A CHAIR FACTORY DESTROYED -- GREAT LOSS OF PROPERTY -- ONE MAN FATALLY BURNED.

Between 1 and 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon a fire broke out on the fifth floor of the large five-story brick building located at the junction of Pearl and Cherry streets -- the front on Pearl, The premises where the fire originated were occupied by Messrs. SAWIN & OSGOOD as a chair manufactory. This building was known as No. 360 Pearl-street. It is a total wreck, nothing but the bare walls having been left. The basement was occupied by Messrs. APPLEBY & SONS, of No. 133 Water-street, as a storehouse for snuff. They had a large amount of that article on store, and it is believed that the most of it was so much injured by water as to be rendered worthless. The Messrs. APPLEBY were insured for $30,000 in City Companies. SAWIN & OSGOOD's loss is between $4,000 and $5,000. They are insured for $6,000 in the Manhattan and Nicholes Insurance Companies. The third floor of No. 360 was occupied as a storehouse for flour. There were about 500 barrels there at the time, the most of which was destroyed by fire and water.

No. 358 Pearl-street was occupied on the first floor by ANDERSON & PIERCE, dealers in paints and chemicals. Their loss is extensive, mostly by water. They are insured for $5,000 in the Pacific Insurance Company.

JAMES EGBERT, book and job printer, occupied the second, third and fifth floors. His stock and fixtures were entirely destroyed. The amount of damage could not be ascertained. He is insured in the Relief, Lenox, Market and Greenwich Insurance Companies for $6,000.

E. ELLIS & Co., bookbinders, occupied the fourth floor of this building. Their stock and machinery will be a total loss. They are insured for $800. The occupants of No. 366 sustained much damage, mostly by water. The same was the case with those who occupied the premises No. 362, on the other side of the building, where the fire originated.

The burned buildings were owned by Mr. ROBERT MORRIS. The damage to them is variously estimated at from $8000 to $12,000. Mr. MORRIS was fully insured in City Companies.

The fire originated, as we have said, in the chair factory on the fifth floor, and was occasioned by one of the workmen trying to fill a lighted lamp from a can of fluid or camphene. Both the lamp and can exploded in his hands, and he was set on fire. One other man only was at work in the room with him at the time, and when the victim perceived that his clothes were in flames, be earnestly begged LAWSON SMITH, his fellow-laborer, to aid him in extinguishing them. SMITH, however, was frightened, and ran down stairs. The man made efforts to get off his clothes, but in vain. Then enveloped in fire as he was, he ran down four flights of stairs and out on the sidewalk where three or four caught him and stripped him of his raiment. A large portion of his skin was taken off with it. He was immediately conveyed to the City Hospital, where he now lies in a dangerous condition. His name is JOHN FOX, a native of this City, aged 19 years, and resided at No. 60 West-Washington-place.