Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-08-24

5 ed. which have not been promptly re
: deemed.
The notes Of these banks, as well 8
al the free banks of this State. are am
ply secured. and the securities, at thei
present market value, are worth quar-
ter million dollars. over and above tn
: amounts Of notes issued, and holders 9
the notes of any of the free Banks z
this State should not part with ther' -
a discount.
Signed c.
JOHN P. DUNN. Auditoses..,so o'S'e'
E. NEwLAND, Treas. S'a'e.
Tu, M.ysv,,,- ExPLosIoE--The
MaysviIle Eao, 81 the 18th has nearly
! four coIum., of details of the terrible
. .,p,os;o. Of the powder magazine in
that -rty. As it is one of the most
s..ftIing incidents of the day we propose
TO copy portion of it.
On yesterday Sunday at S minutes
before 2 O'Clock, our citizens were rous-
ed from their slumbers by the most tre-
mendous and awful explosion ever heard
in our midst,-caused by the firing Of
the Maysville Powder Magazine. con-
tanning 800 kegs of blasting and rifle
powder-and carrying desOlation and
destruction into every quarter of our
city. of East Maysville and of Aber-
deem, Ohio
The light produced BY the explosion
was the most brilliant and the most in
tensely vivid imaginable, startling hun
dreds of our citizens from sound sleep,
and awakening them to the sudden re-
alization of the awful Judgment Day.
Some minutes elapsed before our cit
izens woul4 venture into the street-so
dreadful and universal was the alarm
created by the explosion and its incl
dents, the bursting in Of doors, the
crashing of windows and glass, the
wreck of walls and other materials
struck by the flying missiles. the feeling
of suffocation produced by the close sui
phurous stmosphere-sll instantly sue
ceeding the flash of almost unearthly
fight, the explosion louder and more
deafening than a hundred thunder
storms, and the tremendous heaving of
the earth and jarring of the houses
scarcely less violent than the earthquake
motions of Lisbon and New Madrid.
As the citizens sailed forth, they
found the sidewalks covered with stones
and bricks from the foundations Of the
Magazine, with bricks and fragments Of
wood from the chimneys and walls and
roofs of the houses, with broken glass
and sash and doors-and in many pla
ces the sills of the doors and windows,
tops of fences, &C., covered with PoaO-
der or with the grit and sand and plas-
ter scattered by the explosion. These
last penetrated into many rooms, cover
ing the bedding, mantels, tables, DC.
As many were hurrying to the scene
of the explosion, they met crowd car
rying from his residence to the Lee
House, the body of VIM. P. Conwell,
ESQ. of the ablest and soundest
lawyers in Kentucky-who was bleed
ing profusely. and in the confusion sup
posed to be greatly mangled and almost
lifeless.
The damage to property is immense
-variously estimated at from $50, 900
to 100000. Every house developes
damage of one sort or other not previ-
ously discovered-walls sprung, roofs
giving way, cracks in walls, door frames
crushed partly in, doors, shutters, sash
and glass demolished, walls and roofs
and partitions and flooring pierced as if
by cannonading, furniture of all kinds,
china-ware, &C.. broken into fragments
or greatly injured.
We learn from the Express of yester-
day. that the quantity of powder which
blew up was considerably more than we
stated in our Extra above-amonnting
in all, when the barrels were reduced TO
kegs, to an aggregate of 100 kegs, or
about 81, 500 pounds. Theoretical gun
ners in the Navy can calculate approxi-
mately the force of the explosion, when
they learn that the foundation of
the Magazine was of tolerably heavy
limestone, and the walls of three brick
or IS inches thickness, arched over
with brick, and with solid iron door.
A stone weighing 1O9 lbs. was found
by j. P. Lawwell, where it was Il rown
by the explosion, in Aberdeen, entirely
across the River and at least mile from
the place of its starting. Another
stone weighing 43 lbs., struck locust
post of a grape arbor in James Helms
garden, in Aberdeen, and completely
shivered the post.
The report of the explosion was
heard for many miles in every direction
at Poplar Plains. 22 miles distant, on
steamboat AZ miles up the river, &c.
There are probably fifty houses which
have not single pane of glass left un-
broken, as many more with not dozen
sound ones, and some twenty with eve-
ry sash broken or thrown out on the
floor and wrecked.
"A HARD ROAD TO TRAvEL.'-It
seems to be generally admitted that
Jordan is hard road.' Jim Sherwood
tells of one that, if not the veritable
Jordan itself, must certainly be its
next best friend But let Sher speak