Daily Mississippi clarion and standard. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-05-29
The plan is this. When this Con

The plan is this. When this Con
vention had formed its constitution,
with its clauses empowering the legis-
lature to grant suffrage to the negroes,
and putting "all men, in the militia, it
ordered it to be submitted to the peo-
pie for acceptance or rejection. -
Whether, because theya1esired in case
it was rejected to amend it so as to
make it more acceptable to the peo-
pie, or for other reasons, before adj
journing they gave their President,
Judge Durell, Of the U. 5. District
Court, the power to call them together
again, not limiting the time.
The vote by which this constitution
was adopted, nominally about 5000
out of 10000, was, in reality, after
taking off false, fraudulent and illegal
votes, not much over 1000. One of
the numerous flaws constantly cited
against it as professedly binding con-
stitution, is this, and that it was not
put to vote in over half the precincts
of the State. Now it is proposed to
reassemble this convention, adopt q
universal suffrage clause and offer it to
the people, white and black, for accep-
lance, and as the whites will be loath to
vote with negroes, even for the pur-
pose of rejecting it, or might use vi
olence to prevent a vote, or negroes
from voting, to make this preteXt
for as violent interposition by the mill
tary authorities.
tits understood that this scheme
has failed for want of cooperation on
the part of Judge Durell. This per
son is anxious to ingratiate himself
now with the responsible and wealthy
part Of the population of the State !;
and besides this, he knows full well
that all the fruits of this scheme, if
any, would be gathered by Michael
Hahn, Thomas j. Durant and a few
others, and that Wells, the present
Governor, favors it only in the hope
of being able thereby to retain his
present place, which, by his thousand
acts of perfdy, crowned by his al
legged completely in the murder OF
Gruber, he has justly forfeited
The week past has been signalized
by three notable suicides by females
One Of them was that of a beautiful
young actress of blameless life and
character, but married to an actor
named Morland, who has grossly NAL
treated her in various ways, and es-
pecially by bestOwing his cares and
attentions, even more than that, upon
another woman. The unfortunate
victim bore up against her wrongs as
bravely as she could for a time, but
possibly the necessity which poverty
compelled, Of night after night sus
tanning the role of the gay and happy
favorites of society, when her owl
heart was so desolate, finally drove he
mad, and she took her own dreary
life. You may imagine the disgust o
this community at her husband, wheI
| tell you that the night afterward
while her body was lying in her hous,
ready for interment, that husband was
playing at the Academy of Music
He throws the blame of this on tn,
management, but they have dismissed
him nevertheless in Difference to thu
universal sentiment of the city.
One of the other cases was that 0
beautiful woman of the town witt
had had happy home in Iowa. Sh
had received a letter thence a fey
days before which she said containe,
"bad news" Perhaps the story of he
i'll life had gone there and brough
sorrow around virtuous hearth, OF
it may be, she had aspirations for
return to virtue and a home Of he
own, which discovery had made i'm
possible. Be it what it might, sh
poured a vial of laudanum down he
throat and covered up this with heav
rotations of brandy as is the wont Q
these sac. moral wrecks, and she dice
Gold you see is growifgalp with
panic, and may reach $50, az Fernand
Wood has bet it will, and cotton an
everything else sold for greenback
will sympathize with it; but it is nc
well to calculate on any permanent
high rate for it. GREENS.