From The Penin­su­lar Courier & Fam­ily Vis­i­tant of 19 Sep­tem­ber, 1867, page 8, col­umn 3

WESTON THE PEDESTRIAN.— Edward Payson Weston¹, the pedes­trian, who cre­ated some­what of a sen­sa­tion in 1861 by walk­ing from Boston to Wash­ing­ton against time, aver­ag­ing fifty-​​one miles for the ten con­sec­u­tive days, has been pit­ted against his old antag­o­nist, to walk from Port­land, Me., to Chicago, Ill., a dis­tance of one thou­sand two hun­dred miles, in twenty-​​six walk­ing days, for the sum of ten thou­sand dol­lars a side. The arti­cles of agree­ment pro­vide that Weston is to per­form his ardu­ous labor in thirty days, with­out walk­ing between mid­night on Sat­ur­day and mid­night on Sun­day; and is to walk one hun­dred con­sec­u­tive miles inside of twenty-​​four con­sec­u­tive hours as a part of the feat. The start from Port­land will be made between the 1^st and 15^th of Octo­ber. On this trip Weston will pass through parts of ten dif­fer­ent States, and more than three hun­dred cities and towns.

¹A num­ber of other pieces on Weston are in the stack wait­ing to be tran­scribed; he was appar­ently quite the celebrity of his day.