District Court, S.D. New York January 15, 1868 (The Baltic)

BLATCHFORD, District Judge.

This is a libel filed by the United States, as the owners of the steamboat Flora, against the steam ferryboat Baltic, to recover for damages caused by a collision which took place between the two vessels, on the 19th of December, 1803, about half-past one o’clock in the afternoon, in the harbor of New York, about 300 yards distant from the Barge office dock, at the