The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1854-10-07

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The late editor Of the Meridian, in giving
iis reasons for retiring from that position
remarked that he was accustomed to MINK
before he wrote. aud to thins Ms he wrote
from which. d1ubilcs,, we are to inter 'ns'
he considered this incspaeitated hlm 'of
acting q. ,hs editor OF ,ha, rsp~r' ui'
succ.a.or. he assured u, was well c"icu'
lated for the position, and, indeed taxing
the navy editor. asseverstions for granted.
we are warranted in saying that tie CON
pliment was not unmerted. lhe new edi
tor assures us that he has written more on
,ho suffice, of railroads than sny i've men
in this section Of the state, and "e may,
without doing him injustice, believe that he
could, with very little labor to himself
have written rs much more. lie naturally
expect. tina, the extent Of bis labors render
then formidable.
Lutte did we expect, whel few weeks
ago We indited nm article entitled, Have
we a Pacific Railroad among US - that
our old wing cppoueu, would be the man
to reps to it, Little did we thlus that se
should have to wade through two columns
aud hail OF closely printed matter nom
thepeu Of ;hic irmidahle wflteF. We say
formidable. for Ia the article to which We
ailude III ,rc are, II We have counted Alright,
silfy screen Interrogation points In the
Que which succeed. il, directed to lhe editor
Of the Bouhnm Advertiser. there are twelve
more, accompanied with seven exclamation
points, all and singular" Of which he
requests his contemporary to smoke IN his
editorial pipe We must confess. that
when we undertook the discussion Of rail-
road aue1tions. we little anticipated q Job
like this 10 answer his Article we would
have to reprint it, with n reply to each
paragraph which would occupy Tour
columns of our paper. Although, IA the
beginning when we were fresh, we might
have been willing to have undertaken IT /;
now, wheu ,hi. railroad question has b.
come old and our pen, AS wen s' our
readers, requires n now theme, We would,
II 1t ~ all the same to our contemporary,
rather lotego the tax that he has assigned
US
We arr happy to assure the editor, how
ever, that we have never made war on the
Pacific Railroad Company Our remarks
$3.50" Astounding Dyvelopements,' etc -
have been confined entirely To the New
York Company, Of which Mr.. Chatheld
WAS the presiden, "a position which is now
filed by the Hon. r. J. Walker,
We do not know whether the survey to
the Pacific by the New York Company
coo, $4,000 or 81 900. Indeed, we are
no. the proper person to so to Tor inlofma'
ton on this head, aud although the ques.
ton is put to Us, 10 single rule ol three
slyle, us II he intended we should c,pher 1t
out, we shall have to plead that we are
rather dull ia figures, ut this time. The
editor is perhaps aware that surveys are
sometimes made with great rapidly. by
energetic men, and that one rl these has
been known to traverse dislric, of coup-ry
as broad - the State OF Ieyas in single
night But 4 credit is due Tor this survey
it is not to Nh Robert J Walker bu, 70
ihe gentleman whom the Meridian design.
ates as "abul,iye Chalfcid
Bul truce to all this. In the remarks
which we have made N relation to this
railroad question, we have been governed
hy desire to spread before the public cor,
rect Information and to remove ubstfuc
tons which we believed were calculated to
def.a. the great enterprise in which the
State is So deeply interested. We have no
desire to throw any obstacles IN the way of
the New Noik Company, or any other
Company which will build single mile of
railroad in Texas. 1t is stated on the
streets OF Marshall, that news has been
received that oxcsvators and all the neces-
sary tools have been shipped, and tha, they
will soon reach here, when several hundred
hands will be put to work. and tia, the
will be prosecuted with yigor,
The time is short, aud We are wiling TO
wait tbe issue.
TIE Nno.s Nothings and Democracy
The Democratic Executive Committee
OF Philadelphia, at \ recent meeting, in
struc,ed their chairman, Jas. X Ludlow,
Esq, to submit 20 each OF the Democratic
candidates, for national. state, and city
officers, series OF questions, designed to
ascertain whether any Of them werc either
directly or indirectly connected with the
Know Nothugs They all promptly an
svered, that obey had nothing to do with
the order and had no sympathy with its
ohi,.rts They conclude Na follows.