The Helvetia

BLATCHFORD, District Judge.

The libel, in this case, is brought by the United States, and alleges that the steamship Helvetia, within this district, and on waters navigable from the sea by vessels of ten or more tons burden, was seized by the collector of the port of New York, for breach of the revenue laws of the United States, and that this suit is brought against the said vessel and against Archibald Thomson, her master, in a cause of forfeiture, on the ground that, on the fifteenth of November, 1869, at the port of New York, certain goods, wares and merchandise, which are enumerated, of…