Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-08-17

teuDted q negotiation with dOnahAs q TO-
Bankers in third street. for $4,000 which
was partially unsuccessful The Bankers
Hcouldn't see it." but they drew on the
Generals friends in the East and gave him
a certificate for the amount with the prom
Use that when the draft was hOnored they
would pay the money. This certificate the
Nepoleonic millionaire, the man who had
minerals in land but none in his pocket, the
individual of fabulous wealth, but no green
baeks-this certificate, the borrower OF
Postal Currency, deposited in the safe OF
his landlord, and on the strength OF that
ran up a large bill and was made the reclP-
pieut of renewed credit.-Cin. Gazette.
"
The Founder Armstrong Gun-Cu-
riOus Experiments AT ShOebUryne$s'
The London Times says: 'Some most
curious experiments were made at Shoe
buryness during Monday and Tuesday,
with Big Will the 6OO-pounder of Sr
William Armstrong. Its calibre is 10 -
inches. its total length ! . feet 3 IL inches,
and its weight upwards of 32 tons. The
first rounds were fired to test the We
locity OF the shot on leaving the gun, and
its velocity on striking the target at ], 500
yards. For this practice it was laid at three
degrees elevation, and, when fired, the
noise was less painful than that of the 100
FOUNDER; but the shock OF the explosion was
verv great. and became distressing to those
who were obliged to stand near. The enor-
nous bulk-of the prqjectile made 1t perfect
" easy to trace the progress from the muz-
zle of the gun to its park and nothing
could more striBingly demonstrate the ac-
curacv Of the piece or the care with which
it was laid than watching the huge shot
rising with a long wavering roar high into
the air as it eliminated and then began its
downward flight till it struck full on the
little black spot at which it was aimed, AID
tban rieocbettinp on, bound after bound.
till its course was lost in long thick tTatiI
half sand. half water Three rounds were
fred at this elevation TO test accuracy. lis
mean error in range-that IS to say, the
difference between the shot which fell near
ed and that which fell furthest-was only
lG - wards, while the average Of the error
from the true line OF fire was one foot nine
inches.
"StiIl more formidable experiments, as
regards testing the strength Of the gun, were
next tried. The elevation screw and all
the ouoins were removed, so that as the
breech was depressed the muzzle Of the
piece was gradually brought higher and
higher. till it rose to the height of q de-
erees 9 seconds-the highest elevation, We
believe. at which any large ri1led gun has
ever been tired since ri1ed guns were thot
of. The gun was Cred, and the huge shot
went towering with terrible roar higher
and higher into the air, till it disappeared
ia the clouds. Yet still the ear could trace
its progress as it went roaring onwards,
fainter and fainter, till, as it seemed on the
very verge of the horizon, it alighted on
the sands, which If threg up in cloud
and went laundering on for q short dis
tance further.
"Strongest ofall, however, was the kind
OF after roar, which seemed to begin in the
clouds, and, as If gathered force, oame
hoarsely down from the upper air in dull
reverbration that seemed almost mysteri-
Gus in its vague, sulleu noise. The flight
ofthc shot was nearly halfa a minute (26.2),
and its first Craze on the earth was 7,4OO
yards, or nearly l-2 miles. Three shots
were fired at this enormous elevation, Civ
inc mean range of 1900 yards, mean
error between thenearest and furthest shots
of 50 yards and q mean deviation from the
true line of fire Of . "a yards. The gun
was then depressed to degrees of eleva-
ton, at which five rounds were fired. Civ
ing the astonishing result Of moan error
Of 26 yards, and a mean error in the line of
%, OF, as nearly rs possible, IA feet
At ten degrees the mean error in range
was only 45 yards between the longest and
shortest, while the mean error in line was
precisely the same as at % degrees, that IS
to say, 2 9, or IL feet.
In oil forfS--sn--nza- -azAal>l=-z zA4-as -GEaa-
Monday, which, with the charges previous
ly discharged at proof and against iron tar
gets, made total of seventy-fOur shots =
The gun showed signs of wear. There
seems, hoyvovor, not the slightest reason 10
doubt that the piece will bear easily sll the
rounds, $50 in number, with wh'oh the
committee intend to test it. Comparing
the performance of the G0O-pounder for ac
curacy with the performances Of the French
the Scott and the Lancaster guns which
are now competing at Shoebury, the GOO-
FOUNDER has on the whole. clear gain OF
i've degrees and ten degrees of elevation
AOn Tuesday, the experiments We're con-
tinued for velocity, which was tested at
| l20 feet from. the nuzzle oil the gun, AT o5O
wards, aud 1000 yards. A. the mussle II
was L. ,24O feet per second; at 500 yards it
had diminished 10 l, ,l72 f.; at 900 yards
it was l,l22ft. corresponding with the We
locities up to l,5OO yards, which were taken
some time ago, 1t had been said this gun
would take 50 long time in loading as tc
/ diminish its value as an engine ofwar.
gThe result of the trials on Monday and
/ Tuesday showed this objection TO be IL
practice as illusory as almost all the other
| which are from time to time brought for
/ ward against the use of very heavy ordi
anee. The average time occupied in loading
hv men YhQ he'd paVer served the gun be
fore was only IL minutes, though no
the slightest haste was used, or any at
tempt made at quickairing."
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