I do not know whether the report was true or not." "It was quite true, uncle Homer; and he has been quite as unfortunate as he was in his former expedition to the North," added Christy very quietly.
"What do you know about him, Christy ?" asked the colonel with the deepest interest.
"I can assure you first that he is alive and well.

I am not informed how he got to New York, but he did get there, and in company with two naval officers, one by the name of Byron, as well as Galvinne." "Byron was an actor in Mobile; he had been the mate of a cotton ship, and he obtained a commission in the navy; but for the want of a steamer both of them were unemployed," the planter explained.
"In New York they got up a plan to obtain a small steamer, about the size of the Bronx," continued Christy.

"Galvinne had been in the navy, and he readily obtained an appointment as second lieutenant of the store-ship Vernon.

Byron shipped as a seaman.

Corny was appointed by the two officers to take the place of a regular officer, who came down in the Vernon.