Fire, Explosion of Gunpowder, and Loss of Life!

Our village was visited last night with one of the most dreadful scenes which the annals of our State can reveal. About half past 9 o'clock the alarm of fire was given, which proved to be in the carpenter's shop of E. T. Hayden or C. Goings, on the Otsego Canal. Our citizens repaired to the spot, together with our three engine companies. In the course of perhaps half an hour an explosion of gunpowder took place, which most melancholy to relate, sent instantaneously

some thirty of our fellow citizens into another world!

We have no time to describe the horrid scene immediately after the explosion. The building while it was on fire, was blown into atoms, and the buildings east and west were shattered by the concussion and flying timbers. About 30 firemen and others near the fire were instantaneously killed, being thrown in all directions-into the canal, for or five entirely across the canal-and among them some of our most respectable citizens, and, we are sorry to add, including about half a dozen of our most promising young men. The groans of the dying, the frantic screams of wives and children, brothers and sisters, who had lost their dearest earthly friends-the killed and wounded carried from the scene to their homes-altogether, presented a sight to melt the strongest heart.

Our whole village is in mourning and distress! The stores this morning still remain closed. Such scenes as we have witnessed in the last 12 hours, may heaven forbid our ever seeing again.

We understand windows were broken by the explosion, as far as Salina. The noise was very plainly heard four miles east. The number of kegs of powder which exploded were about 15.

When we are brought to the reflection that all this distress has been brought upon us, by the hand of an incendiary-a devil in human shape, we are disgusted and sick at heart, for poor human nature.

The alarm that powder was in the building was given, but with such a want of energy as to border on criminality.-Many supposed, also, that it was a mere trick of the incendiary.

Total Number killed 33-wounded 33.

From the St Louis Atlas.