Troy Daily Times Troy, Rensselaer County, NY August 3, 1860 (cont) RESISTING AN OFFICER. Thursday afternoon, Justice STEWART, of West Troy, issued an attachment against the yawl-boat of the schooner 'Copia'. The attachment was put into the hands of officer BROWN, who immediately went to Albany and found the schooner lying at the pier at the foot of State street bridge. The officer on making known his business to the captain, was given to understand that he must not take the yawl; if he did, it would be at his peril. The officer paid no attention to this, but jumped into the boat and proceeded to untie it, whereupon the captain ordered the mate to "go down and throw the son of a -----overboard." The mate undertook to obey orders, but no sooner had he struck in the boat than he found the muzzle of a pistol in unpleasant range with his head and told that if he undertook the job for which he came, he would lose his thinking apparatus. The captain enraged at thus being foiled, sprang into the boat himself and pitched into the officer, who, being unwilling to spill human blood if it could be got along without, put up his pistol and called upon the bystanders for assistance, which was soon rendered, and the officer left the vessel with the yawl and had it towed to West Troy by the steamer 'Carter.' Upon arriving there, officer BROWN procured a warrant for the captain, G.P. BURROWS. The warrant was made returnable before Justice COLE, of Albany. BURROWS was arrested yesterday morning on the dock near the steam ferry in West Troy, and taken to Albany, where he soon manifested a desire to settle matters, which he did by paying costs and satisfying the officer--the whole amounting to $17. The origin of all this difficulty consisted in the fact that while the schooner was lying in the River at Albany, the captain hailed the steamer 'Carter' then passing down, and directed him on his return to take the schooner in tow to Troy. The captain, it seems, then took the cars for that place, and the mate; who probably knew nothing of his captain's directions to the 'Carter', employed the propeller 'Griffith' to take the schooner in tow. While that tug was doing so, the 'Carter' returned, and coming alongside informed the mate of the orders received from the captain and at the same time "hitched on." The consequence was that both steamers towed the schooner to Troy and both claimed pay. The 'Griffith received their demand; not so with the 'Carter'. Hence the attachment. Submitted by: Colleen Boose