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THE CRITICAL STATES,
SOUTH CAROLINA.
A CRISIS AT HAND.
Two Legislatures Holding the Fort"
LOUISIANA.
Republican and Democratic Reports.
fILDEN'S ELECTION CLAIMED,
GEN. MACkENzIE'S INDIAN FIGHT
THE EUROPEAN SITUATION.
LOUIS lANA.
fILDEN'S ELECTION CLAIMED,
GEN. MACkERzIE'S INDIAN FIGHT
THE EUROPEAN SITUATION.
SOUTH CAROLINA.

SOUTH CAROLINA
The Ie-Ba rreled Legislature.
NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-The HeralFs Column
Ola dispatch says: When General Hampton.
Senator Gordon and Coloael Haskell had an
interview with General Ringer Wednesday
night the agreement was then made that III
The democrats Went peaceably to the hall yes
terday morning unarmed he Gen. Ruger)
would not interfere unless there was a row
and bloOdshed.
THE DEMOCRATIC HOUSE
met i'm Carolina hall at 10 A. m and were
then informed as To what had been agreed on
They then adjourned TO the hall of the houSe
OF representatives. They proceeded there in
body, with Haskell at their head and found
the doors half open. They pushed their way
In and Wallace Immediately took the chair
and called the house 10 order. In a few min
utes Mackey came i'm GREATNESS and took his
stand on the left of Speaker Wallace. HIS
members came in rapidly.
TELEGRAM TO SECRETARY CAMERON
AT the same time that Messrs. Hampton.
Gordon, and Haskell prepared their letter To
General Kruger, General Bradley johnson
who represents the Richmond district i'm fhe
senate of Virginia, who was at Princeton
Win Secretary Cameron, and between whom
good relations have since always been kept
up, telegraphed him, stating the actual con
d1tlon OF things in the hall Of the house OF
representatives. He stated that the two
houses were in Simultaneous session, with
their two speakers, and were discussing al
large The rights of their respective parties,
"A
peace, and that the differences would be All
lusted, If at all, by legal, peaceable. and par
llamentary methods; that the Representatives
OF South Carolina were settling their own
differences their own way-legally and
peaceably; that their differences and their
action had, and could have. no reference or
influence i'm any manner on the election of
PRESIDENTIAL electors or members of Congress
Their quarrel related solely TO state matters
and touch North Carolina as a special oues-
ton; He further said that the secretary
m hxan n a1.x1, t.
tence that breach of the peace was immi-
nent, but he pledged him that there was no
danger OF such thing, and asked him as the
legal adviser of the President, the head of the
army, and as citizen in favor Of equal
rights Of states and citizens, not TO allow the
army to interfere.
A DISPATCH TINED A. NJ.
says: "At I a. m. the houses are still i'm sos
sion; members are sleeping, smoking, con.
versing, ard a few of them listening 10 col
ored M nrber's speech. and both parties are
"HoLDING THE FORT"
TIL Tomorrow. The Democrats know that III
they go out they will not be readmitted, and
they propose to stay until IL m. Tomorrow
when the Laurens and Edgefield delegations
Will doubtless be elected by soldiers.
ANOTHER HERALD DISPATCH
describes the entry of the democrats into the
hall as follows:-Upon reaching the door,
was found guarded by a United States den
uty marshal and the colored republican ser
geant-at-arRls Of the house. TIE democratic
visitors i'm front asked for admission, and
were refused on the ground that none but
members could go i'm. The members who
were in front drew their certificates from the
secretary OF state and presented them. The
doorkeeper not suspectfng the crisis at hand,
the doors were opened 10 pass the few with
papers In their hands. AS soon as some half
dozen had crossed the threshold they turned
hung open the doors, placed their backs
against them, and lin walked the entire dem
ocratic body and took their seats The door
keeper made desperate struggle TO keep
them out.
Gen. Ruger Wants Instructions.
A I,ioUne's Columbia dispatch says: Both
sides have appealed TO Gen. Kruger, but ne
Will not interfere except to keep the peace.
Ihere is less excitement outside than at any
period since the contest began. 1t is under
stood that Gen. Kruger has asked the Presi-
dent TO decide whether the house as organized
by Speaker Mackey is a legally organized
body. If ii is he will enforce his orders and
eject the Laurens and Edgefeld delegation as
intruders before the hour fixed on tomorrow
TO go into joint assembly 10 count the votes for
governor and lieutenant governor"
The Situation To-day
COLUMBIA, :. c., Dec 1.-The situation is
unchanged: Both sides have occupied the
Rouse OF Representatives since u yesterday.
numerous propositions for compromise have
availed nothing. 1t is now half-past 4, and
c T.. = =; troops have not interfered The demo,
Laurens are still in their seats. The demo-
Gratis are cheerful, and claim that the u. s.
authorities cannot ignore thsuiecisions of the
N
number of republicans will unite with the
democrats. i'm which event the entire matter
VIII be settled.
LOUISIANA.
The Republican Visiting Committees
Report.
NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-The TTibtnle's New Or
leans dispatch says: ssTne republican visiting
committee from the north invited by the
PRESIDENT 10 visit Louisiana and witness the
counting of the vote, will return home early
next week, carrying with them very full and
complete information of the case on the re-
publican side OF the controversy. About a
week ago the work was carefully divided
each gentleman taking all OF the affidavits
from one or two of
THE "DULL-DozED" PARISHES.
and deyoting himself to a careful study Of il.
In this way all the evidence in regard TO the
condition of things in each parish has been
pared. All of these summaries have been
placed in the hands OF Senator Sherman,
who, with the assistance of other members OF
T to BE
Will be signed by all the gentlemen who
came mere at President Grants invitation,
and will be accompanied by the statements
in regard TO each parish already referred TO,
and by copies of all the affidavits, one thous-
and in number, from an examination of
which they were prepared. 1t is believed
that President Grant will transmit the whole
TO Congress with a special message. IN this
way the republican side OF the controversy
will be made public.
what the Democratic Committee VIII
De.
The democratic visiting committee will
not leave New Orleans without giving the
country their views on the case. As soon as
the doors OF the Returning Board are closrd
upon them and secret sessions begin, proba-
bly, tomorrow, the democratic committee
contemplate issuing an address setting forth
the vote OF the state as they have found it to
be, claiming that Tilden has honestly carried
The state This will probably be signed by
all the members of the northern democratic
committee in New Orleans.
The Democratic Figures.
The democrats have compiled all the re-
turns opened by the returning board, and
publish the result this afternoon. There are
Twelve uncontested parishes, and in these
Hayes has majority Of 1;0I and Packard
6ye43. In twenty-eighf contested parishes, in
efudlng orleans, on all of which the board
has yet 10 pass, but excluding about dozen
polls from which the supervisors arbitrarily
and Illegally neglected 10 make returns Til
aen's majority OF the vote actually cast is
iz,2us, and that OF Nichols 12.sf7. The figures
In seven parishes. five denn6trafic and two
republican have been announced by the