New-York tribune., 1841-08-27

tse on the Friday night previous together win Inc ne
,o,, Of the Coroners Jury Funeral Obseques. Proceedings
Of Public Meetings. Incidents, &C. Great blame Is justly
attached 10 the owners the building which the powder
had been secretly stored and Others who knowing tina;
the powder was there stored neglected give the
alarm proved before the jury that Mr. lnga, the
carrna who had conveyed the powder there early at
the fre-caed Mr.. Appleton whose house was directly
opposite and told him get Of the way there was
powder in the building, but added, Don't :ei any one!
He mad pledged himself keep It's whereabouts secret
and under t. pledge he placed himself Ut safe distance
and calmly looked for the coming slaughter 1t Is sur
orsing that Msssrs Malcolm & Hudson heretofore consd
cred careful businessmen, should have permitted from % to
% kegs of powder be placed in carpenter shop led
with .havngs and other dry materials and il still mors
surprising that after the uding known By Mn How
ard to be on are he should leave the place Of danger was
proved before the jury, by simply crying powder in voice
so moderate as not to be heard three rods.
From the Journal copy the annexed account OF the
,nchov scene Immediately after the explosion and brief
notice Of the Funeral:
The Instant the explosion took place the air was filed
With missiles and fragments of the building, slaves and un-
Der which lit up the heavens with brightness; but IN mo-
men, !, was a total darkness The explosion had eXtiu-
,ushcd every particle OF The that was then pre-
,ented horrible beyond description Amidst the dark
ness the groans o the DYING and wounded the stumbling
yer the mfa,ed bodies weeping OF friends and ela-
ives the heart of completely oyerPowered We nave
never imagined any thing of the tragic horrible 10 be com
pared to il The gresest confusion followed Some 2OOU
az 1000 inhabitants drawn together, all looking
after friends Very lamps brought, the wounded
we're carried off, grooming continually the dead were X.
arncd and perhaps dear the pride and ornament OF
the family circle discovered angled and disgured so
that could only be recognised by hair the contents OF
ms rockets his clothing. hen father woid be taken
p whose distracted widow would be waiting the vicinity
to know the And continued hours until the
canal had been drained and number OF bodies taken from
thence Clnnps of persons with lights could be in ali
directions carving either the dead wound I'd their
homes The scenes of this night will long be remembered
by the people OF Syracuse. Sadness pevaded every build
ng and melancholy regrets every heart.
On Saturday the village shrosed in mourning The
all closed Business Out OF the question
Hundreds Of people from county hurrng in,
on learning the awful intelligence, the spot fruitful
with distress and to know the mnu;e OF the sad affair
Sunday was busy day in cntombng the dead. he cars
from the East brought FIVE Fire Engine Companies,
dressed in Uniform from Utica. Western train brought
number of Auburn people and the people from the country
came asanal ningc their tears and -ympahies with
hose of this afflicted community The Utica Fremen de-
serve requested tender the sincere thanks OF
our citizens for their prompt and kind feelings for their
be,hren danger number of whom in ctorming tha'r
duty have fallen martyrs Our best wishes are due to tnem
and we ,rls, that shall have occasion return the
sad compliment.
Early in the iay the funeral professions commenced from
different directions and from the several Churches and
there was continual succession OF corpses passing to
the lonely sepucre The Cheneys laid side by
side in one common grave The graveyard appears full OF
fresh mounds Over twenty iIcS,, and will remain so
n the remembrance OF thousands for a long time TO come
70 I, seems that the Waterfall Bank Albany County
has suffered seriously no, dsasrouy by the failure
Of r. Comstock s. Co.. the great forwarders the North
ern Canal and Lake Champain An investigation shows
Errnn
and without authority by which Bank involved heavily
and its circulation likely become charge the Safety
Fund The failure of Comsock Co. has caused the stop
page of the nchariercd known the Union Bank
of Montreal whose redeemed in our City
price though the the public that they
shall be within very few days.
The Money Reporter of the Herald has basely shamefuy
garbed paragraph last June concerning this
Bank with the simple intent of doing injury. What We
said on that occasion called forth attacks the Union
Bank in the Journal of Commerce and Sunatacks which
we knew case be dictated by the personal
of the rival free banker the of Nassau and
Spruce streets We had had acquaintance with the
agents of the Union Bank this City and we believed them
honest and solvent Thus believing, did that if the
anti monopoly free-banking advocates of the Journal and
Sun knew any facts calculated to dscredt this Bank they
not assail the concern vaguely and bndy. This say
again: is right But this is meanly suppressed by the
Herald and article made read very different from
what it was, though apparently quoted entire
We did recommend any TO take its bils-we did
not say i, was safe though we believed ii be But
having been deceived mistaken once, shall be
careful second time. And say. for all we
repeatedly said before the Working Men OF this City
Touch not dollar of money which is dated iarod
pace-no mater whether Canada, Ulster elsewhere-bu
really issued from this Cy bought in below par and resued
by its authors. The bankers may may be honest but
the system incuraby vicious and injurious the public
The men who Bank Notes ought receive them at
par at their own counters they do not who shall Let
all resolve take that fully redeemed in
specie .er place of ISSUE and shall have done what
in power as individuals soundness to the
Currency This is what the People of Michigan and Ohio
doing with capital effect.
Gy- Professor Samuel II. Dickson, VI D. OF Charleston.
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