The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-01-27

first time by the Wire Suspension Bridge at St
Anthony and Minneapolis. This latter great
event is an epoch, and is to be appropriately
celebrated to-day and in consequence thereof,
the publication of the Daily Minnesotian will
be suspended for one day only-to-morrow.-
We are all going up to st. Anthony to the Sus-
pension Bridge celebration.
Chippewa Treaty Ratified by the Senate!
The Chippewa treaty. as we learn from the
Democrat, was ratified 10y the .. S. Senate, on
the 10th of January. without amendment
KEEP Cool The Pioneer is raving at the
course Railroad matters are taking among the
people and in the Legislature. 1t misrepret
sents the proceedings of the meeting at the
Court House on Saturday evening; falsfes the
number presenr at least one hundred below the
actual count, and misrepresents the remarks of
Mr.. LIE Due and other speakers. Nine-tenths
of the Real Estate and Mercantile influence of
ST. Paul was represented at that meeting and
whenever the Pioneer finds itself backed in its
course by St. Paul influence of so decided
and substantial character, it may then claim
to speak of public sentiment on any great
question which may agitate the mind of St.
Paul-and not till then. The loss of the print
ing undoubtedly still worries the sensitive
heart of our neighbor.
BURGLARY The clearinghouse of William
Brewster & Co. was broken into between Satur-
day evening and yesterday morning, and robbed
of 81, 700 in cash.
A HEARING HAD AT LAST MIR. Lemay, of ST..
Paul, succeeded yesterday morning in getting
the Railroad Petitions of almost the entire
number of his constituents into the House of
Representatives. 1t appears that his COL
leagues made no fnrther opposition to the re-
ception of the petitions. We are glad of this
fact, and hope that still better views in regard
to this railroad matter will govern the action
of the st. Paul Delegation in the House. Their
opposition to receiving the petitions of seven
eighths of their constituents, was fatal error
on their part.
ALL RIGHT Our Washington correspondent
writes cheeringly of Railroad prospects in that
quarter. We have private advices which more
than confirm his statements. Ill the Mnneso-
tians now at Washington are working together
and unitedly, to prevent the Virginia delega-
ton from killing our Railroad.
Coop FROM MIssoURI.-At the last accounts
it was rendered almost certain that Senator
Atchison could not be reelected to the u S.
Senate by the Legislature ofMissouri. This is
good news. Atchison and Douglas were the
ringleaders in the Nebraska outrage, and both
sealed thereby their political doom. Atchison,
moreover, was the leader, it is charged, of the
recent armed invasion of Kansas, from Mis-
souri,, by which means a Nebraska man was
chosen Delegate to Congress, through bare
faced fraud and systematic violence GalAdy.
Affairs of Mcssrs. Page & Bacon.
We find the following statement of the affairs
of Messrs. Page & Bacon, in the St. Louis pa
pers: -
OFFICE OF PAGE & BACON BANKERS, J
st. Louis, Jan. IL, 1855, 10 O'CLOCK, p M.
TO THE PUBLIC. 80
are forced to announce to you the necessity
which compels us to close the doors of our Of
fee tomorrow morning. We need not remind
you who have struggled against pressure un-
paralleled in our financial experience, how Sc
we're and crushing have been the disasters. ra-
pidly and suddenly precipitated upon this COM
mu ity during the last few weeks. After
struggling with resolution and diligence un-
known to you. to meet our engagements ma
turing in New York on the 1st inst, and hav-
ing triumphed over the difficulties of that day
meeting them all to the amount of nearly a
million of dollars, we had hoped that the crisis
with us personally, had passed !; and that we
should have had the pleasure of extending to
our friends participation in the consequent
relief we should enjoy. But, unhappily, intel
ligence by telegraph this evening, unexpected
ly and utterly dssipated the hope SO confident
ly cherished, and compelled us to announce our
suspension, as we now do, with an overwhclm-
ing sensation efpain. fa
In SO doing, we ask your reasonable consid-
Grafton for statement necessarily so brief at
this late hour, assuring the public that details
will justify the general one now made, that
long continued stringency in the money mar
ket. both at home and abroad the consequent
rapid decrease in deposits, disappointment in
the negotiation of large amount of securities,
on which we have advanced and maturing obli-
cations, still heavy and urgent are the imme-
diate causes which have conspired to produce
our misfortune. ire fr4t-...-. s..-.. ...-
We assure our friends that we believe our
suspension is but temporary: that our assets
partnership and private) will exceed our liza
bilities upwards of three millions of dollars,
and that as soon as our books are written up,
we shall make a statement of our affairs. as full
and satisfactory as the public could desire.
PAGE & BACON.
iiit rf7o hsn1Boibe s-:cH d+sf 7a.... -.
.osaao- lo yrefrSa. NOTICE. s4r..-- .,i 4,.....gF
lowing to our being compelled to close our
doors to the public. all notes and paper matur-
ing at our Office and deposited with us for col
lection, may be found at the Bank OF the State
of Missouri, who will be instructed to place to
the credit of the proper parties. .ra 6.fa.t
,,g, ais -,o,-..,. -. PAGE & BACON.
st. Louis, Jan. Is, 1856.
RAILROAD BRIDGE DISABLED.-Last Friday
night the massive "hog- chains" which run
over the top of the Railroad Bridge. in this CITY
were all broken in an instant, by reason, no
doubt, of the sudden change of the atmosphere,
from warm to cold. 1t had been warm and
raining, which had expanded the woodwork
that the iron confined, and, the sudden change
to cold contracting the iron. more suddenly
than the wood, something was compelled to
give way, and the chains being the weakest
part, they suffered accordingly. The accident
can be, repaired, though with considerable
trouble and expense. We hear that the con.
tractors had surrendered the bridge, as COM
pletedy into the hands of the ownars -Coy...