Chicago (IL) Tribune, "Miscellaneous Items - A Stampede," October 29, 1859

            MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

   A STAMPEDE. --We learn that on Saturday night last some thirty slaves in all ran off from their homes in Alexandria and Fairfax Counties, Va., near this city. Six were the property of the Rev. Mr. Lippett, of the Episcopal Church, and one of the David Fitzhugh, Esq. Some of them are said to be the property of the estate of the late Commodore Thomas Ap Catesby Jones, and two other gentlemen in the same neighborhood, whose names we have not yet learned. --Washington States.