Minnesota weekly times., 1854-11-07

FRANKLN AND HIS CREw.-From official informa-
ton which we publish to-day, there no longer ex-
lists doubt but the fate of the North West Pas
sage explorers are forever sealed-they haze been
starved to DEATH! In imagination we see them,
pale and emaciated, wandering over the polar seas
vainly searching for food, with no human eye to
pity and no arm to save. At last natures tired
frame can no longer endure the pangs of hunger,
and gently they lay them down on their cold beds
and resign themselves into the arms of DEATH
Perhaps as they closed their eye-lids visions of
home, kindred, friends swept before them-per-
haps they were once more in the midst of the fam
lily circle with their wives and little ones, and the
fire blazed warmly on the hearth. Then, the vis-
ion vanished, and the awful reality crowded upon
the brain that they must die But why should
we picture the scene? 1t is vivid enough in the
minds Of all. ---.----.
sLifes ftfu fever's o'er and they sleep wel.'
Let them rest calmly in their icy graves. His
tory will record their heroic efforts to discover the
Northwest passage, and thereby open new fields
of interest to the civilized world.
THE INDIANA BANKS.
There is so much said nowadays respecting
the solvency and insolvency of the State Stock
Banks of Indiana, that we give the following
schedule of those banks which are reported bro
ken, extracted from the report of the Auditor of
the State. We think the bills of most of the In
diana Banks are good, and that the present panic
will soon subside, still it would be well for our
citizens to keep much of the money out Of their
hands as possble-this is the safest course. Those
who hold bills on those Banks not known ahso-
lutely to be broken need not give themselves any
alarm. By holding on they will be obliged to sac
rifce no more than they will be by allowing the
brokers to shave them. But hear what the Aud
itor says:
Capital 81 OOO, 900: total circulation, $5l7 ,68l.
Secured by Indiana and l-2 per cents, and
| Ohio per cents.
Elkhart Co. Bank, at Goshen.
Capital $5OO,OO0; total circulation $32O,0OO.
| Secured by North Carolina 6 per cents, and
Louisiana per cents.
| Bank of Rensselaer,.
Capital $50O,O0O total circulation $l14, 200.
| Secured by Pennsylvania per cents and Louis
| lana per cents.
| Bank of America, at Morocco.
Capital $500,000; total circulation $49, ,218.
per cents stocks.
State Stock Bank, at jamestown.
Capital $600,00O; total circulation 1888 200.
| Secured by Virginia and Ohio per cents.
| Bank of Attica.
CAPITAL $3OO,OOO; total circulation $l44, ,479.
| Secured by Indiana per cents and Virginia +
per cents.
Northern Indiana Bank, at Logansport.
| Capital ;$2OO,OQ0; total circulation 100000.
| Secured by Indiana per cents and Missouri q
| per cents.
Western Bank, at Plymouth.
Capital $2OO,OOO; total circulation, 100000.
Secured by Indiana per cents and Virginia
| per cents.
State Stock Security Bank, Newport.
Capital $25O,OOO; total circulation 100000.
Secured by Indiana and Penn. IS and Virginia
6 per cents.
| Drover's Bank, Rome.
Capital S250,000; total circulation $49, ,19o.
Secured by Indiana per cents.
State Stock Bank, Marion.
Capital $6OO,OOO; total circulation $75,O 900.
Secured by Louisiana and Virginia per CENTS.
| Public Stock Bank, Newport.
Capital 100000; total circulation $lO9,3l4.
| Secured by Indiana 2 12 and per cents.
| Hosier Bank, LOgansport.
| Capital $20O,000; total circulation $49,9So.
Secured by Missouri and Louisiana 6 per cts:
From the same report, says the Madison (lnd.0
Daily Banner, it appears that the aggregate capi-
tai of the free banks is 100000, and the total
circulation 81 ,426, ,O67. Here we have capital
of nearly four and half to one of debit and
yet the public must be shared from t,ro to nper
cent. on the paper of these banks.