Des Arc citizen., 1859-01-21
| Pleasure Trip of the Yacht Wanderer.

From the charts, log books, and papers
 found on board of the yacht Wanderer,
 says the Savannah Republican. we glean
 the following particulars relative to her
 late voyage:
 Leaving New York on the 18th of June
 she reached Charleston on the 25th, and
 there remained ten days, entertaining a
 good many visitors and taking on board a
 great variety of articles. which may, or
 may not, properly belong to the regular
 outfit of vessel clearing for Trinidad
 and any other ports in the West Indies. v
 Among these supplies are noticed goodly
 quantity of wines and cigars, l2,000 gal
 Ions of water, and 30 six pt. pans, 50 five
 qt. do. and 50 one pt. tin cups, which ar- ,icles of tin ware were doubtless intended
 to hold bait, for fishing, and had no con- nection with the " wooden spoons On
 clearing from Charleston, the yachts com
 pany consisted of twelve persons as
 " crew" besides several persons called
 travelling companions of Captain Corrie. :" and yet who appear to have received cer- tain sums of money from him.
 Leav ng Charleston on the 9th of July, the yacht made the run to Port of Spain, Island of Trinidad, under unfavorable circumstances, in eighteen days. During the five days of her stay at that port, she received good many visitors. and among them "the Governor of the Island, the American Consul, several of her H. B. M. officers, the Governors sister and daughter, and number of ladies" sand part of the list appear to have been enter. tanned at dinner.
 Further supplies were taken on board, including 1900 gallons of water (the thirsty souls!) On leaving this port the heading of her log stands from Trinidad, Port Spain, toward St. Helena her course was directly toward Congo river. which, after run of fifty-one days, she enters on the 18th Of September, It appears from the entries in the log, that during the ten days passed in Congo river, the yacht re- ceived on board "all the white inhabitants of the place"-that there were many dln- ner parties given-lhat the officers of the English frigate Madusa made "a visit of courtesy" and dined on board, and ,ha, "Capt Corrie and his friends dined on board the Madusa." More water was likewise taken on board. On September 26th, the Wanderer got under way and proceeded to sea; gave the yacht Mar grette trial and passed her like the wind. !" The log further states that on t" October 4lh, arrived at Benguela, { lower down on the coast after eight days hard beating against the wind and current" Here al! record in the log book ceases, and but for memoranda she could not be traced with certainty any further. From these, how- ever it appears that she left the coast be- tween Congo river and Benguela on the 18th or l7th of October, and thence her course is as direct as possible (position each day being accurately determined to Brunswick m Georgia. At meridian, November 27th, the yacht was within fifty miles or Cumberland light, and must have taken the pilot on board on the morning of the 2Sth, making ,he run home in about forty days, From memorandum Of List of Cargo, ten 10 the Talie," it would appear tha; the number of Africans sa- ken on board was 409. As about 325 are known to have been landed, some seventy-hve to eighty must have died on the passage. .. -.,. -.--I.1 lD