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Show TO-MORROW'S WORK AT HELLGATE. To-morrow Suiida') afternoon at 2.50 o'clock precisely, Gen. Newtou will explode the uiicea which he has been for months busily arranging preparatory to blowing up tho reef called Hallett's point, which ia a serious obstruction to the entrance of New York barber from Long Island sound. This reef has been completely com-pletely honey -com bed with drill holes to the depth which it is required to remove it, and these to the number of 3.GS1, have been charged with cartridges of rendrock, Vulcan, etc. These are all united by brass primers and by electrical fuses, and will all 1 be exploded by a single charge of electricity at a point 600 yards from the mine. Each primer will contain one pound of dynamite. Before the explosion the water will be let into the galleries, which is nacesaary for a general concussion. General Newton has published a card in the newspapers news-papers in which he says sheer necea sity obliges him to explode the work on Sunday. Guard boata will be - atationed in all directions to keep off 1 passing craft, the space enclosed by these precautions being a rail'ms of about 600 yards. Spectators are warned not to come to Astoria on ' Sunday, as they can observe nothing there. Tiie points to view the explosion explo-sion will be from the New York shore and Ward's island. Genera! Newton saya there is no occasion for fear, as there will be no concussion of air, aod the underground tfi'ect will be 3uf-' cient only to jar buildings without j upturning or cracking the walls, though persona in the neighbourhood 1 should thiow open their windows and stand outside therr houses until the explosion is over. The general thanks the people of Astoria for their fortitude, notwithstanding the at-' at-' tempts to create a parr.c. The pesp'.e of Astoria propose to make Sunday a general out-door holiday. To the New York Sabb-ith commission, who have objected to the explosion on that day ad having a demoralizing influence in foreign countries, the general simply replies that the fixing of tho day w.19 a matter mat-ter of necessity. How many pounds of explosives have been stowed away ia the caverns under the sea ready for ignition we cannot tell, but the re-'1 re-'1 porters who have walked through the galleries which have been patiently ! excavated under this reef pronounce it a porfect labyrinth. A New York A'wn report has the following: 'C imo down to the firth est face in llio headiitf!," said Mr. Uylc, accoutre! cap-a-pie in oilskin, yesterday, ' and we will takfl a walk down Ave n no No. 10." - Ihii heading ia called by the workman Boulevard (ire'-iey, on account of tho great tlrw of water always to bo fmri'i hera. Tho one tr.at has ici.t watr in it is named aftor tbo pro-id'itit. In thi-BubterraneMi thi-BubterraneMi c'tr of explosives, aveniif-s, lane!) and p'.reoli atrntch out in all directions, direc-tions, intersection h othnr, farming blocks of olid rock, in which roit the destructive materials, lioyond the iifih cros street, one penetra'.hitf Una labyrinth laby-rinth finds the light becoming uncertain and aftor th: seventh everything if en-vjlopd en-vjlopd in pprf(.":t dark ne)J, excfit ' where the feeble rays of tho visitors' lamp glimmer faintly. 'J li'm gailerii'S br;romo nnrrowir and Hnjdainp, chilly air U h'vivy with tho dMagPi'-'ablfl d-r of t)ii oil laini that lliufter and dauci liks will-of-tri-wi?ps in tho dintancc. Thfi ?pinshirii? of tho rnon'i fooUleps in tli'j water, and tho ucrapirijf sound of tho liri cnrtri'lK" a they are puihed into the hoJei in the ro k aro tho only sounds that rolievo th's solemn ii Inure. The water through which ono mint wade e.idoriri(( her'-, i kner nt. At ::')') f":t from llio shuff the sharp-poi'il'id rn' ks almost toii' h m tall man's head, and tho breadth ofthr-gallory ofthr-gallory is at;crTii"-d t'i Bix f"-t. Ifure tij'j walir no l'ng'T rl'ojn and trick b'it nnhs angrily du'.vri in catfiru'-tj, busing us limy i. jtnn through tiii cro-vices cro-vices of tho rick. |