The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-04-08


his situation, and admits that it was caused,by |
and promises that If his life AZ |
spared, he will never drink another drop. |
lie gives his name as Volney Barrows;--says
he has wife and FIVE children neat. 'Tiin,
and three brothers in Athens county. Thus
has the demon Alchohol sent man into
our midst, who has seriously endangered the
lives OF two Of our worthy and unoifending
citizens, and almost added suicide to murder.
Is not this a warning TO all who sell, as well
as to those who drink the accurscd thing!
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TEXAS AND THE BARiNGs.-A letter from
San Antonio, to the Cotton Plant, states
that bill has passed the Texas Legislature,
which grants to the Barings the rgh, of way
| from Houston, Texas, to the FL Paso--They
ask for no land--nothing but the right Of way
| Their agent, Mr. Chatsworth, has pledged
the faith OF the Barings, and forty millions of
dollars, to carry out the matter at once.
| They intend carrying the road to the Pacific,
and il is understood the Mexican government
are prepared to grant the right of way over
their territory.
PRINCIPLES AND EFFECTS NOT PArENrABLE.
The Supreme Court of the United States
has just decided that Principles, or a new
Power, or new results cannot be patened, bu,
only the processes by which the new result il
obtained; Judge Mclean, in announcing the
opinion of majority of the Court said:
, The word Principle is used by clementur,
writer's on patent subjects, and sometimes il
; adudicaticns of Courts, with such want o
precision in its application as to misead. |
I is admitted that principle is not patent
4. able. principle in the abstract is a funda
o mental truth, an original cause, a motive
these cannot be patented, as no one can clair
q in either of them an exclusive right. Nor ca
: an exclusive right exist to new power, shoul
. one be discovered in addition to those alread
,. known. Through the agency Of machinery
s new steam power may be said to have bee
n generated, but no one can appropriate tn
n power exclusively to himself under the pater
% laws. The same may be said of electricit
" and of any other power in nature, which
1r alike open to all, and may be applied to usef
purposes by the use Of machinery. In a
such cases the processes used to eXtrac
il modify and concentrate natural agencies col
=, sttute the invention. The elements of Il
Ia power exist; the invention is not in discove
o. ing them, but in applying to useful object
~ Whether the machinery used be novel, or Co
N sist Of new combination Of parts know
20 the right Of the inventor is secured again
y all who use the same mechanical power
a. one that shall be substantially the same.
n, patent is not good for an effect or the rcsu
p of n certain p-ocess, as that would prohb
+. all other persons from making the same thir
ts by any means whatever. This, by creatir
70 monopoies, would discourage arts and mani
N iactures against the avowcd policy Of Il
=, patent laws.
+ A new property discovered in matter, 'whe
ID practically applied in the construction Of
: useful article Of commerce or manufacture,
Ia patentable, but the process through which II
, new property Is developed and applied, mu
"a be stated with such precision as to enable q
~ ordinary mechanic to construct and apply Il
st necessary process This is required by Il
~ patent laws of England and Of the Unite
, States, in order that when the patent sha
!. run out the public may know how to profit b
q the invention"