Alexandria Gazette

MERCHANDIZE DESTROYED BY THE FIRE.—The New York Shipping and Commercial List of Wednesday morning publishes the following statement of the goods destroyed by the fire:

Coffee—12,000 bags (4000 Brazil.)
Cotton—11,000 bales.
Drugs and Dyes—3 or 400 bbls. castor oil.
60 cks cream tartar.
150 cases essential oils.
250 do licorice paste.
350 cks Dutch madder,
130 do French do.
1200 baskets terra japonica—besides large quantities of other descriptions of drugs, of which no definite estimate can at present be given.
Fruits—200 bales and 400 boxes Almonds.
6 cases Genoa Citron.
50 bbls. Zante Currants.
300 casks Bordeaux Prunes.
1200 boxes Bunch Raisins.
Flour—1000 barrels.
Hemp—2500 bales American.
5 or 600 do. Manilla.
Indigo—150 cases and 130 seroons.
Molasses.—3 or 400 hhds. and tierces and 200 bbls.
Oil—10,000 bxs. and baskets Olive.
Rags—100 bales Sicily.
150 bales Trieste.
Rice—220 tierces.
Saltpetre—1500 bags.
Soap—3500 boxes Castile.
Spices—50,000 lbs. Nutmegs.
500 bags Pimento.
Pepper and Cloves—qty, not ascertained.
Spirits—900 hf. pipes Brandy.
200 pipes Gin.
100 puncheons St. Croix and Jamaica Rum.
Sugars—1500 hhds. and 130 bxs.
Seeds—3000 bags, mostly Sicily.
Teas—15,000 hf. chests, say one entire cargo and parts of three or four others, mostly Green; value $500,000.
Tobacco—315 bales St. Domingo.
Wine—500 pipes, halves and qrs. Madeira and Sherry, 100 pipes, 100 hf. do. and 1300 qr. casks Sicily Madeira.
3000 gr. cks Port.
100 do Sweet Malaga.
1500 do Marseilles White, &c.
1000 cases Claret and Muscat.
5000 baskets Champagne.
Wool—350 bales, mostly Smyrna.

In addition to the above, there were very large quantities of Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, Silks, plate Glass, Carpeting, &c. destroyed in whole or in part, the value of which cannot now be estimated with any degree of exactness.

"This statement," remarks the Post, "is, after all, only an approximation to the facts, for the loss on many descriptions of the goods cannot be determined for some time." The Post adds—

In regard to the wholesale business of the city, as affected by this disaster, it may be remarked that the want of the numerous stocks of domestic goods destroyed will be immediately supplied from the manufactories, and, as we have before said, the amount of foreign goods lost, however large it may seem, is a mere item in the vast aggregate with which, at this season of the year, New York is always supplied.

The New York Commercial Advertiser of Wednesday says:—We have just returned from a tour of the burnt district. There are from two to three thousand laborers employed in removing the ruins and recovering any property that may still be made available. A good deal of sheet iron appears but slightly damaged, and is in progress of removal. A vast quantity, however, is welded together, as are whole casks of nails. A body has been found and is recognised as that of a porter in one of the stores.

We published on Monday a full list of the losses of the Insurance Companies as correct as could then be obtained. The following from Thompson's Reporter being made up after the offices have had more time to ascertain the exact amount of loss, is probably very near the exact amount covered by insurance:

LOCAL COMPANIES.
FOREIGN COMPANIES.

The Guardian had $50,000 surplus profits. This Company will pay in full, but has for the present stopped doing business.

The Howard had $65,000 surplus profit. After paying all losses, there will still be two-thirds of its capital left.

The City had $55,000 surplus, which nearly pays its loss.

The Fireman's had $10,000 surplus—stock two-thirds saved.

The Equitable had $61,000 surplus; and the Etna $20,000.

The American Mutual, the Merchants' Mutual and the Guardian, Manhattan and the Merchants, have stopped doing business.

All the foreign Companies will pay promptly.

The rate of insurance on houses has been raised 5 cents on $100, and on stores 14 cents on $100, being 50 per cent.

Companies:	Capital	Total	Other
Etna Fire, N. York	200,000	110,000
Bowery	300,000	60,000
City	210,000	75,000
Eagle	500,000	300,000
East River	200,000	140,000
Firemen's	300,000	150,000
Greenwich	200,000	40,000
Howard	300,000	150,000
Jefferson	200,000	100,000
Manhattan	250,000	250,000
Merchants	300,000	300,000	350,000
Mutual	350,000	100,000
National	150,000	25,000
N. Y. Contribu'ship	300,000	150,000
N. Y. Equitable	300,000	150,000
New York	200,000	50,000
N. Y. Guardian	300,000	300,000
North American	250,000	100,000
North River	350,000	100,000
Trust	150,000	30,000
United States	250,000	125,000
Williamsburg	105,000	20,000

Companies.	Assets.	Loss.
Alliance.	300,000	100,000
American	250,000	300,000
Croton	200,000	35,000
General Mutual	300,000	220,000
Mercantile	225,000	110,000
Merchants'	260,000	300,000
Mutual Safety	868,000	600,000
Pelican	200,000	50,000
Sun Mutual	880,000	200,000

Etnó, Hartford	75,000
Columbus, Ohio	12,500
Protection, Hartford	60,000
Hartford,	70,000
Fireman's, (Boston)	Nothing.
Washington, (Providence)	15,000
Manufacturers', (Boston)	45,000