Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-12-20

Pom the Pittsburgh pispa.ch.

Pom the Pittsburgh Dispatoh.
The famous and at one time i'm.
mensely popular hotel, the Danforth
House, Pithole City, which cost S2s..
600, was sold on Friday last for $40
note; and the furniture, which cost So
900, brought less than 500. And that
leads to speculation on the rise, the elo-
ry, and the fall of that once famous
city. Within one month from the com.
pletion Of the first house she had an $50
600 hotel. In two months she had a
daily paper, and fast one it was, too.
In three months she had theatre
THAT theatre went to Pleasantyille,
thence to Lawrenceburg, thence to Par
ker's Landing, thence to where the
woodbine twineth, in the second great
IRE at theLanding last winter.) In four
months she bad another theatre and an
academy of music. In five months she
had her celebrated fire extinguisher, o
curious invention for throwing mud,
sired by live Yankee, and id by ne.
cessity, for the city had no water--thc
people all drank whisky. In six months
she had seventy-four hotels and board.
ing houses where the substitute for wa
ter was dispensed. In seven month the
Miller farm-pipe line was completed,
which event threw 1000 men and 1900
horses out of employment, and Pithole
City had reached the zenith of her glo.
ry. She had at that time $4,000 inhab-
itants, elaborate water-works, and all
the paraphernalia of city government.
She has now no theatre, no newspaper,
no hotel, no telegraph Office (the tele-
graph Office closed for time aud eternity
last week., aud but nine families out of
all that multitude. The Pithole and
Oleopolis railroad runs but one train of
one car day, and that only to hold the
charter -f
An INCIDENT. There were several
incidents of unusual interest in debate
of the House on Tuesday Of last week.
which viii be considered by the rea-
der as worthy of attention. Alexander
II. Stephens, Ex Vice President of the
Southern Confederacy, aud after four
teen years absence from the House, took
part in the debate. As his name was
called an almost oppressive silence fell
upon the House, and the members gath
cred in semi-circle around him, many
of them sitting upon the floor at his
feet. The faces i'll that group suggested
many historical recollectIOns. Near Mr..
Stephens were several Ex-CoDfederate
Generals, and leaders of the secession
cause. They sat side by side with the
most extreme Northern Radicals, and
heard Alexander Ii. Stephens speak,
with marked enthusiasm, of our com
mon country, and of the dignity and
respect in which Congress and the flag
of the nation should be held. The House
which, two days ago, upon motion of
Horace Maynard who framed it repealed
the test oath, and OH the occasion, lit
orally sat at the feet Of the second man
of the rebellion. Mr. Stephens was as
sisted to his feet by member and
page, and during the forty minutes of
his speech stood supported by crutch.
His voice had much of its old time clear
ness, and there was vigor and force in
it which surprised those who looked up
on his withered, feeble frame. He wore,
throughout his speech, the black-skull-
cap which he always wears while in his
seat. His speech was scholarly and dig
nified, but his recommendations, like
most of his utterances, were those of an
idealist.