The Newport

BLATCHEORD, District Judge.

This is a libel filed by the owners of the steam propeller Quickstep against the steamboat Newport, to recover for the damages caused to the Quickstep by a collision which took place between her and the Newport on the 17th of August, 1866, shortly after 6 o’clock, p. m., in the East river, near Diamond Reef buoy, between the Battery and Governor’s Island. The Quickstep, with a barge loaded with coal in tow on her port side, was bound from Jersey City to the Atlantic Basin, in Brooklyn. The Newport had left her berth at pier 28, North river, and passed down the North…