The Yazoo Democrat. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1858-18??, 1858-12-25
THE sUsAN's TRIP.

1ue IN. ". Delta announces that Lieut..
White, of the revenue service, who was taken
off by Capt. Maury on the schooner Susan,
has arrived in that city. He gives, says the
Delta, an interesting account of the Nicara.
qua emigrants on board the Susan The
following is a condensed account of Lieut..
Whites visit. After Capt Maury had given
the officers the slip, the Delta says
He. (Lieut. White) told Captain Maury
that he should order the vessel to come to
anchor. Maury replied laughingly, "You
can order, Lieutenant, but your order will
not be obeyed.'
nA vessel was. visible on the starboard
quarter, which he supposed was one of the
fleet, but which Captain Naury said was the
cutter; and remarked facetiously that the
"d-n cutter stuck to them like leech,
and seemed bound to follow them." aa
Morning found them scudding before the
norther, with goodly number of sea-sick
men lying around the decks. The old schoon-
er, which Mr.. White informs us was at one
time condemned, groaning and bent in the
heavy sea, but Maury was in for quick
trip and was determined to make her do her
best.
Mr.White states that he was treated in
the kindest manner possible, and was offered
a pruning hook and plow, If be would join hi:
fortunes with theirs, but that he politely de-
clined, though he was Of opinion that a more
resolute and determined set of officers and
men could not have been picked out to be
sent upon an expedition to Nicaragua
They all stated that tLey should resist to the
death any attempt made by any foreign YES,
sci to take them.
The officers spent their time reading and
indulging in champagne; number of bas'
kets of the latter being slowed away under
the berths. And while sitting around the
social board, many good yarns were spun
Maury always coming in with the best-pre
senting striking appearance with bis blue
flannel pants, red shirt, cap, and high topped
boots. Maury, who is as thorough saiol
as ever placed his foot on the deck of veg
sci, related an anecdote illustrative of BIZ
dead reckoning sailing, which many Of hi
friends will no doubtrecognize. During tn,
Cuban excitement, and just at the tim'
that Crittenden and others had been shot a
Havana, crew of shipwrccked Spanisl
brig were taken to Mobile, and the Spanisl
Consul fearing for their lives, engageC
Maury to take they to Havana. Startin
with his little schooner he ran down an
made the headlands of Cuba, and went int
Havana hy guess Going abroad of one .
our men, Of f>war, which was lying in the port
the Commander asked him if his chronome
ter was all right. Maury laughed and SAT-
he had not single instrument on board
"How did you come down, Capt. Maury 2
inquired the Commander "Steered for it
sir, aud made it," replied Maury. "Ah
but" replied his questoner, "now do so
expect to return 7" "Well, the fact of
lis" said Maury, in his peculiar way, "w
laid in a pretty good stock of champaign
before we started, and as each battle wa
finished (and it was not long between drink
| assure you,) | threw it over the stern, au,
am going to sail back by the bottles. y
The commander eyed him pretty closely an
set him down for fast boy. Some week
afterwards, it is told of the commander, tia
when out in the gulf he spied somethin
floating on the water, and calling his quar-
terhaster, took the spy-glass and bore dow
on it. Seeing that it was a bottle, he sal
to the lieutenant on watch, "Tbere is som
Of Capt Maury's longitude"
Mr.. White says that the men are YER
much crowded, and we might we'll expec
such to be the case, when we come to thin
of two hundred and twenty men, besides tn
crew, upon the vessel of about eighty tons
There was not the least sign of dissatisfaction
when Mr. White left, and he describes then
dancing on the deck of the vessel IN th
heavy swell to the music Of a fiddle, tn
performer sitting upon the capstan, and call
ing out the figures with as much earnestnes
as if he we're seated upon the platform of th
Odd Fellows Hall.
It was the intention of Captain Maury t
/ put Mr.. White upon the first homewar
bound vessel, and though they saw severO
before they met the Oregon, they were al
too far to windward, The sea was very roug
when the transfer was made, and it prove
to be rather dangerous undertaking Tn
swell was SO great that, after the yawl wa
cast off from the Susan, the Lieutenant coul
only get glimpse of her now and then
The last glimpse he got of her, he saw th
men still dancing, and Captain Maury stan
ding on the after-deck, waving in his han
the Nicaraguan flag.