"Four able-bodied men," form the subject of the subjoined
correspondence:
WILMINGTON, 11th mo., 4th, 1856.
ESTEEMED FRIENDS, J. Miller McKim and William Still:--Captain
F., has arrived here this day, with four able-bodied men. One is
an engineer, and has been engaged in sawing lumber, a second, a
good house-carpenter, a third a blacksmith, and the fourth a
farm hand. They are now five hundred miles from their home in
Carolina, and would be glad to get situations, without going far
from here. I will keep them till to-morrow. Please inform me
whether thee knows of a suitable place in the country where the
mechanics can find employment at their trades for the winter;
let me hear to-morrow, and oblige your friend,