The Express.
London, England, 1851-02-18 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

We give a few additional items of news from the
American papers :
One hundred and twenty-three lives were lost in
consequence of the steamer John Adams having
struck a snag in the Mississippi. The cabin
parted from the hull, and the latter went down
• m about sixty feet of water. She had about ninety
or one hundied deck passengers, a few of whom only
were saved. The cabin, in breaking front the hull,
separated in the middle, which doubtless was the
cause of many of the cabin passengers saving their
lives. The ladies in the cabin were all saved. After
guttering many hours in the water, they were enabled
to get ashore. The forward portion a the cabin, in-
cluding the fixtures, floated down to the head of
Island Eighty-Three, where it grounded. About'
three o'clock nt the afternoon, the steamboat Pcytona
came along, and took the passengers on board from
that part of the wreck. }rum thence the Peytona
proceeded with all possible haste to the other portion
of the wreck, where she took all on board, with the
exception of Captain Jones and his family, Mr. Wil-
son, the mate, and a few others. Owing to the early
hour at which the John Adams sunk, almost every
one was asleep, and it being so sudden, few were
able to get sufficient clothing to cover themselves,
and many of them are indeed in a most destitute
condition. The deck passengers were Californians,
and German and Irish emigrants, who were going to
Cincinnati._ _

The New York legislature at Albany had taken
several bullotain order to elect a United States sena-
tor, but none had been successful. In Congress no
proceedings of interest had taken place. The Cali-
fornia Land-title Bill was ordered to be printed, in
pretty much the same form in which it was intro-
dueea. . .

The Constitutional Convention of Indiana has, by a
decisive vote, excluded negroes and mulattoes from
hereafter settling in that state. It has further de-
cided that all contracts with such persons shall be
void; that any one employing them, or encouraging
them to remain in the state, shall be liable to a fine
of from 10 to CAM) dollars ; and that such fines shall
be applied towards the gradual colonisation of the
negroes now in the state. This article is to be sub-
mitted to a separate vote of the people.
The population of the state of New York by the
new census will vary very little from 3,100,000—
probably ranging a few hundreds under that amount.
It is generally conceded that the total representative
population of the United States (composed of all the
" free persons" and three-fifths of " all other per-
sons") will range somewhere from 22,000,000 to
23.300,000.
The Num York Sun says—" We have received the
following information from a. correspondent in Wash-
ington, upon whose statements we can place full re-
liance Sir H. Bnlwer has addressed a letter to
Mr. Webster, in which he states that the Clayton
treaty had no reference whatever to the Mosquito
"protectorate," and that it has left entirely untouched
the English occupation of San Juan de Nicaragua.
This letter Mr. ebster has laid before the comuiit-
tee of foreign relations.' "
The New lurk Herald says :—" That Mr. Chat-
field has been recalled by the British government.
The fact was not generally known at Nicaragua:'

BUENOS AYRES.—Bv the American mail we
have accounts from Buenos Ayres to Dec. 12, which
state that there was some prospect of an amicable
settlement of the troubles between that country and
Brazil. There had been a conflict between the forces
of Parapar and those of Buenos Ayres relative to
the occupancy of some neutral lands by the forces of
the latter. The Paraguay troops, 800 strong, were
dispersed. The British Packet, in its monthly re-
trospect, says that the country is just recovering
from the ill effects of the prolonged war—large quan-
tities of provisions from the hack country had come
in to be forwarded to Europe and this country. The
finances of the state were said to be in an encourag-
ing condition.