The Nevada Journal

A Washington correspondent of the New York Herald writes as follows in relation to the Cuban affair:

The Spanish difficulty has been ultimately settled and arranged, and the friendly relations between the Secretary of State and the Spanish Minister, Calderon de la Barca, are so far re-established that the latter will dine tomorrow with Mr. Webster. The basis of the arrangement is the same as that indicated in your correspondence some days ago. The claims will be recommended in the message to Congress.

It is not true that any official information 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 interred. True, other statements have been made, but they have no official confirmation.

It is true that Commodore Parker has informed the government that the prisoners 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 a diplomatic capacity; but at the same time, freely discussed the whole matter.

The Spanish government holds that the stipulations of the treaty which refer to American citizens, cannot be construed as applicable to men who were outlawed by their own government, and who were taken within the Spanish waters, engaged in a piratical invasion of their soil.

John S. Thrasher, who was arrested some time since in Havana, has been tried, found guilty of treason, and sentenced to the chain-gang in Spain for eight years. The trial is represented as being a perfect mockery of a legal investigation. Instructions have been sent to Judge Sharkey, the newly appointed Consul, to proceed immediately to Havana and demand his immediate release, or trial as an American citizen. The Spanish Minister has been furnished with a copy of the despatch. It is not improbable but that another difficulty with Spain may grow out of this affair.