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THE SUN. SVBSCmi'TIO\H.—One ropy, ont year , 1.50, six month* 75 rente, invariably in advance. A BTEKTISIIfO.—One square, firet insertion, (one inchi. |1 00; rorh suhstquent insertion, 75 rente. Liberal deductions vtiule to adrertierre. according to the tjiarc and time that ir occupied. THUMB.- -Transient tutrertieements, Cash ; contract advertisement* nitief he settled monthly. For announcing candidatee Fine DoUnre — in rarinhly in advance. Obituary noticee, exceeding fire line*, tribute* of re spect, mint aU (terminal communication*, or matter* of individual intercet, trill be charged /or at regular rale*. Notices oj marriage*, of death* and of a religion* character are requested and trill hr in*ertrd free. Short netrey communication* are *oliritnl; hut ice are not reeponeihle for the vines of correnjmndents. BELCHF.II and McOILL, Editors and Publishers. 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.