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Show A New York Tuna correspondent says that tho clerk of the lower house of the Louisiana radical legislature in oalliug the roll, counts 54 members answering to their names, but the correspondent counted only 51 members mem-bers present. Tho conservatives claim that 5tJ is necessary for a quorum. quo-rum. Tho 7V;ipj editorially does not believe the republioau party will sustain sus-tain the president if ho endorses Sheridan's banditia dispatch, but , says "Let us hoar first aud strike afterwards." The same journal mildly disapprove of tho indignation indigna-tion meetiut;, but says it is a warning warn-ing to the republican party not to leave Louisiana in its Dresent con dition much longer. The people do not believe they are being ruled by the governor whom they elected, and It sees no way out of tho difficulty except ex-cept by the withdrawal of Kelloeg and a new election. It will nat do to keep a tile of soldiers in a state legislature legis-lature to settle local differences or decide de-cide the qualification of members. This language, moderate as it is.doas uot read like the editorials of the Tribune of this city, which apologize for and defend tho action of the president pre-sident aud place the principal blamo for the existing state of affairs upon the conservatives of Louisiana. But circumstances alter cases. The ring organ here is the defender of a local despotism, which relies uot upon tho principles of self-government, but on a system of carpet-bag rule, which is not much better ihac that pervailing in Louisiana. |