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The Saltus Case.

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The Contempt Of Court case which has
been recently on trial has attracted more than
common attention, and plain and unpreu-
diced statement of some of the principal facts
connected with it may not be without inter-
cstto our readers. Such a statement we will
endeavor to give
The Steamboat francs Soltus, which has
run as Line boat upon Lake Champlain for
some years past wos purchased last summer
by Messrs PLAT q Villas of Pittsburgh NY
for the two companies who then owned and
ran under one management the Railroad from
Plattsburgh to Montreal The boat, though
registered in the names of the above mention
ed gentlemen, was the property Of those roads,
the Company which built the Canadian por-
ton OF the Pittsburgh & Montreal Railroad
owning % Of the % shares which represented
the value of the boat, and the Company which
built the Plattsburgh end Of the Road, owning
20 shares The Canadian Company in the lat
ter part of last Winter, We're bought out bv
the Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad
Co, which owns the road from Montreal to
Houses Point, and, with the rest Of their pro-
perty. transferred to the latter Company the
20 shares of the boat property which were
subsequently conveyed to II. R. CAMPBELL
Esq, either in trust or by actual sale.
The Champaign u st Lawrence Co., found
it for their interest to turn all the travel they
could over their own road to Rouses Point
and having made an exclusive arrangement
with the boats of the Champlain Transporta-
ton Co.. under the management of Mr. BrR-
TON, they only ncoied the control of the Sal
Us in order to have every thing their own
way, and cut off the Pittsburgh road from
any share Of the through travel To such an
arrangement the Plattsburgh gentlemen OBJ
jectcd aud having the Saitm III their posses
sion, fitted her up with the intention of run
ming her between Burlington and Plattsburgh
opposition to the Saranac and for the
benefit Of the Pittsburgh road. She winter
ed in Shclburne Bay and was all ready to
come out, when an attachment in favor of the
Rutland and Burlington Railroad Co, from
whom the boat was purchased last season.
was laid on her by Mr. Smalley, acting as the
holder of notes originally given by the Platts-
burgh & Montreal Railroad Co.'S, for the
boat, which notes were however not fully due
The Pattsburgh parties thereupon took the
Saltus from under the attachment, by writ
Of rcplcvin, but were unable to remove hel
from the harbor, as a portion of her machin
cry had been taken out and secreted. They
then procured an injunction from the Cour
of Chancery forbidding further detention o
the Saltus by the defendants, or molestatioI
of the orators in the possession Thereof. Th
defendants believing the injunction null, as i
: was issued by the Clerk Of the Court, tool
; the boat and moved her to less accessible
position, and having procured another wri
of repleNin in favor of ii. X. Campbell
claimed the lawful possession of the boat an
were understood to be ready to prevent b
force all attempts to remove her from the har
V Dor.
! On the 23d ult., a small Steamer and sloo
e with something like hundred men on board
came over to the harbor from Plattsburgh
The steamer made fast to the Saifus an
. was about to tow her out, when the Sardno
. fred up and running across and cutting tn
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