Philadelphia's Ancient Lockup

An oíd English dungeon has been brcraght to light by the tearing down of a building in the rear of a piokle f actory on Spruce street, below Second. The building is thought to have been more than 300 years old. Every brick in it was brought from England, and the building was once the pride of the little colony that lived here. It was originally, it is said, the courthouse of the settlement, and underneath the gronnd were those dungeons or cells in which prisoners were kept. It is supposed that the cells were used as temporary places of confinement, and not for prisoners serving long terms, niuch the same as the "lockups" or station houses of today. The bricks axe as solid as in the days of old and will be used again in another building. The old house has been burned ont several times, but the walls were never damaged much. The whole neighborhood is an interesting one. The building adjoining the one torn down has a fourth floor, which is windowless. Instead of the usnal windows it has portholes, slanting downward, from which, "in days of old, when knights were bold, "men probably picked off prowling Indiana or mies of some kind. -