The Nevada journal., 1852-01-08
f'ef uuums Il cog Express.
Two Weeks later from the Atlantic States.
Dreadful Accident in Neu York--SetAe
ment of the Spanish Difficulties, etc.

nys steamer Northerner arrived at San
Francisco on Thursday night last, at
half past eleven o'clock. She brings
up $40 passengers, and made the run
inside of fifteen days.
The Northerner was detained at Pa
mama in consequence of freshet on the
Chagros river, which prevented the
mails and passengers crossing in the
usual time. The freshet was the cause
of the loss of much property in Cruces
and other towns on the river.
We are indebted to Adams g. Co.
for full files of papers from the Atlantic
States.
We are also indebted to Gregory's
Express for files Of papers from the
States and Europe.
The N. Y. papers give an account
of one of the most fatal and lamenta-
BILE casualties that ever occurred in
that city 1t appears that, during an
alarm created by the fainting of one of
the female teachers, in the Ward School
No. 26, located in Greenwich avenue,
the children, about eighteen hundred
in number, rushed down the stairs for
the purpose of reaching the street.
While doing SO, the balustrade gave
way, causing the fall of great number
Of them to the floor beneath. This, of
course, increased the terror and ex.
citement of the little ones. The scene
which followed is indescribable. As
might be expected, the loss of life was
dreadful. 1t is known that forty two
were killed by falling from the stairs
or from bruises and injuries, and that
others are likely to die.
A Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald writes as follows in
relation to the Cuban affair:
The Spanish difficulty has been ulti-
mately settled and arranged, and the
friendly relations between the Secre-
tary of State and the Spanish Minister,
Calderon de la Barca, are so far re-es.
tablished that the latter will dine to-
morrow with Mr.. Webster. The basis
of the arrangement is the SINE as that
indicated in your correspondence some
days age. The claims will be recon-.
mended in the message to Congress.
IL is not true that any official infor.
nation exists that the dead bodies of
the prisoners executed were subjected
to outrage on the contrary. the official
information leads to the belief that the
bodies were decently inferred. True,
other statements have been made, but
they have no official confirmation.
1t is true that Commodore Parker has
informed the government that the pri-
soners had no trial. He was specially
instructed by the State Department to
make inquiries into the matter. He
waited upon the Captain General, who
declined to receive him in diplomatic
capacity; but at the same time, freely
discussed the whole matter.
The Spanish government holds that
the stipulations of the treaty which re-
fer to American citizens cannot be con.
strued as applicable to men who were
outlawed by their own government, and
who were taken within the Spanish wa
ters engaged in piratical invasion of
their soil.
John 5. Thrasher, who was arrested
some time since in Havana, has been
tried, found guilty of treason, and sem
fenced to the chain-gang in Spain for
eight years. The trial is represented
as being perfect mockery of legal
Investigation. Instructions have been
sent to Judge Sharkey, the newly ap-
pointed Consul, to proceed Immediately
to Havana and demand his immediate
release, or trial as an American citizen.
The Spanish Minister has been furnish
ed with copy of the despatch. 1t is
not improbable but that another diff
Guilty with Spain may grow out of this
affair.
The two branches of the Legislature
OF Tennessee have met in Convention
and elected ez-Gov. Jones, Wing, U. S.
Senator for six years from the 4th of
March next
Hon. Robert Toombs has been elected
U. S. Senator from Georgia.
The members of Congress are be-
ginning to flock into Washington-all
on the lookout for comfortable quarters
They are beginning to descant on the
merits of the prominent men for Speaker
OF the House-a subject with which the
Presidential question is somewhat mix
ed up and every thing belokens long
session and great deal Of political ma
nevering.
A severe storm is reported near Lake
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