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Show UK CERTAINTY. Sou tli Carolina, Florida anti JLonlsiaiia V till iii Doubt. New York, 16. According to the New York papers, the political situation situa-tion is unchanged. The Herald claims thtit Drew's majority in Florida Flor-ida cannot be cut beiow S00, or Tilden's below 400, while the Times claims that the republicans have carried car-ried both national and state tickets. The HtrahVs Columbia special saj A rough calculation made from oflicial returns from Uie twenty-eight twenty-eight counties at the office of tho re publicau secretary of state, and an estimate on Ibe vote on governor of the four remaining counties give Hures about 1,000 majority over Tilden, The same authority gives the state to Hayes by about 1,200 majority. ma-jority. Neither of these estimates is regarded by the democrats as correct. They claim that Tilden will carry a sufficieacy of tho electoral vote lo elect him, but will not disclose their reasons for this assertion. The republicans now concede the election of Hampton on the face of the returns, but claim that the remainder of the republican state ticket is elected. The Herald's New Orleans special etatea that Senators Kelly and Sherman Sher-man and Messrs. Stoughton, Hale and Kaason arrived last night. It has now been finally decided by the democratic visitors to entrust their case to Trumbull, Palmer and Potter, who will remain here to watch tho count. All the other gentlemen how here in that interest will probably return re-turn in the course of a few days. The policy to be followed subsequently will be a matter of further consideration, considera-tion, which th national committeo will probably dictate. That Louisiana Louisi-ana will bfi counted for Hayes by the board is now the universally accepted belief. The genera indications this morning morn-ing tend to create the impression that South Carolina has elected Hampton governor and Hayes' electors; that the democrats practically practi-cally abandon their hopes of Louisiana, Louisi-ana, and renew their hopes of Florida, where the vote is evidently very close. However, there i nothing definitely reliable on either ot the foregoing points. Oawald OLteudorfer telegraphs tele-graphs from New Orleans, claiming 8,000 democratic majority, but says the returning board will count in the republican electors. |