We mentioned, a short time ago, an at
tempt made by some malicious person to
blow up the Court House and Sheriff's office,
at Port Gibson, Miss. The Port Gibson
Reveille of the 2nd inst. gives these particu
lars
The vault led oat of the Sheriff's office un
der the stone stairway. This vault was about
eight feet deep and three and a half wide
and in it, built around with Bolid masonry,
were two iron safes, nothing of them visible
but the doors the first one w as comparative
ly useless the second one was good, and
generally contained what money was in the
hands of the officers. This was the place,
evidently, where the powder and the match
were applied—and what is stranger ntill, the
inside of this safe—-the good one—shows
signs, and the manner of the explosion indu
ces the belief in every mind, that the powder
was'plaoed in the inside of it. The back of
the safe is shattered to pieces, the masonry
and heavy stone stairway leading up behind
it, and what separates the vault from the
hall of the buildiug are entirely shattered into
fragments, piling them in confusion over the
hall floor. The force of the explosion was
certainly, from the appearance at this poiqt,
although it seems, from the destruction of
the walls beyond and nearer the vault door,
that powder must have been applied in that
part also. The vault door, a strong iron one,
was thrown some distance, tho rivets snap
ped, and the door itself almost bent double.
This door was looked and bolted at the mo
ment of the explosion the bolts showing the
fact as they now appear, and the safe muit
also have been locked, for we hear that it
contained from $8,000 to $10,000.
