The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-09 00:00:00

LATEST FRUIT TEXAS.

The New York arrived at New Orleans on the Bth
instant, from Galveston• In our files we Imye Houston
papers of the 14th of July.
Agreeably to the proclamation of President llouston,
Congress has convened at Houston. On the 29th ult.
the President delivered his message to that body. It is
a plain document, written with perspicuity, and is princi-
pally confined to a statement of the embarrassed state of
the national treasury. The President is for disposing of
the public lands as the most prompt Wll7 of meeting the
financial exigency. After briefly reviewing the incur•
sions of the Mexicans and his own course relative to the
preparations for an offensive war, he submits the whole
matter to the
;discretion of Congress, recommending
especially to their favourable notice the national navy.
Nothing of importance had'been done by Congress up
to the 4th.

A correspondent ~f the Gukeston Civilian, writirg
from .Corpus Christi, under ditto of the 22t1 of June,
fl.ss

..._,..
'there was an nrrival n few days ago from Reynosa,
of three Americabs and a Mexican. By these men tine
learn that it is Aristl's intention to make his head quar-
ters at Mier with 3,000 men ; also, that the number of
Men at Matamoras does not exceed 1,000. These state-
ments I believe to be nearly correct. The traders (re-
cently detained by the volunteers, and liberated by order
of the President) left apparently satisfied, with about
two-thirds of their property. They have appointed Mr.
Aubry agent to receive any more that may be found. I
understand that two of the captors are fitted out with
two horses, saddles, &c., and gone east. This property
will of course be given up when called for; but should it.
not, it is the determination of those who wish justice
done, to make an expose.
The camp will move to• morrow for the Neuces. All
seem in high spirits, and although one hears occasionally
some grumbling, you may rely, upon it that when called
upon to fight, the men will not be found wanting.
We learn by this arrival that the men are and have
been well supplied with beef, coffee, and sugar, and are
doing very well, and were well i•atisfied.
Several small parties of Indians have recently com-
mitted depredations on the northern frontier. In the
conflicts that ensued between them and the citizens, lives
have:been lost on both sides. Col. Patton was lately
murdere, near his plantation in the vicinity of Bexar.
It is supposed that the murderers were some of the dis-
affected Mexicans. The son of Mr. Antordo Navarro
‘s as recently very dangerously. wounded near Seguin by
the Indians. Heavy rains hive fallen in the vicinity of
Victoria. and the planters are preparing to plant corn
again for a summer crop.
The Hon. W. H. Landrum, while returning from race-
track about one mile west of San Augustine, was shot by
some person .coneealed in a thicket near the road and
very severely wounded.
A French vessel arrived at Matagorda a few days since,
with about twenty emigrants.
In several of the Eastern countries the drought has
been as severe as at the west. In San Augustine county
the crops are almost completely destroyed.
Castro, the Lipan Chief, and his party have left
Houston for the west. The whole tribe of Lipans and
the Tonkewas have been ordered to move to the vicinity
of Corpus Christi, to accompany the army on its march
to the Rio Grande.

Five companies of volunteers left Galveston for Corpus
Christi on the 23d ult. One of these companies was from
St. Louis, under the command of Captain Stevens ; one
from Natches, under Captain Hickey ; one front Tusca-
loosa under Captain Symmes; one from Huntsville, under
Captain Clements ; and one from Perry county.
Trinity- Church, erected by the, Episcopalians of Gal-
veston, was opened for Divine service on Sunday, the
•)t;th ult., the Bev. Benjamin Eaton administering.