The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-02-28
Blackboard The Pirate.
Treasures Probably Discovered.
From the Savanna Advertiser.

luc UlIhtOs ihNoo WtlO HiS
vided with blankets, provision, tent, an
abundance Of ammunition, number OF
magnets, couple Of sounding rods, also
picks, shoyels, axes and matches. They
also took with them time bedusted docu'
ment, found, il is said, near an old house
near 0cracock Inlet, N. c., during the
late war, and which purported to be a
handwriting of Blackboard, giving near
ly the exact locaIation on the Georgia
coast Of au immense amount Of buried
coins. The party who first found the docu-
ment is said to have been private in the
Union army, and that, in searching for
rebel spoons, perhaps, he came across this
paper of Blackbeards in small box,
slowed away in tall and hollow stump,
near the above mentioned old house, on
| the Portsmouth side Of the inlet above
named The box had not been in the tree
long, that was evident, AS he thought, for
it did not appear much weatherbcaten,
and be, naturally enough, concluded that
| the persons or persons who deserted the
house but few weeks before he came
with detachment from the army must
have concealed it with tho hope that some
day they could reclaim it, and on some
favorable opportunity visit the locality
where Blackbeards gold and silver has
| lain for about one hundred aud hf,y-four
years. But the soldier, as soon as he got
possession of the document, procured two
pieces of leather about the size Of his
hand, and folding the parchment docu-
ment between them, sewed the edges tight
| ly together on oil sides, replaced the docu-
ment in the box, and buried it about
half q mile from tho original hiding
| place.
The war brought many changes 10 the
soldier, who was several times wounded
and finally died in n hospital near Balti-
more, leaving n sealed letter addressed to
o young lady Of Virginia, with direction
that when tho war should DO over she
should DO found and the note delivered 10
| her.
1t is unnecessary to follow the letter in
its resting places and journeyings, or to
relate how, finally, the person to whom it
was addressed received it in this city, dur.
ing the year just passed. 1t is unneces
sary 10 give the sci liers motive for adj
dressing the young lady referred to, but,
suffice it to say, when it was read 1t gave
the place of concealment Of the peice Of
parchment.
Such is the story SO far as it goes, and
the persons Interested in ascertainiIg The
precise locality of the pirates gold and
silver, after giving us the above narrative
promised to keep US posted relative to the
developments. This was several weeks
ago-before the county election. 1t is snid
that their craft came within few miles
of the city the other day in charge OF a
couple of cOlored men, who were sent lor
either ammunition or provisions, or boih.
The colored men, it seems, have never lett
the sloop down the coast except TO 60 but
few rods down the water, though the
white men are gone two or three days at
u time, and appear TO be in good health
and bumor. 1t is inferred that rs no
message was sent to the city that the party
have reason TO keep their own counsel.
The readers Of the Advertiser have
probably heard of the excursions made by
other parties in search Of the above nam
ed treasurer within tho past few years,
but none Of them exhibited the same de-
gree Of caution and perseverance which
this is manifesting in face of many pooh
poohs, of those who have come idea of tho
object OF the excursion.
The Blackboard must have come in pos
session Of many valuables is probable.
His vessels secured the whole Atlantic
coast, and carried terror into the West In
dies, even to San Domingo, often attack
ing large merchantmen bound from that
island and Jamaica to Europe. Al one
time he had as many as fifteen hundred
men sailing under his black hug, and
friends even in the private office Of the
Provincial Governor Of North Carolina.
Blackbeard's true name was Edward
Teach, and he was born in Bristol Eng
land and for considerable time before
he became h pirate was engaged in priva-
tecring from the Island Of Jamaica. lie
was a private sailor until ZIG, when q
Captain llornigold, u notorious pirate,
gave him the command Of sleep which
he had made prize Of. In 1877, anon 8
other Of Blackbeard's operations, was the
capture of vessel from Havannah and q
sloop from Bermuda. His principal feat
that year was the plundering of aship
FROM Madeira bound for South Carolina
Thence he lowered off the coast of Virgin
ia, and returned subsequently to the Gulf,
making u prize of very large French
Gnineaman on The way. In June, IT'S, he
robbed several English vessels in the Ber-
mudas, ard later q couple OF Ere nch yes.
sells laden with sugar and coo Ca. The
prizes were taken into North Carolina,
where Gov. Eden and the pirates divided
the booty. The Governor received sixty
hogsheads Of sugar, his secretary, I. knight
one, and the collector Of the province
| twenty.
1t was here that the pirate married for
the fourteenth time His bride was beau.
tiful bride Of sixteen, and the Governor
performed tho ceremony.
Teach derived his name Of Blackboard
from the extraordinary quantity of hair
with which his head and fNce were covered
He was tall, erect and proportional;
his beard was of JET black, and grew en-
tirely up to his eyes, and at times he was
in the habit Of twisting it into small tails
and turning them, up about his ears. In
time Of action he wore q sling over his
shoulders, with three braces Of pistols
hanging in holsters. His disposition cor
responded with his appearance--a more
daring, insinuating and reckless wretch
having rarely graced the annals of pira-
cy. lie appeared DESTROYS to impress his
followers that he was devil incarnate,
and many stories are handed down to us
Of his tricks, some of them exceedingly