The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1873-09-11
LONG BRANCH.
Talk With q Man that Carried
The News OF Nat. Turner'S
IUSurrectiOn.
From Gath in the Chicago TT buue.I
foSC RRANssH Auvust Oh 1879

From Gath in the Chicago TT bune.
Long BRANCH, August %. 1873.
There IL little Knot Of them-all hose
folks-sittiSg outside the stsbses a, Moo
mouth Park. There is Mcdaniel. it
and observsnt, saying little. There y Nc
Grath, thick-se:, ofish, peculiar, 4 ii ne
would rather not, but might, ii aliI~e &c
have his own wav. There is Trace, tall,
blooded-looking, rs if be had horse b,ooo
in him, and could talk only with siammes,
and would much rather neigh. Their are 3
good many more, from all parts: Mobile,
Charleston. the Jerseys, and all the stock.
farms. But l hear an old man with q red
nose cay:
Il rode from Richmond to Wasaingtor
in little over ten, hours, with the news OF
NAT TURNER'S REBELLIoNr'
"Why, how old NAV you bey'
"weil that was in 1881, and Was nc
chicken then"
We expressed desire to hear all about it
Ii seems long while ago. They say hi.
his name il Allison Nailor
"Well," he said, Nat Turner broke oul
in August, 1881, away down in Southamp-
ton county. The whole black population
Wa supposed to be ready for rise up. Thu
Governor and folks wanted man to go te
Washington City with dispatches. and
made the contract. l was to get $500, anC
forfeit it il didn't make il in the required
time. Nobody would ride with me. TIT
scare WA universal, and had q
4 little OF 1t ON me. too,
had authority to make use of horses
private prorerty-on the way, and had only
two colts myself. left Richmond about 6
O'Clock in the evening and changed six
times on the road. That night my stabl,
was set on fire by somebody in Richmond,
but went along, gallop and fast trot, and
changed first at Hanover. Fffty-fve people
had been murdered; how many more We did
not know. 1t grew black as pitch after that
and l seemed to meet more negros than
ever saw before. AT Judge IS on the
stream OF the Mattapony, l broke in hi:
stable-doors, scarcely able to zee, and took
out his best colt. hen it was sallop and
the roads and the wood, worse than each
other, till touched at Bowling Green
There, you see, | was with the news .,
Nat Turner'S rising, thirty-four years be-
fore Wilkes Booth was escaping to The
same town. Short OF Fredericksburg
! ShohStA tOoN u nOIsC ub CiOE>SCO
the bridge at Falmouth. People wondered
a little, but we had good deal of Wild post.
ing in those days, and it was the dead O!
night. You probably know what the North
ern Neck is-mud TO devour man and beas,
but creeping along the fields and wood.
patches, rally and spur all the while, was
thrown nigh Dumfries, and thought had
lost my colt and broken my back. We were
up again in a minute fording, the stream
and at Colchester took nv last horse,
about two O'Clock. Then it was into Pohick
Creek and over the Accontink, and began
to fsel | was earning my money when
passed the woods and fires at Mt. Vernon.
Light struck me at Alexandria, and i saw
that was safe. forgot to say that at one
place | met lot of negroes in the road.
who hallooed, and thought my time had
come; but went down high bank and
CROPPED along in the thicket like bear, sell
| dom losing my pace. IL was a good $500
to me-squal to 81 800 in these times.