Richmond Palladium

Improvement in Fire Arms.—A Mr. Cole, of Connecticut, has exhibited in this city, a newly invented rifle and pistol, of admirable construction. The chamber contains tubes for several charges of powder and ball; it may be made to contain from 6 to 10. In cocking the gun to shoot the chamber revolves on an axis, and brings in succession every tube in the chamber in line with that of the barrel, and when discharged, the act of cocking brings the next tube into position, until all are discharged. All the tubes may be recharged as quickly as a single gun of the ordinary structure. This new implement of War has been shown to the President, the Secretary of War, and the Navy, many officers of both the army and navy, and is considered the most efficient instrument of the kind ever invented. We made an experiment with the rifled pistol, and found it as sure in firing, and accurate to the aim as the best of the common construction.

We are informed that Mr. Cole has already obtained a charter from the New Jersey Legislature, and is about to organize a joint stock company, with the capital of $300,000 for the purpose of manufacturing rifles and pistols for private use, and that in a few months his guns will be in the market.—Globe.