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Show THE ELECTION STILL IN DOUBT. Friday was another day of excitement excite-ment and uncertainty, scarcely less provoking than the two previous days, though there were fewer people on the streets, and the political barometer bar-ometer failed to indicate the rapid fluctuations cf the public pulse whicu were the incidents of Wednesday and Thursday. 5umber3 of the people-had people-had been worn out by the excitement and others iccuicd to rememh-T that they bad something else to live for than election rumors and lying bulletins. bulle-tins. Still there were large numbers of interested patriots who bad determined deter-mined never to give up the ahip while a single btatc remained m doubt and a telegraphic rumor or He could be received to hanganeleclor.il dispute upon. The day bad hardly dawned before Simon ton becan to gel his work in, hi.-j good morning dispatch atatiDg that the white league and ku-klux ku-klux were Btnashing ballot boxes and mutilating election c invAnr ri iu Florida. Kext came a report of 1,038 democratic majority in tht BUte, which delighted the Tilden men, but their joy wag soon turned to grief by the news that the state waa eure for Hayea by 5.000. This would have been a knock-down argument argu-ment bad not reliable news been received halt an hour later that the democrats had a trustworthy majority of at least 1,700 votes. The chairman chair-man of the Florida re-publican Btate committee here chips in: Wo have elected our state ticket sure by 1,837. Toil should havo been sufficient; but no; the republicans were not sati.-fied with a genteel sufficiency, arxl at 1 1.-'-O the New York Ifcrald brought up the majority to 5,000, with a promise that it would reach 12,000. The Xcw York 2'ost, on tho authority of the internal revenue collector, a little Inter thought it neccfw;iry toaend the ignorant country a dipalch that Florida waa certainly republican. At 11.20 a. in., the secretary of the treasury, fearinjf that there might be a great dearth 'jf Florida nown, telegraphed tele-graphed that Governor Stearns bad tuwursd hirn that Florida had iven 2, 'JO republican majority. This wan followed by a report of a democratic, gain of VV from M.irieUo county. The New York W again came to the rescue with tho statement that thero is no doubt that Hayr-H has a majority in the nlatn, and that thin result was confirmed by a d'mpat' h to somebody die. Ah if aomobody might doubt these ropublicau claims Himon-ton Himon-ton sends an eniire page of argumentation argumen-tation in favor ff ayes' of wicc.i in Ihr three doubtful southern state, wiiii h certainly makes it clear that he is in favor of the republic in nornineo, and t links he is ekc-Vd. It is hard to resist u' u appeal to our crelulify; b-it the Wegr-iphic wires cannot re-d, and at i.:'A) 0Iiirftijt, ,) anticipations w-ro hpsi (,y t.l0 r0 lowing bulletin from New York; The r-p-.rls of .,R.,., mnirilln from Hori'M, I"niiruMi a,,. Ft,,Ui Cur-td'iitt Cur-td'iitt wi'J'Jy t'MJh'.t, I'roUiMy uollihiK positively decisive- from any of those Btalca will bo known bolora Monday neit. Parties in tho respective fUtes estimate tho imjoriti?: ns fallows: LMii:sinnn, democrats S.UUO; republicans 1,1)10; South Ciirolinn, dimecruU 1,-00, reimblicsuis fi,00(l; Florida, democrats 1,710, republicans 1,200. This last shot scattered tho crowds at the bulletin boards, and it was auc-ce auc-ce sled by only a few reports from the three states which brought no definite information. Similar reports prevailed pre-vailed during the day in regard to Louisiana and South Carolina. Governor Gov-ernor Chamberlain at 1:45 sent the following dispatch to the New York South Carolina is snfn for tho republicans. repub-licans. Tbo democrats claim thostalo od the basis ..fjlioavy reported majorities in ihieo or fuur counties, whore lie republicans repub-licans have before had la -go minorities. If democratic majorities appear on the face of tho returns, thoy re fraud uloit and the result of tho frros?est terrorism; but conceding the democrats all tht-y cltiin in the counties not de iinilely heard from, and g ving tho republicans only what wo knw wo havo as yt-t, tlio result is a small majority fer tho republicans. Tbo final honest otlieial result osnnot, in our b.ist jutiRrnent, fall below S,0O0 republican re-publican majority. (SigUtid) 1). A. C'UAMltKULAIN. The following is a sample of the , dispatches received from democrat ia - sources : I Charleston, S. C. 10. 11.30 a.m. Thi county givci tho republicans 11,-14 mxjority Nearlv every county heard fr.im nivrs Llatnnton. dtuoi ratio enndi- datc lor Eoverrtor, 1,213 niiij'rily. II is not beliovi'd that TUoa will fall behind more than -100 or 500 voles. The orders from President Grant to General Sherman, sending troops from South Carolina to Louisiana and Florida were interpreted by some to mean that no further services were required of the army in South Carolina, Caro-lina, and that its presence in the other two states was deemed essential ; to ensure a count for the republican ticket. Others thought that the fair terms in which Grant's orders were made indicated that nothing but an honest result was desired by him. Tho stories of ballot-bos smashing or rioting wero simply rumors. There have been no details of rioting or disorder telegraphed or published, and they seem lo ex'st only in the imagination, aud no sufficient expJa-1 nation has been made of tho causes which led to the dispatch of troops to Louisiana and Florida. Our night dispatches may furnish some clue to this mysterious action. |