have our servants paid to report the words which drop from us at the table.”[18] Rebellion was already rampant in the South. The temperament of Southern men was unfailingly daring--adventure appealed to their imaginations and risk was a game to be played. In the midst of this excitement, an expedition was preparing, money was being contributed, and the schooner _Susan_ fitted out. Harry Maury, socially and financially prominent, was in command. When ready to sail she was refused clearing papers, but Maury weighed anchor and sailed down the bay, preparatory to joining the fleet. The revenue cutter _McClelland_ pursued, brought her to, and boarded her and demanded her papers. Maury said he did not expect to receive them until he reached the fleet. The captain of the _McClelland_ then claimed the _Susan_ as a prize for the Government; Maury refused to consider her as such. Lieutenant White was placed aboard with orders to take her to Dog River Bar and to hold her there as prize. Maury nonchalantly replied that he did not object to White remaining aboard as his guest. The next day both vessels sailed about the bay, but the captain, under orders from the custom-house at Mobile, warned Maury that if he attempted to sail away the _Susan_ would be sunk. At dark the captain ordered both boats to drop anchor for the night. About eleven o’clock, a heavy mist arose, the _Susan_ weighed anchor and slipped noiselessly away, carrying aboard Lieutenant White. The _Mobile Register_, voicing the sentiments of the citizens, wished for the voyage “that the breezes be prosperous and the fates propitious.” When two hundred miles out in the Gulf, Lieutenant White was transferred to the bark _Oregon_ and sent back to New Orleans, where he stated that he had received every courtesy while aboard the _Susan_. He reported that she carried besides her crew, two hundred and forty men, Minie balls, and Mississippi rifles. The _Susan_ was wrecked on a coral reef off Honduras. The subsequent adventures of her men is a thrilling narrative. They were received by the governor of Bay Island, who upon hearing of their predicament sent them back to Mobile in Her Majesty’s steam-sloop _Basilisk_.