New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-06-20

termination. Four tunes destroyed b., Ire and
cur times rebuilt THIS. the ffh catastrophe. IS as
Tat rom di>hcartening thcm - The hr>'. " forty.
ceh hours after The hrc, buildings were erected AMI
business trdiSdt ted over the Sill smoking nuns On
ms INC eleventh day since ie fre, enc .Giae tWo
sundays there are nearly 100 buildings tIc tcd or ID
pro gre>> oi erection n the burnt di>tgc.. most OF
them being completed anu occupied Z hizarl
nothing u saying t.af u slN'y DAYS ,hc ~ hole DIS.
tu't Vii Be- dg.il covered NItI ouildI..-s Nearly
sii oi these buildings, n i> t0f'. are ar wood But
wherever ihclc was hrcA building pr,,.o ,'y. Pee.
paTaiioI> aye f-.tt to gcoullt "a lih >lca agonat
securities against Ire o., tAD, have learned 81 ,h,
recent calamity. ANIL In some cases large .l 'auQS
uan The previous ores are beng Greece lr.h1>
rc, %. ihc ore i.t Geo buildings arc ere, r. @, b.
mg Hmif SINCE IA ire lf is perfectly a,.o.nJine
10 must uc seen to h" believed lhai no conception
ell, hat could OF would be Gone prior e. .t.s Nv
c,l,ucnco h.> t,,a very varied. ! .au ccca IN
different countries. climates. stale sn' Pres. hut
lave never seen aly thing Ike What 3 ave seen
here NCN-( OH las suffered uy are, .lf nothing
n comparison Co. san Francisco. -r0 10 New
l,rk which shout compare Joe proportion to ilc eH-
.s.t ana pOpulaftl OF iAat cry Nlth th.> t,f DID san
Francisco Wou.l sweep away the whole clgy below
BIoomc->iroet. iIom North 30 Last River. AMI
what would De- thought even IN the Great NtIrofslli>
Nth an ITS vast population. capital, skin an re~our-
ces OF HIM who should prophecy that 50 mrch would
lc rebuilt ln any manner IA tOday>. IT, prophecy
here l. a matter Of course. And Vet thi> the 60h
great ire m twelve months
In the cOnfagrat'on all thS Spaper oftcCS were
destroyed except tlst of The Aia Calfora.e. The
P9ttt NtUS. FrHi gf, otTcr. htreid, hctuf.t Trss
>tGHfGrf Offices. t.. were destroyed totally. except
the Mars. HtrI9 and Ba,Grce. Which saved portion
of their materials The Plvf- N,cS hv obtaining
from san Jose some materials which 10 had there,
and The Hera'd. Wiih what i saved. have nee reap
peared. The others have no, yet done so. and there
j. no prospect OF their immediate resumption In The
FIRST place there are no Offices 10 be- purchased eN-
cCpt one inferior and incomplete one. iCr Malch an
CXtrayagant price B., demanded. and IN t.C second
place the rates Tor work have been much reduced
thai the prices paU composition - per lOo cnsl
have mol only absorbed al the income az the office,
but IN some cases ua them IN debt console. ably
The fact Is. the prnter> here have been N.ung the
goose which lard The golden 50 thar there * not
now employment 20. 0uc.hai The nm'C ta. here
was before The hlc.
The FIRE has very much unsettled the .lr,'t for
all description OF goods, and sales az present are
made ~ very variable rates, depending much on &C.
tual need. The speculative feeling Is slight What
there is. l. i'm favor Of rise IN most articles Flour
cannot be expected 10 rise m consequence oi the
large stocks very litlc OF that article having been
dc Siroyod bN the fire. As U principally m store
vessels In the haibor ard LARGE brick store, belong
ing 70 the Flour Company az Benlcla Il wl.I proha-
rv be some time before the market become settled
again 50 aS 20 be- quoted with certainty We near N
sales Of limited quantities OF the same article chang
ing hands 40 difference OF from 20 to 90 per cent on
the same dav, and 'hi, makes quotations tclf unreh
able.
/ am prevented rom sending To you ny u,ud >ta-
nStcal account of flc Commerce, a.. al ms POU,
bv The confusion luto which everything has been
thrown iy the destruction Of the tuSioU-huuSc M
Tie hre Mr. Hopkins the Assistant Collector and
some others came near losing their lives 90 ne burn
ing building while end0ayOung 10 save some OF The
papers and books,
By way of change thi> morning. about O'Clock,
had very sensible shock of an earthquake, winch
shook nearly all the houses IN town. Il lasted but
three seconds.