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Show A Scare. 1 New York, 25. A telegram was' received from the penitentiary at 1.-45 this afternoon stating that there was a mutiny on Blackwell's island among the penitentiary convicts; that they ihad mastered the keepers and taken possefsion of the boats, by means of. which they wero escaping to 9tb aud 92d s'.reeta. Later The rumored revolt and es-capo es-capo of the priwoners from Black-well's Black-well's island ibis afternoon was greatly exaggerated. Ono prisoner, under a year's sentence, attempted to escape, but was recaptured by the island patrol. |