"The next event throught San Marvers, a large place, and a little lording town. And the road was not hard but we got over it at the rate of 30 miles per hour. We passed trough one large village, and Buda near Austin was the only one meeting, it is 87 miles by road from San Antonio to Austin. All the hotels at Austin are said to be dirty, and the cleanest one in Luto Hotel. It has no charms for me, and besides has my rooms at $2.00 per day. A first hotel in building and in any comforts more the travelling public can treat comparatively. Later full of some clothing that I have and myself into the After my arrival I walked up to the Capit- of built red granite. It is large and impressive. Large grounds all about it, and the walk up to the Capitol is lined with monuments com- memorative of the Confederates dead. Their inscriptions do not hide their feeling, on the statements that the north defeated them; site from keeping the Constitution - State Rights-and that they had the site to succeed for the Union.