Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-09-04
The New TERRITORY or a,.,,o,,.

A.le Nc" Aeff1tOry OF Arizona.
The following resolutions were unanimopclr, =,
by the Southern Commercial Convention at
upon the motion of Lieut. Mowry who briefly h4
forciby advocated their passage There can be very
OF the necessity for early legislation upon the subaot W
TINS important Territory: vi
L. RESOLVED, That, in view of the exposed ona :,
fenceess state of our fowctzens residents of the GoJ
den purchase, and its peculiar and wonderful resoo
1t is The DUTY OF the general government to extend o
tnat protecuon TO which every American citizen is on
tted ana that this convention fully endorses the ust
of the memorial of the citizens of the Gadsden nb
for separate territorial organization which is heeu
Submitted.
q Resolved That this convention looks with o,o..
interest to the successful establishment of tho oyoS
mal[route to California via Ell Paso and Fort Ynmo
and to the construction of the southern Pacific rairoaJ
and as the route selected by the Postmaster General %
the great thoroughare to the Pacific raverses the Cad
den purchase throughout it's entire length the necev
for the proposed territorial organization becomes mn
tive for the protection of the territorvthe travel
tercourse which must pass through it.
g. ReSOfUed That, in view of the fact that mort I'm
the Gulf OF California Is necessary for the supply of our
Pacific possessions New Mexico California and
the Gadsden purchase-and the Mexican government
in the original treaty negotiated by our minister to Mey
icO General James Gadsden conceded more soutbor
boundary than the one adopted by the Senate of the Uni
ted States, it is recommended to the government at
Washington IN any future negotiation with Mexico to
acquire the boundary thus lost to u.s. and also mort on
I'M
port of the great mineral and agricultural products the
newl y-acquired territory.
f. Resolved That the president of this convention 10
transmit to the President of the United States and to
the members OF Congress from the States here reprsep
ted, copies of these resolutions.
The S1AMEsE TWINS OUTDoNE-One of those re
markable malformations occasionally met with both
among the higher and the lower orders of the animal
creation presented itself few days since in the practice
of one of the physicians of this village 1t was a child
having two perfectly distinct heads developed euav as
regards size and shape which united to single BODY
each by its neck. The shoulders are broader than
natural but in other respects the body is not unlike that
of other children at birth it has but two arms and two
legs. An internal examination was made las it was
dead bor which exhibited most singular arrangement
OF the organs contained in the chest and abdomen Two
perfect and entire spinal columns were formed each had
the usual number OF ribs viz twentyfour making forty
eight in ALL The middle internal sets of ribs were
united together that the entire chest constituted one
single cavity, containing four lungs the middle pairs be-
ing united Two windpipes led to the lungs One heart
circulated all the blood to this strange body Two food
pipes led to single stomach and except that it had but
one kidney the right the abdominal viscera were single
and natural Cases of this kind are very seldom met
with and although admit that medical journals are
the proper media in which to publish accounts of these
mafOrmatiOns yet these channels are strictly prOs
sonal and as the people do take interest in such
freaks of nature in the notorious though far less won
deru case of the Samese twins exhibited in every part
of the world we have thought proper publish the above
ACCOMPLISHING Sing Nv. " Republican of august 90
A SAD CAsE.-Wm. S. Wash, aged sxty-fve years.
and man of family, lately convicted at Richmond, Va,
of forging land warrants Thursday sentenced to
the penentiary for two years in case and to Jail for
two months in each of two other cases. and to pay fine
Of $50. The Dispatch says:
He acknowledged his participation in the crime of
forgery, but declared that he had been led into it by
Others and when he heard his DOOM seemed to regret
that the punishment not DEATH rather than feOns
CELL Soon after leaving the court room he was convey
ed to the States prison. and on getting sight of the
gloomy looking abode shed tears profusey For himself
he said he cared but little, he would soon be called
hence to before another judge but the disgrace
that would attach to his name and the Fstgma that he
had brought upon his family, such heart crushing
weights that he preferred to meet death than to live
der them day longer.