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wounded twice at the battle of Lutzen ; gave 

 in his adhesion to the Bourbons when Napoleon 

 was exiled to Elba, and ordered his soldiers to 

 fire upon him, when they marched to prevent 

 his return. Captain Raudon but just escaped 

 with his life on this occasion, the soldiers 

 going over in a body to Napoleon. Raudon 

 himself made his peace with the Emperor, 

 and fought under him during the Hundred 

 Days. He lost all chance of promotion from 

 Louis XVIII. or Charles X., iu consequence, 

 but Louis Philippe discovered his abilities, 

 made him major in 1830, and colonel in 1838, 

 and sent him to Bona in Algeria, and, for his 

 ability in conquering the Arabs, promoted him 

 to be general of division in 1841, and lieu- 

 tenant-general in 1847. After the revolution 

 of February, 1848, General Raudon became 

 Director-General of Algerian affairs in 1848, 

 Minister of War January 24, 1851 ; "retired 

 October 26th, was appointed Governor of Al- 

 geria in 1852, and retired in 1858. He took 

 part in the Italian campaign, and became again 

 Minister of War May 5, 1859, retiring in 1867. 

 He wds promoted Grand-Officer of the Legion 

 of Honor August 26, 1850 ; made a Senator 

 December 31, 1852; became Grand-Cross of 

 the Legion of Honor December 24, 1853, and 

 was made a marshal March 10 T 1856. After 

 1867 he was not active, in consequence of 

 ill-health. He was a brave soldier, well 

 skilled in managing a half-civilized race like 

 the Arabs of Algeria, but perhaps less familiar 

 with modern military science. 



REFORMED CHURCH. I. REFOEMED 

 CHUECH IJT AMEEICA (FOEMEELY REFOEMED 

 DUTCH CnuEcii). The following are the sta- 

 tistics for 1871 : 



Number of candidates for the ministry, 9 ; 

 the number of families in the Church, 40,267 ; 

 number received on confession, 3,863 ; by cer- 

 tificate, 2,223; infant baptisms, 3,877; adult 

 baptisms, 909; number of Sunday-school schol- 

 ars, 51,169 ; contributions for religious and 

 benevolent purposes, $326,039.95; for congre- 

 gational purposes, $901,617.43. 



The sixty-fifth General Synod met at Alba- 

 by, N. Y., on the 7th of June. The hundredth 

 anniversary of the convention of ministers and 

 elders held in the city of New York in 1771, 

 from which the organization of the General 

 Synod is dated, occurring thia year, the synod 

 determined to mark the event by a general 

 celebration. A plan was adopted which con- 

 templated memorial services in all the 

 churches, and contributions to form a centen- 

 nial fund of one million dollars, besides the 

 ordinary contributions of the churches. The 

 corresponding delegate from the Synod of 

 Ohio, Reformed Church of the United States, 

 having presented the importance and value of 

 organic union between the Reformed Church 

 of America and that synod, the General Syn- 

 od resolved that it is ever ready to receive to 

 it all those churches which embrace the 

 blessed faith of the Reformation according to 

 " our standard." The Rev. Philip Peltz was 

 appointed a special representative to visit the 

 Synod of Ohio at its next session, "to state the 

 aspects of the subject of union which strike this 

 synod, and receive any communication which 

 our brethren may choose to present to us." A 

 committee was also appointed to present the 

 subject of union to the Classis of North Caro- 

 lina, either by correspondence or by a visit. 



The reports show that three churches were 

 added to the denomination, while one with- 

 drew from it to unite with the Presbyterians ; 

 that there was an increase of more than two 

 thousand in the number of communicants, and 

 of more than $19,000 in the collections for be- 

 nevolent purposes ; thirteen ministers had been 

 received from other ecclesiastical bodies, and 

 nine had been dismissed. The ordinary re- 

 ceipts of the Board of Domestic Missions were 

 $37,865.38, with $6,229.68 for the church- 

 building fund. They employed 76 mission- 

 aries, occupying 83 missions, in which were 

 5,887 members of the Church. The number 

 of members received into the communion of 

 the Church at the missions was 602, besides 

 258 admitted from other Churches. The West- 

 ern missions have doubled in fourteen years. 

 The board is in debt $18,000. The receipts of 

 the Board of Education were $18,818.33, with 

 $5,805.16 interest on invested funds. They 

 had seventy-five young men under their care. 

 The receipts of the Board of Publication were : 

 from contributions, $10,809.41 ; from sales, 

 $18,780.52. The funded debt has been re- 

 duced to $5,668.79. The assets of the board 

 are valued at $47,706.59. Twelve new books 

 were issued during the year. The total re- 

 ceipts of the Missionary Society were $71,100. 



