The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-06-12
Correspondence Of the Crescent.
The Texan Consistency, SO.
CORPus CHPrsTI (Taxas) Nav 90

CORPUS CHRISTI, (Tsxas) May 30, 1849.
Eds Crescent-Wben l wrote you few days since.
Senior Crescent inviting down Arkansas Bay
and share in the most extensive fishing tureng and hunt
ing witnessed well the freshest air. the
est bathing and the best racing ground you heard
Of forgot to mention that need not trouble yourselves
to bring mosquito curtains with Those little musicians
here that thorough Creole of the Coast F"
hardly get to sleep for the want of their accustomed u
laby In time however learn to submit to almost
pnvaon and getting reconcied to the absence of mos
quito music and the this has every other gift
ask of At short distance from the margin
of the bay rises bold and beautiful buff dotted inter-
walls with cumps of trees and presenting at
surpassed building SITES Along the brow of this command
ing bluff ranged pretty dwellings; among Others
that of Col Kinney the chief proprietor of the town,
well as OF Hacendas enough to cut up into dozen
German dukedoms and herds that would make those of Ho
mers pastoral princes count small The country around
Corpus Christi is considered to be the beautiful and
lovely the Gulf of Mexico scarcely excepting that favored
of Heaven, the Island of Cuba which csms-and admire
it too much to quarrel its exavagant pretensions
to be unequaed in its natural gifts The of Cuba
be boder but the rich verdure of the gently swelling
pranes of Corpus Christi the park like distribution of the
" mats of timber which give and attractive aspect
at STEP the sky and the perpetual of
crystal sheets of water along the wndngs and ndentaons
of the bay lend inexpresble charm this region 1t
softer, freshe and aurng than any thing
in the twenty States OF the Union have visited with
ee nquisitive eye: and beyond ALL it possesses charm
that the Queen of the Gulf has notsOca and
You may think me taken with mania praise without
rhyme but only state candid truth and add
too that the society here excellent and the ladies' would
hold their in circle by their grace and ine
gence and moreover, industry. character good and
few hundred dollars capital will the way indie
pendence here with unusual facility especially farmers
and mechanics. Commerce already well represented, and
the law medicine of here, nobody gets
sick except by accident and there already good phys
clans here to take of accidents and finally the ministry
is wohily represented believe, by gentleman who also
teacher superior boarding school, either here St
Joseph Island would be well supported if once fairly
established.
will write the per contra of this picture if there is
any as soon as find il out myself though yet have dis
covered nothing ocenure but the natenon of the govern
ment to the defence and exploitation of this frontier There
of course shadow of danger in this place of Indian
hostes but they raging unchecked all along the Dor
der. Corpus Christi should be the base of military opera
ons because is within striking distance of geaer range
of exposed towns and settlements any other point and
safe heal by and accessible the for the receipt
supplies all of which does have been fairly
weighed in the scales of the powers that be The In
dams seem to have entered regular of extemna
ton They present themselves in numbers and with method
never before witnessed this border where else
cept occasions of nveerate and predetermined They
kill without all the males, but occasion ally preserve
the females for the fate of sharing their savage homes
They make their attacks parties numbering several hun
dred warriors who readily find their subsistence in the cattle
of the ranches they plumber, well fresh horses when
their give out. Col Kinneys losses in this way will
to $4,000 besides the murder of his people, but
far there has been redress though expected that Col
Harvey will deal with these marauders pretty eectuaIIy if
he is properly sustained by the government
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