The Fidelity

BLATCHFORD, District Judge.

The li-bellant, as owner of a canal-boat, brings a libel in rem against the steam-tug Fidelity, to recover damages for the sinking of the canal-boat through the alleged negligence and wrong of the tug. The substance of the libel is, that, while the canal-boat was lying at a wharf at Blackwell’s Island, some outside person cast off her lines against the will of the person on board and in charge of her, and pushed her away from the wharf, and that thereupon the tug, acting under the direction of the same persons, and without the request of the person in charge of the…