The daily Mississippi clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-04-22

! counts state that lie explosion damaged "A
| car" w also learn that ..tle passengers
escaped " but rs the Telegraph informs MS,
narrowly"
As Chancellor Ozeustitrn remarked 70 his
little boy, ~Mv son, that's the lick it's done
with"
~ The following are the constitution
tional amendments and resolution intro
dueed iu the United States senate by Mr.
Stewart.
SECTION !. al Determinations among
the people because of race color or previous
condition of scrvliude either in civil rights
or the right of suffrage. are prohibited but
the States may exempt persons now voters
from restrictions ou suffrage hereafter I'M
posed .... e
SIC. >. Obligations incurred IN aid of the
Instruction, OF Of war against. the LuiOn,
and claims for compensation tor slaves
cmaucipated, are void, and shall not be as
sumed or paid by any State or by the United
States
Ecs01rl3 efd That whenever one Of the
eleven States, whose inhabitants were lately
in usuwection, through Legislature cleo
ted by constituency restricted in the right
of suffrage only by such laws As existed in
such State In 1860 shall have ratified the
foregoing amendments 10 the constitution
of the United States and shall have mod
fled its laws IN conformity herewith, then
and i'm that case such State shall be recog-
nized as having fully and validly resumed
its former relations with the Government.
and its chosen representatives shall be ad
mitted into the two Houses of the National
Legislature. and general amnesty shall
exist in regard Go all persons in such State
who were in any way connected with armed
opposition to the Government of the United
States, wholly relieving them from all the
pains, penalties or disabilities to which they
may have become liable by reason OF their
connection with said Instruction.
The bearings Of this proposition, as Jack
Bunsby would say. lies in the application Of
it, For instance, the State Of Mississippi
might adopt this amendment and then re-
strict the right OF suffrage to persons owning
a section otlaud and who should be able to
read and write the English language intel
hsibl~, eon-tluc a chapter in the Greek
Testament, compose Latin verses and play
the aecordeou, provided that no person al
ready a voter should be deprived of his
right to vote. Whereupou, the members
elect, presenting themselves before the two
Houses Of Congress, would be informed that
Congress had no right to say that they shall
be admitted. as each House is the Judge Of
the qualifications of its own members and
they must stay ont little longer.
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~ The editor of the Vicksburg Herald
Partridge you know-seems TO have visited
New Orleans at an unlueky tilnc Carriages
were just ont" and SO they did hot give
him any.
strong effort is now being made in Eng
| land to break down the Russell Ministry, in
/ which the London Times is playing no Sc
! cret part.-ENch.
| What part it is playing does not appear,
it may be Secretary OF State for Internal af-
/ fairs as the old institution of printers devil
/ is still retained i'm the Times office.
- Eighteen mules and a horse were sto-
len at Meridian on Wednesday night by five
dosertcrs from the 18th Infantry.
IgThe sorrow Lodge of the Masonic fra
ternity of DeSogo county, was held on the
lIth by Hernando Lodge Mob The Peo-
! pies Press says
! The speaker selected for the occasion, Rev
/ 5. IL Ford, appeared in the pulpit in Knight
/ Tcmplar's regain. with drawn sword and
/ hat ON his head-tben sheatlung the sword.
/ unbeltng il from his loins, laying it aside
/ and upeovering his head--these were done
I with appropriate words, the introduction to
1 his idress. -#s ta
Among the number of names read out
/ from the list Of the brotherhood who died
| IN the service was particularly mentioned
! that of Rev N. l.. Weller, killed at Shiloh.
] well known ia this community. The eulogy