Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-05-10
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE STANDARD.

PHILADELPHIA, May s, 1856. &
The entrance Of the Emery month of May this year
will be long remembered in Philadelphia 1t ushered
IN amidst the deafning cang of the realarm, and the
shouts and cries Of excited multitude battling with ter
rfc cOnfagatOn which threatened at period de-
sroy the northern portion of the City, From midnight
DAY break the raging element, famed by strong breeze
sed to defy the utmost exertions Of the ndOmitable
nre department. When beaten at point the flames
turned to another enveopng and consuming magnificent
stores hitherto considered flaming brands
carried by the wind brought destruction to dwellings,
aed several hundred yards to the south and the
tua fire. The City illuminated by the light and the
startled inhabitants of distant sections first considered
the fire in their neghborhoods The roaring Of the
huge mass Of fame and the crash of the lofty walls they
successfully disappeared amidst the of fire gave
full grandeur to the scene which will not be forgotten
by those who witnessed it, 1t long after sunrise when
the subdued flames allowed the weared remen some
their gallant comrades who persisted amidst the falling
ruins Poor fellow he spared in the battle fields
Mexico to fall at the Threshold of his home victim to his
unpaid exertions in the service of his eow-czens Up
wards OF forty houses in the centre of the business
portion of the city have been utterly
Is the estimated loss which, added the loss the late
fire in Ranstead place, makes upwards of million of dol
lars lost by fire in less than month This presses heavily
the different Insurance offices and must have serious
effect upon the local money market for some time to
1t great drawback the profits of the Spring trade,
nected with the building trade as the DESTROYED warehous
will be Immediately rcbuilthe owners of the various
lots being mostly men of wealth and energy.
The Democracy of Philadelphia held a mass meeting on
Friday night WI thin the haowed precincts OF Independence
Square 1t was an immense gathering of ardent and
ery and human happiness From stands erected at each
end of the square, the Democratic candidates for the
nicpa offices addressed their fellow citizens
their firm and adherence those great prn-
cpes of human liberty which embodied and protested
in the Democratic creed The corruption and extravaganza
of the Know Nothing party earessy exposed Their
hendish attempt to the barbarous scenes Of religious
persecution which dsgraced the fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries commented upon in language which drew
forth tremendous cheers-her wickedness appealing
the fOues passions Of the human heart and eneavorng
to change the great political questions which divide the
Union into miserable religious eud for the foul and sell
fish purpose of getting into place and power descrb
ed in which must have been anything but salts
factory to Sam, if he within hearing
The election takes place Tuesday the 9Th inst Money
and odds have been repeatedly offered by sporting
the Democratic ticket, but their opponents fight shy
SAM, true to his original instincts, skulks about talks
big, but ventures nothing, which indeed is rather
him the possession of the City Treasury for years
has enabled him make triie y" and by all
counts he to have made good of his mc leaving
with the the great consolation of rejecting thai
it cssed furener" that tobbed their money bu
the great original &c native Sam himself.
OBSERVER.