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Show Auotiicr Dynamite l'lenil, New York, 10. A good deal of excitement was caused to-day at tho appraiser's store, corner of Laight aud West streets, by the discovery in a cask of wine of a large tiu box filled with dynamite cartridges, which were attached by wires to gutta percba fuses. The cask was one of a cargo from the steamer Crista, which were brought, with a number of others, to the appraiser's slore. It waa invoiced in-voiced as thirty litres of wiue, aud is supposed to bo from Hamburg. It was addressed to a person in Huntington, Hunting-ton, Ills., and is thought to be a fool hardy attempt of somo person to ship dynamite to this port. Had an explosion ex-plosion occurred in the appraiser's store, tho consequences would have! boon very disastrous, as fully 400 peo- i pie aro employed there, and tho properly in the place is valued at 51,u00,U00. |