The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-08-22

Our readers are aware of the fact that large
number of negroes left the neghborhood of Lexing-
ton in body few days since, which created a
great excitement from the apparent organization
with which the move was effected. The whole
party have been ere this secured. We gather the
following particulars from the Kentucky papers
Patrick Doyle, the man who was apprehended
with the runaway negroes in Bracken county, has
been taken to Lexington 1t is stated that he left
the Catholic church few years ago, and after
wards believed or pretended to believe that the
Catholics intended to murder him. The Lexington
Atlas says the general opinion is that he is either
an imbece or a monomaniac, and that some other
person or persons of more capacity must have been
engaged in the abduction of the negroes. The fol-
lowing is from the Lexington Atlas of the l1th:
We saw and conversed with Dr. B. F. Barley,
of Harrison, yesterday morning. who had Just ar
rived, bearing under his charge the fellow Doyle
alias Kelley, alias Smith, alias Rankin who was APP
pretended under the charge of aiding the negroes
to escape from this neighbOrhood DR.. B. states
that the first intimation the people of Harrison had
OF the stampede, two negro men belonging to NJ. II.
Scott and B. GratZ, of this city, came into Claws
vile, Harrison county, on Monday morning. in
state of starvation, and begged tdbe brought back
They reported between forty and seventy negroes
to be in the neighbOrhOod, concealed in the woods
good many persons being present in the village,
for the purpose of attending TO the election, steps
were Immediately taken to arrest them. DR.. Bark
ley arrested, when alone, boy belonging to H. T..
Duncan, and one to Lawson e. Erdman, of this
county, both being armed with revolving pistols.
On Monday evening, about O'Clock, the company
raised In ClaysVille overlook the negroes on the
Germantown road, and had an engagement with
them, in which Charles w. Fowler, a very respect
able young man of Harrison, was MORALLY wound
ed, being shot with pistol bail through the left
kidney The whites being only ten strong, were
compelled To retreat. In a few minutes the whites
We're reinforced by ten others, when another en-
gagement ensued, in which Joseph Duncan was
wounded in the mouth, loOsing tooth, and having
a pistol ball shot through his hat Duncan's horse
was shot under him and fell, throwing him in the
midst of the negroes but by the good of his
volver, he succeeded in fighting his way through
them. The whites were now compelled to retreat
a second time. The negroes in the meanwhile be-
came scattered through the woods and bushes
These incidents took place on the Germantown
road, between Claysville and Walters Mills. By
10 O'Clock on Monday night, DIR. B. and his small
party had met the negroes on two occasions being
compelled to retreat both times, with the loss of
Duncan and Fowler, the former slightly, the latter
mOrtally wounded.
At 10 O'Clock on Monday night the whites were
reinforced by three or four hundred recruits The
rest of the night and Tuesday was spent in scour-
ing the woods up and down Licking river and its
tributaries A party also pushed on to the Ohio.
to have Fosters Landing, Dover, and other places
along the river guarded. On Tuesday the white
man was arrested by Henry and Nimrod Wood,
and Thomas Ellis, on Drift Run. The whites .
were with great difficulty restrained from hanging
The prisoner on the spot But, at the earnest solicit
tation Of Gen. Desha, he was spared He was then
carried to Caysvile, and before three magistrates
tried and committed DIR. b. states the most intense
excitement prevailed through the country, several
thousand men securing the country between Lick
TIfI ll,a1 i
would massacre Doyle on the ground, but were
through the earnest entreates of Desha and Others
induced to spare him, and let him go to jail
DR. b. and some Others secretly removed DOYLE
from the Jail of Cynthiana at II O'Clock on Wednes-
day night and arrived in this city early yesterday
morning, and lodged him in Jail DOYLE was
brought here for fear the excited popuIace would
pull down the Jail Of Cynthiana, and hang him.
Up to Wednesday night, thirty-three negroes had
been arrested and one killed.