The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-04-27
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NEW York, April Is
A dispatch from New Orleans At q
late hour last night night says: 1.-THE
whole city is Tiled with rumors Of
crevasses and probable inundations.
Careful inquiry, and personal investi-
cation reduces the number Of crevass
es from which imminent danger is
anticipated to four-at Poverty
Point, Wallace Plantation, and Bon
net Care, above the city, and Mora
70 Plantation, below. Tonight three
of these are reported under control,
leaving the break at Bonnet Care
alone to be combatted. Here the
danger is great and imminent. The
waters of the great river are rushing
through an opening 700 feet wide,
with . rushing, roaring sound, audi
BILE for miles, blowing q channel fifty
feet deep far into the vacant lands,
while the levee rapidly crumbies into
its boiling waters. Piles four feet
thick, driven twenty feet into the
ground, and packed with sandbags,
are swept away like reeds. No ef-
forts can now close the crevasse. and
as soon Is the flood has cut its way
into the lake, the latter will overflow
the whole rear portion of the city Of
New Orleans. t-G
"The latest news is that the Bon
net Care crevasse is still extending;
that twelve miles of th4t jackson
railroad havo been washed away
Two other crevasses, ono at Point
Manor, west of Baton Rouge, and
one on the Mod onough estate, below
the city, are reported"
New YoRK, April Is.
A late dispatch says the next bat.
tie between the government and in
surgents will be desperate, bloody
and decisive.
Paris specials say General Bech-
and, dangerously wounded at Neuil-
~, has since died. He was one of
the moot promising Generals in !. the
army, and performed prodigies Of
valOr at st. Privat. q
One Of the leading members OF the
commune, the mechanic Megy, who
sssassinsted a Police Commissary AZ
Batiguolles, has himself been assassi-
mated at Marseilles.
A rumor is prevalent that an un-
known person recently shot ut Theirs
several times, but missed him.
New YoRk, April Is.
The Tribune's special from Wash
ington has the following intelligence:
"The decision of the Supreme Court
on the cases involving the constitu-
tionality Of the legar tender act of
1862, concerning which there has
been SO much interest, will be made
known in open court Monday next.
in the presence Of y full bench. The
opinions, however, for there will be-
two, will not be delivered unit, the
meeting Of the court at the next
term in December, in order that the
Judges may have timo to perfect
them, in q case of such magnitude
and involving such important conse-
quences. 1t is thought this decision
will be final, as the court will prob
ably hereafter refuse to consider the
points involved, inasmuch as q full
bench will now participate in the
judgment. The court will decide not
only as to the liability OF contracts
made before the passage of tho act.
but of those made since. 1T is posi.
lively ascertained that the decision
will reverse the decision Of the court
in the previous case BY deciding the
legal tender act constitutional that
contracts made before tho war may
be fulfilled by the payment Of green
backs. In this decision tho court will
stand as follows: Affirming the CON,
stitutionality Of tho act, Justices
Miller, Davis. Swsyne, Brady, and
Strong; against it, Chief Justice
Chase, Justices Nelson, and Field.
AZ to the constitutionality of the act
IS applicable to contracts made since
is passage, there is some doubt how
he court will stand, although it is
certain thAt the legality of the act
will be affirmed as in the other case.
ind perhaps by . larger number OF
Judges. The court, on Monday. will
announce several other cases. and
will then end the term by adjourn
nent until December"
Tho Tribuno's correspondent tele-
,raphed from Washington last night;
tits authoritatively announced that |
successor has at lust boon found for |
fish; that the next Secretary oil
'tatc will eithor be ex-senator Nor
AN or ox-Attorney General Evart-I
robably the latter. The change
viil not DO made immediately"
New York, April rs.
Money rules easy. The bank rate
n call is z, but borrowers get what
hey want outside at 5 TO 6, and |
'adlng bond houses arc supplied as
Nv as 4 por cent. There is u larger
emand tor primo paper at q to q.
he stock market is moro unsottlcd
MS morning than for weeks, on &C.
punt OF the partial bear success of
eslerday afternoon. II
The steamers took out 500. 900 10 |
'ecie. At this hour (2:2Ol rold is