New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-09-15

A., IL ea,p a a,ins a crossing piaul b. such t'n'
d,,inn ~ iu hr moved We f-ffata i"n any iuftho
comment unu tie whole faois 'fnnspir, bat oan cay
that om oil No osH lean tuu pnnsrnT"s 80 no
i,nh atd hom Nj Wrihryll Who IL noe With ha
,s n,s H. this city II Of hosa accidents widh
90 care th' pau of Tho conduoloa ol thc ualn
could anticipate or AVOID. ISandusky Rrgisir, llth
Truriric ESrtosios--Tmr GISrstE Pownrh
Minis UtowN Ur.-lhc urL"scc Powdor htl- Aiid-
icd ia Biz bton five milcs east Of The city, blew ~
lets e,n sn and clock last evening with ic'-
rite cNploeiop shaking the car l. ormies around We
happy 60 state that 10 lives were ios', although
The explosion cren'cd considerable exci'emen owing
20 iLc fact that mi IL the same spot blew up ~ Nay
lasi. destroying five men. The bulcin-s destroyed
four in number, viz: two cylinder uil- corning
house aHd press. They we're situated ie" TC"s apart
and heavy embank monts Of earth raised be- wee1
There wee probably four or five hundred Kegs OF
powder in the buiiotrgs at the time of the EXPLOSION
Az the custom bss ben the .sltPeer wa pu into the
cyirde with The charcoal and brmstobe al o co'k
wien tb. workmen withdrew leaving the mlls 10 ope-
rate without attendance during the night About an
hour after leaving the ros they blew up, making four
distinct explosions il quick succession. The shock
WIS IRENE, dous-sufnceruy grea' 10 break glass IN
Eouses seyeral niles distsnt. The sensation not
80 distinctly felt in the city the occasion OF Tor
Usr expor oDs owing doubtless 70 the direction OF the
wind, but TO the eastward OF the malls II was Tar
greater The GeDeeee Mil we're owned by A. }. tiar
low & Co.. the finn consisting Of Messfs Harlow,
Crombic & Fsuhsm. These mills have exploded four
times in the last eighteen months, and the new MUS
had only been IN operation sx weeks. -. >,
CONVERSION or A DESERT INTO A LAKE.-Captan
William Allsn Of the British navy, hes published
book advocating the conversion of the Arabian DeS-r
into an ocean. TIE auhor believes thz' tbs great
valley extending from the southern depvsslO OF ihe
Lebanon Jaf ee T. the head OF the Gulf OF Akaos the
eatrn branch Of the head OF the Rel Sea, has been
otce On ocean. IL is 10 many places 300 feet belc"
the level Of tie Mediterranean, and IN are mated the
Deed Sea and the Sea o. Tiberias. lie believes t1at
this ocean beog cut off from the Red Sea ny the rise
of the lard the sOutberr extremity, ard being only
f. y, email Streams, gJeu1iIy became dried by -oar
eveportion. He proposes 10 cut canal OF adequate
SIZE from the h,ai of the Gulf of Aksba 70 the Dead
Sta and az other from the Mediterranean, near Mount
Carmel across the plain Es iraeloD TO the assure IN
the mountain range OF Lebanon. BY this means the
Mediterranean would ru,h in. wi fall OF 300 feet,
fill up the valley and substitute an ocean OF 1000
squsIe miles il extent, for barren, useless desert;
thus making the navigation 10 India rs short az the
overland route, spreading fertility over nov ard
country, end opening up he fertile regions OF faes
tine TO settlement and cultivation.
The conception is d magnificent one but no sut
fcient suvey las been made to determine Its practical
bly or lis cost.
The last number Of The Rerue des Dear MJ'fcs,
confirms curious pass sgc the food Of The anceu'.
Tie common notion IL that the ancients sere much
simpler in their dishes than we are-perhnPs go at
lea,t in earlier Gays-but, as we learn here, tner
yanfs were more various; for, beside the domestic
animals and the game eaten by US they ate many
animals we never think of touching except in the last
extremity They did not disdrin the hedgehog, tue
DONKEY the cat the dog that borsehesb which az
our school geography used TO tell US, publicly sold
Gin the msrkeA Of Norsay," and which lsidore
Geofroy Saint Hiairo has recently declared 70 be
eminfntly nutritious; nay what il more, they con-
sioered dogsfesh to be equal in nutritve value TO
chicken, AID placed the donkey par with the OK:
Pork thev cor sderod the most ndigestibe OF all, aad
III orl for arti.aDs and athletes. 1t would be Off
cult says Tie Leader) to persuade John Bull to dine
of sirlon of donkey, or to ask the waiter to bring
him ribs of dog with flied oadstOos, so strong IL
prejudice; we ca! oysters and few other mollusc',
aid rhudder at tie mention OF snails. We eat musl-
rooms and trufies with gustO, ana believe all other
fungi 10 be poisonous Nor famine itself dspace
our fears Had tie Greeks better Gigesiions or were
their dogs and doDkeys more succuent than ours