The J. L. Bowen

BLATCHFORD, District Judge.

On Sunday. the 2Stli of May, 1S71, the brig J. L. Bowen left New York, bound to Gibraltar. Her ship’s company consisted of a master, two mates, a cook and six men before the *636mast. She had one passenger. The vessel and her cargo were worth $50,000. On Thursday, the 1st of June, an affray occurred between four of the seamen and the officers, in which the master was killed, the second mate was so injured that he was incapable of doing duty, and the first mate was very much hurt. The seamen were all of them colored men, and the officers were white men. Two of the seamen…