Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1872-11-16
s....anne Of s1o. 00a 600 to $4,000, 900.

assurance at $40, OO00 900 to 81, 100000.
A good many persons were injured
and several killed.
INSURANCE RISKS.
The Phoenix risks ill the burned dis
tr;ct amount to 100000; assets, deduc-
ting all liabilities, S1,4o10OO. 1t is
probable that the loss win be much less
than the aggregate of the policies, as
large stocks OF goods were removed.
The Hartford Company reports. the
entire amount at risk in the burned
district and vicinity at 100000. From
the latest information received, it is
probable that its loss will be 100000.
The Hartford has $2,3S5,OOO assets, and
will meet its engagements promptly, as
it did at Chicago.
The Etna's losses, though not def
nitely ascertained, but carefully approx
mated, will not exceed s750,O00.
The total losses of toe Hartford com
panies exceed but trifie $2,0O0,0L0.
Another fire -
LONDON, Nov. 10, 100 a. MA fire
broke out last night in the city flour
mills, on Thames street. The entire
mills have been destroyed; the fire is
still raging. The losses are heavy, but
at this hour no idea can reformed of the
amount. All the fire brigades i'll the
city are on duty at the scene.
The mills were finally destroyed. Loss
100000.
TIE LATE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
The New York Uorld says of the re-
suit of the Presidential Election as fol-
lows -
The cause of this deplorable discom-
future lies much further back than the
nomination of Mr.. Greeley. 1t was
doubtless a mistake, even under the cir
cumstances which existed last May and
June, to take up Mr.. Greeley; but the
real source of weakness was in the cir
cumstances themselves which rendered
such nomination. possible. "The cause
of the cause is the cause of the thing
caused" 1.-THE democratic party had
not been reduced to a feeling bordering
on despair by previous untoward events,
it would not have tolerated foran instant
candidate whose whole past history
represented everything which was hos
tile to democratic ideas of the philoso-
ply, functions, and limitations of gov
ernment. The true explanation of this
defeat is not to be found in the nomina-
ton of AIr. Greeley, but in that previ-
Gus letting down ofparty hope and spirit
which reconciled our national conven-
ton to an act ofshcer desperation:
Most unfortunately the explanation is
too easy. The wings of the democratic
party were clipped by the astounding
frauds and corruption of the Tammany
ring. Had it not been for the shameful
exposures which cost us the State cleo
ton last year, we should easily have
succeeded in this presidential contest.
The Tammany frauds were the source
of all our woes New York was the
chief citadel of the democratic party;
and it is creditable to the moral senti-
ment of the country that the hideons
revelations of last year brought the dem
ocratic party into disrepute. Had it
not been for the weakening; prostrating
effect Of those revelations, the democra-
CIV, with all the omens in its favor, would
have disdained to go outside otits own
organization for a candidate 1t is not
Mr.. Greeleys nomination at Baltimore,
but the previous decentralization which
rendered such : nomination possible,
that has cost us this election: