Washington telegraph., 1851-11-26

received several letters from Havana III reference
TO Mr. ]. S. Thrasher's arrest and Imprisonment.
This gentleman has resided in Cuba for near y
twenty years, and during large portion of that
time has breu the editor of the Fmo Industrial,
Iers, speaking Of Mr.. Thrasher's mI:her. says
Il have the good lady, Mrs. Ihrasher,
who looks the right mother for such a son. She
lives at Reg ID, aud came over TO ask permission
OF The Captain General to see her son, but he
would not her, because 1t not the fixed
day of receptions She is woman TO weep over
this Spanish enormity. She has faith in her sou
in his honor-and that comforts her aged heart
Mr.. Thrasher is 10 be tried by sort of court
martial, but the sentence was passed before he
was arrested, and nothing remains but few for
malites to conform the proof to the accusation,
in accordance with the order Of the supreme au-
thories.'
Another letter says that Mr. Benz F. Thrasher,
brother OF the gentleman now in the Punta Castle,
had been arrested and his papers seized. These
consisted only of letters from his school com
panions of years back and few business notes.
The writer says:
.'Ben min Franklin Thrasher, brother Of John
S. Ihrashcr, will not remain long in confinement,
as his whole life has been uumixed with any sort
of trouble, life OF unt'rIng industry TO sustain
himself and his aged parents, who depend upon
his labor for their daily living. The father OF these
young was cilzen of Portland. Me (they
born there,) and came 10 this island eighteen
or twenty years since TO establish bakery, and
the family have lived in quiet Industry and the
exercise OF kindly charity towards the unlor-
tunale OF th~ir own land strangers here, well
as minislerng To the afflicted OF their temporary
home. The father is pdray ytIc. and may be con-
sIderrd Oh dis death bed; aud the mother Is
incompetent, IRON her aye aud sex, to manage
the business, SO that much distress follows d
few days detention ol the froi;, his duties.
We are in hopes that Com. Parker will be here
with the Saranac, which will be Of some
service, perhaps, TO check farther oulrages upon
American citizens, although it will probably oe
too .ate for the case OF j. 5. Thrasher. Ii may
induce the prompt consideration Of his brother S
case aud his release, however"
The Picayune has also been permitted 10 make
the following extract from private letter, re-
ceived by "a gentleman in New Orleans from
give great weight TO his opinions. Speaking of
Mr. Thrasher, he says:
81 am very fearful for our poor friend. He has
been confined upwards oi eight days, 1ncOmuni-
cado, SOLITARY confnement) | understand that
he has made himself bitterly obnoxious to tins
Government, who are fearful that if they send
him out of the island his extensive knowledge oil
the country and people would make him lorIn
dabIe enemy TheY have, therefore, determined
to deal with him in such manner as TO put II out
of his power 10 do them any harm. One OF his
best friends alarmed me very much last night by
declaring that the Government had determined
TO bring him before The Military Commission,
probably next week, and :hat they would use
every endeavor to intlict upon him the extreme
penalty of the Iaw-hinting at the garote!
cannot credit that these people will go to such
extremes but have no doubt that he will be sent
TO preside at Ceuta for ten years."