Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1856-05-14
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE STANDARD.
PHILADELPHIA, MAY 5, 1856.

PHILADELPHIA, May 5, 1856.
The entrance of the merry month" of May this year
will be long remembered in Philadelphia 1t ushered
in amidst the deafnng Clang of the reaiar, and the
shouts and excited multitude battling with
rifle c6nhagrution which Threatened period de-
stroy the northern portion of the City From midnight
day break the raging element, famed by strong breeze
seemed defy the of the indomitable
fire department. When beaten at point the flames
turned another enveopng and consuming magnificent
stores hitherto considered reproofwhe flaming brands
carried by the wind brought destruction TO dwellings stu
aied several hundred yards TO the south and west Of the
tual fire. The City illuminated BY the light and the
startled inhabitants of distant sections at first considered
the fire in their neghborhoods The roaring Of the
huge of ame and The crash of the lofty walls they
successfully disappeared amidst the of fire gave
full grandeur TO the which will be forgotten
by those who Witnessed it, 1t long alter sunrise when
the subdued flames allowed the wearIed fremeu
pose and enabled them the eess body of
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 his
wards of forty houses the very the business
portion of the city have been utterly desrUyedS5OuUO0
the estimated loss which, added TO the loss at the late
fire in Ranstead place, makes upwards of million of dol
lars lost by fire less than month. This presses heavily
the different Insurance offices and must have serious
effect upon the local money market for lime to
II great drawback the profits of the Spring trade,
but will cause STIR among the mechanics aud others
neced with the building trade as the destroyed warehous
will be Immediately ebultthe owners of the various
lots being mostly men Of wealth and energy.
The Democracy OF Philadelphia held Il mass meeting
Friday night Thin The haOwed precincts Of independence
Square 1t was immense gathering of ardent and
usiastic devoted the advancement of human lib
erty and human happiness. Fru stands erected each
end of the square, The Democratic candidates for the
nicpa Offices addressed their fellow and announced
their firm and conscientious adherence To those great
cipes of human liberty which embodied proiessed
the Democratic creed The corruption and
of the Know Nothing party fcaressy exposed. Their
edish attempt TO The barbrUus of religious
persecution which d:graced The fifteenth ard sixteenth
centuries commented upon In language which drew
forth tremendous ceers-iheIr wickedncsS appealing
the ioules passions Of the human heart and eneayung
to change the great political questions which divide the
Union into miserable religious ieud for The foul and sell
fish purpose of getting into place and power, dcscrb
cd in manner which must have been anything but stis
| factory Sam, if he within hearing.
The election takes place Tuesday 9Th Money
and odds have been repeatedly offered by sporting
the Democratic ticket but their opponents fight shy
big but ventures nothing, which indeed rather
him the the City Treasury
has enabled him Iiakc trifc - and bv all ac
he 10 have made good his time leaving
with the taxpayers the great consolation of rejecting tha
il cussed iurrccr that iobbed their muney but
| the great original =" native Sam himself