The Paolina S.

The libel in this case was filed in the district court on the second of February, 1871, by the United States, to recover a penalty of $1,000 for a breach of a revenue law. It is a suit against the vessel alone. It alleges that the vessel was seized on the thirtieth of January, 1871, by the collector of the port of New York, “as subject to a lien and holdon to the United States for the payment of a penalty” of $1,000 due to the United States from the master of the vessel. The substance of the libel is that the vessel, on the eighteenth of January, 1871, arrived at the port of New York from a…