The General William McCandless

BLATCHFOKD, District Judge.

This libel is filed to recover against the steamtug General William McCandless the damages sustained by the libellants, as owners of the steamtug Unit, in consequence of a collision which took place on the 3d of May, 1871, in the East river, between the Unit and the ferry-boat Commodore Perry, by which the Unit was damaged. The Unit started from North Fourth street, Williamsburgh, bound to the vicinity of pier 12, Bast river, in a strong flood tide, between five and six o’clock in the afternoon. She ran over to the New York shore, and down in an eddy there, and then…