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Show LATEST DISPATCHES. GENERAL. SOUTH t AUuLIS A. Proclamation by llin l'rosi-l'iit l'rosi-l'iit ihc Utile Clubs to disperse. dis-perse. "Washington, 17. At the cabinet meeting to-day every department ot the government was represented. L'hero was a full nud earnest discus--ion of the coi.ditiou of ntlairs in tfouth Carolina. Tnere was no order for additional troops 11s it is not now con sidered that a necessity for force exists ex-ists beyond that nt present stationed in various port ons of the state where tbeir services are retried us neeca sary. Too views of the cabinet, acting act-ing upon iulorniation officially given to the general government, were that prompt action was necessary for the ! purpose ot dispersing the rule clubs iud other armed bodies organized as alk-ged against the peace ol the stale, and the right of voters, and to this end iho attorney geueral prepared an leeutive proclamation in tne usual form, reciting that insurrection and domestic Vuilence exist iu several counties ol South Carounn, and that certain combinations of men against the law exist, known as rule ciubs, wno r:dc up and down by day and uight, in arms, murdering some citizens citi-zens and intimidating ottiers, and that such cumhinations cannot be controlled bv the ordinary course ol faw, and the executive ot the state of South Carolina having requested the aid ot the Lnittd Sutea forces to restore re-store peace and enforce the law, Thsrulore I, L'iysscs S. tirant, president presi-dent ot I he L'niud Slates, do hereby mako pre.claniatie.il and commat.d all persons enga'td in said nuiawiul and inurrecltoury procei dings to disperse and retire peaeahly to their respective aUjdej witnin tnreo day from this date, and h.-reaft-r abandon sa:d comhiuatii'us aud uubmii tuern-selves tuern-selves to lito 1 wa and constituted authorities ot said state, and I invoke , 'the aid and o. opera', ion of ailK'xd' leiiizeiis inereof to upuold tiie law and prtS'-rvo public peaee. I In wilue.-s wnerenl, 1 hive hrre-i hrre-i I unto ct my baud u:;J cju-(d thenl . ' of the Unite J -tat' 9 to be allied, j Pone at tiie eitv of Washington this ' ; 17th day of U,'t-jb. r, etr. I'. S. ('KANT. V,y the prcni!;nt, J. t'-d'o.tI-. pader, acl:n lecrttary ol state. |