The cartridges are an excellent invention, and the principle of thus loading at the breech is certainly the most simple and best yet presented to us. Rifles, pistols, and shot guns are now ...

The following is the result of the match, shot with breech-loading carbines of their own invention, between Lieut. Symmes, United States Ordnance Corps, and Mr. Gibbs, of New York. In May last a ...