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If ART WEI. 1., HART COfXTY, WA.s
W><ln*ln.y .noriiinir. February 21. 1*77.
The Florida Case.
The Commission decided by a strict
party vote —eight Republicans to seven
Democrats —that the testimony against
Humphreys, the ineligible Elector from
Florida was not sufficient to disqualify
him. They also decided, by the same
vote, that the State had cast its vote for
llaykh. In the joint session of both
Houses afterwards it was counted for him.
The Electoral Count.
Ou Saturday, the 10th instant, the
Senate adopted the report of the Electo
ral Commission, giving the State vote of
Florida to llaykh; on the Monday fol
lowing the House rejected the report,
but iu accordance with the Constitution,
the Republicans scored the four votes
for their candidate in the joint session.
The certificates of the States that follow
Florida, were then proceeded with, and
Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Kansas
and Kentucky were disposed of without
objection. The objection which it had
been understood would he made to
Chaffee, as an Elector from Illinois,
on the ground of ineligibility, was not
presented. Next in order after the above
States cu'ne Louisiana, and here two
sets of (vrtilioaTes were otic red, to which
objections were made by opposite sides.
The joint convention then took a recess,
after referring them to the Electoral
Commission. Up to the latest dates the
Commission had not decided.
The Louisiana Case.
It seems probable that Louisiana may
prove the stumbling block of the Elec
toral Commission. At least that is the
impression in Washington, and it is to
be hoped that the impression has a sub
stantial basis. Our special correspond
ent. says the Atlanta Constitution, tele
graphs that Hurlbut, one of the lle
publican objectors, said yesterday that
“ the vote Louisiana should not be count
ed at all,” and if this shoul be the result
of the labors of the Commission, the
election will be thrown in the House,
and Tilden and Wheeler will be the
next President and Vice-President.
The following is the dispatch referred
to, which has other interesting reading:
Washington, February 15. —There
is reason for some hope to-night, owing
to the fact that two of the Republican
members of the Commission have put
certain questions to the counsel in the
Louisiana ease, showing that they did
not regard the cases ot Florida ami Lou
isiana as similar, and that the exclusion
of testimony iu one does not imply ex
clusion in the other. Hurlbut, Re
publican objector, said to-day that the
vote of Louisiana should not be counted
at all. The Republicans are getting un
easy, and a large wing of Democrats
still insist that the House must filibuster
through till March 4th, if the Commis
sion rejects the evidence in the Louisiana
case. The Southern members as a class
oppose filibustering or any evasive ac
tion. H. W. G.
Mr. Tapper’s Ode “To the South.'
On our fourth page will be found one
of the finest vindications, in poetry, of
the South that we have ever seen. The
Charleston News and Courier says:
It is seldom, in this practical and pro
saic age, that bit of fugitive verse ob
tains the prompt and widespread public
ity that has been spontaneously accorded
the graceful and generous lines, “Tothe
South,” written iu this city, last week, by
Mr. Martin Farqithar TupPer, and
first given to the public iu the News and
Courier of Friday last. The verses, we
find, are reproduced in nearly all the
leading newspapers of our exchange list,
and they receive honorable prominence
in journals of such standing as the New
York Herald, the New York Sun, the
New York Time*, and the New York Post.
The combined circulations of the paj>ers
in which the Ode has already appeared
probably exceeds half a million copies,
and it will be a gratifying surprise to Mr.
Titpkk to learn that his impromptu
tribute to the people of the South has
thus reached a larger circle of readers
within a week of its first publication than
even his best known work, “Proverbial
Philosophy,” with all the multitudinous
editions through which it has passed,
both in England and the United States.
The Radical papers sneer at, while the
Independent journals applaud, the nuig
nunimous temper of the Ode; but, one
and all, they recognize its striking senti
ment and rhythm, and place it before
their readers.
Just us we go to press, we learn
that the Commission has decided Louisi
ana for Hayes by the same strict party
vote —seven to eight.
ftoT 1 Judge Bradley is always the
deciding man in the Electoral Commis
sion, and his vote always goes for Hayes.
The I,ouiiiinit luelltflbleN.
From the Atlanta Constitution.
The case of the Tilden electors of Louisiana
would be a very strong one before any
court that regarded the interests of justice
as paramount to those of party. It con
sists of five grand points :
1. That the Returning Hoards had no
statute authority to canvass the votes for
electors.
2. That if it had, it lost its authority by
refusing to till its membership.
J. That in the absence of requisite affida
vits it has no power to exclude the vote.
4. That the Board sold its decision for
nionev.
5. That all but one of the “ Hayes elec
tors ” were ineligible.
We do not propose to indulge this morning
in speculations upon the first four points.
