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 ATLAS STEAM-SHIP 00. V. STEAM-SHIP COLON. e71 �provisions and îce sufficient for four or five weeks, and sait provisions, among her stores, sufficient for five montha. She carried also in her cargo large quantities of flour, sait meat, and preserved provisions. Her cargo was worth $250,000, and none of it was of a perishable nature. �Shortly after the accident a French brig was boarded by the master of the Colon. The brig ojBfered her services, but they were declined. She could have assisted the Colon in getting her head around to the northward, which the Colon was unable to do unassisted, with the wind as it was, and with her screw connected with the shaft. Owing to the acci- dent to her machinery, it was not convenient for the Colon to detail men to disconnect the screw until the morning of the 22d. Towards 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and about five hours after the accident, the Colon sighted the steam-ship Etna, distant about 10 miles) and soon after hoisted the sig- nal "B. N. D.," which signified that she wished to communi- cate close. The Etna changed her course and bore for the Colon, and reached her, and the master of the Colon put ont a small beat and boarded the Etna. The Etna was an iron steamship of 1,274 tons burden, owned by the libellant, and running regularly between New York and West India ports. She had left Kingston, Jamaica, on the seventeenth of Au- gust, bound for New York, where she was due on August 24th, in the afternoon. She carried 39 passengers and a crew of 33 men, ail told. Her cargo was worth about $100,- 000, and a smaU portion of it consisted of fresh fruits. The Etna was worth about $100,000. The master of the Colon had an interview with the master of the Etna on board of the Etna, and told him that the machinery of the Colon was dis- abled, and that he wished the Etna to tow him back to New York. After some negotiation it was agreed that the Etna would undertake the service. The subject of compensation was mentioned, and, at the suggestion of the master of the Colon, it was agreed that that should be left to be determined by the parties in interest in New York, and an agreement in writing was drawn up, and was signed by the two masters, as follows: ����