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 AWFUL CALAMIrY.-We are indebted to a srip from tie New York Sun giving the particulars of a dreadful accident which occurred at Syracuse, fNew York; on the 20th inst. It states that about 10 O'clock at night, fire broke ont in the carpenters shop on the west side of the Os~ego CaUal. From the combustbe nature of the materials, the fire ex- tended rapidly, and attracted as well large con- course of citizens and strangers, as the members of the fire department, who were promptly on the spot and poceeded with their usual alacrity and iarng extnguish il. A barrel of gunpowder which, un- known to any, uness the proprietor, had been recently stored upon the premises, gnited and eN- pleded with terrible effect

 Not less than thirty persons were instantly killed, and from forty to fifty wounded, many of them so badly as to leave no hope for their recovery, The extent of the calamity is by no means yet kd6@n, as some persons were known to have been thrown into the Canal, and numbers missing. When the cars left Syracuse on Saturday mornng, at o'clock, the citizens engaged in letting the water out of the 0swego canal in order to recover the bndies of those who had been thrown into it.

 A railroad car was despatched to Auburn for medi cal aid, as it was impossible for the physicians al Syracuse or in the neghborhood attend to all the l sufferers.

 Many oi the persons were so blackened that il was impossible to recognise them and eight or ten were blown entirely to pieces.