New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-08-18
The Runaway slaves.


Patrick DOYLE the man who was apprehended
With the runaway in Bracken County has been
tsken Lexington tits stated that he LEFT the Catholic
church few years ago and aiterward believed or pre-
terded TO believe that the Catholics intended 20 muir
aer him The Le1inSfoR 4tids says the general opinion
H. that be s either an imbece or mOnomaniac, and
that some other person persons Of more capacity
must have been engaged in the abduction OF the ne
sroes. The following is from the Lexington Ah0s Of
We saw and converted with Dr. p. T. Barley Of
Harrison Yesterday morning, who had just arrived,
bearing under HE charge the fellow Doyle, alias Kelley,
shas Smith alias Rankin, who was apprehendcd under
the charge Of aiding the negroes 70 escape from this
neghborhood DR.. y. states that the hrst intmauon
the people of Harrison had Of the stampede
men belonging to NJ r. Scott and r. Graft Esqs Of this
city, came into Claysvie, Harrison County Monday
morning. in state Of starvation, and begged 70 be
brought back. They reported between 40 and 20 ne
yroes to DC In the ueghborhood concealed IN the woods
good many persons being present in the village for
the purpose Of attending to the election steps were i'm
mediately taken arrest them DR.. Barley arrested
when alone boy belonging 10 H. H. Duncan, and one
10 Lawson Erdman, of this County, both being arm
ed with revolving pistols On Monday evening about
o'clock the company raised In Claysvie overlook the
aogroes on the Germantown road and had an engage
ment with them, in which Charles w. Fowler, very
respectable Young Of Harrison, was MORALLY
wounded being shot with pistol ball through the ici
Kidney The whites being only ten strong, were com
relled TO retreat
In few inmates the whites were reinforced by ton
others when another engagement ensued, in which
sooh and having pistol ball shot through his hat -
Dupcans horse was shot under him and fell throwing
him in the midst of the negroes but by the good
OF his revolver he succeeded in fighting his way through
them. The whites were now compelled TO retreat
second time. The negroes in the meanwhile became
scattered through the woods and bushes. These Incl
dents took place on the Germantown road betws en-
claysvile and Walters Mills. BY 10 o'clock on Mon
day nigt DR. r. and his small party had met the negroes
two occasions being compelled 20 retreat both times
with the loss Of Duncan and Fowler the former slightly
the latter MORALLY wounded.
At 10 O'Clock Monday night the whites were rein
forced by three four hundred recruits The rest OF
the night and Tuesday spent in securing the woods
up and down Licking River and it, tributaries. party
also pushed TO the Ohio, TO have Fosters Landing
Dover and ether places along the river guarded On
Tuesday the white arrested by Henry ana
Nimrod Wood and Thomas Ellis, on Driit Run. The
whites with great difficulty restrained from hang
ing the prisoner the spot But at the earnest soica
ton of Gen Desha, he was spared He was then ear
ricd 20 Claysville before three magistrates tried and
committed DR.. b. states the most intense excitement
prevailed through the country, several thousand men
securing the country between Licking and the Ohio
rivers. The mob swore they would massacre Doyle
on the ground but were through the enireaes
Of Deshs and others induced spare him and let hin
20 10 jail
DR.. b. and some others secretly removed Doyle from
the s OF Cynthiana at IL O'Clock Wednesday night
and arrived in this city early yesterday morning and
lodged him In jail Doyle brought here for fear
tho excited populace would pull down the jail Of Gym
thans and hang him, Upt Wednesday night, thirty
three negroes had been arrested and one killed