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AwFtL Catastropue. - Thi8 morning about 10 o'clock, on explosión took placo in one of the buildings nt the Arsenal, in a room devcted to the manufoclure of the Ten Inch Fuses and Boinb Sholls, whidi destroyed all thö fuse com positiun, blew out the windows, and injured, more or less, nearly all the workmen engaged in ihnt deparlment. It is supposed to have been cnused by a boy stepping on some of the composition which !ay upon the brick floor of the room, with a boot which contained ron acks in the heel. This ignited and oxloded all the composition in the room, mounting to 12 or 14 pounds. The xplosion cnusoda loud report, damaged ie building, and set it on fire. There were about 12 or 15 persons in he room. Eleven of them were severey injured, nnJ three it is supposed can notsurvive. - Troy Post. A Co.vscientious Thiep. - A young gentleman from Worcesier, now residing t Boston, writes that the gentleman in whose family he is, had a vnluable overcoot stolen from his entry. After about a foitnight it was found one morning in a much frequented back building, with a note in one of the pocket", of which the ollowing isa copy, as near as types can make it : SIR HAVING BEN VERY POOR AN HAVEING NO MONEY ORCLOS TEMTACON BING VERY STKONG I VVOS TEMPTED 1 2 DO WAT I DID SO I RETRN IT BING VERY KOSTLY HOPE1NG UL LEVSUM OLE CLOS VVHARÜL FIND THIS AT NITE I "The kind hearted old genloman complied with tho modest request of ihe thief, deposited a bundie of clottiês where the coat was found, atid in due lime they diaappeared. - Wor cesier Pa Uadium . k New Feature. - The New Boston (Hl.) Advertiser has a department devoted to a "sick list," which is reported weekly by one of the physicians of that place. It gives the names of the parents, their diseases, and their condition. This information will doubtless prove of interest to the inhabitants of that región, and to their friends at a distance, who mny thereby be advised of the stalo of health nmong iheir relalives and acquaintanees, but it ii a novel idea. Tolls o.v Plank Roads.- The general bilí introduced into the Legislature, for the organization of Plank Roadá, nllows a loll not to exceed thrce quarters of a cent a mile on a vehicle drawnby one animal, ano Ij cenrs ff drawn b two. This is half the price allowed on the roads that havo special charters. - Buff. Courier. A Clerical Deserte. - The Rev. VV. H. Ti Barnes, after ha ving enlisted to preach during th5 war, deserted the camp at New Orleans with three months advance money in his pocket.RoBEitT Ranïoül, Jr., tvho gave the sword to Mr. Cushing, is President of the Anti-Capital Punishment Society, The Chronotype wishes him to explnin nis preference for killing innocent men rilh steel over killir.g guilty ones wiih hemp. A SlaVeii. - The Ënglish brig of wn Ferret, lately captured on the coast o África, n Brazilian vossol of 119 lons with 550 human beingsj slaves on board.Mr. AdaMs And the Amistaü. - Th amendment foisted into the general ap propriationbill by the Senatn, giving to the owners of the Amistad 860,000 as indomnhy, was stricken outin the House, Mr. Adams having spoken ogainat it. - This is well. A baker ir. Vienna, lias discovered mode of using beet root in mnking breac