The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1823-07-29
From he .Nsp III Slateanan

THO GUNS, invented in this city, afe eer
'ainiy not the leas; important, either io
E public or private use.
l This invention IL now brought IN tba
degree OF perfection, that there Remains n,
+, doubt Of its Importance.
Ihe guns are perfectly simple, safe. an,
convenient, containing from Ave 10 lively.
: charges each, which may he DISCHARGED il
: less than two seconds 10 charge, with
the same accuracy aud force as ordinar,
firearms.
The number Of charges may be extend
~ 10 twenty, or even thirty il required
without adding any thing OF eonscgucnc,
/" inc REMEMBRANCE Of tho piece. The
; principle applies equally web to musl,.ts
; rules towing pieces, and pistols, posses.
sH'g al The advantages ofthc Ordinary fire.
arms, for loading and firing single charges,
win The additional advantage Of prinlint
themselves, aud keeping in reserve any
number of charges, that may be required
10 meet any emergency which charges are
as completely under the distinct aud se.
parate control Of the gunner, as single
charge IN the ordinary gun.
III IS easy 10 imagine instances, where
men armed with these mnskets, contain
ln5 lweise charges each, would be equal 10
."eSc tunes their number, as for instance
mao captain Aliens boats crew of cigh-
! teeh men been armed with these guns.
| they would have been more than IA match
Tor the one hundred and fifty pirates, that
came against them, aud the life of a valua
Ole officer, would probably have been sa-
| NFn .I1r tbrV xrnplJ b.y IL. l..
discharged over two hundred shots, in less
than twenty seconds.
II 800 men could have been armed with
such muskets, III the time the English ar
my OF 5000 made the attack on Wash.
lngton, the Capitol, with the other public
buildings, would probably not have been
destroyed for the Eve hundred men would
have possessed six thousand charges, which
lhey could have fired in less than a com.
mon musket conld have been reloaded,
giving the five hundred men nm advantage
OF one thousand charges. over the army of
i've thousand men. II The mail guard had
been armed with brace ofpislols contain
ing five or six charges each, the late attack
on the mail, in the neishborhood of Balti-
more, would probably have resulted differ
emily. II is much TO be regretted, that our
merchant vessels, have not some means of
protecting themselves against the pirates,
that now throng our Dei.Lbourlug waters,
ms II seems impracticablc for merchant
vessels 10 take crews sufficiently numerous
10 cope with those mIscrcants, IN the or
binary mode OF fighting they would do
well to try the effect Of Repeating Guns on
them. A mandatory of these guns, is
now IN operation, under the supciiuicn-
dance Of Mr.. Ellis, at 81 Fulton-strcct, !
where any one, having doubts Of the i'm
portance Of the invention, would do well TO |
call aud satisfy himself.
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More OF the Goid Nine The Cheraw
lntetligencer of the Sd inst. contains fur
ther particulars Of the Gold Nine, lately |
discovered in North Carolina As the |
discovery has led 70 many conflicting
claims TO the land on which the treasure |
is situated, il is said the Lawyers, at least,
will reap a golden harvest IN the field Of
litigation Col. Kerr, who is one Of the |
prOprietors of the Mine, has informed the /
Editor of the Cheraw intelligenccr, that |
there are already 80 hands at work that, !
before autumn, there MiH be fom 80 10 |
200 more employed that four wnrkmcn, |
in two days, found 20 penny-weghts of
gold, equal to S63 100 which Is about the |
average Of their labor; that a poor man
lately found "A single piece, which almost
rendered him independent, being in value |
about sl7oC The editor of the Intelli- |
gencer is IN possession of several speci- |
mems Of the ore, which is said TO be of I'M
common purity The bed of the Mine is
from one and half to two miles wide, aud |
forms part OF vein which extends from |
Deep to Savannah rivers.
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a -Ns,c Pdper.-We have received the
two first numbers of Daily Paper, printed
III the French language, at Philadelphia,
devoted to Politics, Literature, and Com |
merce, and entitled L'mpartiai." The
price is eight dollars year aud from the !
ability in the original matter, we should
deem ii valuable addition to our public |
Journals, particularly for the French por-
ton Of our population they will not like
II the less, We presume, for partaking large
ly Of the true Gallic antipathy 10 the an
cient enemy Of France. The First mum
Der of the paper contains u long article On
the subject of the warm Spain, Il embracing
an able survey Of the movements of the
Holy Alliance. The writer touches also
on the conduct Of the Greeks, whose a
cbievements and sufierings he describes
with feeling and pathos. The following
passages will give to those who feel an in
terest IN it, an idea of the style and princi-
Piles of the journal
"Among the European nations, France
and Spain united together, may alone hope
under a constitutional government, to rival
hereafter the British navy but those two
nations have continually to struggle against
the snars Of a suspeecting and selfish power.
When England cannot war against them
openly, she has done it in secret. We have
seen her supporting the Independence of
Snain at the same time that She robbed her