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Show The Breaking of the City Jail-In Jail-In the suit of Salt Lake city against Gen. H. A. Morrow, Major Gordon and Lieut. Dinwiddle and oihcra, for trespass -n breaking open the city jail, the defendants' answer was filed on Saturday last, and by it wc cb serve that some of the material averments aver-ments in the complaint are neither denied nor admitted, ns for instance, the allegations that the drunken soldier, Hackctt, was not oaly guilty of riotous and disorderly conduct, thereby breaking the city ordinance, but that he also violently assaulted and beat Judge McCurdy, thus rendering rend-ering himself amenable to the criminal crim-inal law; and that the demand for his release was not made upon the legal authorities having him in charge, but upon Justice Clinton and Constable Hampton, neither of whom had the custot'y of Hackctt. The main facts alleged in the complaint, com-plaint, however, ore admitted in tho answer, the defense set up for the outrage on tho laws of tho lerrltory being the order ot Judge Advocate General Holt, which was published in the Hkkald shortly after its issuance. issu-ance. It is quite probable judgment will he given in favor of the defendants in the District Court, but if it is, we hope it will bo carried to the Territo rial Supreme Court and if it is decided against the city by that tribunal, then to the Supreme Court of the United States. If it reaches that body of judges who arc not swayed by prejudices preju-dices or personal, hates, wc have no fear of the result. In every cause front this Territory decided upon by the Supreme Court the people have come oil' triumphant, and we doubt not if this question is ruled upou by them, it will be another victory for right; and pompous Federal officials will again he told that the Constitution Constitu-tion and Laws of Congress are shields tothe people of Utah as well as to those in the States. The idea that Judge Advocate Holt can let loose in the community, with impunity, a lot of drunken rowdies, to insult women and children and attack such inoffensive in-offensive gentlemen as Judge Mc-Curdy Mc-Curdy is preposterous in itself. But the time for the trial of the suit draws near. Eugish Patent to a Utah Citizen. Mr. Win. J. Silver, of this city, lias juet received a patent from the royal hands of Queen Victoria upon his im-1 provement in steam pumps, which; have already been patented in the J United States. This is said to bo the first British patent received in Utah, I and it is a curiosity. The parchment1 is about 30 by 20 inches in siza, but it does not give tho name of the' article patented. Attached to the' parchment is a piece of red tape and : to the tape is appended a circular ! plate of yellow wax, about tixanda; half inches in diameter by an inch ! thick, either side of which contains1 an impression of the great seal of En- j gland that famous in'slnuncnt which has been viewed with rover- j ence by generations of Englishmen, and guarded with as great care as if the sovereignty of the realm depended upon its possession. A tin box is the receptacle of the wax, and a neat morcco case, upou which is stamped the English arms, receives the parchment parch-ment and box. The cost of this patent pat-ent was about $-100 in greenbacks, while the American patent for the same invention cost less than $100, including the accompanying model, which the lviglish office doc3 not require. re-quire. So much for British red lUpt?' Mr. Silver's invention consisti in the adataption of the steam pump so that it can be worked in any required position or angle of a mine. The first ono built was placed in the Emma mine, where it has done good work, but it is too small for the requirements re-quirements of the mine, aud Mr. Silver has just completed a second pump for the use of that company at his shop in the Nineteenth Ward . The cylinder of the new machine is sixteen inches, with ten-inch flanges and twenty-four inch stroke being equivalent .to sixty-horse power. |