The country is clutching at straws, we fear
when it expects Mr. Hoar to vote against
the Hayes electors, because he would other
wise stultify the famous Wheeler reports
that he signed three winters ago. Bradley
lias doubtless gone over to the enemy, hag
and baggage. If anybody breaks the party
line Mr. Justice Strong will probably be
Tffctrruw arcSettfr
rarc independence and integrity under try
ing circumstances. If he sees nothing
wrong in the Wclls-Kellogg papers, there
is little reason to hope for a just result.
But all this is best left to the wires.
The fifth may be the pivotal point. The
commission has not made up its mind, and
is willing to hear evidence, as to the ineli
gibilitv of electors. The Hayes ticket in
Louisiana certainly furnishes a large per
centage of lame ducks. First, comes
Levisee. llis appointment as United States
Commissioner came from the Judge of the
United States Circuit Court. He under
took to resign on the fifth of December, so
that the Electoral College could by re-
election cure his ineligibility. But he ten
dered his resignation to the District Court,
which had no power to accept it. It is
claimed, however, that his otlice is not one
of “ trust or profit.*’
Brewster, one of the eight, was not only
a State Senator, but United States surveyor
of lands for Louisiana, lie certainly held
an office ** of trust and profit” on the day
he was elected. lie tried to resign before
the day of election by ante-dating his res
ignation. but the trick was too transparent
to stand investigation.
To make good the votes of these two
men, the Republican counsel will have to
convince the Commission, first, that the
election of an ineligible elector created a
vacancy in the Electoral College ; second,
that it was a vacancy as the laws of Louis
iana empowered the Returning Board to
till; third, that it was properly filled at
the second election. Rut here comes in a
little trick that the Commission will have
to take notice of. Brewster and Levisee,
both claiming to be electors, pretended to
be absent at the meeting of the electors,
and their places were filled. By whom ?
By Brewster and Levisee! By the identi
cal absent electors, who were actually
present at the very moment they were
chosen to fill their own vacancies, and who,
being present, voted, with the others, for
Hayes and Wheeler. It is not easy to see
how the Commission can give its solemn
sanction to this fraudulent evasion of a
constitutional provision. It was a piece of
jugglery bearing a lie on its face. Brew
ster and Levisee being Federal office-hold
ers on the day of election, November 7.
were not elected electors; they coulu not
be. Not having been elected, their pre
tended absence could not create a vacancy
which the other electors were authorized
to fill. In the very best Republican view
of it. therefore, there are two vacancies in
the Louisiana Electoral College, and two
votes lost to Hayes and Wheeler.
Nor are these all. The constitution of
Louisiana, article 117, says “no person shall
hold or exercise at the time more than one
office of trust or profit.” This renders
three more ineligible under the laws of the
'■Mate, namely. Kellogg, who claims to
have been Governor of the State when he
was elected an elector ; Burch, who was a
State Senator; and Morris Marks, who
was a District Attorney.
Nor are these all. The United States
laws provide that no criminal or unnatural
ized person shall be eligible as an elector.
Oscar .Jeffrion is a native of Ilayti. and has
never been naturalized. lie cannot ante
date a resignation and escape from his in
eligibility. lie was. too. Supervisor of
registration in the Parish of Pointe ( ou
pee. This makes him doubly ineligible,
an act of Louisiana expressly P r ° v, {y?®
that no Supervisor of Registration shall be
eligible to any other office at that elec
tion. The seventh ineligible elector is
Peter .Joseph, a colored man, who served
a term in the Alabama penitentiary for
burglary.
Out of the eight Haves elector l there is
one—Lionel A. Sheldon—who v eligible
as an elector under the laws of the State
and the United States. Sheldon is * car
pet-bagger, and the “ least likely ' of the
whole lot. Hayes has already scored one
convict vote —Pearce's of Florida—besides
several illegal votes. If the eight commis
sioners decide to count the votes of the
eight Hayes electors from Louisiana. Mr.
Hayes’ title to the presidency will be a very
unenviable one. If the certificates of a bo
gus governor, based on the acts of an illegal
and corrupt board, can make such men
electors, in the teeth of an adverse majority
of ten thousand, we may indeed as well
“bid farewell to the country.”
Items of Interest.
The Louisiana case will be argued for the
Tilden objectors by Matt Carpenter and
Judge Trumbull. The Oregon case will
be under the management of Judge Hoad
ley.
A babe born in Carbondale the other
day was pronounced by the doctor and
nurse to be of the masculine persuasion
arid a day or two after it was taken to
church and baptised with the name of
Thomas. Now it has turned to be a girl
and the priest says he cannot undo what
has been done.
