The John Taylor

BLATCHFORD, District Judge.

This libel is filed by the owners of the ferry-boat John S. Darcy, against the propeller John Taylor, to recover for the damages sustained by the libellants in consequence of a collision which took place between the two vessels on the 31st of October. 1807. in the Hudson river, just below the ferry slip at the foot of Des-brosses street. New York, out of which the ferry-boat had gone, on one of her regular trips to the foot of Montgomery street, Jersey City. The propeller was bound up the river. The ferry-boat blew a long blast of her steam whistle before leaving…