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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.
The Daily Dispatch: March 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Indian chase after a mail coach. (search)
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.
The Daily Dispatch: March 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Seasonable Opposition. (search)
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.
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.
The Daily Dispatch: may 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], War movements. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: may 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], A revolving cannon. (search)
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.
The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Arrival of more troops. (search)
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.