The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-05-30

The Paris correspondent of the Newly ork
Tribune relates the following:
About two months ago New Yorker ar
rived here, who protested to have lot of in
ventions destined to render war useless, by the
expedition with which they were calculated to
destroy whole armies. In London, his name
was announced as being on his way to see the
great patron of Yankee notions, the dead car
Nicholas. The gentleman proceeded as far as
Berlin, but for reasons which are not apparent,
stopped his voyage at that point, and came to
Paris. Here, without any fixed intention in
regard to offering his Internal machine to the
French government, he commenced a series Of
experiments in his room, which was in high
ly respectable hotel in the Madeleine. His
first experiments were with gun, which was
intended to discharge forty bullets in four Sec
onds of time. Unacquainted with the restric-
tons of the French law, he commenced dis
charging his gun up the chimney, to the amaze
ment and alarm of the neighbors.
! A report of the mysterious stranger and his
powder experiments, soon found its way to the
police, and great movement in that body
was percsptible in that immediate neighbor-
hood. He was supposed to be an individual
in the pay of the refugees, practicing on some
Internal machine designed for His Majesty
Louis Napoleon. On the first day guard
an agent mounted to his chamber three times
to examine his passport. The same thing was
repeate,. the next day, his name and descrip-
ton having been supposed in the meantime to
agree with the name and description OF the
some time before, on his way to see the En-
Of A. tho and IF tho
day, our friend, whose patience was worn out,
and who spoke not word of French, had a
violent cross-fre alteration in the two Ian
guages with the policeman, who threatened
him that if he did not cease his experiments
or explain their object, he would be allowed
the opportunity of doing so before the Project
of Police, at that gentlemans classic residence
on the island.
This threat began to open our friends eyes
to therealities of the French police laws, and
the experiments ceased. But the story had
been amagnifed, and had already penetrated
every department of the Government. Our
charge at this Court, happening to find himself
in company with the French Minister of For
eign Affairs about that time, the Minister
begged some information on the character, in
tentiOns and inventions of certain MIR. r.
who was stopping at the hotel T. The Minis
ter was informed that the gentleman in ques-
ton was entirely inohensive that he had some
valuable inventions for war purposes, which
he had intended to take to Russia, but was
prevented from some cause or other, and that
passing on his return to New York he was
stopping for some days in Paris, and in the
meantime was trying some experiments for
his own satisfaction with his inventions. This
was sufficient; what was at first great an
noyance turned out a fortune.
The inventor of the all-killing guns received
at once polite invitation to appear at the
War Office and show his inventions, an honor
which perhaps no inventor has received in a
hundred years, for all know with what difficult
ty an examination of inventions is obtained
from the Government and at this moment a
learned Commission, composed Of seven Gene
rails and three Engineers, are examining his
inventions inventions which are, in the opin-
ion of your correspondent, purely visionary
and worthless