Glasgow Courier. — 1859-01-11 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE.  The British and North American Royal Mail steamship Arabia, Stone, commander, arrived in the Mersey on Sunday morning, from Boston, with the New York mails of the 28th, Berton of the 29th, Halifax of the 30th, and telegraphic advice. from the former port, via Halifax, to the evening of the 30th ultimo, eeventythree passengers, and $76,696 in specie on freight. The Arabia anchored off Formby Lightship for shout two hours and a half, having been in collision, about four o'clock, with is polacco-rigged brig, towing out; sent boats to her assistance, and found she had lost cutwater and bowsprit, but was making no water. On the 31st ultimo the Arabia passed the United States mail steawship Fulton, forty miles east of Halifax; on the4th lest., in lat 51 N., lon. 37 W., the American ship Baltic, standing to the southward; on the 7th, in lat. 52 N., lon. 15 W., the ship Greenock, standing south; and on the Bth, off Hollyhead, the steamship Europa, outward hound. The screw-steamship Edinburgh, horn Glasgow, arrived at Now York on the 22d ult. The royal mail steamship Asia, from Liverpool, srteed at New York on the 27th ult. The steamship Ariel, from Havre and Southampton, via Halifax, arrived at New York on the 26th ult. The screw-steamship Kangaroo, from Liverpool, arrived at New York on the 26th ult., having experienced heavy westerly gales the entire passage. The steamship Saxonia, from Hamburg, arrived at New York on the 24th ult.•' she had to lay•to from the 10th to the 15th, during a gale from N.N. W. The Omani screw•steaniship Karnak, from Liverpool, arrived at New York on the 25th ult.; had to lay•to for 80 hours, owing to heavy westerly gales. The steamship Pacific, from Galway, on the 90, arrived at St. John's, Newfoundland, on the 23d ult. She encountered a succession of heavy westerly gales, and was struck by a sea during a hurricane on the 15th, which carried away her bulwarks, and stove the longboat and paddle-box. It will be seen, from the following telegram, that another filibustering vessel had escaped:—" New Orleans, Dee. 28. A suspicious-looking schooner, supposed to have on board a party of filibusters, went to sea yesterday. The United States Revenue cutter fired a blank shot and then shottecl gun at them, but the schooner kept in shoal water and escaped. It is reported that Collector Hatch is collecting a large force, and has chartered a steamer to prevent the sailing of fihbuster expeditions to Nicaragua." Walker was believed to be in the vicinity of Mobile. The Washington correspondent of the Evening Post says that the schooner Susan landed her filibuster passengers on the banks of the Rio Colorado, near its mouth. About one thousand men had previously arrived. Judge Russell had refused an application for the release of James Sutton Elliott, the defaulting storekeeper of Weedon _ • .  rived  rived  —„—. It is re ..rted that a band of 200 men made an attack on Fort .tt, Kansas, and five or six persons had been killed. The object of the attack is believed to have been the release of one of Montgomery's men, confined there under indictment for murder. _ _ . . . .  I--F;;;M-V;;:a—