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Pistols for the South. --Col. Colt's pistol and rifle factory at Hartford, commenced the twenty-four hour system last week, and will hereafter give employment to a double set of hands. Orders from the South are multiplying.
been placed in perfect order for active service. Her original armament consisted of four twenty-five pound Dahlgren guns and one thirty-two pounder. Recently she received an addition to her powerful batteries in the shape of three long thirty-two pounders. The larger guns are placed in the ports about the paddle boxes; the twenty-four pounders are fixed aft. Her complement of small arms are very strong and of the best kind. It consists of Minnie rifled muskets, Sharpe's improved pistols, Colt's navy revolvers, navy boarding pistols and the improved navy cutlass. There is also on board a twelve pound boat howitzer, fitted for the launch. This piece of ordinance has a field carriage attached, so that the gun can be removed from the launch and instantly fitted on to the carriage, to be used for land service. The following is a list of her officers: John Faunce, Commander; D. B. Constable, First Lieutenant; D. D. Thompkins, Second Lieutenant; H. O. Porter, Second Lieutenant; Thomas
Want more arms. --That very excellent cavalry corps, the Verina Troop, recently organized in Henrico, have been supplied with sabres by the Adjutant General, but they are still applying for Colt's revolvers, the only weapon now lacking to make the company a most effective military organization. They now number 80 good members.
Seasonable Opposition. --Col. Colt, of Hartford, Ct., has an extensive green-house, in which January does business in successful competition with the summer months. In that green-house strawberries are flourishing at the present writing. The Times says that cucumbers are now plentifully produced, and bring, for the long variety, (from English seed) fifty to seventy-five cents each. Peaches are now as large as walnuts, and grapes as large as rifle bullets. Figs are far advanced; pine-a seed) fifty to seventy-five cents each. Peaches are now as large as walnuts, and grapes as large as rifle bullets. Figs are far advanced; pine-apples ripe; apricots, plums, beans, &c., &c., are a sight to behold; while roses and rare flowers of every variety are in bloom. --Last March the manager sold $500 worth of cucumbers; this month he can sell $1,000 worth of that article. The grapes alone, in the hot and cold graperies, can produce Col. Colt a profit of $5,000 when fairly under way.
The Daily Dispatch: April 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], Refusing to sell arms and powder to the South. (search)
Refusing to sell arms and powder to the South. --The Sharp's Rifle Company and Col. Colt have refused to sell their weapons to go, either directly or indirectly, to the South.--Col. Hazard announces that he makes no more powder to go to the South until hostilities have ceased. Col. Colt has given 1,000 breach-loading rifles to the Connecticut troops. Two manufacturing firms in Philadelphia, who have been in the habit of filling Southern orders for fire-arms, write to the local papers th and powder to the South. --The Sharp's Rifle Company and Col. Colt have refused to sell their weapons to go, either directly or indirectly, to the South.--Col. Hazard announces that he makes no more powder to go to the South until hostilities have ceased. Col. Colt has given 1,000 breach-loading rifles to the Connecticut troops. Two manufacturing firms in Philadelphia, who have been in the habit of filling Southern orders for fire-arms, write to the local papers that they have stopped.
nt of officers, commanded by Capt. Geo M. Waddill. This company is also uniformed and armed with muskets. It is much to be regretted that these men cannot be supplied with the best rifles, as many of them are known to be very superior shots. These companies have been well drilled, and are anxious to meet the enemy; and when they do, my word for it, they will give a good account of themselves. Our County Court has appropriated $5,500, for the purchase of arms, rifles, carbines, and Colt's Navy revolvers. The citizens have not stood by with careless indifference, but have cheerfully seconded the efforts made to prepare our volunteers for service, with a voluntary contribution of $1,000. A Home Guard has been organized, 75 strong, and rapidly increasing, Captain Thomas H. Wilson commanding. Judging from the material of which it is composed, good service may be expected. The old, and the young of both sexes, are fully aroused, and with one heart and one mind, will f
Suicide. --Commander Lloyd B. Newell, of the United States Navy, committed suicide at the Merchants' Hotel, In Philadelphia, on Friday, by shooting himself through the heart with a Colt's revolver. The deceased was on the retired list. He was a native of Georgia.
considerable number of troops were stationed at Columbus, Ky. The town was carefully guarded and all strangers closely watched, as the people feared an attack from the Cairo forces — The steamer Julius H. Smith had slipped by Cairo and landed 450 Colt's rifles. A body of New Jersey volunteers, numbering 780 men, left Trenton for Washington on the 1st inst. The following incident of their experience near Trenton is related: Great indignation is shown by the First Regiment, Essex Briting in harmony on that question. The State is out of debt, and owns some $400,000 Bank stock. The Governor has accepted the tender by colonel Coit of a regiment of ten companies, armed with rifles and sabre bayonets at his own expense. Colonel Colt also furnishes officers to drill the men in the use of these arms, likewise at his own expense. It appears from the following that Nebraska is to be placed on a war footing: Omaha, N. T., May 1.--Governor Black has issued a proclama
A revolving cannon. --We have had the pleasure of examining a beautiful revolving, five shooting cannon, cast and finished at the foundry of Messrs. Tappey & Lumsden. The piece is of small size, but complete in all its parts, and can be loaded with the ease and rapidity of a Colt's revolver. The weight does not exceed six hundred pounds. It carries a 3-inch ball, four pounds in weight, and shoots with great precision at the distance of 1200 yards. We understand it was made by order of the "Rangers," Capt. H. C. Pate.-- Petersburg Express.
Arrival of more troops. --The Western trains yesterday brought in about eleven hundred troops from Mississippi--the whole composing the Eleventh Regiment of that State--under command of Col. Moore. The following companies compose the Regiment--Lamar Rifles, Capt. Green; University Grays, Capt. Lowrey; Van Dorn Reserves, Capt. Reynolds; Prairie Guards, Capt. Hairston; Prairie Rifles Capt. Williams; Coahoma Invincibles, Capt. Delany; Chickasaw Guards, Captain Tucker; Carroll Rifles, Capt. Williamson; Noxubee Rifles, Capt. Weir; Nishobee Riflemen, Capt. Franklin, and the Spartan Band, Capt. Mallard. They are all magnificent looking soldiers, and are well armed and equipped, several of the companies being armed with Colt's six-shooter Rifle and the Maynard Rifle. When passing through the streets they marched to the tune "Carry me Down to Lynchburg Town," and seemed to be highly elated that they had arrived on old Virginia's soil;--Lynchburg Repub., 11th.