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Show CURIOUS PBE-VO.'IEJOX. Parties etEtoyed at the tn:i!s ad manufactories on either s:ie o:' the river in this city were gra:.v a-: .i;-is't.ei .i;-is't.ei this aorricg on d.-.-3v-r:r.z :hit the g-od head cf water n-wicg in :te river s-t evening had tern reiu.tj during the n:;ht ly son.e n.y-:eriiu-agency to less than the s ack -pp'.y of midsummer, and in fact the water power of the river was ain-ost com pietely lest for the time. Little or n.. water was descending the river, and the level abjve the first dam had fallen three feet. when, last eveninj a considerable con-siderable body of water was pouring over the tup of the dam an i the ui.i.-races ui.i.-races running full. In the harbor an i above the bridges no n-ovement of the water was perceptible where quite a stiff current prevailed yesterday, and the ice commenced to form across the river. During the forenoon the riv-.-r commenced com-menced to gather again slow.y. but it is sti.l far beiow the natural level. No satisfactory explanation has yet b:-en given of this rather startling occurrence, occur-rence, which seems to threaten the stability of the water power, which is the great element of our business prosperity. Some people ascribe it to a sudden freezing up of the tributary streams, others are speculating on the probability of a quiet earthquike in some way brought about by the total eclipse of the sun which occurred this morning, and which some philosophers predicted would be the cause of unusual unusu-al convulsions of Nature. But the phenomenon is still unexplained. Oswego Os-wego Commercial, Dec. |