A Slave Stampede.
The Annapolis Republican says, Ten valuable slaves belonging to Col. G.W. Hughes, of West river in this county, left his farm in a body on Tuesday morning last. At Queen Annes, about twenty miles from Col. Hughes's, two of them, who went there to get something to eat, were captured by Mr. Thomas E. Alvey and Mr. Richard H. Herwood. The rest of the negroes, who were a short distance off, waiting their return, suspecting from their long absence that they had been arrested, started in pursuit, and coming upon them at once with a bold rush, released their two comrades. A desperate fight occurred, and two of the negro men were, we learn, dangerously wounded, and left upon the field of battle. This seemed to frighten and deter the negroes, because they as speedily as possible returned home to their master. The two wounded were sent for and properly cared for.
"A Slave Stampede," New Albany (IN) Daily Ledger, September 4, 1858, p. 3.