A colored child was recently bom in
Bayside, Talbot County. Md., of the tiniest
proportions ever known. At birth it was
only twelve inches long, and weighed one
pound. The imperfection about it is a to
tal absence of thumbs, not having even a
place where thumbs ought to be. It has
long hair, coming down over the shoulders.
It is a female child.
Now they have got the blood out of their
eyes in a measure, the Indiana Republicans
discover with surprise that Blue Jeans
Williams, so far from being the boor their
campaign fancy painted him, is a very
clever fellow, as shrewd as he is simple,
who bids fair to make one of the best and
most popular Governors Indiana has seen
this quarter of a century.
An ass who gives his name as Weldon,
and who says he Philadelphia, at
tempted.
Orleans Thursday. The attempt was very
foolish, and if lie had succeeded he would
have cheated the penitentiary out of some
skilled labor. These Philadelphia adven
turers and ku-kluxes ought to be taught
to attend to their own business.
The State-supremacy doctrine never had
such extreme champions as it has in the
Republican party of the present time. The
hypocrites argue by the hour in favor of
maintaining the sacred rights of States.
That right is, however, all summed up in
the presentation of bogus electoral returns
that Congress must not question. The ex
tent to which the enthusiasts carry their
new doctrine would be ridiculous if it were
not wicked and dangerous.
Well’s financial arrangement was “for
a million all around, of which all must be
equally divided between Anderson and me,
except $30,000 for each of the niggers, who
will be glad to leave the country.” Hayes
may well shudder over the fate of the
“poor black man ” thus to be shoved out
of the country, with only $30,000 of steal-
age in his pockets, while the Republican
whales, Wells and and Anderson, proposed
to divide $940,000 between themselves. —
Courier-Journal.
The Forest News reports a raid made on
some wagoners on Monday night last, by
parties representing themselves as revenue
officers. The pretended “officers” apbro
priated the contents of the wagon, scared
off all but one of the persons connected
therewith, and this one they robbed of a
a consinerable sum of money. Perhaps just
such high handed outrages as this may be
at the bottom of the troubles in North
Georgia between the bona Jide officers and
the illicit distillers.
READ THIS.
SAW MILL NOTICE,
I HAVE determined upon tin* following terms for
this year, ho that there can In* no misunderstand
ing:
For sawing lumber, 40 cents per 100 feet if paid by
next Fall.
For sawing lumber, 50 cents per 100 feet if not
paid by January Ist, 1878.
Lumber for sale at 80 cents per 100 feet, to be paid
in the Fall.
Lumber for sale at #I.OO per 100 feet, if not paid by
January Ist, 1878.
These terms will be strictly adhered to.
H. N. AYERS,
2G-30 Reed Creek, Ga.
Tj\STRAY NOTICE.
-Li Benjamin Allen tolls before John M. naynes
and Aaron Rice, freeholders, of 1.113 th District G.
M., of Hart County, Georgia, as an eatray, one Red
Cow, with one crop of the right ear and one under
bit in the left, cmmple-horued, supposed to be I*2
veers old. and appraised to be worth six dollars.
The owner of said estray is hereby required to come
forward, prove property, pay charges and take said
cow away, as it will be' sold on the premises of the
taker up, on Saturday the 3d dav of March, 1877;
this February til, 1877, F. C. STEPHENSON,
2 Ordinary.
here we are again.
DID YOU SAY CHEAP
groceries?
miIYT’SIT Our J B. B. has tpread himself in selecting a stock of everything that
T is needed in a irstilass GROCERY STOR* for this place. He paid cash and
thereby got them It bottom price., Some are here-the
yourselves with the money. Come and see what bargains ran behad! N huts the.use
CANDlEs'woildcrruily low. CT(;AI£S ii.l yllKll()OTS.
We make a specialty of SI GAR, COFFEE , TEA, RILE,
BACON AND FLOUR,
Fresh Garden Seeds and Irish Potatoes. PLO WS and Agricultural Implements.
These are all kept in the Store formerly occupied by W llliams & Benson, next door
to our regular stand.
TERMS CASH. One Trice to Everybody.
E. B. BENSON & CO.
CONTINUE TO READ.
The above department is STRICTLY CASH. The rule stands the same for
EVERYBODY. If you have not the money, it will be economy for you to bor
row, even at 25 per cent, interest, and buy from us.
E. B. BENSON & CO.
R. i*. BRADLEY. L. O. WILLIFORD. , D. C. ALFORD.
HARTWELL
STEAM SAWMILL COMPANY
TIIE UNDERSIGNED respectfully announce that they have associated themselves
in the Lumber and Building business, and will till all bills for Lumber with dispatch
and of the best quality. Contracts for Building will also he taken, and as we emjAy
none but the best of workmen, we arc prepared to do tirst-class work with satisfacton
both as to price and style. Give us a trial.
