SANFOBB, NOBTHOAEOLINA,'WEDNESDAY. OOTOBKR is IRflft A BRIEF of the. Force Bill that Passed the ■ 0i .,..;0r- House, %,0, jv,» Seif'S nnd Observer.. The Supervisors and Deputies bye;* - “ t r * " .. ■ 1; To attend to all registrations. 1 To challenge the right of any person tp register and the right of any person registered to continue to register and to requite the officer .. having4p9^ol^JiS~Igg'Sl.r4 bogk to mark the name of a person chal lenged. 0 ‘ 3. To inspect the lists of voters in cases where registration * is not required to be, made personally, and all papers pertaining thereto,' and to make foil copies oi all papers -relating thereto. ■■■■’-■ ■ . 4. To attend wherever - electors personally appear for registration and to keep full, record of all pro ceedings and be present at all places where elections are holding and votes ate counting.; *'*» *•'.." 1 : „&l To inspect and ' hold 1 Under strict scrutiny - all registry books, check lists, tallies, returns, and all S other papers connected with regis tration or election', and to affix tlieir signatures to every page of such Mf, papers whenever they,.deem it l.taM* M essary to do so, in such a manner as « will enable them subsequently to detect and expose the wrongful re-' | uiovat of any itame or nanvet 0. To verify registration in cities hati^5,000 or more inhabitants by house-to-house canvass. * 7. -To pass upon the qualfica tious Of challenged voters, whenev er State officers refuse to do it, and ]n case the State officers refuse, to receive the ballot of any person judged by the supervisors to be qualified to vote, the supervisors : arc to receive such., vote and put into the ballot box, making a ree • owl In each case. 8. To personally inspect ballot boxes before polls are opened , to sec that they are empty. 9. To keep poll lists of those voting, the list to - be -made when registration has occurred by cheek ing names of voters upon the regis tration book; to keep record of voles r ' rejected by local officers; to receive - -such rejected ballots as may be ten dered thehi, and to carefully mark ' Pnd preserve them. “-r,; ,J, ,;^r y,; > fO. To make, certify, .and tot-. .> ward all statements, certificates, i: -Jtnd returns^ provided for by law, ft : and those called for by the Chief Supervisor, ^ ' 11. To make, iu. cities of 2Q.OOO or more inhabitants, houre-to-house canvasses, when ordered so to do, V ‘"and to return full lists of all the male inhabitants, with statements of the qualifications as a voter of W each,'" . S-s* ‘ id?* To make in such cities, when k.:brdqfedso*tc do, full," lists of pH |' naiufalized persona ’ and all the 1 s.. facts pertaining to the naturaliza 35 tionofeach, 13. To show voters into what >• —boxes ^ballots for . Congressmen " s'nouldbe placed. ‘; 3 ,. ‘ Id. To watfeij^'natnraiization and r;-.^.id in preventing fraud therein, and ' ' to have, at all times, free access to ;*■> all rooms where, naturalization is f going on. This specification np only to such “discreet or spe cial supervisors” as may be selected for the duty in towns or cities hav ing 20,000 or more inhabitants, but it may, in the discretion of the Chief SupervisoMjirt;: apply > in', smaller . filaoest' . Elaborate directions are given for Sf Clhe counting of votes. The -ivotes are to be counted both by - the looal ; >1 inspectors and by the Federal super pervisors. When the two sets of officer*; agree' on announcement of the recall it tb fie made. .,!& the o;!; oyent of a disagreement the in spectors ahull state that there has : : been a disagreement,- bat that by _ their computation the_resiilt is sc and so. TArsEatemcnt must then la made by the supervisors - ehoWmjj they compute the result to be. i :;No c8ftAfr§at$ Dor/ ^tujpjv ; O&the findl result of the cast ’foj % CongreeeuipnjiMjJbfi. made' mtf the final count ahull have been.com pleted on all the ballots cast for every other officer, and if local in spectors fiud ballots for Congress man in other boxes than the one set apart for Congressman ballots they, are to deliver them to the 'su pervisors, who are to put them at once into an envelope, with a state ment upon it showing . whence the ballots came. - When there is auexcessive hum •issrTsnaiwfer^igigf^iSirn? the ballot box, the box is to be well shaken Up, after which as many ballots are to he drawn out as are excessive, a blindfolded1 supervisor and a blindfolded inspector alter nating in withdrawing the ballots, the whole performance to be public. The canvass of the Votes complet ed, each set of officers is . to make up its returns according to the law governing it. The supervisors will make up their returns in duplicate, forwarding