The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-09-09
Religions Items.

SAILING OF MIssIoNARIEs.-The foil owing
missionaries sailed from Boston, Tuesday. in
the ship Race Horse. for their respective fields
Of labor: Rev. Sanford Richardson and wife,
Benjamin Parsons and wife-all for the Arme-
man country, and DR.. Nutting and wife, for the
Assyrian mission.
SECRET SOCIETIES Evangelical Iuthe-
ran Synod of Ohio and the adjacent States.
has passed a resolution not to admit to church
membership any person belonging to secret
societies.
The British Wesleyan Conference met at Biz
mingham. England, in the lllth session, on
the 26th ult.. four hundred clergymen being
present. The extension fund was stated to
have reached the amount of fS5. 900. half of
which will be expended in erecting chapcls
fee Of debt.
BAPTIST MISSIONARY FOR kANsAs-Rev. VIM.
". Hall of Edgartown. has received and &C
cepted an appointment from the Baptist Home
Missionary Society. to labor in Kansas Terri
tory for the coming year, and was to enter up
on his duties on the first OF September.
Samuel Wilkers, an English Wesleyan Meth
odist, resolved two years ago to give guinea
day through the year to the Missionary So
ciety. Last year, having prospered in his bust
ness, he gave seven guineas day to the same
cause. During 1854. he has resolved to give
so guineas, or $3.50 day. or more than $685.
600 year to the Missionary cause.
SIZE JoHS FRANKLIN. -" The Polar Regions :
or, Search after Sir John Franklin's Expedi-
ton. By Lieut.. Sherard Osborn, Commanding
II. ". Steam Vessel Pioneer" Dedicated to
Lady Franklin l2mo, PIP. 2l6. A. S. Barnes
& Co., Publishers. Mr.. o. very frankly express
ses his regret that the squadron with which he
was connected made so great mistake in 1851
in trying Jones' Sound instead of Wellington
Channel, as the door of hope to the open Polar
Sea He is now satisfied of the feasibility of
the Wellington Channel, and believes that
Franklin went that way, and that he and his
company will be found there alive. Read a
paragraph:
LET US inquire into This barrier Of ice in
Wellington Channel. Twice had Parry seen
the channel, in 1919 and 1870 he saw no bar
rier then. We reached it in the fall of 1850,
after a very backward and severe summer with
winter fast closing in upon Us. We saw long
dights of birds retreatiGg from their summer
breeding places somewhere beyond the broad
fields Of ice that lay athwart its channel We
wondered at the numerous shoals OF white whale
passing from some unknown northern region,
eouthvard TO more genia! climes. We talked
OF liked ice yet. IN one day. twelve Ules OF II
came away, and nearly beset us among its frag
nentsL We heard Capt. Penny's report that
there was water to he seen north of the remain
ing belt, of about ten miles in width. We were
like deaf adders; were obstinate, and went
into winter quarters under Grifith's Island
believing that nothing more could be done be-
cause . liked barrier of ice extended across
Wellington Channel. We were miscrably de.
ceived."
II will be seen how this confirms Dr. Names
reasoning, and imparts additional interest to
the excursion of that explorer across the con-
tinent Of Greenland, from whom il is now time
we should hear-.Ner- York Independent
The PUBLIC HE.LFH.--While the cholera is
rapidly disappearing. says the \. Y. Herald,
from the East, West, and the Middle States,
the South are beginning to feel the effects OF
that fearful scourge, the yellow fever. Savan-
nah appears 10 be the point which is most vio-
lently attacked, aud there a panic prevails,
while ct New Orleans the disease progresses.
At Key West it is alarmingly bad and at
Charleston preparations are making to open
hospitals for the sick.
TExAs.-In the recent election the "Maine
Law" or mo License party carried the State.