Meanings of long nines in English

There is not a cigar in the house but those old Wheeling long nines.

Fetch out the long nines-whichhe did.

I had just come across those " long nines" a few days or a week before.

Being armed with a long gun amidships and six long nines, not a slaver had a chance with her.

Prompt now drew forth a handful of long nines, said he never liked to smoke alone, and invited me to join him.

The General Armstrong privateer was a brig belonging to New York, mounting a battery of eight long nines and a twenty-four pounder amidships.

In 1838 many of the Long Nines were candidates for re-election to the Legislature.