All the western states and territories . r-pshire Volunteers, killed at Gettysburg,gave this description of San Antonio about the year IS59: San Antonio is like Quebec, a city of the olden time, jostled and crowded bymodern enterprise. The latter-day American building, with its four or five stories,and half glass front, overtops the grim old Spanish wall and the dilapidated Mexi-can hacai,which betokens a by-gone era. Here have the Germans settled inlarge numbers, bringing good old fashioned industry along with their lager neat cottages and vegetable gardens are noticeable all about
All the western states and territories . r-pshire Volunteers, killed at Gettysburg,gave this description of San Antonio about the year IS59: San Antonio is like Quebec, a city of the olden time, jostled and crowded bymodern enterprise. The latter-day American building, with its four or five stories,and half glass front, overtops the grim old Spanish wall and the dilapidated Mexi-can hacai,which betokens a by-gone era. Here have the Germans settled inlarge numbers, bringing good old fashioned industry along with their lager neat cottages and vegetable gardens are noticeable all about the suburbs. As 662 TEXAS. a ceneral thin<T, they are a better class of emigrants than those found in our largecities. There is not a steam engine nor a flour mill in San Antonio. All the drygoods, groceries, and manufactured articles needed for a city of eight thousand orten thousand people, whose trade with the frontiers amounts to millions every year,are hauled from the sea coast, one hundred and fifty miles, upon wagons and rude. 3fatn Plaza, San Antonio. S;m Antonio is one of the oldest towns in the United States. The Public; Square is divided by fboCburch and some other buildings into two; or rather the original square, or military plaza, was laid offand improved in , having ou its east side the Church and the offices of priests and officers. In 1731was laid off the main square or Plaza of the Constitution. carts. Plour, potatoes and onions are among the articles of import, the attentionof the inhabitants being concentrated upon cotton and cattle. There is not a goodbakery, a first nor even a second class hotel in the city. Ice, cut from the pondsof ^Massachusetts sells, whenever there is a load in town, at from fifty to seventy-five cents per pound. Nothing is cheap but the tough, stringy grass-fed beef, whichmay be bought in the hoof for from two to two and one half cents per pound. Oneof our New Englanders who spent a day or two in the city, declared that the
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