The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-03-11

aroused, and 1t was determined to ferret out this
vermin brood from the colonies Great copster-
hation took place among the pirates on finding
Justce In pursuit eff them, and their old haunts
turned to places of peril. They secreted their
money and jewels in lonely out of the way pla-
ces; buried them about the wild shores of the
rivers and sea coast, and dispersed themselves
over the face of the country
Among the agents employed to hunt them by
sea was the renowned Capt. Kidd He had long
| been hardy adventurer, q kind of equivocal
borderer, half trader, half smuggler, with a toll
cradle dash of the pickaroon. He had traded
ior some time among the pirates, lurking about
the seas in little rakish, musquito built vessel
Prying into all kinds of odd places, as busy as q
Mother -Cary's chicken in gale of wind.
This non descript parsonage was pitched upon
by government as the very man to command
vessel fitted out to cruise against the pirates
since he knew all their haunts and lurking places
acting upon the shrewd old dmaxim of setting
rogue to catch rogue" Kidd accordingly
sailed from New York in the Adventure galley
gallantly armed and duly commissioned, and
steered his course to Madeiras Bonavista. to
Madagascar, and cruised at the entrance of the
Red Sea- Instead, however, of making war up
on the pirates, he turned pirate himself-captu-
red friend or foe-enriched himself with the
| spoils of q wealthy Imdiaman, manned by Moors,
though commanded by an Englishman; and hav-
ing disposed of his prize, had the hardihood to
return to Boston, laden with his wealth, with
crew of his comrades at his heels
His fame has proceeded him. The alarm was
given OF the re-appearance of this cut-purse of
the ocean. Measures were taken for his arrest !:
but he had time, it is said, to bury the greater
part of his treasures He even attempted to
| draw his sword and defend himself when arrest
, ted; but was secured and thrown into prison,
with several of his followers, They were car
ried TO England in frigate, where they were
tried, condemned, and hanged at EXECUTION Dock
Kidd died hard for the rope with which he was
first tied up broke with his weight and he tum-
bled TO the ground; he tied up q second
time, and effectually; from whence arose the
story of his having been twice hanged.
Such is the main outline of Kidd't history ::
bnt it has given birth to an innumerable progeny
| of traditions. The circumstance of his having
! buried great treasures of gold and jewels after
returning from his cruising set the brains of all
the good people along the coast in ferment.
There were rumors of great sums found here
aud there; sometimes in one part of the country,
sometimes in another; of trees and rocks bear
| ing mysterious marks, doubtless indicating the
spots where treasure lay hidden; of coins found
with Moorish characters, the plunder of Kidd's
! eastern prize, but which the common people took
for diaboical or magic inscriptions.
Some reported the spoils to have been buried
in solitary unsettled places, about Plymouth
and Cape Cod. Many other parts of the eastern
coast, also, and various places in Long island
Sound, have been gilded by these rumors, and
have been ransacked by adventurous money
diggers