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ExPLosIvENESs SALTPETRE.-The following
correspondence contains the information in reference
to this subject, to which alluded sn our paper on
saturday says the Boston Advertiser of July 2sh ls45
The statement of MIR. Hayes, conceive can leave no
warren at New York surrounded as it with CON-
oustibe Materials and exposed to the water thrown
from the engines was the cause Of the explosion which
mas been the subject OF much discussion and that
quite unnecessary to suppose that there any gun
POWDER the store Alter such authority it
hardly necessary to particularly to the
ratves OF explosions produced in repeated instances by
the combustion OF saltpetre in large quantities The
cases referred to in our last fully
and the TACT OF most violent explosion being produced
in each case is beyond doubt The following particu-
lars are stated by Captain Getting of the ship Virginia
the burning OF that ship the 5th of May last This
ship contained cargo of linseed and saltpete his
letter published in the Newbryport Herald he says


" In about ten minutes from the tme the fire first
discovered the after hatch blew off and the same time
the fire forced its through the ships side on the star
board quarter short distance from the water line In
about ten minutes from this tme the boats having been
got out the feeling the deck rising jumped into
the sea- and succeeded in getting into the the
painters, and showed OF. Almost the same time an
awful explosion took place the fire rising the height
Of 200 feet from the main and after hatche and few se
c. nds afterwards from the fore hatch. At the same
time the main and mizen mass went by the board Five
minutes from this time the ship disappeared with all her
cargo. In % to 80 minutes from the time the fire was
first discovered, trace of the ship visible. All
that was saved two boats chronometer sexant and
one compassn