The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 14, July 1910 - April, 1911 Page: 117
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The City of Austin from 1839 to 1865.
had been established to furnish plank, houses had been built by
October, 1839, in which forty wagon loads of archives, books,
paper and furniture of the Republic were stored.
It was a proud day for the citizens of Austin when on the 17th
day of October, 1839, President Lamar and his cabinet reached
there with a cavalcade, at the head of which was Albert Sidney
Johnston and Col. Ed. Burleson. A bugler heralded their ap-
proach. That night they enjoyed in the Bullock Hotel (kept
then by Mrs. Ebberly) a sumptuous repast. Mrs. Ebberly was a
sister of Col. Bailey Peyton of Mexican War celebrity in 1846,
and who represented General Jackson's district in Congress. Mrs.
Ebberly became a great favorite with the early settlers of Austin
on account of her heroic conduct when the effort was made to
remove the archives.
At that supper many toasts were drunk, among them the fol-
lowing:
"Sam Houston and San Jacinto! They will be remembered as
long as Texas possesses a single freeman."
"General Albert Sidney Johnston-a scholar, a soldier, and a
gentleman; the highest qualities a man can possess."
"The memory or Stephen F. Austin; whatever may be the pre-
tensions of others to the paternity of Texas, we recognize him alone
as the father of this Republic."'
The houses were generally built of hewed logs, being double log
houses, with a passage between. The plank for building was
sawed near Bastrop. Pine logs were squared with a broadaxe and
then placed on a scaffold. One man on the top of the log and
another below, after lining the log, sawed the plank with a whip-
saw. Mr. J. W. Darlington, now ninety years old, with mind
and memory well preserved, assisted in hauling the plank to Aus-
tin. He now lives in Austin. All the public houses were cov-
ered with split boards, rived by hand with a froe. Instead of
being nailed, they were at first weighted down and held in place
by straight logs. After a time the houses were covered with
shingles, which were nailed on. A double log house with a pas-
sage between was built in 1839 on the east side of Congress
Avenue at its intersection with Eighth Street, on the southwest
'The full account of that banquet was published by our State Li-
brarian, E. W. Winkler, in TIHE QUARTERLY, X, 185-245.117
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