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Show THE LOUISIANA WAR- J Tlie result of didreKardioa: law and & i luwf'ul mode of sell Imp; a ((rave depute de-pute relative to the last election in Louisiana, ia rapidly reaching a climax in that Statu, our dispatches received ycMtcrday containing accounts of continued con-tinued ooniliuU butweeo tlio contend-iqk contend-iqk aiuicd furcw. The returning board which hold position under the War mo th government, thtewo out a number of tho ballots of colored citizens, citi-zens, because, an held, of a non-com-plianco with tho Stale law. The rival returning board, actioK under radical rulo, counted thoae votea, counted the votes, in fact, of all who were willing to make allidavit that their ballots hd been rejected, threw out euch votes as they pleased, and declared certain candidates elected without over having oven had a chance of seeing or counting count-ing the regular official roturna of tho State. Prcbtdent. Grant sustained tho government thus held to be in power, because it represented tho party in Louisiana that had voted for bis ro-olcotiou ro-olcotiou to the presidency. Tho ballot bal-lot boxes coutaiuing tho roturna of tho Louisiana election were takonjto Washington, Wash-ington, in aonscquenue of tho rival olaims arising undor tho dual government govern-ment ; but wo boliovo tho votes have .ncvor been officially oountod except' ex-cept' by tho Warmoth returning board which declared McEuery govornor of the Stato. It Beoras difficult diffi-cult to bco on what grounds, other than partisanship, tho President of the United States oould rooognize Kellogg in preforonoo to McEnerj;-or how, in-doud, in-doud, ho oould recognize cither to the oxolusion of tho other; for it has generally been understood, whon a man was olovated to tho office of chief magistrate of tho country, that be was Presidont of tho United Slatos and not moroly of tho political party that had given him position. The matter really oamo befuro Congress, in the application applica-tion of two rival claimants for a scat in tho Sonato; but that body was too busy on a grand salary steal, a Utah bill for which there was as much necessity as for a fifth wheel to a wagon, and similar matters, to give attention to a uaso so pre&singly serious as that of Louisiana. President Grant informed Congress it might do as it pleased; but if it failed, he would rocognizo the action ac-tion of judgo Duroll, who had sustained the Kellogg government and had thrown himself open to impeachment for his action in the matter. The oondition of Louisiana is a sad ono, With less than a million of a a population it has a State debt of forty millions, oroutod almost entirely in tho last six yeare. The same men who saddled this enormous debt upon tbo Stato aro tho onos that, allied with Kellogg, Book to por-pctrato por-pctrato and inorcaso it. Beforo, they acted with Warmoth; now, Warmoth having deserted them, they act with Kellogg. But tho people who are responsible re-sponsible for this debt, and who have the taxes to pay, refuse to pay taxes to what thoy deem an illegal government, and appeal to force aiiainat continued roobory. It is and it is not a war of laces. Tho oohred votes were tho mainstay of tho Kdlogg patty in the clcotion; and it is on oolored men that Kellogg will largely havo to rely. Those facts havo oreated a bitterness, 20 doubt, against the colored people, amongst those who oppose the Kellogg government. Yet the dispatches inform in-form us that some colored men, when urged by whito meu to join in tho contest, refused, and said it was none of their light. It will bo wise policy lor them to continue feeling and acting bo, for should this aontiiot assume proportions pro-portions as a war of races, and spread, drawing in whites and blacks over a largo area of country, the darker hued jaco would go to tho wall. Meantime every movo in the Louisiana Louisi-ana Btrugglo will bo watched and noted with interest, for it is of national and very grave importance. COMMPTIOfi, SCROFULA lltgcmm'. Griiulue foil Liver Oil v('?-C,":1 Lir"'l ia warranted ruro NKW r'UNDI.AMj OIL. It has stood tho ten of over twenty years' oxperionco, and can be rjlio.1 on in ovury particular. M iiiiiifatnirod by lur,i:i(i.i i C... Ctiumbu and Drugtfiiu, Insw iork, indsold by all iruitidts. Li |