The Beaver

BLATCHFORD, District Judge.

This is a libel for a collision which took place about six o’clock in the morning of the 16th of August, 1867, at the Quarantine ground in the lower bay, in the harbor of New York, between the brig Julia F. Carney, owned by the libellants, and the brig Beaver. The Julia F. Carney was at anchor, and had arrived from Havana four days previously. The libel alleges, that the Beaver came in from sea during the night before the collision, with a strong southerly and easterly breeze, and anchored too near to the Julia F. Carney, with only one anchor out, her port anchor,…