The Aleppo

BLATCHFORD, District Judge.

The bark Merrimac was, on the 20th of April, 1871, in daylight, in a thick fog, run down and sunk, with her cargo, by the steamer Aleppo, at a point about twenty miles from Boston harbor, and about half that distance from Boston lighthouse. She had come, with her cargo, from Montevideo, and was bound to Boston. On a libel filed by the owners of the bark, and of her pending freight, and by the owners of property and cargo on board of her, qnd by her officers and crew, to. recover the value of the bark, and of such freight and property and cargo, and of the effects…