| Show miscellaneous ANEW gun mr james mackay timber merchant ot of liverpool has recently invented a new principle ot of gunnery which promises to be a dangerous rival to all systems extant tle principle in if all rifled cannon appears to have been to allow aa re little as possible a aid d to make the shot fit the grooves of the piece taking from them a rotation in its flight mr mackay on the oth er hand has conceived the plan of havin having 1 the grooves so arranged that while the shot sho t fits closely to their outer edge the grooves gro overy overs are left open for by this arran arrangement ement the th gas bag baa to travel some bome feet further than the shot and in doing this imparts a rapid and perfect spin to it the shot are ol 01 cylindrical form perfectly amo smooth jtb with conical heads beads and cupped at the other end in proportion BO so that each shot ia is perfectly balanced from the centre of its length mr mackay in his patent also cladma a 9 peculiarity pecullar it thi acht in the he wadding which is of sawdust by which at the movement of the first ignition of the powder the elasticity of the wadding moves forward tha shot slightly the eject Is 18 that the whole of the powder is burnt and the shock on the breech of the gun considerably lessened mr mackay has had a gun made upon this principle by the tha mersey steel and iron works company it is of wrought irons iron weighs nine tons has a bore of inches and in other respects corresponds with the general features of the ordinary 6 there are twelve grooves and as the shot do not enter these grooves it allows of a much sharper twist trian loan in ordinary rifled guns the velocity has been found to be 1640 feet a second the utmost rang range has not yet been tested laird and company oe of bir keu head kie aie now building an armour plated vessel called the agincourt dagincourt Agin court for the government in ent and it was agreed to test the gun ag arnst a section of the side ol 01 that vessel tease tuesday morning was fine and clear and the gun was fired against the target resulting in a complete triumph of the gun the target consisted of an outer plate aft square and 5 and a half inches thick of rolled iron next came 9 inches of teak then an inner plate or skin three fourths of an inch thick then an f gle iron and ribbing and finally a backing up with timber balke balks and supports 18 in inches cheb ches thick the plates were stated on competent authority to be the best that can be made of rolled iron laird supplied the whole and expressed confidence in the strength of the target the gun was fired in the presence of mr james mackay mr D mackay mr ir bobek and other gentlemen shortly after 8 in the morning the gun wab waa charged with colb of powder and a cast steel shot weighing made by thomas firth andson of sheffield the range was yards the shot struck the target with a dull thud a little below the bullseye bulls buida eye on the tight and ana in the very strongest pait part where it was backed up by the rib of the ships bide side the angle fron iron frona and the timber balk at the point of impact a perfectly circular hole bole was waa cut the shot then powdered the teak passed through the inner skin and the angle iron shattered the timber balk into fragments and was picked up 82 yards beyond the target together e i ther with a circular piece of the iron armour four mour about weight it had carried with I 1 it through the tho back supports the sand showed that it had bad spun to the last about seventy fragments or of iron bolts and fragments of the inner skin and angle iron were picked up yards from the mareet the shot when found was reduced from 13 inches to 11 linchis in length and increased about an inch and a hait halt in diameter at the end which struck the target the other end was uninjured the whole target was forced back about six inches and so much derange deranged d that no more shots were fired sir john J jones ones C captain a stain fisher RN R N captain white R N A mr ir nicholson Nic bolson civil engineer cap captain tal tai n in man and many other gentlemen inspected the gun and lareeta during the morning and all expressed the greatest astonishment at the perform performance ince of the gun reynolds newspaper A lecture TO NEWSBOYS there was as usual quite a collection of newsboys news boya about the republican office on saturday afternoon waiting for the evening edition to appear we extended a formal invitation to one of or our reporters to make them then a speech which be he did as follows little boyel you live in an eventful era you ought ht to feel proud of it you ought to feel thankful that your lot was not cast in any era ere A Lincoln was waa president tp and the cotton era etcetera et cetera began we advise you to grow get to be big boys as soon as possible there never was a greater inducement for little boya boys to grow than at the present time provisions are plenty and you can grow large in stature greenbacks Green backs are plenty and you can grow rich grow rich and you 5 ou can grow whatever wha you please big 0 boy with a deep bass voice bully 33 it is not unlikely that you may nay have had bad some aur aurer er notions instilled into your mind at the beginning of this era that honesty is the best policy be virtuous and you wll wil be happy bli ever never tell a liely lie lle and all that you dont believe them do you loud cries of no 11 of course not you be successful if you did they are out of fashion now you have any thing to do with things out of fashion aou d you nary time what shoud be the haef e object of lit zil voices to get rich ats yrs youre right light wll wil low tow will you yon get rich itch small boy steal cotton 2 right you cant begin too soon steal it ou out ont t of your grandmothers ears if it you have a grandmother and she has cot cotton cottongin in her earis ears steal it anywhere and everywhere steal it on the levee levy black mail it you can catch any one else stealing it it a police officer catches you stealing bribe him and keep out of the if it you