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GREAT SUlr.-The batture in front of the Sec
ond Municipality On. o. after having absorbed the
tenton OF the public and the years ago,
again about become the subject of legal controversy
on gigantic scale. The heirs of Peter Deabgarre have
lately sued the Second Municipality before the st Judi
cial District Court Of this city for the undivided
fourth part of the batture extending from Deord to Ca
nal ST. and from New Levee.st the waters edge The
plaintiffs reside in Newiork and have employed Messrs
R. y & A. N Ogden 10 prosecute their claim. They al
lego in their petition that the heirs Of Edward Livngs
ton vino also reside in New York the of the
remaining three Ourths oil the land IN question Randei
Hunt Esq has been appointed their ad hoe The
baure is worth between five and six millions OF dollars
and has naturally aroused several new parties 10
forward and intervene in the suit or part
owners of this valuable domain The parties begin
TO thcken. and the magnitude and number OF the
legal questions involved will. doubt elicit the
ablest efforts of the New.Orleans Bar. We shall
keep our readers advised of the progress Of the
suit The State OF Louisiana, by her Attorney Gen. has


fled her petition OF intervention denying that the heirs
of Deab;garre and Livingston have any title claim 10
the property. andasserng ownership to be in the State
the batturc having been formed by mpercepb.e
sons since the admission of Louisiana into the Union
Ii expected that the United States by the District At
torney will also become party TO this important suit.
as likewise the First and Third Municipalities. who claim
that the proceeds ofthe bature should be equally divd
ed among the three corporations of the city We hear
also that the Commissioners of the General Sinking
Fund vino represent the Old City Corporation intend
putting in their claim also thus all the parties interested
will be tgants in the suit and there prospect of the
matter being finally put TO rest.


Should 1t be decided that the property belongs the
city of New Orleans and It's proceeds be divided among
the three Municipalities 1t will enable them pay off all
their Liabilities the last arthing reduce their
zero, and 10 undertake and execute municipal im.
provements scale unequaled By any corporation in
the Union. n. O. Delta.


ECCLESIASTICAL TRIAL.-The Genesee Synod Of
the Presbyterian Church New SCHOOL, in session
at Buffalo, are engaged in the trial OF the Rev: A. T.
Hopkins Of that city, charges preferred by Hon. s.
Wkeson. The charges "unchristian and unminis.
ierial conduct aud falsehood dupcity. SANDER and
prevarica,ion" The alleged basis OF those charges is
some transaction connected with the visit OF Rev Dr.
Chalmers one of the delegates OF the Scottish Free
Church. There has been trial before the Presby
terry, who unanimously acquitted Mr. Hopkins and
severely censured his prosecutor The later appesed
The eXcites great interest Alb. Eve. Jour.