The Texas Republican

Under the above head, the Marshall Meridian contains a long editorial article which we regard as among the richest things out. The following is an extract from it "Doubtless, most of our readers are expecting at our hand a full and succinct account of the giving the State charter for this, to us, all important work. We shall endeavor to give them all the information in our power; but we desire to make one remark, and offer it as our apology for the meagerness of that information. Our readers are aware of the very general complaint that has hitherto been made of the withholding from the public the "sayings and doings" of the leaders in our railroad enterprises. In this lack of confidence and absence of enlightenment, we as well as the public have shared, and have gleaned all our knowledge of the purpose of the Company, or rather companies, by degrees "here a little, and there a little:" but then we have had entire confidence in the integrity of purpose of those concerned, and have been content to bide our time, and wait the issue of the events."

"In this lack of confidence and absence of enlightenment, we as well as the public have shared" yet he has been the special defender of the leaders, when the chief personage connected with the mysterious movements has his name in the paper as one of the proprietors, and could have told him all about them. The whole article is tantamount to confessing what we have all along believed, that he has been, from first to last, acting as the tool of others. He hits "Vox" off in a paragraph Here him "Our information is very meagre. We have received, and publish, a communication from 'Vox,' which, actually, we at first believed was a hoax, played off upon us and our correspondent.' mockery for us to notice him, since his communication was regarded as rather "fishy" by his own particular and usually controllable friend.

The following extract of elegant English and sense is from the same leading editorial "We think, when our readers read over the names of the fifteen smart and clever gentlemen who have used all their influence to injure our best, our vital interests, they will be somewhat surprised, and maybe will remember them at the ballot-box, and the District Court, for some of them practice there." We were not before aware that any of these gentlemen "practiced" at the ballot box. It ought to be inquired into! As to General Henderson's practice at the bar we presume that is gone--demolished at one cruel stroke. But look at the paragraph--such a want of grammar, diction and sense. The editorial machine must certainly have been out of fix. It ought to be more closely watched And, after all this, the editor congratulates himself--yea, "rejoices that he has had the honor and satisfaction of using the pen and joining in the discussion of the successful contractors; and that although we may not, and have not, brought about this glorious result, yet we are on the winning side." Indeed! we fancied he was on the losing side, from his abuse of the "successful contractors," which appears in this same article; unless, indeed, he refers to his own private interests 'There are a good many other revelations in the Meridian's article, which we do not find in any other journal. Among other things, that the Texas portion of the newly organized Company wanted to divert the road from Marshall, and carry it north of Jefferson. Where does he get his information? Again: Our neighbor of the Meridian understands that under the new arrangement, Messrs. Henderson, Mills, Martin, and Wigfall, are cut off from their "moonshine" stock. He does not tell us what damage others have sustained. What becomes of the $600,000 of paid stock issued for our two charters at home, for which certain gentlemen were to be so liberally paid for their "patriotic" services? What about the other charters which were purchased by the New York Company, etc., etc.? We should like to know these things and several others, and among them what the editor means by "abolitive" Chatfield? We cannot find any such word as "abolitive," in any dictionary with which we are acquainted. In conclusion, the editor of the Meridian states that he contemplates, shortly, withdrawing from the editorial chair. This will be certainly a great calamity. Will his friends, who sometime ago refused to receive his resignation, do so now? Do they consider his work as finished?