The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1855-10-23 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

AMERICA.  ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA.  BY the British and North American Royal Mail steam-ship America, Captain Lang, which arrived yesterday, we have intelligence from New York to the 9th instant, and Boston to the 10th, $410,000 on freight, and 156 passengers. The Royal Mail steam-ship Canada, hence, arrived at Halifax on the 9th instant.  The Pacific arrived at New York from Liverpool on the 3rd instant.  The North Star arrived out on the sth of October. Nine fugitive slaves from 'Virginia had arrived at Syracuse en route for Canada.  The schooner Ivanhoe, bound from Cleveland to Mackinaw with coal, was run into and sunk on the night of the 4th inst. No lives were lost.  A desperate attack with fire-arms was made upon a mass procession at Baltimore on the night of the 4th. The Democrats of the 18th Ward were returning from a mass meeting when several pistol shots were fired at them by certain parties said to belong to the Know-nothing organization. A young man in the procession named Burke was shot in the head and died shortly afterwards. The supposed murderer was arrested. The affair is said to have originated from an old feud which existed between the adherents of rival fire companies belonging to political clubs. Political excitement was running very high at Baltimore, and torchlight processions and mass meettings were nightly taking place. A commission of United States naval officers .and leading shipowners of New York was to be held for the purpose of testing the merits and capabilities of several boats to be submitted for their inspection, in order to decide upon the most useful and safe lifeboats for ocean-going vessels. One or two models of an entirely novel description were to be exhibited. The War Department at Washington had received a packagef theef thepapomAtmheenSgiouthxelmndls a Indians at the postmaster's blank, evidently taken from some one of the mail agents whom battloee r sBI u takenewat e frr. they robbed and murdered, and is covered with Indian hieroglyphics, apparently intended to detail some of the bloody deeds of the tribe. The massacre of Lieutenant Grattan and his party is evidently one of the subjects of this symbolic history. It is also believed to describe the murder of an emigrating party, composed in part of women. Among the articles captured were two scalps of white women, a small memorandum book, in which some neat penman had noted the incidents of an overland journey; a letter from B. W. Leonard, dated Hermon, July 6, 1855, doubtless taken from a captured mail ; several rather good sketches of Indians fighting, and a portion of the clothing which had belonged to the soldiers of Grattan's party. There can be no doubt that the Indians from whom these things were taken are the same who massacred Grattan and his party. Yellow fever still continued to rage at Norfolk and Portsmouth.  Three persons had been killed on the Boston and Maine line, by the train running off the line. The project of a canal across or through the Isthmus of Darien had again been brought before the Government. Advices from Utah report that the crops were likely to turn out better than was anticipated.  The steam-ship Black IVarrior had arrived at New York with later news from Havana. Great preparation was being made to celebrate the approaching birthday of the Queen of Spain. The Spanish war vessels in port were being made secure, as if a hurricane was expected. A frightful explosion had occurred at a coal mine near Minersville, in which five persons were killed and many wounded. Intelligence from Northern Mexico states that General Castro was still in command of Matamoras. The city was embroiled in trouble, while the revolutionary force was without. The besiegers number 600 to 1,200 and demand the unconditional surrender of the place. General Vidaurri was also marching on them. San Luis de Potosi had been captured by the insurgents, and General Giulan killed. Tampico had pronounced for the plan of Vidaurri, and driven out Cassanova. The French brig of war Orestes and the steamer Acheron were at Havana. The health of Havana good, and business brisk. Freights were advancing.