The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-02-14

This shows no increase ON the previous week.
The gross earnings of the Milwaukee and Misss--
sippi Railroad Company for 1857 amounted to
1882 ,Sl7, against $6S0474 for the previous year,
showing an increase Of s202 ,343. The running ex.
penses for 1857 were very heavy, owing to the
severe winter, amounting to $4l2 200, leaving the
net income $47O,6l7.
Annexed is the official invitation of the Secretary
Of the Treasury for proposals for an additional
Issue of five million dollars OF United States Trea
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Feb. 12, 1885,
Notice hereby given tina. sealed proposals will be
ceved at this department until the fifteenth day OF March
proxmo tor the issue Of any portion the whole Of Ave
Millions Of dollars tgeasury notes in exchange for gold
coin OF the uhited deposited with the Treasurer Of
the United States, the treasurer of the Mint q. Phla
delpha the Treasurer Of the branch Mint New Oseaus
the Assistant Teasurers at Boston, New York. Charles
ton or St Louis ha ten days from the acceptance OF
such proposals. under the authority OF the Of Congress,
entitled Al authorize the OF Treasury notes."
approved ed December 1857.
Tho treasury notes will be issued the receipt here
Of certificates Of deposit with those ocers the credit OF
the treasurer OF the United States. They will Do made
payable to the order o such bidder bidders shall
agree TO make such exchange at the ate of late
rest not exceeding six per centum per anrusn and will
carry such rate from the date OF the certificate OF 81 ca
deposit
condition and without reference other BIDS and
no other fractional rates than one fourth one ba or
three fourhs OF per cepum Eve per centum Of the
amount proposed 10 be exchanged must be deposited vita
one VI the treasury officers above emu neracd whose Ger
t6cse Of such deposit must accompany each proposal
security for IT, fulfment If toe proposal accepted
mediate dir ctors will be given 70 return snch deposit
Should The proposals be variant the OF the
act OF Cor gress, OF tois notice. they will not be
silered.
scribed on the outside, Propoas for Treasury Notes.
They viii be opened II this department, a, u O'clock NJ
HOWELL CoBa, Secretary of Treasury
r,o Of. fns4 c;,., .ta
following resume of the stock market of that city,
The market yesterday unusually active, aud sales
al the board were extensive Railroad stocks very
dull the prominent stocks offered at lower prices
Boston and Maine freely 0fered at s9T Worcester
fell of 20 ss; Western IL ned freely At % and Old
Colony at S. Manchester aud Lawrence sold after tho
board at S. II is rather singular that the Manchester AMI
IasreDce stock awsys quoted at auction two three
collars higher than it is offered at the street Fitch
burg fell or to so, and Concord declined IT, ~, closing a,
II asked; Northern steady 90 bid EASTERN 10
hid; Wilmington sold at 23l4 and offered at lower
price, st the close Cambridge Horse Railroad sold 80.
Minnesota Mining Company al vance 10 u.s. at which price
il closed 10 demand Pttsburg not on red less 225
Rookland freely offered AT S. osed sroug -
bid Superior was steady at hi Pc sabio at bid; aad
10 Royae at - bid Bank stocks were in fair demand
without any change in prices Bay Sae Mills offered
freely at 20, and tho ony deuaad by fee Shorts.
who hang back for still lower prices Htdley Falls
offered at IS per share With bios 81 Essex Con
pany freely offered at So Ogdebsburg irst bonds
were in demand at 'G-ii asted Rut'aud he-ts are Of
Tered at IS AL bid Vermont Central h-ats offered
ct co.'s bid
The new constitution of Minnesota authorizes any
legislature, by two-thrds vote to pass general
banking Law, with certain restrictions and require
mcnts yiz.:-Not to sanction, directly indirectly,
the suspension Of specie payment; to require all
notes or bills issued to be registered and ample
cury in United States or State stocks to be pledged
for the redemption OF the came in specie; and in
Of depreciation OF sad stocks. any part thereof
to the amount Of ten per cent, the banks 10 make up
such deficiency. The stockholders Of any bank or
association to be individually liable to doube the
amount Of stock owned by them, for ali debts of
such bank or association, which liability shall con.
time for year after any transfer sale of stock
by any stakeholder. The provisions OF the con-titu-
ton ai that necessary TO auh) any Lcgis
lstuic To pass banking law.
The following is tabular Statement; Of the. ox-
ports of sugar (reduced to boxes) from the ports of
Havana and Matanzas, for the past ten years. We
add thereto the principal destinations, remarking
that the remaining exports about equally dis
tributed between the Baltic ports Hamburg Bremen,
Holland, Belgium, France, Austria and Italy,