Respectfully,
i
\ w -,.0 —*■ i it.IIIJIADLEV, ,
W 1- . L. O. WILLIFORD,
~i | I). C. ALFORD.
TO THE PUBLIC.
I RESPECTFULLY call your attention to my continued reduction in prices, and
large receipt of new Goods arriving by every Steamer from my Factory. Business
has now reached large proportions (having increased materially during the Inst year.)
I have been compelled to enlarge my Warerooms, which are located on Broad .Street,
facing Monument Street, (known as‘the Eagle & Phoenix Hotel.) The dimensions of the
building are seventy feet front by one hundred and twenty-five deep, three stories high.
They are said to be the largest and finest Warerooms in the Southern States.
My Stock will compare with Northern and Western markets for price and selection.
Thanking you for past favors, and awaiting further and esteemed patronage, I remain
Yours respectfully,
G. V. I>GRAAF,
Successor to K. G. ROGERS , Wholesale and Retail Furniture Dealer and Undertaker.
147,1471 & 149 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA.
UNDERTAKING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES.
Sunday and Night calls 102 Greene Street. „
GLOBE lIOTH,
(OK. JACKSON AND BROAD STREETS,
AUGUSTA, GA.
Thoroughly Kenovntetl. Kemotleled anil
Newly EiirniNhcd.
Located in the centre of business ;
In convenient distance of the Railroads ;
Near the Telegraph and Express Offices.
*And under the Present Management
Will be SurpawMed by None in the South.
JOHN W. CAMERON, Prop’r.
Thos. M. Binford, Chief Clerk.
W. H. SATTERFIELD. W. A. HOLLAND.
“ REDTOP” SALOON.
o
FINE WINES,
WHISKIES,
BRANDIES ,
CIGARS, and
TOBACCOS.
VERY THING done up in the little brown jug.
3 SATTERFIELD & HOLLAND.
SALE.
X J Will be sold Courthouse door in
Hartwell, Hart Count, e First Tvesdav in
November next, with#" 1 hours of sale,
THAT FINE Rv "PLANTATION
Of Mieajah Carter. deeel \f' lining 1,200 acres,
more or less, 800 acres in'-* kv- forest and 100 acres
of drst-class river and cii\d -Votes. Sold for the
lienctit of the heirs and etc BUS: The place can be
divided into two or three tit ’ P if desired. Terms—
One-half cash; two paynit • ’ll be given for the
other half, the notes to beasiYl j wt at one per cent.
\ per month, and the land to >jf ml for the purchase
money. JAS ,y | Alt TER Exec'r.
* Febv7,1877 ei-32
Hart sheriff’s sale.
Will be sold before the Courthouse door in -
Hartwell on the First Tiksday iu March next,
w ithin the legal hours of sale,
FIVE ACRES OF LAND,
More or less, well improved, adjoining lands of J. B
Benson, F. C. Stephenson and others. Levied on as
the property of J. H. Skelton, to satisfy a ft. fa. in
favor of Hannah Rush and Lewis B. Rush v. J. H.
Skelton. This (ith February.
24 W. A, HOLLAND, Sheriff.
(GEORGIA— IIART COUNTY.
v s Whereas, Ira M. Brown applies to me for the
guardianship of the person and property of Robert
L. Pullum and George M. W. Pulluni, minors under
fourteen years, children of Marion Pullum, deceased.
Therefore, this is to eite the kindred and friends of
said minors to show cause, if any they have, at the
March term next of this Conrt, why the* guardian
ship aforesaid of said minors should not be granted
said applicant.
Given under my hand, officially, this February 5,
1877.
24 FRED. C. STEPHENSON, Ordinary.
,/A A A Can’t be made by even - agent every
Vl I 11 111 month in the business we furnish, hut
fit those willing to work can earn a doz
vlU SJ (/ 1/ en dollars a day right in their own lo
calities. Have no room to explain here.
Business pleasant and honorable. Women, and l*oys
and gii*ls do as well as men. Wo will furnish you a
complete outfit free. The business pays better than
an\ tiling else. We will hear expense of starting you.
Particulars free. Write anil see. Farmers and me
chanics. their sons and daughters, and all ( lasses in
need of paving work at home, should write to us and
learn all about the work at once. Now is the time.
Don’t delay. Address True & Cos., Augusta, Maine.
'J’HOMAS W. TEASLEY,
ATTORNEY AT L A W,
HARTWELL, GEORGIA,
Will practice in the Comities of Hart, Elbert, Ogle
thorpe. Madison, and Franklin. Prompt attention
given to the collection of all claims entrusted to his
care. 8
J)R. A. J. MATHEWS,
SURGEON AND PHYSICIAN,
FIRST FLOOR MASONIC HALL,
1 HARTWELL, GA.