Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-24
. FROM PITTSBURGH.
correspondence of the ohio statesman.l
PITTSBURGH. August 22d, 1867.


city" send greeting after delightful ride
over the popular and celebrated route
known as the 'Pan Handle" I
We left Columbus at two o'clock 7. NJ,
in charge of Conductor Horner, on the
Lightning Express, and after passing on
the wings of the wind through Franklin.
Licking, Coshocton, Tuscarawas ana JET
ferson counties, we found ourselt snugly
roomed at the Monongahela House, the
best hotel in Pittsburgh, and all done in
the brief space of eight hours, the distance
nearly 200 miles.
The village of DeEnison boasts OF
splendid eating house, which should put
to shame the catfish refreshment sa-
looms at Columbus and Xenia. Just think,
dear STATESMAN, of sitting down to table
laden with all the substantials and many OF
the luxuriesI with which the county ol
Tuscarawas abounds. Veritable cream.
pure coffee, butter, sweet as honey, beef
steak, tender and juicy; and better than
all else, polite and attentive walters, some-
thing utterly unheard of and unknown at
the depots above mentioned. They also
have way at the Dennison eating house
of returning to their guests the proper
amount of change due, thing quite
agreeable and refreshing to the travelling
public, by way of change. 80 zn.
The country travelled by the Pan Handle
road is magnificent, and affords rare treat
to the lovers of beautiful scenery. -..1
Through the rich coal fields of old Co.
shocton, the richer wheat fields ofthe same
county and Tuscarawas, the eye is feasted
with diversity of hill and dale, rivers and
brooks, and the traveller feels that he is
passing through Gods country, rich in
minerals, fruits and grain; in short,
wealthy in all things that conduce to the
happiness and enjoyment of man. There
are twelve tunnels on the "Pan Handle
cut through solid rock, the longest
being 2,2OO feet. The effect on the mind
| is grand as the iron horse rushes
madly into these caverns, bearing his pre-
cious burden-into a darkness blacker than
Erebus. Not one ray of light strikes the
eye until the train has emerged from its
temporary hiding place, and you feel posi-
tive relief when day again dawns upon
you. -.r
The great iron bridge that spans the Ohio
river at Steubenville, is splendid struc-
ture 210O feet in length-one of the long
est and the best constructed bridges in the
country. The company was nearly ter
years in building this bridge, and it reflects
great credit upon the builder.
But will close this part of my letter by
stating a fact which will, where it is moi
already known, prove instructive and use
full to the man of business who contem'
plates a trip to the Eastern cities.
The amount of time saved between Gin.
cinnati and New York is seven hours and
fifty-five minutes. The distance saved, oil
rather gained, is ninety-seven miles-quite
an inducement to try the Pan Handle
route.
The city of Pittsburgh appears more
lively and busy than our Queen of, the
West. There is a very large amount o
manufacturing done here, principally il
iron, nails and glass. AS you enter th'
city at night, the lurid glare of lights from
the hundred manufactures and mills, ant
the dusky forms therein employed, remint
one of the Internal regions, as they were
formerly displayed in the Old Museum, il
Cincinnati. Perhaps the greatest source
of wealth to Pittsburgh is her immens'
mountains of coal, millions of bushels o
which are sent on the bosom of freshets t.
Cincinnati, Louisville, Memphis, Vicks
burg and New Orleans. Great is Pitts
burgh, and greater far are her immens
manufactures.
One of the principal features of Pittsbur!
is the depot, which, for elegance, conyen
fence. and the order prevailing in every de
partment, is only surpassed by that nobl
structure, the Union Depot, at Cleveland
Ohio. In addition to the usual offices, sa
looms, ticket offices, telegraph ditto, fount
in WELL l-regulated depots, there is connectet
with the Pittsburgh Union Depot, fin
hotel, situated at the west end. This hote
is located above the railroad offices, and is
No. house in all respects, with the usua
quota of gentlemanly assistants of course
Just opposite to the Union Hotel is one
the finest grain elevators in the Unite
States. The building is covered from to-
to bottom, sides and roof, with slate, and
one hundred and fifty feet high, and contain
lis bins, or receptacles for grain. The to
tai capacity of this elevator is 100000 bush
els. Connected with the elevator are tw
corn shelters, capable of shelling 5000 bush
els per day. The fuel used in running tn
engines of this establishment is corn cobs
not so bushels of coal having been con
sumed during the past year.
r. H. Beeson, formerly wholesale grocer
with Earhart & Butler, of your city,
manufacturing cement in large quantitie
near this city. 1000 barrels is the total G
last years manufacture. His storehouse
situated at No. 27l Liberty street. Atte
looking around may write again.
Yours, K"Y.