The Express

NELSON, Circuit Justice.

This is a libel filed by the owner of the yacht Mist, against the steamboat Express, for damage occasioned by a collision occurring in the port of New York.

The Mist was lying at anchor off Whitehall dock, at the usual anchorage ground for vessels of that description. The steamboat had just taken in tow, at one of the North river piers, a canal boat heavily laden with coal, for the purpose of carrying her around to the East river, there to be taken, with other boats, in tow to Albany. The canal boat was towed by a hawser some fifty fathoms in length, fastened to the…