The John Brooks

FOX, District Judge.

This steamer is one of the regular lines between this city and Boston, owned by the Portland Steam Packet Company, daily employed as a common carrier of freight and passengers. The libel-lant is a shipmaster, resident at Bootlibay in this district, in command of a ship in the South American trade owned by R. Lewis & Co. of this city. He has testified as a witness, and the court is not aware of any reason, either from his appearance or the testimony in the cause, why his statements as to his loss should not be credited.

On the night of August 13, at Boston, he took passage…