New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-09-18
SECOND BOARD
TrEspAY. senlember l1-P "

The Stock Market was bGoyant, especially for
Reading, which improved to 49,, bat at the Second
Board went back to ST., closing, however, win
buoyant feeling This Road is now again in eK
cellent working order from the mines to Philadel
phis. FOR tho last two dsys the amount OF ooH
transported over this improvement exceeds 5000
tuns. which IL equivalent to $4,000 of gross earn
ngs per week, or $500 coo per annum, sum
much beyond the estimates Of the Company asthe
commencement of the seaBon. With such en-.
dances ofpfosperity the late rise is not s1rprsiog
nor il il strange that the stock Of this Company Is
regard ed with such growing favor in thiS market.
The Gales OF fancies were large and the tendency
Of most descriptions was upward. Income Boads
advanced to ST. but the Erie stock was dali In
Governments there was q moderate business at
itesdy prices.
In Exchange thero IL nothing o. Importance do
ing. The supply i. good and market heayy. Star
ling is 10 lO for htss class bills Francs are 52l
as 90 some fair bills sod 81 u asa
Freishta are firm, and there is considerable pro.
duce Offering. Engagements, 000 to 900 bbl'.
Flour, st Is lO!da2s Cotton At 3.16d 7.32d l,00o
lbs Naval stores supposed at ls Cd and acme
heavy freight at 15s0I7a. Cd To London 1000
bbls Flour at Ia Cd. To Hamburg, Cotton, at u.
per steamer Heens Soman
The amount OF duties collected continues 10 be
smaller than early in tho month. To-day the
amounts ss4O72 Payments, $500, 80; balance,
s. 1853, 2e6. Air. snowden paid out eight hundred
thousand dollars today on Mint Certificates, which
vent into the banks making twentythree haadred
thousand dollars from this source within ten days
which, added 10 quarter Of million yesterday
which escaped from the Sab Treasury under the
New Orleans transfer arrangement, makes over
two and 6 half millions of coin which the Banks
have absorbed within abort time. Tbs Phiiade
phi. il expected daily from Chagtes and her own
ers anticipate that she wil bring million Of god
dust.
The business Of the wabash ana Erie Cana
shows the same evidences of prosperity "a tie
other grea, lines of communication throughout the
country.
Ths lola OF capal, Of lrdans7 'oT the month $50.
The tolls for August am IS
7he iolsic Isl Sept 1913 s85 81 60
" lst Sept l549 Sefe,.,,..-.,..a....., $3.50 e
lei Sept. 1880 wsrs.................. 65l4 %
We have received the following important infor.
nation inregErd to this work =
The Trustees, on the 9th instant, closed con.
tract for the completion Of the Evansville divs.
ion OF the CANA at fair prices with Samuel For.
rer, Solomon Stusges snd 8. &. Rosmer, OF Ohio.
The work 10 to be commenced within thirty days
and hnished hy the 10! day Of November 1852.
This division, from Peterborough to Evansville, on
the Ohio river, "a mics ia length embraces IS
miles OF very heavy Snd expensive excavations
and embsnkmenls. The line 10 Petcr1burgh wa8
Pr! under contract some time since, and the work
IL in 8 forward state. TIE Evansville division was
the sss TO finish the entire Cansl 70 the Ohio RiY
e.. The Contractors agree to take the obligations
Of the Trustees payable ST zach dates afEee the
Work ID completed as vii enable them TO NEE. .hs
payments out Of the tolls OF the Canal and tbs sale
Of bonds, without inconve nience. This high char.
scteE OF the Contractors and their abundant re-
sponsibilisy snd grea. ex 2erenoe, place the com.
Pletion OF this work, according to the terms Of the
contract, beyond E question Thus we may look at
an early day TO the completion Of this great Canal,
which t.aYsrzes region OF country unsurpassed
in fertility, by any portion Of tbs MissiAsipp Val.
ley. This contract is understood 10 be highly ad-
vantsgeous oAe TO the trust and creaitable to the
energy and business tact Of Messrs. Charles But
ler A W. Puett, and Thomas Bowling, the Yrns.
tees The Canal is now finished and nAvigAhle
from Lake Erie TO Point Commerce, ~ miles south
Of Terre Hause.
The activity Of the Dry Goods trade has been
chiefly exercised in shs spctioa room Iast week.