Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-04-25
Total
S2.479.95O

Total S2,47995O
This does not include money or personal proper
ty of young men or persons not keeping house.
In calculating the value of real estate the Com.
lulttee have estimated the cash value of the i'm.
provements as they were before the fire, and not
whatitAwl require to repair or rebuild them, which
must exceed the above estimate at least % per cent
Tle burnt district covers fifty acrCs in the city,
and Sir acres out Of it.
1t is with delight we hear more favorable &C
counts from offices, after an investigation of
their losses. We do not wish to hold out any en-
enlargement not warranted by facts, but after COM
pairing notes we feel authorized to say, in general
terms, that the offices in the city as a whole will
pay very large per centage on all their risks. The
whole amount insured by them is about 100000
and at the very outside not over $650000. Their
capital in the aggregate will cover up large por-
ton of this amount. The affairs of the Penn Com
pany are in better train than was believed and
they will pay very large per centage on their
risks.
As many Of our indomitabe citizens as are able
TO build who not too much crippled to do it,
and could get contracts made have done so, and
new buildings are begun to-day. This is the right
kind of spirit Goblet used to say the ants and
their hills were models not only of industry but al
SO of the true game spirit Just kick one of their
hills TO pieces and what do they do but commence
on the spot to build up again-repea the operation,
and the ants only redouble their energies.
Loss Of Life in Pitsburg. The Gazette says
five persons are now pretty certainly supposed to be
lost IN the great fire. Samuel Kingston ESQ. and
a woman employed as servant in the family, per-
ished in his house on Second-street. A poor wo.
man, of German extraction, persisted on Thlrd-st.
married woman, the mother of two children,
named M'Gowly, persisted on Thrd-street, and a
man named johnson, is supposed to have been lost
in Wood-street having last been seen in burning
building. Many persons, it is feared, have perish
ed; how many may never be known until the earth
and sea give up their dead. Such was the intense
heat Of the fire that it consumed the remains of its
unfortunate victims in most instances entirely.
Day Of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer. The
Councils, on Saturday evening, at the suggestion
of the Rev. DR.. Heron, Rev. q. s. Holmes, Rev.
II. ID. Sellers, and numerous other clergymen of
different denominations set apart Friday next, 10 be
observed by our citizens day of humiliation,
fasting and Pittsburgh Chronicle l4h.
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Conduct-
We have heard of several instances in relation to
the sufferers by the recent fire. which reflect hon
or upon human nature. In one case, we are told
that Pittsburgh merchant, who had been to this
city TO purchase goods heard, on his way home,
that his property had been wholly destroyed by the
fire. and that, as a consequence, he ruined
man. He Immediately returned to Philadelphia,
called upon the merchant from whom he had made
the purchases and begged him to take back his
goods renarking that he was not able 10 pay for
them. The other was evidently touched; but with
scarce moments hesitation, he stepped to his wri-
ting DESK and as promptly as II could be done han
ded to his honest hearted customer Of PittsDurg,
bill and receipt for the whole amount-more than
$1,000, Philadelphia Inquirer
In the list of buildings destroyed at Pittsburgh,
we find the Foundry and Scale Factory Of Mr. J.
Livingston formerly of Peacham, VT.