The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-09-23

number OF the llcmc Missionary, that il Is their
desire and purpose TO occupy Kansas and Ne
braska. as missionary fields, as soon as possible
and arrangements are being made by the So
cicty with that end in view.
7.s~ The Baptist General Association of
Virginia, it is said. has membership of l00,-
900. The entire number of per sons paptiscd
in the State during the past year, was about
10000.
AFRFCA-Miss S. NJ Smith one Of the new
missionaries has already fallen victim to the
deadly climate of Africa.
1t is proposed to establish Il church college
on the beautiful extremity of Cape Mensurado
to be under the care of Rev MrCrummell The
Bishop hopes to begin this work in the year
1919.
The Bishop has ordered four dcacons two of
them coloni>ts, and two natives. One of them
has since been ordained priest.
DIR. Steele and Miss Fremont wcrc about to
return TO this country on account of ill-health.
TIE INp!ANs.-Thc Chicago Congregational
Herald pronounccs the missions alnon. the In
dams at the Northwest almost entirely null
lily. 50 far as permanent influence is regarded.
in consequences of their free intercourse with
the whites. and the regular anuultcs granted
them by the Government. The ahor> of mis-
sionaricS twenty or thirty years ago accom-
plshcd mrch at tn" time. and the evidences of
This are still aprarcnt-but every year since
the whites have pressed SO closely upon them
and money and rum have been freely dis
t,ihutcd. III" tribes have been sinking lower
and lower in degradation; there seems to be
no hope for them.
/ FEoTEsrANTisM N IrALY.--During the past
year. ! 10 houses. with 1905 rooms. have been
built in Turin: and all this is attributed to
the fact that the new Constitution tolcratcs re-
ligious liberty. While every other italian
city is lecaying like corpse. Turin is grow
ing under the new impulse OF Professionalism.
Ike green bay tree. The Wadenscs are
about opening in that city II Protestant Tenn
pie. the first in Italy, upon the very spot where
the Domnicans burnt the bodies of the mar
tvs.
rs The indianapolis Journal has intelli-
gcnce from all parts of the State, and says that
nothing is surcr in the future than the over
whclmng defeat of the Douglas Democracy
this fall in Indiana.
TIE DEHr OF GREAT BRirAIN.-Thc London
Times states that the present annual charge
for interest &c on the British national debt. is
e27. 4437Il. bat that it will be reduced to e24,-
23G2l1 between the years 1850 and $780,
The stock known as the 81 per cent. will. in a
few weeks. be converted into new three per
cents. making an annual saving OF EG00OOO.--
In October. 1859. annuitics will expire to the
amount of $500 600.
10 \ California paper says: 1T is now
an established fact that the know Nothincs
have secret organizations over nearly the en-
tire State
~ The Chicago Times says that there are
one hundred boys in that city engaged regu-
larly in the business of thciving.
Es- a gentleman who has spent the last
Summer in Kentucky, says the know-Nothings
are numerous and thoroughly organized in
that State and will unrncstionably sweep cv-
erything before them at the next election.
ERIE RAILROAD CAsE-Wc learn from the
Pittsburg Post that the Supreme Court of PEN
cSylvana have decided the case in fa:or of
Erie.
METHODIST FEMALE CcLIEGEs.-Spartenbur
is wing ahead of Columbia in the Female
College she is to have under the auspices oftbe
South Carolina Conference. The Committee
have already laid ont grounds, and the build
ing contract has been given ont. The con-
tractors expect to have the buildings cOmplet-
ed carly in the year. aud to open the institu-
ton in June 1855. We learn from the Express
that there are to he four houses, situated in a
line. a beautiful ridge, sbout fiorty-fvc or
fifty yards apart, making row Of nearly one
hundred and fifty yards in length. Three of
the buildings arc designed for the professors
and young ladies. and the other for chapel
and recitation rooms. The first three are to be
forty by forty five feet and three stories high.
the latter will he about thirty by sixty fc"t.-
Columbia s. Car0iiansan.
Corn is all safe-let frosts or drougths come
as they may cannot injure our farmers this