Worcester (MA) Spy, "The Negroes Leaving," August 25, 1852

THE NEGROES LEAVING.-- We learn from the Rockingham, Va. Register, that on the 4th inst., there was a considerable stampede among the negroes of Pendleton county, in that State, Z. Dyer, Esq., late Clerk of the County, lost three; Cyrus Hopkins, Esq., two; and Elijah Stonestreet, one.-- About a year since, A.W. Dyer, of the same county, lost four of his mot valuable slaves in the same way.