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Show A Stock Panic. New York, 19. The general listless list-less n ess that has prevailed in the elock market for weeks was broken to day. A member of the stock exchange ex-change named Wright appeared and bougnt all the Toledo, Wabash and Wtdern t'nat offered, some eighteen thousand shares, and liie general lists advanced under these pure bases, until un-til Wright was calhd on fur margins, when he confessed bis inability to meet bis engagements. Wabash tumbled from 2oj to 21, and a panic ruled for a time, and but for the bear purchase's prices would have continued con-tinued falling. Pacific Mail went down to 3ti ou the anneunccment of the Ices of the steamer Japan and the accident to the 00n. There was another rally, followed by a decline, and the market closed heavy and unsettled, with a decline of i to o from the highest point. |