St. Johnsbury (VT) Caledonian, "Slave Stampede From Virginia," November 21, 1857

   SLAVE STAMPEDE FROM VIRGINIA.––The Richmond South of Nov. 11th, says that on Sunday night, a family of negroes belonging to Geo. W. Fairfax of Preston County, and consisting of father and mother and five children, took three horses belonging to their master, and made good their escape into Pennsylvania. They were pursued on the next day, and overtaken about two miles from Uniontown, when the negroes made desperate resistance, fighting with knives, hatchets, &c., but were finally captured and confined in jail in Morgantown.