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EEUSS. 



EHODE ISLAND. 



water given out in this condition, led to the 

 conclusion that the reservoir, to which these 

 extraordinary rises furnished 3,284 cubic feet 

 in a second, should be capable of receiving 

 7,063,000 cubic feet. It was constructed large 

 enough to accommodate 14,126,000 cubic feet, 

 or twice the amount which was produced by 

 the water-spout of 1849. 



According to arrangements made in this 

 immense reservoir which has just been erected, 

 it becomes easy to hold in reserve twice a 

 year, spring and autumn, 84,750,000 cubic feet, 

 which can gradually be dispensed to the city 

 and manufactories. The first cannot possibly 

 use more than 21,189,000 cubic feet, and there 

 then remain 6,357,000 cubic feet to divide be- 

 tween G8 manufactories. 



These details suffice to show the importance 

 of similar works, for changing courses of tor- 

 rents, which so often cause devastation and 

 disaster, into reservoirs which are necessary to 

 the health of cities as well as to arts and manu- 

 factures. 



The whole cost of the reservoir was about 

 $800,000, and the revenue received pays fully 

 five per cent, on this, without counting the 

 increased value of the manufactories supplied 

 from this source. 



REUS8, the name of two German principal- 

 ities. 1. EEUSS-GREITZ. Prince, Henry XXIL, 

 born March 28, 1854; succeeded his father 

 November 8, 1859. Area, 148 square miles; 

 population, in 1864, 43,924. 2. EEUSS-SOHLEITZ. 

 Prince, Henry XIV., born May 28, 1832 ; suc- 

 ceeded his father July 11, 1867. Area, 297 

 square miles; population, in 1864, 86,472. 

 Annual revenue of Eeuss-Greitz, 200,000 tha- 

 lers; of Eeuss-Schleitz, 295,343 thalers. Pub- 

 lic debt of Eeuss-Greitz, 75,000 thalers; of 

 Eenss-Schleitz, 372,050 thalers. The troops of 

 both principalities (their former Federal con- 

 tingent, was 1,117 men) form, in consequence 

 of a military convention concluded with Prus- 

 sia, together with the troops of Saxe-Alten- 

 burg and Schwarzburg-Eudolstadt, one of the 

 three regiments of the Thuringiau States. (See 

 SAXE.) 



EHODE ISLAND. In the Legislature of 

 this State, the constitutional amendment was 

 adopted by the Senate, February 5th, with but 

 two dissenting votes. The House subsequently 

 ratified the action of the Senate. The Union 

 State Convention met at Providence. February 

 2M, and unanimously nominated General Bum- 

 side for Governor, and William Grand for 

 Lieutenant-Governor. The Democratic State 

 Convention was held at Providence, March 14th, 

 for the nomination of Governor and other State 

 officer?. Lyman Pierce was nominated by ac- 

 clamation as the candidate for Governor, and 

 Gideon II. Durfee for Lieutenant-Governor. 



The following resolutions were reported, and 

 unanimously adopted : 



Retofaed, That frequent innovations upon our laws 

 are pernicious, as tending to confuse the minds of the 

 people and destroy that reverence for legal authority 



which is essential to the perpetuity of the State and 

 the safety of the citizen. 



Resolved, That we regard the judiciary as the shield 

 of the people against the unwise or arbitrary acts of 

 popular or official passion, and that any attempt to 

 weaken or override the authority of our courts or to 

 detract from their dignity imperils the very existence 

 of the Eepublic. 



Resolved, That after an exhausting war our whole 

 energy should be turned to the development of all 

 our internal resources and to the increase of our com- 

 merce ; that our system of taxation ought to be so ad- 

 justed as to bear equally upon all classes of the com- 

 munity and all sections of the country, to necessitate 

 the least expense in collection and relieve as rapidlv 

 as possible the burden of debt ; that our laws ough"t 

 to be so framed as to require the smallest possible 

 number of officials in their execution, since a multi- 

 plicity of offices begets arrogance and corruption in 

 the holders and discontent in the people, who unwill- 

 ingly lavish that money upon the leeches on the 

 body politic which should go to nourish the body 

 itself. 



Resolved, That the Democratic party, having spent 

 much of its blood in a struggle to preserve the Union, 

 will watch earnestly and anxiously and labor patiently 

 for the same great end in the present not less terrible 

 though bloodless contest. We believe it to be the 

 duty of all people in all sections of the Eepublic to 

 accept the circumstances which have resulted from 

 war, to endeavor by all means consistent with honor 

 to adapt themselves to the new status thus created, 

 and to conform both in legislation and in personal 

 and official regard for each other. As to political 

 supremacy, we are content to await the hour when 

 the authority of passion gives place to the temperance 

 of reason, and the bitterness of hate is lost in tho 

 lapse of time. 



The State election was held on the 3d April, 

 and resulted in the entire snccess of the Eepub- 

 licau ticket, the vote being as follows, viz. : 

 Burnside, 7,372; Pierce, 3,178. The total vote 

 was 10,550, and General Bnniside's majority 

 4,194. The Senate consists of 28 Eepnblicans 

 and 6 Democrats, and the House of 62 Eepub- 

 licans and 8 Democrats. 



The thirteenth registration report of the 

 vital statistics of the State, embracing the 

 period of 1865, is the most complete thus far 

 issued. It appears from it that during that 

 year there were in the State 3,955 births, 1,890 

 marriages, and 3,045 deaths, an increase . of 

 about 50 in each over the previous year. The 

 population of the State was 184,965. The 

 figures show that one child was born in the 

 State to 46.7 inhabitants ; one person married 

 in 48.7 ; and one person died in 54.3. In Mas- 

 sachusetts the same year, one child was born 

 to 40.73 inhabitants; one person married to 

 48.54; and one died to 48. This shows a 

 greater mortality in Massachusetts than in her 

 sister State. Of the 3,955 children born, 2,096 

 were males, 1,85 7 females, and 2 sex not stated. 

 This gives 112.9 males to each 100 females, 

 showing an almost equal rate in both States. 

 The persons of American parentage in the 

 State in 1865 were 117,316, of foreign parent- 

 age 67,649 ; yet the births from the latter ex- 

 ceed the former by 51. The foreign born, as 

 in Massachusetts, are much the most prolific: 

 but in the mortality of the two classes, the 

 advantage, as in Massachusetts, is on the side 



