The Mary Morgan

On tlie eighth day of August, 1879, the Mary Morgan, a steam-vessel, with her lights set and burning, was passing *334down the River Delaware, near mid-channel, above Fort Delaware, after night. The tide was ebb, and it was somewhat dark. Her speed was about eight miles an hour. She was in charge of a pilot, and had a lookout in his proper place. A white light ahead, a little off her starboard bow, no other lights being observed, was taken to be on a vessel at anchor. Proceeding under this belief, without any reduction of her speed, and without any effort to ascertain whether the vessel bearing…