Louisville (KY) Daily Courier, "Negro Stampede," February 7, 1853

   NEGRO STAMPEDE.––The report is current here that Mr. Berry Hodge's overseer had eloped from that gentlemen's residence in Texas, carrying with him about twenty negroes. 

   At the last accounts Mr. Hodge, with a company of friends, were in hot pursuit. The negroes had got into Mexico.––Paducah (Ky) Jour.