The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-06
CAPTAIN KIDD.
SpiritunIisTic Enthusiasts Hunting for His
BuTicd treasure.

spiritualistic Enthusiasts Hunting for His
BuTicd Treasure.
According to a correspondent of the Boston
TraUeler, there is great excitement in Alabama
over hunt for Captain kidd's buried treasure
The writer sayS--
When we were Mt Mobile searching for the
lines of earthwork which were erected at the
time it was besieged we fell in with a specimen
of the ''poor whites" of the South. He followed
us wherever we went, scrutinizing closely every
movement we made, and eEclaming every few
moments, ''What on alrth ar yer looking arter
forts and things for which have long since been
dug away 2" In spite of oil endeavors TO
make him believe that all the purpose we had in
wandering over these fields was TO find whore
a fort had been, he still claimed the privl-
lege of doubling our word. Towards nightfall,
atIer he had been with us nearly five hours, he
began to give out and complained of fatigue and
hunger, and at the same time asked anXiOusly
when we intended to 90 back TO the city. Taken
with the fact that we had not asked him to 90
with us, and had been for five or six hours
anxious to get rid of him, this anxiety in regard
to our movements rather surprised MS. We kept
on, however and walked for an hour with him
putting behind, doing our best TO tucker him
out" Finally he sat down upon a little mound,
and demanded if we thought he was made of
''dog-goned hard IRON
IF you are tired ] should advise you to re-
turn" said j. rather coldly.
"Now, locke here, stranger exclaimed he;
''you are Yankee, and them's mighty smart
fellers And know that no Yankee o. your
out he was arter sunthin'.'
IL have told you what ! was AFTER said J.,
shortly.
II Kin believe as much q that RS Tn mind
to-, cant | ?n said he, scowling. II know what
We are arter and so ye might as well own it, for
yer can't find it unless ] sees yer anyhow, If
kills me-
We laughed at that idea in real earnest, and
asked him what he supposed We were after. He
only answered our questions with the childish
expression of Il know declaring at the same
time that we might rs well own up, seeing as
how we are caught" At last, when he that
we were not going to own up he put an extra
quid in his mouth, and, ~ near as we remember,
the following conversation occurred:-
Eyer are urter money, that's what yer are
arter."
'Ho, no., laughed we; ''we wish we were.
Ho, no. money! Is there any money out here?'
Yer may laugh stranger, but yer can't feule
me. Yer are arteT Captain bilds money, an
IN bet the Ticker yer know where it is"
We thought at first that he was trying TO
~ fool" us, and regarded IL MS q huge burlesque.
But we became convinced after "a lengthy con-
yersation that he was in earnest, and really be-
Ieyed that we were searching Tor the hidden
treasures, which, according TO tradition, the
pirate Captain Kidd buried somewhere" In
ihis conversation we learned that a circle of en-
thusiasts believing that the hiding place OF the
treasure would be revealed TO them by pro-
nouncing over it certain potent words given TO
one of their number in n vision, had been
eearching the fields and forests for twenty miles
around Mobile for the evidences which were said
tn mark the spot. The excitement IN hooue
had been considerable, and the splrltuallsts ana
clairyoyants had been consulted 10 regard 10 IT.
The spiritualists claimed that Kidds treasure
nod been washed into the sea, aud the clairyOy-
ants that it was covered a hundred feet by SAND
This discOuraging view of the case from suc
bigb authorities did not deter the members OF
the charmed circle.