Glasgow Courier. — 1855-07-17 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE.  By the arrival from Boeton, via Halifax, on Sunday morning in the Mersey of ths Royal Mail steam-ship Asia, Lott, oensumoder, we are la the veeelpt of adrift. hes ' Sew-York to tbe 3d, Douai the 4th, and Halifax the lith instant. The Asia was detained by fog for twelve bears outside the harbourof Halifax; at V. 30 on Saturday she passed Cape Clear; and at 10.64 r.m., passed the United States Mail steam-ship Atlantic, for New-York. The Asia brought 218 passengers and $8.44,167 in specie on ['Ugh t.  There are no political advieee of the least interest. The President and his lady had left Washington for the sea shore, for the benefit of the latter's health. Mr. Cramr ton, our Minister to the United States, is reported to have taken offence at the administration for preventing the departure of recruits for the Crimea. Upwards of ten thousand persons had attended a mess meeting for opposing the now prohibitory Liquor Law. In the Park, at New-York. All the speakers denounced the law as fanatical, unconstitutional, and totally inadequate to promote the cause of temperance, or other useful purpose; while on other hand, it would destroy millions worth of property, and blast the prospects of their fellow citizens. They passed resolutions accordingly. The Hon. Abbott Lawrence, late American Minister it London, was dangerously Shipbuilding continued in a very depressed state. Suicides alid deaths from sun-strokes had become of frequent occurrence at New-York. One of the former eases had osused z great deal of excitement, from the -vs of their own rashness baelug been found, locked \ other's arms, on a settee in an open balcony.  The Panama Railroad Company bad declared a semiannual dividend of six per cent. A gingham establishment at South Hadley Falls, Springfield, known as the Glasgow Mills, had been destroyed by fire. One man was killed, and two were injured. The loss was estimated at from $200,000 to $250,000:.  - The Illinois Central Railroad Company bat discovered coal on its lands.  Advises from Utah Valley speak of every prospect of a good harvest in Salt Lake Valley. Great excitement on the subject of gold found on the Sweet Water was manifested, and numbers were leaving for the diggings. A good deal of anxiety was also manifested about the gold diicovered on the head waters of the Red Mier, in the territory west of Arkansas, and many were awaiting the return of messengers previous to starting. A movement in North Carolina is soon to be submitted to the Legislature of that State, to render legal the institution of marriage among the slaves; to preserve sacred the relations between parents and their young children; and to repeal the laws prohibiting the education of glares. It is stated the main features of the movement have been adopted in practice during many years by nearly all classes in the eouth, and the effect has been sosalutary that it is now deemed expedient to incorporate the system into a legal form, and to make it as general as possible. In the United States Circuit Court, at Boston, Judge , Curtis had decided in the case of the brig Porpoise, that 1 a vessel which bad acted as a tender upon slavers, and had carried merchandise which was used for the purchase of slaves, and had otherwise aided in the slave transportation, although she had not actually carried a single slave was guilty of being engaged in the slave trade within the meaning of the statute. The brig was consequently declared forfeited. Donald M'Kay's model of the new steamship Cradle of Liberty, intended for the new line between New-York and Liverpool, had been placed in the Exchange News-room for exhibition. The steamer is to be 325 feet long, 45 broad, and 31 deep. A meeting of the merchants and all others interested in the new line was lobe held at the Exchange in a few days. The Montreal Pilo! says—' We yesterday visited the barracks here for the purpose of seeing the recruitslying there, waiting to be forwarded to their destination, to form part of the Foreign Legion in the Crimea. They are upwards of thirty in number, and the majority of those we saw were under twenty years of age—young, thoughtless lads. They are enlisted for three years, at $8 a month—this is very little more than the old miserable shilling a day for the British soldier. These recruits are chiefly Germans. There are two or three Irish; and Pat here wasjust as we always find him, when poor and friendless, brimful of humour. In the course f conversation rat expressed his anxiety to be sent off before Sebastopol was taken, for if it was taken before he got there, he would lose all the glory.' There is but one Scoteliman in the party; he is from Glasgow, and ' has been about sixteen months in Canada. With him it was the old story—he joined the Legion because 'he was on the spree.'