Explosion :. tht Nashville Powder Nagazinr

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We are indebt=d 10 Judge Conway, for papers containing an account of the terrific explosion of the powder, owRei 5y merchants of that city, in between 5a0 and 62g kegs in the magazine at the time. Ja,lge C., distant from the city about three miles, ard, informs US, that the eoncasson there, violent as to break the glass in the wiH30Es- Several persons wers killed, and great number woaBde5- The Nashville whig of Tues day ths I4th inst. says: .Mors than fifty hoases ssre demolished ia the vicinity of inc Magazine, or 90 much injured as to be unfit for ase. The gtass in simo-, every house was entirely broken out The PeRitentiary. we are informed. is dam sged, by bsraksge of gi@ss, to the amount of 500 to $5o0; inc Lunafic Asyium, by the sane cause. to the amount of ? to $3O0''

 The Editor of the Nashville Banner says:

 I've were sitting in our room on tho square when The explosion took place. and the first idea Was as of heaTy clap of thunder and perhaps two sec onis siterw aF,ls terrific repo.t-a li,ing up sA;ion as il something had exploded in the interior of the earth with the effects of an earthquake. shower uf broken glass few into the room, and The saPpositioa vas that the 5gi!1inSs in which We were had been struck by lighting; bu; oa going into the street. found the panes of glass every where broken. and we have since ieATned on con- veE<ihg with nunoers that each iadis sdal had been seized ~ih the belief. that the hoGses in which they were had been stsuek by electricity

 We visited the scene few minutes aflsy tbe ac- eiteni, and the sight was really terrible. No, ves,sse left oi the bGiag which had eo..tainsd the powAer-it had been swept from the surface of the bare rock and ihs bricks composing !; had been scattered ike cannon balls through the neighboS- hood The baidings adjoining. ,o the number of hffeeH CT twenty. were either heaps of ruins ar the sides or roo.s crushed in. On our way thither we met dezsos of persons, particularly chsldren. rushing from the psee of in. fNrlcSion, their faces covered with blood. and palIid with horror.