The weekly sun. (New York [N.Y.]) 1851-1869, 1862-01-18

The Hartford TIMES, 10th, has tho following
interesting remarks in roiororco to the la.e
| Col. Colt -
Tho immediate ctuso Of his death was an at
tack UPON the brain. On Christmas Day no OK
| perienced o relapse after an attack Ot gJut, to
| occasional returns Of which he had been subject
for three or four years. lIo had, however, got
bettor, and was attending to business in his OF
| fco on CHRISTMAS. His covered carriage had
been Ordorod to tho Office at givon hour to
| take him home but he WIS roady little sooner,
| and resolved TO ride homo in On Opsn wagon
| that happened to bo ready a. the door. This
exposure brought on relapse.
Col. Colt was cmphatcally the architect OF his
own fortunes. Endowed by nature with an ener
| gy and force Of character rarol mot with, ho
| united TO this Characteristic an uncommOnly
vigorous constitution that onahlol him TO exc
cute the decipiOns Of his iucomitable will aud
also possessed in "A very extraordinary degree
the faculty Of di.cerninR and using the olo'
ments Ui business success. Ills sagacity in dis
covering the cus Of duV VelCpmunt, AMI iO-a5oo-
ing from tho first the perfected iruit OF success in
experiments that 10 other mon looked barren Of
promise, ii not absolutely toJl-hIrdy was one
Of the prominent characteristics Of tho man.
His great enterprise Of building On the un-
promising Il, III u the South Meadows ID l,e
m 70 solid aud formidable than tho loyees
along the Mis issippi, though Il cot fair fjr-
factory purpose an srea Of ground " iCh could
have been purchased in more favored positions
for less money, vet proved 10 b. u forum Ite
and fa,sacious undertaking.. Even tho ID Itch
osicFs that he planted along the banks, while
their intofwOven network Of tIrOUS roots
made the embankmont firm az lin It he te'truc-
tive action Of Connecticut river iiO.d3, vi. .ldcd
q rcmuneratiye and incroasig,ly profitable rc-
turn in tho oxtersive manufacture Of all tho
vart Of wiilow-wlre, which the proprietor
was by this means eLabled 20 carry on as
separate branch of his large business.
AS boy, CO... Colt, showed his tendency 10
mechanical pursuits, and early left the school
room for tho work shop. At fifteen, he ran away
from his school, at Amherst Mas, and ship.
ped before the mast on an Last India voyage.
Aitor his return, and subsequent experience
in the dyoipg and bleaching department Of
factory at Ware, Mass, he travelled all over
the United States and u portion of tho British
province, under tho assumed Lame Of Dr.
Coult, l,ctuing on Chemistry. Tho monoy
lhus earned he applied TO tho prosecution OF his
Invention Ol tic Repeating Pistol tho germ Of
which he bad already devised while on his yOy-
age TO Calcutta, Tue first model Of his pistol,
made in wood in lS2J, while l0 was a sailor.
Toy, is now in existence, having been careiully
preserved by him among the mGny CudO1itios
IN his museum. il WAS m 1880 that he, a. tho
age OF H. took out Ai, iIst patent lof rlgul,ius
~
France and pccurld patents ihtle.
Tho trst factory tIoc'od for tho pr,3uc ] n Of
The 50 arms was at ra'o-s n, \. H., in 1885.
Here a company, with ,hreo hutdrcd thousand
dollars capital, undCr the name Of tho Patent
Arms Company, went into operation, oxplud.
ing lhe amount Of its capit.l chiefly il machine
~ and in improvement upon tho pi tol. A
TOW thousand pistols wore however made, aud
readily puIchasod Tor use ia tho Florida war
ard Tor othe' purpose. Tuc company suFpcnd-
ed during 4 hand timcs Of 1872, ard Colonel
Colt from that time i'll 1917 baltlod aslinst
adyerso circumstance. General Taylor thon
Induced the GOyeTrmsnt to order ono thousand
OF these pistols for tho Mexican war, aud this
led 10 ihs pcOmmencement Of Tho work. The
lhousand were made at Whitneyvillo, Now
and 80 fast did tho orders come in, that tho
Colonel found himself in 1848 in a position to
DO able TO carry out his long cherished idea Of
setting up works ip the place VI his birth.