Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-09-03
Majority against proposition, 9,5l2.

Returns from Powhatan township rejected there being
no such township for, % against
tPars township rejected for want OF Judge certlhcae-
Kansas Falls precinct rejected the Judges names being
signed all in the same handwrtng-34 against
Now, therefore, we do hereby proclaim the result of
said election 10 be- that for q" Proposition Accepted
there were cast one thousand hundred and eighty
eight votes and that for Proposition Reected there
were cast eleven thousand three hundred votes and ma
iority of the votes cast being for proposition Reject
ed it is deemed and held that the people OF ansas
do not desire admission into the Union with said con-
stuon under the conditions set forth in said PROPOSE
ton" j. w. DENVER
HUGH S. WALSH,
A G. DAVIS,
q. w. DEITZLER,
Board of Commissioners.
&c. W. Babcock Esq. is absent from the Territory
We append to the foregoing extract from the Lea
venWorth CORES pOndenCe of the Cincinnati Times,
opposition journal:
Many attempts have been made, during the past six
months by designing oceseekers not only of our own
Territory but also of New Ork and MaSsachusetsthe
former State having member of Congress here for that
purpose-tO organize republican party" in Kansas
But these attempts have met with as universal rebukes
as did the English BILL The organization of "repub
ican party in Kansas never can succeed as long as we
remain Territory, and for the very plain and simple
reason that the principles of that party are Numerically
opposed to those of the people of Kansas The cardinal
principle of that party is that Congress has sovereign
power over the Territory to establish freedom there
while the people of Kansas, from the first settlement of
the Territory, have been fighting against the application
of such doctrine to their beautiful country declaring
that they and they alone had and still have the power
and the right to say whether they will have freedom
slavery. Thus it will be that we have not and in
the very nature of things cannot have, republican
party in Kansas until we admitted a State,
which, from present indications, will not be during the
next fUe gears! Observation-Disclosures OF the people OF
Kansas are opposed to having the burdens Of State
government tax during the next ten years. and will Ger
tany vote down any proposition to become State du-
ring the first half Of that PERIOD although they may be
never wisely entreated by number of eloquent would
be Breslin treasurers and United States senators.
ACCIDENTALLY SHoT.--A melancholy accident hap
pened at the Reid Gold Nine about IA miles from Con
cord on Wednesday, the Goth inst Mr.. j. T. Cornell Of
New York, was found lying in his house with the TOP
part of his head shot off, and doubebarrel gun
his body 20 one was present when the accident hap
pened but it is supposed by those who to the house
his gun from behind bedstead leaning forward at the
time when the hammer caught under the rail of the bed
stead dschargng the whole load of one barrel into his
forehead just above the eyes.
Mr.. Cornell was about % years DID, and had been
this part the State but three four weeks He brought
letter of introduction to gentleman of this place which
gave him a good character. BY his intelligence anC
gentlemanly department while here he had gained the
confidence and esteem of all who formed his acquaintance
We learn that another gentleman came near losing bis
life in the same way with the same gun. He show
ing how the accident might have happened when the
maing barrel discharged the shot passing but few
inches above his headCh Democrat 3lSt inst.
Bag~The electric telegraph not first though of b.
Professor Morse by any other of the claimants of thai
honor who have yet appeared upon the field of contest
The venerable John Redman Cox of Philadelphia, in
letter to scientific gentleman in London, on the sub
ect of electricity presented very fair idea of the cleo
trio telegrap-and this fOrtytwo years ago. The let
ter of Professor Cox published in the ANNALS 0
Philosophy in 1876 and the following extract from
is communicated to the Philadelphia Pennsylvania b.
Ex-Chief Justice Lewis:
Il have contemplated this important agent electric
ty) probable means of establishing telegraphc CON
munications with much rapdty and perhaps less eS
pense than any hitherto employed. 1 do not know hoV
far experiment has determined galvanic action to b
communicated by of wires but there is reason
to suppose it confined to limits certainly not to time
Now by means of apparatus fixed at certain distance
as Geographic stations by tubes for the decompOsitio
of water and of metallic Salts &c. regularly ranged
a key might be adopted as would be requisite to con
muncate words, sentences and figures from one static
to another and to the end of the line. Howeve
fancifuI and speculative have doubt that
later it will be rendered useful in practice.
JOHN REDMAN COX.
Philadelphia, 1916.
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