one set of papers to tile chief Supervisor, the other to tile clerk of the the court. Xu prepar ing their returns; tlie supervisors are required "to exercise great care, and to ruttjce rftalty precautions to pre vent subsequent.attempts at fraud; Before sending-off; their returns they are to compare all of fbeir statements and certificates with those prepared by the inspectors, and to.note any differences which may appear. The returns forward ed to the chief supervisors are im mediately opened and tiled in ■ ■■ his office; the*other set remains, in the office of the circuit cleric, sealed, until it* is called for* by the proper canvassing board. • To make provision for’ cases of failure upon'the part of local , offi cers to open polls it is ordered that whenever at any place polls are-not opened witlim fin our of the time when they should be opened tlm su MU^efw-sbfttl procecdtS hold an dee tfdft for Congressman, conducting it in accordance with the state laws; except as to those respects in which the state law is superceded by Fed eral law. It is provided that on or before Sept. 1st of this year each .Chief Supervisor must cause a judge of the Circuit Court within the juris diction* of which hist Sphere of duty lies to be necessary for court io be opened to consider matters pertain ing to congressional elections, and the court must he opened on or be fere Oct. 1st, and- must within ten days of its opening appoint for each State within the judicial district three persons to be known as the United States canvassers of the con gressional vote witlim an for the State for which they are appointed. These are to remain in office so long .as faithful and capable 'and no more than two shall be of the same partju They are to receive $15 a day while actually engaged and $5 . a day for their personal expenses, and may have a clerk at $10 a day and expen ses. *,'*;• 'UUU .V* , These canvassers are to convene November 15th, unless that day falls upon Sunday, in which ease they witj convene one* day later They will canvass and tabulate the returns from the supervisors, and the determination fvhich they may arrive at as to each Congressional district shall be at or.ee made pnh lic, and a declaration shall be made in triplicate, One to be filled with the Chief Supervisor under whose direction the election was held, one to be forwarded to the person found to be. elected, the third to he sent to the Clerk of the House of. Rep resentatives. •'-W‘ • vv nen tnc persons aeciavea to tie elected by the Federal. canvassers is ,n, 000,000. ~ : In some Congressional districts at the.North there will be distributed among the peoplo ofthe district one million dollars for pensions! Sup posa now that there should be given without any consideration whatever, one million dollars to the people of this Congressional district this year, and every year! Just a donation— pouring the money among the folks in a constant stream! Don't you know our people would soon be come rich? And if they became rich would not those who gave the money become poor,- , So it materially is. . The South pays more than $50,000,000 a year tribute to the. Federal soldiers all over tlie North and that keeps" us impoverished. Let us see. We make 7,000,000 bales -.of cotton which at $45 a bale would be worth $ai5,000,000. Now what profit does a farmer make on his crop ? After paying expenses does he have one bale over out of six? If he make^ sixty Bales, can lie sell fifty and'pay all his expenses and have,ten ovey clear profit? We say ito; but sup pose he cam V "N>., . Then that would leave about $50,? 000,000 clear profit on our cotton crop. Amt we have to. pay: that amount to the North for pensions to tb« Northern soldiers. We re tain nothing as the result, of our la bor. ‘ Such are some of the reasons why the South continues poor; the high wages we pay to the Nora, them factory hands when we .buy Northern goods, and the aruouut we pay for pensions. A careful consideration of the subject will show that virtually the South is struggling under a mort gage of many billions .North..:'.vj '.'‘..v.. l '-Nu won^er we never getTthead in 4iuMrorIiL-i^ X NOT A POUTIAL DOCUMENT, ■ ' - ■. -' f • . But Highly Instructive to Those Who Think the Tariff is'not a Tax. The only comment which it.seems necessary to make on tjo? subjoined eirculafis'that contained Jin tlie let ter of transmittal, whijeh'the infor mation' is vouchsafed -that ‘‘the house was established |by the late Wilder D. Poster, for miny years from this district. Although dead his name is still at the head of the firm and his estate is a partner.” .« XOSTER, STEVENS, & GO. Oka fin Rapids. Mich., Sept. 9.