Daily clarion and standard. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-05-29
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The plan is this. When this Con
vention had formed its constitution,
with its clauses empowering the legls-
lature to grant suffrage TO the negroes,
and putting .sall men, in the militia, 1t
ordered it to be submitted to the peo-
pie for acceptance or rejection. =
/ whether. because theyGteslred III case
it was rejected to amend it so as to
make it more acceptable to the peo-
ple. or for other reasons, before ad-
iourning 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
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 a preteXt
for as violent interposition by the mill
tary authorities.
Its 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 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 own
heart was so desolate, finally drove her
mad, and she took her own dreary
life You may imagine the disgust OF
this community at her husband, when
| tell you that the night afterward,
while her body was lying in her house
ready for interment, that husband was
playing at the Academy of Music
He throws the blame of this on the
management, but they have dismissed
him nevertheless in Difference to the
universal sentiment of the city
One of the other cases was that OF
a beautiful woman of the town who
had had happy home in Iowa She
had received a letter thence a few
days before which she said contained
"bad news" Perhaps the story of hel
i'll life had gone there and brought
sorrow around a virtuous hearth, or
it may be, she had aspirations for 8
return to virtue and a home of hel
own, which discovery had made i'm
possible Be it what it might, she
poured a vial of laudanum down hel
throat and covered up this with heavy
rotations of brandy as is the wont Of
these sad moral wrecks, and she died
Gold you see is growin%Sp with q
panic, and may reach $50, as Fernando
Wood has bet it will, and cotton and
everything else sold for greenbacks
will sympathize with it; but it is moi
well to calculate on any permanently
high rate for it. GREENS.