New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-22
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b. large puIclases Of arms in this city - ling des
one of our REPORTERS YESTERDAY visited the le ion.
en- Of whom he obtained the following uiorn~ ~,
Tie Messrs. Syms have been receiving rsre
orders, come of them very heavy ones, from tsTee'
four Of the cotton States. These orders have been
increasing for from four months TO year. In July the
Adutant Of Mississippi III New-fork pnr-
chasing considerable quantities Of arms and made "A
number of contracts Geora has been purchasing all
TIE time for about four or five months past. Malor
Cooper, deputed by the Government Of thai State was
here in March last The arms sent are the best Minnie
rifles. There ia considerable demand for the Maynard
rife, new breech-loadng invention, by which fifteen
shots can be fred per minute. The South are also
purchasing increased quantities of army pistols, some
batteries, equipments, holsters swords, &c. At the
time Of the Crimean war New-Engand manu-
factory turned ont for the British Government
nearly two million dollars worth of Minnie rifles
Ofthese, $4,000 to $4,000 worth remained in the
hands of the manufacturers These have all been dis
pOsed of by this houne within not quite year past
to Southern State Governments South Carolina is the
best armed State in the Union. She has been prepar
ing ever since notification time when she bought
large quantity of inferior firearms. Since then she has
been throwing these away and purchasing good ones.
Inc Oruele are MOI always hcSOhpdhiCu =" I'm O '''"j
but generally 20. merchant, in sending an order,
writes: :" One thing we know the whole country
about here is arming, and you can swear the South
4" will never submit to Abe" This order winds up
with some strong statements about the purchasers
good credit and advises that panic now exists, and
that too many Southern creditors may take advantage
Of Northern merchants.
Florida has ordered some arms but not through the
State Government Parcels Of half Dozen TO dozen
or twenty revolyers and the like being sent for all
the time.
Messrs Cooper a. Pond are not very communicative,
and seem TO be very busy. Yesterday large order by
telegraph was filed and the articles sent to Of the
Cotton States which is all we could learn. The guns
sent South military and regulation rifles, snch as
are used by the United States Government. There is
prospect, Judging by the tenor Of the communications
received, of heavy orders, and good many of them
for This firm have not vet sent any can
South directly, though they have indirectly. The
kind required are six TO nine-pounders. One Of the
heads of the firm, in reference TO orders for arms from
the South, says he "knows than he wants to
say" He is souy for it, and would rather not have
the trade"
Mr. s. ID. Roberts thinks II s the wrong way, alto
gether TO report 10 the public how many guns &C.,
being sent South; il was tanning the flames; shak-
ing the red flag in the bulls face The statements Of
Tile World, he said. were all incorrect. There was
not much sent South represented. The reporter
had been imposed upon. Dealers called it good adj
vertisement and laughed in their sleeves. He id the
old muskes Of the Southern States being replaced
by more modern Ones for the simple reason that the
Brigade Inspectors had the right condemn old
when they saw fit, and they did 20 sometimes when
they were in need Of cash. Barrels that cost SO were
sold TO the Massachusetts manufactures for 20 cents
Virginia the only State in the Union that had her
quota Of United States muskets distributed. There
were not five thousand in Pennsylvania. South Caro-
lima had sod off her old ones, and supplied herself with
percussion muskets. Michigan bad very few In the
hands of the citizens of the Slave States arms
much numerous than in the North. brig,
loaded with co. 600 starting to-day (Wednes
day. for the South, from Of the docks Of the East
River but II was not TO the Southern States. The name
he would not give. They were going to Mexico, to
separate the five northern provinces of that country,
and to mite them with the Southern States.
Messrs. A. W. Spies i Co. say they have large or
ders for Colts pistols But all the pistols they had in
the South would be enough 10 arm 5000 men with
pistol apiece. This day the firm were filing large
order for Columbia S. c. 1t was not believed here
that the South would go to fighting anybody This se
eession talk was all spruce beer In answer to letter
Of the firm speaking about some orders already filed
on credit, and in which it hoped all these pistols
Were not ordered to shoot the Yankees with, but to
keep down the nggers, the reply from South Carolina
states that "eotton is not moving" &C., (which
makes money and change very scarce" 1--WE fully
concur with you, hoping thai shall never have oc-
cssion to these pistols. We, however, cannot see
how they will work. Things have come TO such
crisis that nothing but dissolution of the Union be
expected. Things are at high pitch here"
Mr.. Spies says they are now selling about twice as
much South during the ordinary busiest season. 1t
precisely the IN 1877, during the Tennessee
Instructions when in the month Of December, the
usually dull season, they did than usual in
the business season Their orders principally
from Alabama Georgia, and South Carolina. Yester-
day Tuesday AN order for q considerable quantity Of
revolyers was received from Montgomery, Ala, but
this morning il was eountermanded; from which it
might be inferred that the Montgomery people were
cooling off
Numerous other dealers in guns aud hardware have
received orders Tor revoyer aud small shooting appa-
rtus Ii il generally admitted that the demand South
il larger than ordinary but houses deny this IN
toto. A large Wholesale house in Broadway, near
White street, SAYS there is excitement in the gun
market at ALL Orders for a dozen pieces 90 were
common, but this always the ease. In the South
people purchased more arms than in the North.
The New. Haven Arms Company, who manufacture
the volcanic rife and various descriptions Of pistols
say they have sent South $4,000 worth of within
siA weeks past ii 100 day steady-ohie5y army
pistols. There are more orders from South Carolina
than other States
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