New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-09-26

trouble them without such an annoyance III
the coming season.
A more careful review of the results of the
Patent Office fire does not increase the total
sum of damage to models and documents.
The Inconvenience to the Office and the ex-
pense of repairs may, however, be greater
than was estimated. The question as to the
real service of models in determining inven-
tons, is likely now to have wide discussion.
There are not few patent solicitors who
have come to the conclusion that models are
troublesome and useless. But it is also to be
said that many a too sanguine inventor has
discovered the impractical character of his
device in the attempt TO give it shape III a
model.
The appearance of Turkish force on Rou-
manian soil, protected by the guns of Silistria,
adds a new phase to the campaign. During
the last contest, Omar Pasha made several raids
across the Danube but none of his successors
until now has followed his example, although
there was abundant opportunity to 90 so III
the early period of the war. The descent Is
now made, apparently, to punish the kou-
manans for the part their troops have
played in the attack on Plevna, where
they behaved as bravely as the We
tors of Lovatz. The suppOsidon that the
invading force intends to destroy communlca-
ton between Galatz and Bucharest is not war
ranted. the railroad being over fifty miles from
tbe "natural stronghold" the Turks have
seized. Moreover, the large Russian army at
Cernavoda is sufficient to protect the line from
anv incursion which the Ottoman troops might
make.
The question was recently raised in our
courts whether a man has right to the use
of his own name, and now Judge Westbrook
is asked to decide whether a man has an ex-
elusive right to his own cOuntenance. We have
been anticipating this issue for some time
it being evident that when Mr.. SOthern took
liberties with the face and wig of the nobility
he ventured on an experiment which could
not be tried with impunity. He has aggra-
waited the offence by his fiippant remarks to
our reporter on the subject of duel
with artillery, which TO be quite frank
we do not believe he has the re-
hottest intention Of fighting, and his rash
classification of the Counts Getting with his OVID,
whereas, in truth, there can be no comparison
between them. The trouble has hardly
begun, for the plaintiff in this case is not
| n person to be triied with Or is it possible
that for the base purposes of an advertisement
| they are both tIi-, but no. Mr. SOthein might
| do such a thing; the Count is incapable of it,
III striking contrast with the performances
of the Democratic yeomaury of New-Jersey at
their recent gathering, the Republican COnven-
| ton Yesterday was opened with prayer, con-
! Quoted throughout with unvarying deco
rum, and closed with formal adjourn
ment. The Republicans of New-Jersey may
be as harmless as doves, but they
do not invariably prove themselves as
wise as serpents. They rejected the Hon. F.
A. Potts because some of them were afraid of
his independence but their candidate for Gov
ernor is nevertheless a good man, and will
make stout fight. Sentiment favorable to
the Administration seems to have been more bel
ligerently prevalent than it was at the Robson
banquet, and after prolonged mental strain,
the committee on resolutions succeeded III per-
suading all the friends of President Hayes that
he had been amply Endorsed, all his opponents
that he had been artisticaly snubbed, and all
the timd souls who did not want to say any
thing, that nothing had been SAID Good Re-
pubeans will now please to light their torches
and fall into the procession.
THE CONVENTIONS.