- 

 cal and benevolent activities of the Reformed 

 Church in this country. Corresponding ser- 

 vices were also held in the Reformed Churches 

 of Holland and Germany. 



The General Synod of the Dutch Reformed 

 Church met on June 1st, at Schenectady, and 

 elected Rev. Philip Phelps, Jr., Moderator. 

 The Church consists of the three Particular 

 Synods of Albany, New York, and Chicago, 

 the latter of which, being of recent origin, fur- 

 nished this year, for the first time, the Presi- 

 dent of the General Synod. The Church has 

 highly-flourishing missions at Arcot, in India, 

 and Amoy, in China. The missionaries at the 

 latter place have been for several years request- 

 ed by the General Synod to establish them- 

 selves as a Classis of the Dutch Reformed 

 Church of the United States, while they them- 

 selves regard it as better for the interests of 

 their mission to unite for the present with the 

 English Presbyterian missions at Amoy. The 

 General Synod, while adhering to their former 

 views, yet resolved to leave the decision as to 

 the proper time of forming a Classis, to the 

 judgment of the missionaries. The contribu- 

 tions of the Church for foreign missions were 

 reported to be $21,686, against $20,742 ic 1S63, 

 still only 286 out of 422 churches have con- 

 tributed. 



Resolutions were adopted sympathizing with 

 the Government, and thus speaking of slaver/ : 



In time past the General Synod has not deemed it 

 necessary to give forth a judgment in regard to the 

 system of American slavery, inasmuch as it existed 

 in regions beyond the bounds of our Church ; yet as 

 in the overruling providence of that God who knows 

 how to make the wrath of man to praise him, there 

 is a prospect opened for the ultimate and entire re- 

 moval of that system which embodies so nirch of 

 moral and social evil, and as by such removal there ia 

 opened a wide field of Christian labor, to employ the 

 whole Christian Church in this land, the Synod ex- 

 presses its gratitude to God for this bright prospect, 

 and would join in the prayer that the day may be 

 hastened when liberty shall be effectually and finally 

 proclaimed throughout all the land to all the inhabit 

 ants thereof. 



REID, DAVID BOSWELL, M. D., F. R. S. E., a 

 Scottish physicist, and writer on chemistry, 

 ventilation, &c., born at Edinburgh in 1805, 

 died at Washington, D. C., April 5, 1863. Dr. 

 Reid received his early education in the High 

 School of Edinburgh, from which he was trans- 

 ferred to the university of that city. His 

 medical course of study was pursued at the 

 university, where his brilliant success as a 

 student made him a great favorite, and he was 

 elected senior President of the Royal Medical 

 Society before he received his medical degree. 

 Soon after receiving his medical diploma he 

 was elected a member of the Roval College of 



