Show amestica AMEI amel tICA G gus UX UN 0 I 1 the board hoard of army officers which recently met in washington to test sixty nive five different guns filed its report in june but tho the document is not yet p published hed we ante ari are arc enabled however to give civo the material results of tile tiie cx experiments ri ts I 1 I 1 general orai oral hancock presided over the the tho bo board r the members were general bue buc bachanan buchanan anan of the infantry service general grifel griffin efi eni of the artillery general hagner and colonel benton of the ordinance colonel odous owens of the cavalry colonel Cb comings cumings recorder A after fter after repe repeated abed trials of all tile tho guns submitted for in inspection spec tion tho board recommended for adoption the tho plan of converting ver vor ting muzzle loaders into breech load ers invent invented Cd by iby colonel berdan and hild arnd arid also recommended the same aima ilma plan bov foy nil nii tle the new guns guus hereafter tobe to be made I 1 tho the berdan musket was gired fired froni from tb the 8 shoulder n 0 b edo clo r em n b e 0 f t the I 1 10 board orio a ho I 1 un t rie nie q i n i av rg q n n i tho tio ili ill arst st tn twenty C ut y rounds in one ono minute it had bad previously ue been qt fired three hf indred hundred times for the pug pu ci pose of fouling it had then bie beair ew rusted in salt sait and ard water and 4 rolled in fine sand and finally wio vip subjected to proof charges with tho the sediment of four hundred charges in it but camo came out in perfect condition ani and was again a ain aln fired with safety this extraordinary tra ordinary result is probably without ft parallel in the history of small arms i A correspondent alluding to tho the wim baledon trial remarks that it must bo be very gratifying to the board to know that an enfield musket altered on tho the same plan won the tho prize in england the rhe rapidity of firo liro of this arm is more than double that of the famous needle gun of tho the prussians tho the cost of conversion does not exceed two dollars for each musket another american invention therefore Is s to be placed by the side of the monitors now attracting the notice of europe E drope as the best of or its kind hind in use the tho magazine gun is not considered consi dereu dereA so effective a weapon as the improved breechloader breech loader nor has it been ablo able to endure the repeated dischar gesto which the army board subjected the arms submitted for trial triai elv Y evening post vogt 1 A Sic sli SINGULAR gulan GULAR recovery ERA eloa the following singular fact ia Is related by the memorial ili III speaking C of tho the cholera during the summer of 1848 towards the end of june the tho epidemic reached brussels when it attacked altac ed ono one sunday in the tho forenoon general chazal minister of war INT ar who gradually sank auk and by eleven on that night was wasi in an almost hopeless state notwithstanding the attendance of four medical men including dr bentin tha tho first surgeon of brussels and dr varlet a celebrated homoeopathic practitioner at eight the following morning all w wab was considered over the face having assumed ed a blue tin tine tinge Z c and the pulse having ceased so that the generals death wab wan communicated to the tho royal family ana and announced in the public journals whence itras copied throughout Europe meanwhile an incidental reference by general jomini before the attendants in the sick chamber of a remedy had bad recourse to in russia where sacks filled I 1 with w ith hot ashes were placed on tho the body b 91 of the tho patient induced the general a I 1 aides de camp to try the plan and after six hours of incessant perso Terso perseverance verance venance the remedy proved efficacious the body resumed its natural hue and animation being restored the general subsequently teem recovered ered and aud is still minister Ui nister of war in belgium I 1 vs 11 1 1 1 experiments A NEW GUN some interesting experiments with cathings Gat Cat lings improved battery gun have been in progress at fortress for i the past three weeks under the super 1 vision of the ordinance department and tile the results speak most favorably for the new projectile most of tho theom experiments peri perl 1 1 I ments m cuts have been made in conjunction ati n e on with a twenty four hank 11 howitzer where the howitzer throwing g canister hit tho the target once the missies from this gun hit it six time times both at short abort and long range the former from three hundred to four hun dred yards distant and the tile latt iatter latter erat at the distance of affo from m one and a half to two miles the howitzer did not shoot at loi long range this gun is a revolving gun un of six chambers and capable ot of shooting one hundred times a minute at short iange range it threw fifteen one half inch balls contained in each cartridge and a cap ball making sixteen missie missle missiles at each discharge and sixteen hundred missiles mis mib siles a minute at long range it fired a half pound of dlin Blin minnie nier balls its capacity to load and fire incessantly while revolving its freedom from foulness and its wi accuracy curacy have astonished j every one witnessing tho the experiments I 1 three men can manage it and its cost coat will not exceed that of tho the ordinary cannon the tile inventor proposes not to give any other nation tho the benefit of tha i anve invention ri tion whether our government adopts his invention or nef 11 J gon aon has just reason lo 10 to bo be proud of til ill tho the development of many mady branches branch bs of i her industry and in none of them lins baa thero there been more rapid advancement than in the manufacture of woolen goods at present there are four mills milla in operation in tho the state two of them being 0 the largest on ane pacific eo coash mt E V irtle quaite E 1 atil aali I at 1117 11 17 it p pm in sep 5 another nother of those tho se unpleasant visitors known mown as earthquakes wasek 0 tho the shock shoel may be spoken of as being vertical i 1 n p its motion pro dueing du bing tho th sensation of a heavy body falling a 11 li 9 to t 0 be the t carth earth A noticeable phenomenon 11 no ian lan menon 1 C nor 1 which soon succeeded ittin it masir mafir the occurrence of rain this tilis maywill may belk welk a a t 0 FI sarr sari n 1 francisco r ac n cl sa ierg |