Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-03-01
INC IlstorI q Flond.
We have been furnfshsd ni1h tho tnIlou.

ing VeracLous history OF the. great yirgfaia,
fugitiye+by the.stde Of whom Pratt, .sths
great American traveller" is not a circums
stance-Whtch Is t'dohe ,up,p as the reader
will see, after the style of the memoirs of
noted individuals, which are trotted out ia
the metropolitan papers every time their
names are mentioned
]. B. Floyd was born III jamestown, Va.
in 1889. His father was born in Africa,
and claimed to have been passenger in
the ark, and to have settled In Africa di.
rectly after the food, whence he derived
his name. His mother-like all the ma
ternOl ancestors Of the F. r. V.,s-Was an
Indian BquaW, her name being Nah.he.no.
Wenah-or mother of the great thief. The
subject OF our memoir early discovered a
talent for petit larceny, and it was the
boast of his mother that he conld steal the
wampum from all the chiefs in council
without detection. It is related on one
occasion that when Gov. Berkely, the old
cavalier, as he was popularly called, was
on Temporary visit to Jamestown TO ne
gotiate with the famous rebel Bacon, that
young Floyd stole the old gentleman's
| snuff box while, he was in the net of taking
la pinch of snuff. This little circumstance
so exasperated the old royalist that be or
der0d the village to be burned to the
ground, and all the inhabitants TO be hung
for high treason. Among those who thus
persisted were the parents of young Floyd.
The latter, however, escaped into Carolina,
where he liTed by his wits, developing his
natural talentfor thieving and chtcanery,
until his character became so we'll estab-
lished that he was called into the cabinet
i 4 IL 4
himself by grand coup de Misunderstanding
stolen the greater part of the arms of the
republic, robbed the government of the
Indian trust bonds, baRged large num-
Der OF forts and custom houses, and
fled but having gained fortunes with
various gangs otfree6ooters he attempted to
return to the scene of his former robberies.
and sack the capital. FailinR in this
he took up his abode with his band of
treebooters atR place called Cheat Noun.
tain, but being discovered thera, and be-
ing too coWardly to fight, he stole away To
stronghold called Fort Douelson, where
being again discovered and cornered. the
alternative Of desperate fight or capture.
seemed certain, when, however, his pecu.
liar talents again came to his aid, and he
succeeded in stealing out of the fort under
cover of darkness with a portion of his
gang, and is at present engaged looking nm
a townsman of his by the name of Wise.
who stole away from Mays Head in most
masterly manner, about the same time
Gen. Floyd is nbout 159 years old, feet
ID inches in hight, Woolly hair, when not
covered by wig, hooked nose, cross
eyed, circumstance which enables him To
keep good lookout in all directions
and has complexion which resembles
rye.aud-Tndian bread.
The most artistic and finely colored por-
tfalt We have yet seen of Floyd is drawn
by the editor of the Philadelphia Nort6
american. We produce the outlines:
There are many tribes of villains, with
varying types Of villainy, from murierers.
prisoners, and pirates to midnight foot
pads aud housing sneak-thieves. Each
tribe has its grades of criminals. each
type its shades of crime, from wickedness
made almost respectable by courage, to
depraYity crowned by basest coWardice and
by treaChery to traitors. Ofilhs lowest
tribe, and lowest in that tribe, is one Floyd
"a fellow mixed of!All the elements of
meanness, and whose Christian name we
withhold, sluco itis.a shame to Ohristsn
dom that such a thing WAS ever born with.
IInits borders or baptised with its holy
symbols. His career-if we may so call
his secret, sinuous and slimy track-has
placed him before all rivals in the ranks Of
living sconndrelism, and fully up with the
vilest OF buried villains.