The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1867-01-17

Z II, 1867.
with the compliments Of arms and legs.
His valet carries him on his shoulders,
and will have to bear him aloft when
1.-THE honorable member from wexford
has the floor."
The American Needle Gun.
The Government IL now having made
ct Hartford, Conn.,, one hundred bate
ry guns Of . new invention. Fifty Of
them will have an inch bore, and the
balance one-half inch bore. This gun
IL quite . curiosity to look at. The main
Characteristic of this terrible weapon 10
that 1t has q series Of barrels, with 4
carrier and lock cylinder, rigidiy iasten-
cd to the main shaft, and rotating
simultaneously by means Of q crank,
the cartridge being fed into the carrier
nom the feed boxes, thence 6rivinis
endwise into the rear ends Of the barrels,
then exploded and the empty cartridge
cases withdrawn, without any pause in
the operation.
The incessant loading and firing are
produced by the simplest kind Of me
chanism, there being less parts about
the gun than In the Springfield musket.
This gun can be discharged at the rate
Of two hundred shots per minute. One
of its features 10 that there is no recoil
which can affect the accuracy of the aim.
| When the gun is once sighted at given
object the aim can be maintained at the
will Of the operator until Thousand
discharges take place. A literal train
motion Of the gun can be kept up II de-
sired, while the gun is being disclarg-
ed, 90 that perfect sheet Of balls can be
made to sweep a section OF any circle
within its range. As there is no escape
of gas at the breech all the force Of the
powder is expended IN giving velocity
to the ball.
A consideration which is claimed to
he of the very first importance in this
gun Is that every cartridge must be either
discharged or withdrawn from the bar
rels, thus precluding such results as
were shown on the battlefield of Gettys-
burg, where Of the q, SAT muskets col
lected, after the battle, 24,OOO OF them
were found to be loaded, II 900 of them
containing two loads each, and 5000 of
them being charged with from three to
ten loads each, the cartridges often
times being loaded without breaking
them and many inserted with the ball
down first. The gun Is light and easily
transported. One Of the sizes now be.
ing made at the armory discharges 58-
4 4, hn1I f<rE a
pounds. The other size discharges balls
Of one inch calibre, mine ounces in
weight) weighs between 500 and coo
pounds. The first named has range OF
about one mile, and the latter upwards
Of two miles.
"All Right, but You do Nothing"
"Your temperance movements are
all well enough; but you can never put
| down drunkenness" This Is the every
day response that comes to us when we
call on the sluggish multitude to arouse
and attack the strongholds Of intcmper-
| ance.
Doubling friends please tell US what
you mean by this cold and discouraging
reply? Do you intend toimply that our
temperance activity is not curtailing
greatly the actual amount of drinking ?
If SO, We cannot agree with you. We
have the abundant proof of the reverse
in many localities. One depot.
master, for example, testified that after
the Sons of Temperance and Good Tenn
plars commenced their operations In his
neighborhood, not more than one tenth
of the liquor came to his depot that did
before.
Nine-tenths of the traffic stopped is
nine-tenths of the drinking stopped.
In many towns and villages the sale
is wholly suspended; and in nearly
all places much curtailed. Is this do
ing nothingf
Do these skeptical objectors mean that
our movements are saving no young
men from inebriety? Hundreds OF
thousands of them are now enrolled un-
der the most stringent pledges in the
various societies.; and are marching on
10 sobriety, honor, wealth, and religion.
Is this nothings
Il it meant that no children are be-
ing instructed and guarded effectually
against this destroyer? Go into oul
Sabbath-schools, where are found mill
ions of our youth, and offer them the
whiskey-bottle, and you shallsee wheth'
er or not anything has been done. Tenn.
perance men and women teach in the
Sabbath schools.
II. may be (often is) said that you can
not legally check this traffic. Have not
five or six States already made it contra.
band? absolutely abolished it as legal
business? Has not the Supreme Court
of the United States already pronounced
these prohibitory laws legitimate and
constitutional, by declaring that the
United States license, which all liquor
dealers are obliged to procure, is nuNand
void in all those States which have a
prohibitory law? Is this, too, nothing
Other States are rapidly pushing on to