The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-10-17
General.

Manitoba has another excitement, and at
present seems to be on the verge Of n civil
war, growing out of the arrest of Louis Rel
and Lepine, his Acknowledgement. for their
connection with the instruction against the
Canadian Governor, McDougal in 1869.
The annual report of President Orion, OF
the Western Union Telegraph Company, shows
the capital stock to be 0073, 40, of which
=, 1876, 235 is held by the company; the debt,
sc, OBS, 40; gross receipts for the year So 1888,
DISH, and net earnings, S2,757, 962.69. The
company was operating, July l. 1878, 65,7 1857
miles of line, 1914 757 miles of wire, and $40
offices. During the year II, 456, 1872 messages
were dispatched.
The Senate Committee on Privileges and
Elections have decided to report favorably on
Senator Morton's plan Tor electng the Presi-
dent and Vice-President by popular vote. The
plan is substantially as follows:
First-To abolish the electoral colleg.
SecOnd-That the President aud Vce-President he
elected 10y the people voting directly for the candi
dates.
Thjrd-That each State shall be divided into as
many Districts the state is entitled representa-
tvcs in Congress, to be composed of contiguous ter
rltory compact in form and rs nearly equal in popu-
laion a. may be, and the person having the highest
number of votes for President in each District shall
receive the vote of that District for President which
shall count one Presidential vote. That each State
shall be entitled to two Presidential at large
which shall be counted for the person having the
highest number sf votes in the whole State.
FOUrth-The person having the highest number of
such Presidential votes in the United States shall be
President.
Fthh-These provisions shall be applicable TO the
election of Nice-President.
Sirth-Congress snail have power to provide for
holding and conducting elections for President and
Nfgs-I 10.
cisons of contests as to the vote in any District
state, and make regulations governing the proceed
ings of these tribunals.
William orion has been reelected Presi-
dent of the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany.
A meeting of gentlemen interested in build
ing railroad from Chicago to Charleston.
S. c., was held in the first-named city the
other day, and an organization effected, with
ex-Gov. Beriah Magoflin as President It is
said they mean business.
A. b. Nettleton, Trustees Agent of the
Northern Pacific railroad is out in long let
ter, in which he says that the road has a sub
stantial business basis, and that its securities
have permanent value. One sentence of
Nettleton's letter is specially worthy Of notice.
1t is: 1T is my emphatic belief that every
department of the company's service is man
aged with clean hands, with rigid economy
and with good judgment"
A Toronto dispatch states that intelligence
has been received from England that Sir John
A. Macdonald is to be deprived of the rank of
Privy Counselor to the Queen, and that he will
be defeated on the meeting Of Parliament
The Evangelical Alliance. after brief
session of one week, at New York, has dis.
solved. Notwithstanding the outward har-
monious aspect Of its deliberations, it is APP
parent there were troubles under the surface
which may yet tend to much acrimonious eccle-
sastical wrangling on technical points. One of
these troubles has already developed itself in
the form of protest, signed by seventy of