Mr. CONNESS. I also hold in in hand a letter from a prominent gentleman of the City of NewYork, a small portion only of which I will read in this connection, showing the importance ofus immediate action as can be taken on the subject, and I desire to call the attention of the honorable chairman of the ComCommerce to it, that he may, at the earliest moment of time, report upon it. This ge“ntleman says: The fearful explosion and lossoflife in SanFrancise o.of which we have received but brief accounts perteleuraiih. has been precededby one still more dreadful at.Aspinwall. of which your mornin papers will give you the particulars. both cause dbyt a same powerful and dangerousexplosive material. namely blasting oil, or HHYO Bl corine. Those 2 fearlu calamities.following one other in guick succession. have causedmuchalarm hers. Especially ps it is known that a considerable quantity of the article is now in our public warehouses.” He then alludes to former legislation regulat"ing explosives by Congress, and continues: I am well informed that Austria has such a law. The inventor himself is ignorant of many of the meanswhich causeits explosion. A arsonis nowon his way to SanFrancise o with a pac also containing spine25 poundsin his statwroom, a quan tity sullicicut to blow the ship touioms. Other parties are known to betraveling with it in their carpet baizsonour railroads. Will you more in this matter? It is a most important one. in which the public is dee ply interested. " WILLIAM A. BAYLEY." I desire this paperto be referred to the committee, With extracts from papers throwing some light on the material of intro glycerine, and also a pamphlet issued by the artist; who have undertaken its circulation on introduction into use in the U.S. It appears that there is a stock company being organized in NewYork, with a agital of “1,000,000, for the purpose of manu cturing in the U.S and introducin this terrible explosive into general use. "he pamphlet also contains an extensive dissertation on the article. All these papers I desire to have referred, With the resolution, to the ComCommerce.