are proficient in all Us tula tien ti en by and by when ou get eider elder you can go to memphis or helena or vicksburg then you will be sure to get rich then you cago to congress or drink whisky pil luiches iches aches I 1 at t fifteen cents a drink as often as you want to great enthusiasm Refa remember ember that this ia is a great country esteem it an honor to have been born in thil this country it ia is the most extensive land of the free and ana home of the brave that we have hav had for some time generations yet unborn knoer thia this and are gazing proudly at the star span aled banner as the emblem of liberty and equal rights now when you grow to be men and government of your country in danger will you do anything towards maintaining it nu lond loud ud cries of yes good what will you do several voices speculate in cotton get to be government contractors and brigadier General Generals sJ right you can go now and sell seli your papers st louig louie republican A NEW PLAN foe TOR TAKING RICHMOND the coal trade review suggests to general grant a new method of taking richmond viz by shutting up the rebel supply ot of coal which it thinks could easily be done the greater part of the coal used by the confederates for manufacturing r and other pur purposes 0 comes from the mines minea lying on both sides bides aldem ot of the james river a few mile above richmond tb the area of this coal field is about twenty miles from north to south with an average breadth of five miles the coal is bituminous and for the production of gas these mines were probably the earliest worked of any in the united states mention being made of them in the merican american 4 JoU journal fouraa rAa rna of science ot of 1818 as having been in operation thirty years previously previous the works as now carried on are at a gr greater va t er depth than have ever been reached at any other mires mines in this thi s country the deepest shaft sunk being about eight hundred feet all oth other er mines ia is virginia and tennessee being either in our possession or of 0 limited extent it is suggested that if the mines above richmond should be seized and the supply of coal shut off we might freeze the rebels into sion 2 CURE FOR FOP SMALLPOX SMALL POX the german reformed messenger has baa received a letter from a friend in china in which it is stated a great discovery dla dia covery is reported to have been made by a surgeon cf rf the english army in china in the ther way of 0 in an effectual cure of 0 smallpox small pox the tb m mode 0 of treatment reat ment is as follows when the tb pr preceding ce edi edl g fever is at its hight bight and just before the eruption appears the cheat chest is rubbed with tartaric ointment this causes the whole of the eruption to appear on that part of the b body 0 d to the relief ot of the rest it also secures a f uli uil all ur and ind complete eruption and thus prever iti ity ts the th disease from attacking the internal organs this is said to be now the established mode of treatment in the english army in china by general orders and ia is regarded ai all a perfect cure GENERAL GREAT RAID general rousseau has returned to the main union army in georgia after bis his long raid which was pronounced by general sherman in a general order to ha his troops the most success ful of the war 33 general rousseau left de batur alabama july 10 b with 2700 men and reached coosa river kiver on the he had bad but just crossed the river with a portion of no bis command cou coa imand when the enemy I 1 four or five fire thousand strong attacked them after a five hours fight the rebels were defeated A camp of conscripts was broken up at Talle talie daga dara agai agal and the men scattered A quantity of coi coo federate stores and iron works were destro destroy 1 e t at this place at the crossing of the tall tati tabla tails a boosa river the enemy was again encountered and beaten the railroad was first struck at Looch apoka on tb the e and the work of destruction truc tion commenced at chawa station tb th rebels were encountered and driven back leav ing ng 40 killed and wounded on the field all the cu lverts bridges and track thence to opel ibo were destroyed and a train of car cars sent out to reconnoitre captured two hundred pounds of bacon five thousand pounds of tobacco a large quantity of whiskey blakey TA seven hundred sacks of flour and four hundred and fifty bales of cotton were burned the command then returned to marietta with hor sed sea and arid mules no private horbes horses were injured and no pillaging was vias permitted the report that general rousseau entered montgomery la Is untrue but his success in ali all other respects was complete A king KINO DEAD AND mourned king william 1 I of wurtemburg Wurt emburg is dead he be we wes born on the of september 1781 and in 1816 was appointed to the e succeeding his tather father frederick 11 aiho 14 ho had joined tha the cause of the allies ile he granted the present liberal constitution in 1819 a permanent mod lri iri catlon cation of which was stuff trully y attempted by bythe the estates during the revolutionary period of 1818 9 alwa 8 thoughtful and canna for hib hia was a most moat popular monarch and was beloved and respected by all bis his people the news rf bib bis death was received with manifestations of deep regrets and be w wll wil 11 be long ions remembered le as a just anz ana upright king who had bad always in view tha the welfare of bis his country and his bis pe people ople THE WA WAR it IN CHINA he chinese newspapers give alve fu I 1 accounts of the repulse of tie ti tle anglo angio sikon contingent con zon under col gordan at chaia cho chov foo the fieting was waa desperate it ia is ap ai that godon go don will surely take the cl t v and it ia a considered probable that with its fall the tai Ta tal talin lin tin ing rebellion will come to an end la ia the assa assant it no fewer than six european officers were L hed and 21 wounded the officers did nearly all the fighting ii 11 hen ben the storming was to bs be carried ut |
