Daily national Democrat., 1858-10-13
Further from the Fast.

Further from the East.
The overland mail, which arrived in San
Francisco, on Sunday last brings ten days
later intelligence from New York. We ap-
pend that portion of the news not hitherto
published:
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune, writing September II.
says
The President is personally paying special
attention to the military expedition to be sent
under General Harney against the Indians in
Washington and Oregon Territories, and to
the expedition preparing against Paraguay.
Several of the Secretaries were sent for to
the White House.
Gen. Harney will sail for the Pacific on
the Goth inst. lie will have force of about
three thousand men when all the contingents
arrive. lie expects to make short work of
the new Indian war.
recent descison of the Secretary of the
Interior recites that prescriptions to town
sites on public lands are to accrue to the ben
eht of actual occupants naturally drawn to
the point by the course of business and trade
This breaks up the old routine practice of
the Land Department, which has made many
land spectators millioniares by recognizing
their bogus occupants as really so in contem-
plation of law. Hundreds of speculative
sites and thousands of spectators will be
headed off by this policy of Mr.. Thompson
Though it is assumed by the spectators that
the old practice had the sanction of Mr..
Cushing, am authorized to state that he has
personally approved of TIE decision of the
Secretary Of the Interior.
1t also brings much later intelligence from
the Southern portion of the Union. The
Daily Memphis Appeal, of September 10th,
says:
The latest news we have from the Cable is
contained in a dispatch from Washington.
dated September 18th, which we published
yesterday, informing lis that London letters,
per steamer Vanderbilt, say "Prof Hughes
will leave for Trinity Bay the sth, with con
fdence that he can make the Cable work and
transmit from three to six words per minute"
His arrival may, therefore, be looked for in
a day or two, and soon thereafter we may
expect a solution of the problem Will the
line work? In the meantime we must con
tent ourselves with the assurance of the cleo
tricians that although communication has
been suspended for some days, the insulation
is still perfect One thing is certain, the
English instrument have proved complete
failure, and Prof Whitehouse and his assist
ants, after experimenting, without interrup
ton, for more than a month"; have given up
in despair. The public confidence is daily
waning, and doubts are freely expressed that
Prof Hughes will not be able to overcome
the difficulties which Whitehouse encoun-
tered, and which he could not successfully re-
sist. While we fear the worst, we yet hope
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efforts. At all events we shall soon know
The Ohio Statesman, of September 18th,
gives the following particulars of frghtful
railroad accident that occurred the night be
fore at No. Six bridge on the Pittsburgh,
Columbus and Cincinnati Railrod, on Friday
evening last:
The bridge which caused the accident is
"curved bridge" covered, and one hundred
and twenty feet Ions, spanning creek, which
at the time Of the occurrence had but little
water in its bed The express train reached
the place at o'clock, Friday night and
while passing through the tender attached to
the locomotive flew off the track, and for
short distance jolted over the ties with such
force as to break down the bridge The 10
comotive passed through, but the timbers of
the bride separating, precipitated the two
baggage cars and the two passenger cars to
the bed of the creek, and the entire struc-
ture fell in upon the train, crushing in the
top and sides of the ears. The two baggage
ears were stove in. and the first passenger car
was stove to pieces; the rear end of the hind
car remained up on the abutment, some ff
teen or twenty feet high. The passengers in
the latter ear were all thrown to the lower
end in heap, the seats and large stove fal
ling on top. OF those in this car, scarcely
passenger escaped without injury, though
there were none dangerously hurt.