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Show From New Oeleaks dispatches it eecms apparent that the returning board is placing obstacles in the way of the proper investigation of the contested con-tested parishes in Louisiana. The democratic counsel is pressing the board very closely in reference te filling fill-ing the vacancy on the board with a democrat, about missing returns said to be in the city, and other matters. Governor Wells, the presiding officer, is animated largely by partisan ideas. He is the man whom General Sheridan Sheri-dan once denounced aj a dishonest trickster, and wo have had no reason to believe that he has since changed his character. He has a partisan purpose pur-pose in view, presenting a magnifi-J magnifi-J cent opportunity to a political ecala- ' wag. and it ia to be feared that the Utmost vigilance on the part of the i democrat may not suffice to prevent the consummation of the villianous scheme mapped ouc by Zach Chandler Chand-ler on tbe 8th of November, when he telegraphed to Florida that Louisiana was absolutely certain for Hjyrg. The canvass is, however, going on under the eye of the nation, and any attempted or consummated vilhany will be fully exposed before this great audience, to trifle with which would be perilous to the little partisans who Bhoukl attempt it. |