The Narragansett

WOODRUFF, Circuit Judge.

The steamboat Providence, belonging to the libellants, and the steamboat Narragansett, wrere freight and passenger boats, running from the port of New York, through the East river and Long Island Sound, the former to Newport and FaH- River, and the latter to Stonington.- The berth or dock of the former was at the foot of Chambers street, on the North river, and the berth of the latter was at the foot of Jay street, on the North river, two piers, or about four hundred feet, higher up the river. The hour'of departure for both was five o’clock in the afternoon. On the…