May 15, 1865 pg 3

Carson City is the Capital of Nevada
and is said to be the most desirable
place of residence in the new State.
I leave here this afternoon on the
Sacramento boat; get to Sacramento
tomorrow morning and then take the
cars for Folsom. At Folsom, I
get onto the stage for Placerville
and thence to Carson over the
Sierra Nevada Mountains. I dont
anticipate very much of a picnic
in the trip. Riding all night in
a stage coach is no enviable
luxury -- but I reckon I can
stand it, for sweet as I am
I am not "constructed out of candy".

I believe I intimated in my
last that there was a possibility
of my going home shortly. That
bubble has exploded. I could have
gone, but the enterprise presented
a poor prospect of being a paying