Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1849-12-08
A NEW HtFLE.

The New York Journal Of Commences con.
tans description Of new rife, recently inven.
ted and which is designed TO be an almost end.
less repeater. Il is called Jennings Patent Ri
ae The Journal says:
In appearance, the rifle Is OF the ordinary size,
without encumbrance Of any kind. Its weight
is no greater than the ordinary weight OF the
common gun, and, il only differs from the latter
externally in having an iron breech pin with a
wooden stock, which breech is handsomely I'm.
shed and engraved.
BY a simple contrivance within this stock, tbs
breech pin Of the barrel Is opened as the gun Il
cooked. A cartridge (of which we shall speak,
is placed in this opening, and on pulling the trig.
ger, the pin closes the barrel tight, strong
block of steel falls behind Il, and the gun primes
itself and is discharged, all a. one notion
There is nothing complicated in the machinery,
but on the contrary Il Is so simple that il can
hardly by any accident get Out Of ORDER and in
the case Of such accident, any worker In iron
can repair the break. There is no magic, nor
Indeed, any thing novel; in the working, but il |.
simple and very strong, commencing itself 10 tho
eye ofan examiner as Vt once beautiful and ef-
fectivc in design.
by this contriyauce rule is made, capable OF
being loaded at the breach az often as il Is fred
of, and as rapidly asa mans hand can move TO
throw in cartridge. This IL at the rate oil
twelve shots per minute, for person who has
pracilsed with the gun, velocity sufficient 10
make one man fully equal to dozen armed with
ordinary rifles.
Another variety Of tho same gun il now near.
ly completed by the palentees, which differs not
at all from this in external appearance, except
that in place Of a ram.rod Is tube oil the same
SIZE, capable Of containing twenty four cartridges,
which ly very simple ccntrlyance. are so ar.
ranged that they are placed in the gun ono by
one, and fired successfully without aay inierEup>
ton. The moment that the twenty four balls are
fred this gun may be used as The first one, load.
o lat the breach, and fired at the rate Of twelve
in a minute. This appears incredible to any
person who has not examined the rife, but all
who desire to see and examine il, can do so at
the office of o P. Dixons Esq, IA Cedar street,
who is the agent OF the pateniees.
But the chief strength Of this formidable wea.
pom rests on the cartridge which is used, and for
which. indeed, the gun Is is expressly manufac-
tured. This cartridge, which Is also patented,
is simply loaded ball. A hollow cone Of lead,
or rather bullet elongated on one side in hol
low cylinder to about one inch in length, Is filled
with powder and the end covered with thin
piece Of cork, through the centre Of which isa
small hole. to admit fire from the printing. The
execution this ball does, is no less surprising
than everything else connected with the gum
At forty rods the longest shst our friend a,temp.
ted) the balls we're buried more than four inches
in the body of live bulternut tree. How deep
they went, he could not tell accurately.
The printing Of the gun Is in small pills, Of
which one hundred are placed in box, from
which the gun supplies itself without fail.