Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1845-10-02

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LATER FROM CORPUS CHRISTI
1ayi5lo Gt,umlGg. slp'g&oa cNI loss
Of NtH
The Glowing 10 IN extract ola letter
from an pilicer OF the 18th Infantry
Corpus Christi, Texas, Sept 70, -
Dear Sr:--GIoom like pail hangs
over our whole camp, The steamer Day.
ton, while on her from this to Arkansas
to-day burst her boiler when about fifteen
miles from here, and sank in eight feet
water Seven persons were killed. and
seventeen inbred Among the killed
were Lieutenants Higgins and Berry, of
the 18th Infantry; the other names | do not
know, some ofthe bodies not yet having
been found, These, though were all the
officers.
The explosion took place at half past
10 o'clock, in daytime, and DR. Crtten-
den, who was on board, slightly injured,
Informs me that she sank in fifteen min
utes after, and as she went down covered
by the water) another boiler exploded,
with n most terrific report,
Another body deck hand had just
been brought in.
Letters of a subsequent day state that
the bodies Of all those lost had been re-
covered. One Of the wounded, a c0Iored
deck hand, died the next day; the other
sixteen were less injured than was at first
apprehcndcd, and no fears were enter
tanned for them. We trust the number
killed will not exceed eight.
There is no important news from the
army under Gen Taylor, The General
writes that he conceives himself strong
enough to withstand any attack which
the Mexicans at Matamoras may affect
to make upon HIM; and as soon as he re-
ccves further rcinrorcements of regular
troops, he is determined to send back to
New Orleans the two gallant companies
Of volunteers who rushed to his standard
On the morning of the l4th inst.
company Of traders arrived at GIN, lay
lor's camp. They reported that they had
seen within two days march olthe camp,
about two hundred LapPans and as many
Comanchcs Oh their way to Maamoras,
(by invitation from MeXico) to join the
forces TO be directed against Gen, Tay-
lor Thcreport Of the traders was but
half credited.
Lands in Tcras. The Texas Convcn-
ton adopted an act on the nth August
declaring, that as various contracts had
been entered into by the President Of
Texas with diverse individuals, with the
expressed int ntion Of Colonlzlug an c.
normous amount of the puLl.c domain of.
Texas, and further said contracts are
unconstitutional, and therefore, void from
the beginning, and if carried out would
operate as monopoly of upwards of a
million of acres of the public domain Of
Texas, in the hands of few individuals
when, in truth, as is said, the citizen
soldiers and creditors of the Republic Of
Texas had, by the laws and constitution
Of said Republic, clear and indisputabIe
previously subssilng right TO locate upon
public domain thus attempted to be assign
ed to said contractors
l2t, They, therefore, enact, That it shall
be the duty of the Attorney General Of
this State, or the District in which any
portion of the colonies may be situated, as
soon as the organization Of the State shall
be completed, to institute legal proceed
ings against all colony contractors, &c.&c.
The bill provides for the protection of
actual settlers
Cd. That the Legislature is restrained
from extending any contract for settling
colony, and from relieving contractor
from the failure Of the conditions, or the
forfeiture accrung from the non,compli, ;
ance with the contract
3D.. That this Ordinance shall be pre-
scented to the people for their adoption or
rejection at the sare time this Constilu. {
ton shall pc presented to them, and the
returns Of the vote taken on this Ordin. +
ance, etc, etc,
JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT.
We announce with great pleasure the