A PEEP AT THE oLDEN TINE.
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Workmen busily employed in pulling down the
old edce in Chestnut street, Philadelphia recently occupied
by the Bank of North America, preparatory the erection of


structure. Among the papers slowed away in the gar


of this venerable pile of brick and (says the Pha
delphia Bulctin old newspapers have been found
which, compared with the large sheets Of the present day.
quite curiosity We have been furnished with Of these
relics of the oden time. II is entitled "The American Week
y Mercury, published Philadelphia by Andrew Bradford,
and bearing date November 2s 1928 In order that read
may form idea how things managed in this
city just hundred and nineteen years ago. extract the
following advertisement from the paper before US


USr arrived from London, in the ship Borden, Uiiiam
- Hubz commander parcel OF young likely Men Ser
wants consisting OF usbandmen Joyner Shoemaker Wea
vers Smiths, Brekmakers Brckayers, Sawyers, Tayors,
Saymakers Butchers Charmaker and several other ale
aud are to be sold very reasonable either ready Money
Wheat, Bread Flour, by Ef4vard Horne, Philadelphia


Our contemporary is perhaps too young to have
seen, what many Philadelphians yet living can re-
member to have seen vessels loaded with cargoes
Of such live stock the above, lying in the stream
Of the Delaware, of Sassalras and Calowhill streets,
waiting for customers to come off and buy. Ii he
will look into the file of Franklin's paper in the Lii
brary of the Philosophical Society, or indeed into
any Boston or New York paper of the same date,
he will find frequent advertisements for runaways
Of the above class Of white slaves, with marks and
clothing described and rewards offered for their ap-
prehension and commitment to any jail so that their
owners may get them again. As recently since
the of 1912, vessel so freighted found her
way up to Annapolis, and there disposed of her
freight; number Of the men having been bought
by Members of Congress, (hen in session here) and
sent TO the Western country. In that country, how
ever, we fancy they not long in servtude.
We hazard litle indeed. in the conjecture that some
Of them able, by the reward of their free
labor buy out the whole possessions of those who
were once their masters