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The Daily Dispatch: July 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
on with your correspondent, "Tar Bucket," us to the merits of the Steam-Gun, (the invention of Dickinson,) and of the great impolicy of its rejection by the Confederate Government. The dreadfullg despotism of the Federal power at Washington prevented its use, and it was in an effort by Mr. Dickinson, its owner and inventor, to transport the gun to Harper's Ferry, for its use by our Virginiaedoubtable Butler. It was the aid and assistance in this affair which Ross Winans extended to Dickinson that led to the arrest, by Butler, at the Relay House, of that sterling patriot and friend of s to the U. S. Government. It is known that he made the most liberal and tempting offers to Mr. Dickinson to join their cause and render this gun available to them; but being a true friend to the South, and too honest to be bought by the Yankees at any price, Dickinson persistently refused and came to Richmond, and now offers to cast another and better gun than that that fell into Butler's hand