"A Rocket Brigade"

The Messrs. Edge, of this city, says the Jersey City Courrier, suggested to the War Department the formation of a Brigade to work Rocket Batteries, as a means to drive the Rebels out of their marked retreats. The Messrs. E., guarantee to raise the men and furnish the batteries, if the General government will but endorse and encourage their action. It will be recollected with what terrible effect these batteries were used by the British in the Indian War.

The rockets used for this purpose is propelled through a thick iron tube, the fuse, being cut to burn a given distance, as in the case of a shell; to the rocket is attached a pole from eight to ten feet long, which coming in collision with any object, has the affect of starting the rocket in the opposite way; in the meantime the projective is vomiting a perfect sheet of liquid flame, lighting up everything for a mile around, and igniting everything of an inflammable nature, while the dense smoke arising therefrom will cause the best disciplined soldiers to leave their guns and flee in search of a purer atmosphere. It finally terminates in a shell of the most destructive character.