New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-01-24
SECOND BOARD.
THURSDAY. Jan. PPM

There has been considerable huctuation in the
Stock market to-day, and the Bears made despe
rate efforts to get prices down. Generally the
tendency has been downward, and with some ex-
ceptions prices are lower. Canton was well sus.
tanned at the Second Board at SAT- having been
Sc! in the morning. Edgeworth and Portsmouth
improved v cent, with good demand. In rela-
ton to Edgeworth the Boston Courier says
1.-THE Edgeworth Company are free from debt,
and have reserve in money and good securi-
ties equal to So v share, apart from the corpo'
rate property, which consists OF Eleven Millions
feet of land upon the Maiden River and the line
of the Boston and Maine Railroad, within 81
miles from State st the distance in point Of rail
road time being but five minutes between the
depot in Haymarket Square aud the depots in
Edgeworth and Maiden. A good many persons,
who have not made themselves acquainted with
the merits Of this fast improving property, call it
Fancy Stock, and sneer at it on account of the
low price at which it is sold in the market There
are Others however, who think It is worth at
double the present quotations
Portsmouth is attracting a good deal Of at
tention from operators, and promises 70 be
an active and rising Stock. The sales Of
Reading were very large at the Second Board
reaching 5000 shares, and the quotations fell
off to 70i, seller 10, a decline OF 1t e cent.
Morris was dull at 22I, and pressed on the
market. The consolidated Stock Of this Company
will stand at present prices at SO. Erie was also
heavy, and sold at 81. Farmers Loan fell of
y cent. The market was over supplied with
Stonington at the Second Board, and it went to
46i, bat recovered to Az. The renewed rumor of
the taking ofof the boats caused this decline. Long
Island is S5 and firm, with an upward tendency.
Norwich was rather heavy selling 81 6si The
receipts for this Road thus far in January show
nearly Is Y cent increase on the same time Of
last year. The Road is in frat rate order, aud is
now part of the great line for the North as well
as East. Lowell and the country adjacent sends
now large amount of business to the Norwich
Road Should the Stonington boats be taken of,
the business of this Road woald be immensely in
creased. Two as good boats as navigate the Sound
are now connected with the Norwich line. The
great corporations in the line Of roads between
Albany and Buffalo were IN quasi panic to-day.
The aristocrstic Utica and Schenectady, which,
short time since, was held at $50, and which sold
few days since at l350l40, was sold at l25,
seller thirty. Rochester and Syracuse and syria.
cuse and Utica sympathised, and the former was
offered at ll6, having sold yesterday at llsi The
fall in Utica and Schenectady surprised all except
ing those who were in the secret that Company
has been organized, at the head of which is Azs,
riah c. Flags, with whom is connected several
leading capitalists of NewYork, Troy and the
Mohawk Valley, for building a Railroad, under
the General Railroad Law, from Schenectady 20
Utica, on the south bank of the Mohawk. The
Articles of Association, under the General Rail.
road Law, have been fled in the Secretary Of
States Office, for the organization Of the ." No
hawk Valley Railroad Company" with CAPT.
tai Of 100000, and the right to increase the
same "a distance nesrlysO miles The follow
ing gentlemen are the Directors named in the Ar.
ticles Of Association: Azariah c. Flag, James /.