New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-17
LETTER FROM TEXAS.
MARSHALL, Texas, June 9, 1871.

EDITOR REPUBLICAN:
Supposing your goodly number ofreaders
would appreciate and feel some interest in
this place, the future terminus of the great
Texas Pacific railroad. have taken the
liberty of soliciting room in your valuable
columns for this, which l hope will be ac-
ceptable to yourself and entertaining to
your readers.
The town proper is situated about one
half mile from the depot of the present
Southern Pacific railroad. The first object
seen on approaching it is the cupola of the
courthouse, one of the finest in Eastern
Texas. The next most conspicuous build
ing is the Capital Hotel, j. N. Coleman
proprietor; and good house it is, as Mr..
Coleman "kn0ws how TO keep hotel" for
which the proprietors of hotels in Eastern
Texas are not famous; but this is noble
exception.
Visitors, after looking after their physi-
cal we'll being, can find ample means in the
six churches for their spiritual we'll being.
Every denomination of the Christian
brotherhood is here represented, except the
HOW CdCHOllC S0uTCn
In the way of manufactures we have
three sawmills, two brick yards, two car
riage factories, where is turned out some as
fine work as we import from the East, one
brewery, and it is extremely patronized,
and there are many other minor industries
we'll represented. We have here one of the
finest nurseries in the State, which is well
patronized, as our planters are looking to
the beautifying of their homes, as we'll as
making provision for the necessaries of
life. There will be large demand for
fruit trees this coming fall, and Messrs
Turner & Able, proprietors of the Harrison
county nursery, will be able to meet it.
The population of our ''burgh," for it is
but such, ranges between $500 and 1000, &C
cording to various estimates.
Up to date there has been shipped 1000
bales of cotton, while last year, owing to
this having been the terminus of the rail
road, and consequently all the cotton from
radius of three hundred miles came here,
10000 bales were shipped.
We believe that there is still some cotton
vet TO come forward, which has been kept
on tn farms, owing to the low price, and
we opine the total amount shipped by the
first OF September next will reach 10000
bales.
We have three weekly papers here, the
Reporter, East TeraS Bulletin and the Mar
shall Weekly, the two former Democratic,
and now engaged in the bloody work of
| cutting each others throats, and now and
then pitching into the Weekly, Republican,
with their usual abusive personalities and
blaekguardism.
One of them, the Reporter, seven by nine,
will soon play out, as the county can not
support three papers, and many good Dem
Gratis take the Weekly, though it be Repub-
lican, but the best of the three.
You will see by the papers of this town
that there have been some terrible, bastard
ly outrages perpetrated at. Hallville and
Longview, on the railroad west of here
Notwithstanding the assertion of the
East Teras Bulletin, to the contrary, the
colored citizens of both those places hunted
the miscreants down, though they were col
| ored and delivered them to the civil
| officers Both were charged with attempts
at rape on white ladies, one of which was
successful. Both villains met with summa-
nv punishment at the hands of Judge
Lynch by hanging
The Bulletin says in one of these cases
the colored citizens protected the negro al
Hallville, but it ia false, for they captured
| him and delivered him to the proper
officers.
No more at present, but if you SO desire
will be pleased to wait on you.
| PRO BONO PUBLICO.