The southern press., 1851-09-03
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ssms dms sincs patent WAS granted to d.. z.
Maynard Of Chsrlessou. ~ The inventor Of d new
system ofpriming for firearms The invention
was bsonghl TO the notice Of oas Government. and
it was considered worthy OF a trial 10 test lis ef-
6cieney joint board Of distinguished officers
of The army aud navy appointed, aad most
sexsss and psouacted trial was made.
Tie report mIde by the board was so full and
favorable that the Government appointed another
Joint board, with the General in Chefas it's presi-
dsns, to consider and report upon the propriety Of
a purchase Of tie patent right for the Government
use. The board reported favorabiy, and the pur-
chase was made
Last year an order for practical field trial WAS
given, and two hundred muske,s and thirty thous-
and primers sent to Texas, where for four
months they were subjected by the United States
troops to the usual trials and exposures of military
arms in field service. The report of the officers
entrusted with this trial is alike gratifying and
creditable to the inventor and interesting to all
military and gun using persons A knowledge
Of its merits and advantages all that is
necessary to ensure the adoption Of this system
wherever the most perfect and efficient arm for
military purposes can be required, and where the
same advantages appreca ted for sporting guns,
rifles, &c.
This inventioni is extremely simple; IT changes
neither the model, weight, nor action Of the gun,
and 10 applicable to any kind of firearms. The
arms used for the Government trials up to this
time have been fint-locks, altered SO as to use
either this primer or the percussion cap. The very
slight increased cost Of the arm upon this system
is so inconsderable as be covered by the saving
on Eve hundred primers, these costing less than
one-fourth as much as caps.
So far as the act of prmng is concerned, ''the
most difficult act hesoldier has to preform in bat
tie, this invention makes the gun automatic---it
performs the itself--and that too with preci-
sim unattsinable by hand without regard to po-
sition, or temperature, climate, or light, of be-
numbed or bruised and clumsy fingers, or awk-
wardness of the soldier.
As may be supposed, the increase in rapidity Of
firing is very great-it is reported to be from TWEEN
ty6ve to thirty per cent. Ordinarily, and under
some circumstances, which embarras the soldier,
the increase would be some hundreds per cent.
As under some of the European patent laws a
published description would debar the inventor
from obtaining patent, we will merely say that
this system differs entirely from those in which
the detonating material is in the form ofoose pow
der Forsyth 81 or in small pills or in meta lie or
otter tubes, QIearteloupes Nebe,) all which
systems have been tried for military purposes and
have been abandoned some for insecurity or in
efficiency, and some because they cannot be un
derstood, handled, and managed by the common
soldier
The new system is reported as safer than the
cap, heretofore regarded the most safe y and as
being easily understood, and managed with entire
simplicity and by the most uniutored and
when once applied to the gun, lasts, without the
necessity of being touched by the hand, for the
duration OF the longest battle. Some of our
sportsmen are partially acquainted with this in
vention, it having been applied to Sharp's ceebra-
ted rife by Nipps and Buuer6eld ; and a manu-
factory of the same arm and primer, upon very
large scale, is in progress at Hartford, Connecticut
The Messrs. Remington, of Herkmer, New
York, celebrated for their barrels, both for the
United States and private arms, have recently
completed double-barrel gun upon this system
Jof priming for the inventor. Its beauty, csm-
pactness, simplicity, and utility we have never
seen equalled. II cannot fail to arrest the aten-
ton and please the taste of the sportsman Before
we saw this we were not aware that such beauti-
full and perfect double-barrel sporting gung were
made in this country.
The many and favorable reports that have been
made respecting this important invention, and the
unanimous verdict given in its favor by all mill
tary and sporting gentlemen who have tried il,
leave but little doubt Its general adoption in this
country and abroad
PEoTEsT OF AN ABoLITIoNIsT WHILE ON THE
RAIL.-A few weeks since we published an &C.