The Merrimac

DEADY, District Judge.

This suit is brought to recover 52,500 damages sustained by the libellant in the loss of the John Francis and her cargo of eighty cords of ash wood, through the negligence of the tug Merrimac, while engaged in towing said John B’rancis from Astoria to Cape- Disappointment, on September 9, 1873.

The vessel lost was a “schooner scow,” of ninety-five and one-half tons burden, one hundred and twenty feet in length, twenty-one feet in breadth, and four and one half feet in depth, with two masts and a rudder and steering gear; she was decked over, fore and aft, carried an…