— Gentlemen :'As important and rath er radical advances in prices in some articlestn" the hardware line are daily taking place we wish jto say a few Words so you may more fully, understand the situation and not think that the jobber is overcharg ing. AXES. There is not but one axe compa ny in the United States, and that is Called the American Axe and Tool Company, with headquarters at Pittsburg. This company has pur chased outright every mfe factory in 'the country of any importance, and thus controlling the prices on an av erage $1 a dozen. This company also Compose the manufacture of axe polls, or the heads of axes, the machinery of : which ~is patented and this enables it to' keep ' * th.e price on polls so high no . oue else can: afford to-make axes. ■ 6AWS—HARD AJSD CROSS CRT. i In this industry the Seme forces have beeu at work, and to-day there are only two companies which man facture hardware where there were a dozen four months ago.’ Prices in this line of goods have advanced from-10 to 50 per cent. In cross eiitslt is tlie same,' By « consolida tion of interests prices have advan ced from four to eight clnfs’a foot. ' ' - ' ■ LEAD. t Everything made of lead has ta ken a decided advance, owing to re cent decisions oil the ad witting of .Mexican ore into this country, as well as by.couibiuatio.ns of manu factures. Shot, lead pipe, pig,, lead, solder, babbit metal have all ad vanced, and may go still higher. The passage of tlve silver bill SlSo affects all articles made of or coated with silver. _ In the hard ware line plated knives and forks, spoons, &c., will be affected and ad vances made. . .... . . ns. T lie preseu t tariff on sheet tin is one cent a pound and the McKinley tariff bill, which, will no doubt pass both houses of Congress,“'advances the dutry to 2 2-10 cents a pound. This must, of course, advance tin from $1.25 to $3 a box, according to the weight of said box. This ad vance on sheet tin will affect all ar ticles of tinware, and advances will be made all along the line. ? Tin-in New York has already ad vaneed-from 50 cents, to $1 a box and is growing stronger .each day, as the certainty of the - passage of the McKinley tariff bill becomes more assured. Not ft box of tin is .made in this country, notwithstand which tin has declined in price from $1.50 to $4.75- a box during the last twenty-five years. -; -j . i GLASS. ■' •( . The window-glass market of this country, fa practically in the hands of two‘large companies, who work in harmony ns to prices, which lias resulted in a steady advance for the last year, averaging‘10 percent; - ZINC OR STOVE BOAEDS. The A (Ituis & Westlake. Company, A. 1. Origgr, Sidney Shepard. & C’o„ Palmer »Manufacturing4-JConipany, H. Uendlorf & Co., Central Stamp ing Company, W. H. Swwney Man ufacturing Company—aft j of the above named firms were animus for Our business last year,Jbi;f piMV they have all sold out' to the l.-Vine^ican Btove Board, Company, vfiMi offices •iii New York and Chicago,*; and a general advance on -ail times has taken place, JLaat. ycar buy a 28-inch Square paper-lined zihte for 36 cents. This year the same' thing costs you, 72 cents—an advance of 100 per cent. AMMUNITION. - Tlie price is controlled by a com bination, and you have! to'pay the price or go without. POWDER. . .The same—but one price, and that nearly double, wliat it was., two years ago. __ . j . , , — ». - .. ' .. 6UHM ARX, . ,J . We call your attention to these matters so you vyill understand why on nearly every invoice you get you will find something higher than it was before. The tendency of the times seems to be consolidation, . thus enabling large corporations to produce the goods cheaper and sell them at a higher price. ” We fail to find, however, in all the consolidation of various lines of-goods a single in stance, notwithstanding the ad vance they put on goods, where they have-advanced the pay of labor a cent. If the consumer who purchases last does not pay this in creased cost we do not know who does.