New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-03-23
OLD TINES IN THE JERSEYS.


1t il well occasionally TO retrace the steps by which
communities have secured the removal OF great social
evils. The review is suggestive Of rebuke TO those
who cry out against the progress of the toward
better things because it may chance to interfere with
the plans of the selfish.
We we're much entertained few days since in
reading number of The her Jersey Gazette, pub
ii.hed at Trenton, June ID, ISL. One of the first
things which arested our attention was the sdver.
tisemtDt Of &" Gershsm johnson aud james Drake
1t was beaded "Elizsbethrown Stsge-Waggon 20 which
is compIacenuy described as "coarenHm flying
"roegOr with four horses a. the end OF every twenty
% miles. suitable for carrying passengers and their
"bsggsge" 1.-The subscribers "do engage to go
two trips in every week from Philadelphia to Eliza
"bslbtown with this flying stage, after the Goth of
May ISL, and SO continue till timely notice is given
to the pubck. VIII set out from the Bunch of
Grapes, in ThBd-st., between Market and Aych-
81 ,s On every Monday and Thursday morning pre-
csely the rising of the SUM- breakfast q. the Four
Lanes End, shift horses, the New Ferry just
above Trenton Fslls, dine at Jacob Bergens at
Princeton, shit horses, lodge at Brunswick, the
next day at Ezabethtown at 10 o'clock in the fore
moon Z" This was only in the summer when the
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different affair.
The return trip on Tuesday and Friday was on the
same rapid scale. The proprietors OF this flying
stsge wagon beg leave to return their thanks to
all Gentle men and Ladies who have been pleased to
favour them with their custom, aud hope for con-
Finance of the same &c" Seventy-four years
have changed the speed and facilities OF travel and
how much better we realize by comparison with
a., - aifrht
railway trains which Row run daily between New
York ana Philadelphia, ana the time consupet-not
precisely from the rising of the sun until " III
o'clock in the forenoon of the next day for only
the dhtance between Philadelqbis and EIzabethsown
Point, but only some four hours This Is progress.
There is another class Of advertisements which
might answer for the Palmetto chiyary For instance,
THE:
TO BE SOLD-By the subscriber, in Cross
weh. ssneral assortment Of MsSeb,nSi,s; Cedar
u years Old &c.
Here is another
THlRTY SPANISH MILLED DOLLARS
ks" ARp.ase swsy fIon the subscriber. about five
two or tn ee inches high fair complexion. &c He good
tempered fellow when sober bu suky and quau.lsome 10
tired before but as he had trick Of sbsenns ns-f for
three weets at time and returning home, thought
The "trick Of this " fellow Jack seventy years
ago, seems to have many accurate imitators among
the "feows Of our time, especially of Jacks last
abseu,iDg himself" anu not " returning home"
Another advertisement in the paper offers
% One Thousand Continental Dollars Reward " " for
I" securing so that his master may have him again
speero man named Toney, sbou. IS years of age"
Another Advertisement offers Eight silver Dollars
6. Reward" ''to any one who will take up and secure
sin .ny G.oL 60 that his master may &c, him again,
" an onpreptce lad named William Wortill, about
"ls wears Of age" &c; remarkably fond Of play
/" inc On q fife; BY trade miller" &C., &c. NIL
ler. and very good ones .oo run away at the South
yet.
The pspers OF that date abound in advertisements
of this SORT ard show very much the same sor' OIL
slave catching rhetoric now g1nishes the columns
Of our Southern newspapers, only not quite 90 hgmy
colortd Even in New-Jersey, where farmers pio Sed
and foed in the came corn-teds moved IN the same
meadows, and resped in DE same grain fields with
their slave the psiarchal institution affected slaves
with unpleasant desire for Q change Of scene, q
change usually made between two dsys.' The
matters moved with strong desires to restore
the wanderers back to home and happiness And
this reminds of incident which occurred in those
good old times. A slave had run from Nes-Jersey,
and was traced by his master to Connecticut and ar
rested but bis colored brethren gathered round the
master end managed to josie him from his grip on
sambo, TO whom they added the eIbortaton to
make els niger heels fly, while they entertained
the ms.ter-s very safe business, since the NevJer.
sey sisve holders did not sport pistols and bowie.
tniye- II is enough to say that Sambo made pro-
ftsble Improvement Of the eshortation Blu, even in
.ho.e Gsy. SO deeply were many Disguised with the
inquity of negro slavery, and its bareaced contra
dc.ion Of the Declaration Of Independence that they
refused 70 advertise pu,ue their runaway slaves.
In March, 1856, the Legislature Of New-Jer'eJ
parsed IAN act to Prevent the Importshon o.
Slaves into the State Of New.Jeney, In W.
they use the extrsvsgsnt language. "the pl%e.r
Of Justice and humanity require shss me 0No.,vN
"cusOm Of bringing the unofeodins Africans .0@
L" ter native country and connections in'0 .'ss
"d slavery, ought to b d'c0.nf'osn'sa, soa =
soon q. possible prevented, and sound policy 1so
,.o,,s. that the inposss6oa Of
s.vss into this ststs from any 'th<r Sssss ~ e's-
"try rAAs~<r ossh~ II sroA'sssa 'adsf certain