The Nightingale is a clippership, of 1,100 tons burden, built at Portsmouth, N.H., and intended for the Baltic and Australian trade, but as the builders did not fulfill the contract, she passed into other hands. She sailed hence Sept. 13, with a load of grain for Liverpool, and arrived there Oct. 6, where she discharged cargo and was up for the East Indies.
Sailed from Liverpool Dec. 2, and was on the 14th January anchored at the island of St. Thomas, W.C.A. (probably West Coast of Africa) "So states her log."
On the 22nd January, she was boarded off the Congo by the English steamer Archer, and the United States steamer Mystic, when she proceeded up the Congo River and remained there until the first day of April, where she was fallen in with the Saratoga and boarded.
Her papers being found all right, she was allowed to proceed, but on the 22nd April was captured as above.
--Old B-Runner
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