Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-09-07

the alternate operations Of cooking and dis
charging are performed almost instantaneous
ly. OF course one man can use two postols
at once, and make ten discharges in half
minute. Well that there is no Briareous with
hundred hands! He would himself con-
stitute whole regiment of cavalry, 50 far as
shooting is concerned.
Another improvement is in the facility of
loading. The whole barrel unscrews at two
thirds the distance from the muzzle, at the
top of the chamber which receives the load.
The mouth Of the flask contains the precise
quantity of powder necessary, and the ball is
laid on the powder without wad, dispensing
with a ramrod. The upper barrel is them
screwed on with one turn OF the wrench, SO
that each barrel of the upper comedies with
its fellow at the lower. The whole pistol is
very easily cleansed, both upper and lower
cylinder, by taking out two screws. And as
for the chambers which contain the revolving
hammer and its gearing, they are so perfect.
ly concealed and protected that they cannot
with careful usage become either rusted or foul
with powder. 4..t
The trial of this pistol shows it to be one
of great power and accuracy, and the whole
construction is such for simplicity and com
pactness. that the liability to derangemen
and accidental discharge is in remarkable
degree precluded. A man with zone o
these pistols around his waist would be wei
nigh invincble.
The Robbins & Lawrence Company ar
proprietors Of this pistol. and are destined un
questionably to find an unlimited market 70
The same company manufacture Sharp
breech-loading and ,self.priming rihe-a per
feet instrument, and which has received tn
approval Of the government over all Others
1t is loaded with ease and rapidity and can b
fired ten times minute Fifty primigs ar
inserted in the breech at once, which success
lively adjust themselves as the gun is fired
The ball is a cylindrical slug terminated by
cone, and weighing sixteen to the pound. Flo
"penetration, range, and accuracy OF fire, 9TH
governments committee of examination i
1850, awarded the highest place to this rife
Mr. Robbins gave practical illustration b
firing at target 20 or 80 rods distant, a
the rate of ten times a minute, takil g u
from the window sill the prepared cartridge
successfully as the gun was discharged.
All the machinery and operations ofthis es
adjustment are in the highest style Of exec
lence. In reducing the rough material 70
the riAe-stock, (black walnut from the forest
of Ohio,) the piece is first put into self-cor
cious lathe, which turns it into the require
shape. 1t is then removed to another ma
chine containing series Of drills and chisel
which with one superintendent makes in tw
minutes all the holes, grooves. and excavation
required for the various mountings. Til
machinery for working brass and iron is i
the same style of excellence, and most of
manufactured in the establishment. The OF
eratives are intelligent Yankees who mind the
business. The power which moves the m;
chinery is chiefly water. though noticed
steam engine in one department. This waite
power is from small stream falling into tn
Connecticut at the south end of the village
formerly it was dry three months in the yea
Some fifteen years ago some enterprlsing me
in Windsor formed n company, built Il stron
dam and made an artificial pond by hoodiu
a hundred acres "A little way out of the village
and from the ftful inefficient stream whc
made shift to turn a single grist-mill vince
made this permanent and respectable pow,
which is not yet half occupied. Those ente
prising men, if memory serves, were out
picket considerably, but they conferred gre
public benefit in promoting the thrift of I'll
village. In short, this rifle factory-wh
with their large contracts with the COVER
ment and perhaps equally extensive busine
in the general market-has already doubi'
the population and business of Windsor.