Show A NEW AND VALUABLE breechloader mr air E B 8 allin master in this city has invented a new breech loading musket which probably combines more excellences and fewer defects than any other musket of that stamp one of the he most serious troubles in most of the breech loaders has been the liability of odthe the charge to recoil but this is effectually obviated obviate din in mr musket another advantage peculiar to this musket and one of the very first importance to the government is the fact that the springfield rifled muskets of which some are at the different arsenals in theroun the country some being at the arsenal here bere can be converted into breech loaders with comparatively trifling labor and expense mr arm has been pretty severely tested by himself and others and has satisfactorily stood all the tests tebis to which it has been subjected major laidley superintendent of the armory here gen dyer chief of df the ordnance department at washington and col berdan of sharp shooting fame have examined exa examined minea it and speak of it in unqualified un qualified ualifi ed terms of approval gen dyer Us has ordered muskets of the old model to be changed into breech loaders after mr plan at once and the necessary machinery formaa ing the change is is now being prepared asp springfield ring diela field publican republican Ke |