Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-02-04
From our own Reporter
The Great TELEGRAPH Suit.


The decision of the Supreme Court in this
important suit has been postponed for the
term. The case is one of deep interest,
and involves very important question of
law. In this ego ahead" age everything
connected with tho telegraph becomes in
teresting. The extraordinary principle upon
which it is worked can scarcely be compre-
hended-the modus operandi and everything
connected with it. The following is brief
outline, that gives clearer view of the
mode of working this. extraordinary engine
than any we have seen, invented as it was
for the sole purpose Of scattering mind and
thought to the ''four winds of heaven with
lightning speed.
George Clifford, esq, of New York, in
the course of long and able argument,
took occasion to give the following interest
ing description.
He ably opened by referring to the met
aphysical and physical conformation of this
mighty engine for scattering thought
through the region Of the earth like the
lightnings flash and with its CELEBRITY He
then showed that its physical constitu-
ton consisted of six distinct classes of
things, illustrating and celebrating each
with great force and clearness-showing
the conformation and peculiar characteris-
tics of the battery. The explanations were
listened to with profound attention Ky the
fair portion Of the audience, and the argu-
ment partook good deal Of the character
of an interesting lecture until reference had
been made to the dry knotty points of law
lie then returned to the general question,
as to the patentability Of any art, and as to
whether patentable art was Included in
Morsc's Telegraph, which he continued,
was fully covered by the first, fifth, and
sixth claims of Morse's Patent of 1850, as
it had been reissued in 1913. He also
showed that Morses invention was an art,
in itself, and patentable upon that ground
alone, that the process was a sufficient
ground for establishing that right, and that
the apparatus or machinery connected with
the Telegraph, with all the leading charac-
teristics invested it with patent right.
The telegraph included the employment
of new machinery and peculiar manner of
New combinations of currents of
electricity, and new manner of working
them-new combinations of these novel
combinations of machinery-a new manner
Of working the two new combinations, thus
related, so that by their joint operation a
series Of new operations and effects are
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mate final result. A connected series of
new operations, producing series of new
conditions, each succession on being adapted
to the next, and all operations together for |
the attainment of the final glorious result
Mr.. G. in illustration showed the 'modus
opsrandi, and the final object was in record !
ing by this process Of new Signals at dis !
lance for telegraphing. Preparatory to en-
tering upon the easy duty of pointing out
the infringement, he said, he would present
three views in relation to the magnitude or |
quantity of invention involved in Morses |
as to the specific object to |
be attained-second as to it's spirit and es-
sence, and thirdly as to the apparatus, with
which the spirit is clothed, to convey it into
effect. 1t possessed two stages or forms
under the first patent. He would conine
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