The J. H. Gautier

BLATCHFORD, District Judge.

These two suits are tried together. The libellants in the first suit, as owners of the canal-boat Gettysburg, and the libellants in the second suit, as owners of the cargo of coal laden on board of said canal-boat, bring these suits, each of them against the steam-tug J. H. Gautier and the schooner Herbert Mantón, to recover damages for the total *620loss of the canal-boat and her cargo, through & collision which occurred between the canal-boat and the schooner, on the 28th of November, 1871, between nine and ten o’clock a. m., off the steamboat wharf at Astoria, Long…