The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-09-16


Hudson, of the Niagara, which participated in
the laying of the cable:
In 1918, William l.. Hudson was lieu
ten ant on board of the Ontario, the first United
States ship ever sent out on an exploring ex
petition. Just before she sailed, one of the
yards, found to be defective, was sent down
and new one raised in its place, under the
superinfendence of Lient. Hudson, who wa
stationed in the top. Before the yard was SO
cured, green hand began to cut the rope thai
held 1t, and if he had made one cut more, the
spar would have fallen upon some twenty mer
who had been hauling, and we're still holding
on below. Seeing what had been done, Lieut.
hudson jumped at and caught the two parts o
the half-severed rope, and held on until the
men had made the spar fast; but by this time
he was so exhausted that he fell on his bach
into the top, and was so strained and bruised
that he had to be taken ashore, and lost hil
voyage"
1t is announced upon semi official authority
that Mr.. Hughes, who is now in London, viii
leave for Trinity Bay about the 10th of THU
month, in q special steamer, dispatched for ths
purpose by the cable company. He will no
probably reach his destination and commence
experiments with his instruments before thu
transmit eight letters per minute, which is g
hundred per cent. faster than the Whitehouse
instruments, when they work at all, which ID
not often. Let us hope that We are to have ar
American triumph in the working as we'll as in
the laying of the cable. 1t ia said that Mr.
Whitehouse, who is the chief electrician of the
company, has become much exasperated by hii
Ill success, and there is hope that he will re-
sign his post. d.
81. Louis, Sept. lO.-Col. Sayles, agent O,
the Post Office Department, arrived here to-day
from Arizona. He reports the existence of 4
very lawless state Of things in that country
the pistol and bowie knife being the only law
recognised. Indian depredations were very
frequent. Col. Sayles speaks fayorably of the
mineral resources of the Territory, but deems
the annexation of Sonora of the utmost impor
lance to their successful development. The
FL Paso and Fort Yuma wagon road expedi
ton will complete their work in November.
From New Mexico, Col. Ssyles reports tina,
the dificnlties with the Navajoe Indians were
still unsettled. Gen. Garland had assured them
that the murderers of Major Brooks servant
must be given up; and, in view of pending
trouble, had ordered Col. Miles from Fort Fill.
more to Fort Defiance. Major Backus's com.
mand of recruits crossed Walnut creek, en-
route for Fort Union, on the 9th ult.
SteubenUille, Sept. l0.-The Cincinnati ex.
press train, going west on the Steubenville and
Indiana railroad, ran through bridge this
evening. thirteen miles west of Steubenville. A
dispatch from the secretary of the road saws
that the bridge broke near the first tunnel. and
will be repaired for the passage of trains TO- day.
All the passengers were cent off this morning.
except one man, who had both legs broken.
Conductor Mooney received a severe cut on the
head the baggage-master was slightly hurt /;
James Fleming, engineer, off duty, was badly
hurt. Other Passengers were slightly injured.
but able to leave.
The steamboat Catherine Maria, Cant. Paine.
belonging to the American Atlantic and Pacific
Ship Canal Company, for the new line between
New York and San Francisco, via Nicaragua.
left New York on the afternoon of the 9th inst.
Tor San Juan del Norte. She is intended for
service on the San Juan river and Lake Nicar.
aqua. This is the second boat sent BY the com.
pany for the Isthmus, the Cass. Y rissarri having
left for San Juan on Monday last. The third
boat, the Laura Frances, will leave to day. The
Hermann left for the Pacific two weeks since.
to be followed soon by the Washington, former.
y of the Bremen line. The whole route ia ex.
pected TO be in operation about the middle of
October next.
We learn that Father De Smet has received
. dispatch from Washington, requesting him to
Join General Harvey at New York, az chaplain
to the army in Oregon. Apart from all consid.
erations of religious or spiritual character.
there is eminent propriety in the selection OF
father DE Smet for this position. 1t was he
who hrst preached the doctrines of Christianity
70 the Northern Ultramontane Indians, and he ia
regarded with especial reverence
by those tribes who dwell in the country which
IS the theatre of the Oregon Indian war. There
can be no doubt that his influence over them
will facilitate the realization of the purposes of
The Government. In no part of Oregon is the
Big Black Gown" unknown or unappreciated.
His infaence over the Blackfeet nation is gu.
preme, and the Flatheads and adjacent tribes
are scarcely less submissive to his counsels.
The Government has therefore consulted its
own interests in his appointment to the chap
aincy of the Oregon army.-&. Louis Dem.
The electrician, De Sanity, has sent another
and mysterious dispatch from Trim.
ty Bay, in regard to the ocean cable, The
Philadelphia Press, referring to it, says:
He gives assurance to the agent of the Az.
ISOLATED Press, that there are only temporary
of an electrical nature in the wav Of
he working of the cable. Beyond this. he
lays, he declines to make any statement. This
s all right, if the agent of the New York As.
'ociated Press is to control the electrical move
nents of the cable; but it is direct insult to
he common sense of the commercial men of
he country, if they are expected to countenance
md support such q gigantic monopoly. 1t would
De we'll enough for electrician De SANITY, in his
next dispatch from Trinity Bay, to inform us
whether the ocean cable has been laid for the
benefit of q tsp individuals, or the whole pub.
ic."
The same journal observes:
:" A telegraph dispatch from New York in.
orms as that about s., 900 have been subscribed
or procuring testimonials to Cyrus W. Field.
Captain Hudson, Messrs. Everett, Woodhouse,
ind others, engaged in laying the Atlantic ca.
Die. This is all proper, if and others in.
.ludes the hardy American and British tars"
Peter Cooper, in one of his cable-dinner
peeches, tells of new triumph in the telegraph
ions, wanting to communicate an account of a
fficulty, broke the telegraph wire, and, BY
ouchipg the ends together, made the call sig.
lals, and communicated from one Office to an.
ther and then, by touching the ends of the
wire to his tongue, got tho answers he desired
AIeck Stephens's papers in Georgia deny that
,e went to Illinois to adjust the Douglas and
Buchanan difficulty, but for pleasure and recre.
.tion, and to see Healy, the artist, at Chicago,
md they say that he neither saw nor had com.
nunication with Douglas while there.
The forty.ninth annual meeting Of the Amer.
can Board of Commissioners assembled at De-
roit on Tuesday, Rev. Mark Hoppins, D. D.,
q the chair. The treasurer reported the re-
eipts from all sources during the year at
33, 4s0; expenditures $37,24l; leaving, with
be debt Of the previous year, a deficit of
40,870. Two corporate members and FIVE