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$36,655,598 92 Total for the year The Knickerbocker Fire Insurance Company has declared a dividend of 10 P cent., payable Dec. 1. The Bartlett Mills has declared 4 P cent., and James Steam Mille 3 P cent., payable on demand. We have received a statement of the affairs of the Knickerbocker Life Insurance Company. It will be seen that the assets of the Company amount to $151,413 28, of which $122,500 are invested in first-class bonds and mortgages. The premiums received thus far are $51,937 39, while the losses amount to $4,204 17. The whole amount at risk is $1,247,204. The Company, it is stated, has no connection with the Bank of the same name, beyond having used it as a depository for its floating funds. The amount deposited there was less than $2,500, and that will be repaid to the Company in due time. In our notice of the quarterly statement of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New-York the number of policies rumored to be running at 1st November was stated at 2,982, whereas it should have been 2,982. Another case of Suffolkcation has occurred, the Stark Bank at Bennington, Vt., having been thrown out at Boston. The notes of the Woodbury Bank, which were thrown out last week, are received at the Mercantile Bank in this City. The Germania Bank of Milwaukee (Messrs. Geo. Papendick & Co.) is reported suspended, but the notes are still taken. Beyond this we hear of no new disasters at the West. The creditors of Messrs. Ellis & Sturges and T.S. Goodman & Co., have petitioned the assignee of those firms to cancel the assignment and retransfer the propery,that those gentlemen may go on with the business of their respective houses, or wind up their affairs, as they think most judicious. The following statement of the affairs of Messrs. Goodman & Co. has been made: EXHIBIT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES.:
