The North Carolina Standard

Destructive Fire.—A fire broke out between one and two o'clock this morning, in the building occupied by Messrs. Langtree & O'. Sullivan, and Thomas Allen, as printing offices for the Democratic Review and the Madisonian.

Before the fire companies reached there, the fire had made such progress as to leave no hope of saving the building, or any considerable portion of the printing materials in it. Messrs. Langtree & O'Sullivan saved most of the stereotype plates of the Madison papers, and about one thousand copies of the first volume of the work; the other two volumes, we believe, were entirely destroyed. The edition was one thousand eight hundred copies, three volumes to each, valued at from ten thousand to twelve thousand dollars.

They were insured for six thousand dollars; and their property destroyed is estimated at from fifteen thousand to eighteen thousand dollars.—

The materials of the Madisonian office were all destroyed, and no insurance on them. They were worth, we suppose, from six thousand to eight thousand dollars. The roof and the upper floor of the Medical College were burnt; insured for three thousand dollars: and it will require that sum, it is supposed, to repair it. The Baptist Church was injured to the amount of five or six hundred dollars. A frame soap factory was entirely destroyed, worth, probably, between eight hundred and one thousand dollars.

It is not ascertained how the fire originated. Some of the hands in the Madisonian office were at work until after twelve o'clock; and the fire had made great progress when discovered, about half after one o'clock. But the prevailing opinion is, that it occurred in Messrs. Langtree & O'Sullivan's office.

Globe.