The Onondaga Giant proves to be much more than a nine days' wonder.
--Sunday completed the nine days of excitement and marvelings over
this remarkable discovery, and instead of an abatement of the
popular interest, it would seem that it has but just begun to be
awakened. The attendance of visitors on Sunday was largely in
excess of that of any previous day, and the number reached nearly
three thousand. A new and large tent had been (erected, with
increased accommodations, but it was found wholly inadequate to
accomodate the crowds that occupied it from early morning till
late in the evening. The agent for the proprietors raised a
British flag over the tent, explaining that he thought some flag
ought to be displayed, and that this was the only one he had there
--a circumstance that was quite distasteful to very many of the
visitors. An American flag has now properly been substituted.
The number of visitors to-day is quite large, and as the people
of the surrounding country are just waking up to the interest of
the exhibition, many thousands will yet go to see it in the spot
where it was unearthed.
The interest in the subject abroad is also now fairly developing.
The discovery was at first looked upon as a humbug, but this view
is giving way before the facts presented in the local papers. The
leading journals of the country have sent special correspondents
to write up the subject. The New York Tribune and Herald,
Harper's Weekly, the Springfield Republican and other papers,
have already had their representatives at the scene of the discovery.
The new proprietors, --who are now stated to be Messrs. William
C. Newell, of Cardiff, Alfred Higgins, Dr. Amos Westcott and
Amos Gillett, of this city, David H. Hannum, of Homer, and
William Spencer, of Utica, propose to continue the exhibition
where it has thus far been held, till difficulty in reaching the
locality occurs from bad weather, then to remove the giant to
this city, where it will remain till the local curiosity is satisfied,
and then convey it to New York and other leading cities for
public exhibition.