The Lydia

BLATCHFORD, District Judge.

On the morning of the 10th of December, 1809, just before daylight, the sloop N. Cobb, belonging to the libellant, while lying at anchor in the Hudson river off the foot of-51st street, with her bow up the river, was struck on her port side and sunk by the steam ferry-boat Lydia, a side-wheel boat plying on the ferry between Weehawken, in New' Jersey, and a slip at the foot of 42d street, on the Hudson river, in New York, and then on a trip from Weehawken to New York. There was a very dense fog at the time. There is considerable conflict of testimony as to the…