Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-07

er much to the discontinue and injury
of the deserving poor. Many government
offices are today held by men appointed
from the State now charged to their re-
spective States, who own property here,
and vote and dabble in thelocal politics of
the city.
The truthfulness of the saying that poll
tics makes strange bed fellows is fully il
Illustrated in the local politics of this city.
Until eighteen months ago strict party
line was drawn between the old anti-slave-
ry men who had espoused the cause giving
equal rights to all irrespective of race or
color, and the pro-slavery party, who tho
beaten and ashamed of their old pet no.
ton of white mans aristocracy, still con-
tinued to battle against the irrepressible
conflict for equal rights and impartial suf-
frage. Since the ballot has been given to
the negro, there are no party lines. all who
take part in politics cater for the negro
vote and influence, and the consequence is,
party ties and obligations are abolished
and individual favoritism holds sway.
As yet none of the street letter boxes
adopted by the post office department some
two months since have been put up in
Washington, though the boxes are made
here and orders have been filled to the
number of 442 and sent to the following
cities respectively: San Francisco, 200;
Richmond Va, 125; Cincinnati 80; Chi
cagO, %; Cleveland, %; Albany, %; st.
Louis, 6 Trenton, n. j., 6. This box is
substantially the same, and of the same
mans make that was adopted by Postmas-
ter General Randall last winter, and con-
demned by the POstofiice Department un-
der Mr.. Creswell last spring, only differing
in these particulars, that the aperture for
letters are changed from the front to the
side of the box, and the platform inside
of the box on which the letters are thrown
is more inclined which affords easier trans
mission of matter into the main receptacle.
The objection made to the first box that it
could be easily picked by either placing a
sticky substance upon the platform inside
or making false platform that could be
placed over the true platform and taken
out at leisure, holds good with the present
so called improved box. The large towns
and cities of the country are increasing so
rapidly that the demand for street letter
boxes will soon be very great. The ex-
pense to the government for changing box
es every year would be so great, outside of
the danger and annoyance to the people,
that it becomes a matter Of no incOnsider-
able importance as to the kind they now
adopt.
A case is now before the Commissioner
of Patents in which the applicant for a
patent claims new patent on a part of an
invention, the other part of which having
already been patented by him. Commits
sioner Fisher decides in this case, which
is applicant to ali cases of the kind, that
when an application is filed, every inven-
ton in that application must be patented
under it, or under such divisions of it as
the wishes of the claimant and the rules
of the office may permit. This decision
does not interfere with the law and rules
governing reissue cases, but simply pre-
vents the liability of an imposition upon
the assignee of the original patent who six
months ago might perhaps have bought il
in the faith that a patent on all that was
patentable in the invention had been Sc
cured. Any other decision than the one
the Commissioner makes would set pre-,
cedent, the following of which would work
insecurity to the assignee of patent dur
ing the first two years after the patent i
issued, and also an extension of the use o
an invention from seventeen years as au
/ thorized by law, to perhaps nineteen years
LIFE.