- If he reaps any personal ben efit from it we would like to know where it comes in. This is not a political document, but a fair state ment of the condition of certain lines of business as we daily come in contact with the .jFosTEB, Stevens & Co-, ■■ Hardware Merchants. Look on That Picture and Then on This .. * -Vettf Torts Herald. A gentleman writes tq the Herald in the following strain:— “I am a poor man; one of the des pised Knights of tabor. My op portunities for study have been few and my opinions on matters as com prehensive as the McKinley bill are therefore without weight. Won’t you kindly answer these two questions:—Will the effect of that bill be to restrict the market for American products? And if it will be, is not that an injury rather than a benefit to the country?” Mighty-important questions these, but they are easily answered and the answer wall not.be favorable to the hill. / _ KinsT - If you raise the price of a given article you thereby decrease the demand for it. If people can get it at a cheap rate they will hoy it; if it is dear they will manage to do without it. This is one oi the axioms of supply and demand. Make woolen goods, for instance, so plentiful'that they come within reach of everybody’s purse and ev erybody will buy them, because woolen is necessary to health in the winter’s cold._Make tliemso Scarce that they become dear and you at once put tbeni out of reach of the wage earning class, which is the largest class in all communities. Second;—If the demand is light because the goods cost too mucin then the manufacturer very natur ally and properly—for he doesn’t pretend to bn a philanthropist—runs his mil 1 on three q 11 after tim e' a mi consequently on three quarter wag es. He can’t afford to pile up a loss, and so informs fifty per cent of his men that ho doesn't need them any longer. ■ ", — " - ' . - 1 : I here y only tear of tjie Alliance is of diss ension in its own ranks. #ol. Liv ingston is the lecturer of the Na tional Alliance. ■ -- * r The Wall Street Hobgoblin. J the Oxford Day, of Monday, after noon, these remarks are taken: “A reporter of the /kty heArd just, one remark in Col. Polk’s speech to-day^i V3 It was about this: ‘Brother- Alii—, anc&men, the issue of this campaign. is the people vs. Wall street and its monopolies.’ And truer words were v never uttered.1*. , _ . , \ '' *% Why should the people be against i Wall street? Wall street simply represents the money centre of the nation, and it is that only because it $ is the market centre also. There , must needs be one great market centre, and it will have consequent evils; but for that,'there is no good reason why the people should be educated to wnr on that market, or capital. ■■ Charlotte Chronicle* Prom that really excellent Whilst a majority of the capilalits* of this nation are Republicans, it is not the principle of Democracy to wage-war on capital or capitalists; y and it is unwholesome politics to un- ^ dertako to day down a gauge between labor and capital. The advantages that capital re- i ceives in this country to the hurt of1 labor, are in the tariff bill;, don’t war on capital, for that’s what the j poorest of us are striving for, bat turn your guns on the party that passed the McKinley bill. Somepeo- ' pie in Wall street helped to pnt in power the party that passed the tar iff hill, but W all street did not. As the market and money centve of tlwr country, there is nothing the matter ; w with Wall street. Mr. Wilkinson is a Gentleman. Syracuse, N. Y., Oct., 7.—Alfred" Wilkinson was-seen today in regard to the statement that his engage ment with Miss Winnie Davis bad \} been broken. - ;>■: Mr. Wilkinson said that as he' had not read what the newspapers , had said about -the matter, ha was ^ not competent to reply, and' fur tlier. than that, if he had, it was a. subject on' which he could not be interviewed anyway. He added, ' hesitatingly. “If Miss Davis has broken off the . *| engagement, I have no doubt but that she had good reasons for do mg SO. y He then changed the' subject of conversation. • > . (We do not think that it was wise in Miss Davis to have enter tained the idea, of marrying and !iv« ing permanently at the North. Else where her course in life would be like that of any other woman; at the North, the daughter of Mr. Davis would bje a rose in a bed of lilies—liardly a lily on a bed of roses!) - Personal Items. The Goldsboro Argus learns that; the Hon. l?. M. Simmons, of New Berne, ex-Congressman from the second (or black) district, is going to Winston to locate and practice law.-.- ! - . , Gen. Johnstone Jones, late Adju tant General of North Carolina, moved, last year, to San Diego, Cal., and was last week nominated there as the Democratic candidate for dis trict attorney. -i Judge Thurman, of Ohio, will b£ 77 years old on the 13th of Novem ber, when a banquet will be given him by the Thurman Club of Cleve land. Ex-president Cleveland has accepted an invitation to be pres ent; It is reported in Waahingtou tjhat ex-Presidentr. Rutherford B. Hayes is to be married to a Virginia lady whom he- met» few months ago while she was on a visit: tor Ohio; She is a widow and a remarkably handsome woman. • ' - 1 - —• *1.. Twelve volume* of Jhekeiu, inelur & 'ling David Uopjterfleld and Piaku'ieh [ 1’aperi a»d the UxeunMf'/r '