The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-03-21


delay i'll returning it to the House. The
objections to the bill itself, to it's form of
passage into law AZ claimed, are too many
and weighty to stand the test. Those
who have been appointed Commissioners
under it, had better lit once resign funr-
tions in connection with it as it now
stands, which they cannot administer
with acceptance to the people or with
credit to themselves.
A SpCIAL iNFAAY. several duvs
of last week there was in session in the
godly city of Boston free-love con-
yention. Boston is favorite meeting
phce for the adherents of the peculiar
doctrine of universal bawdyism. The
free-love doctrines attained their Iif. On
New England soil, and the NIassachu-
cetts metropolis is annually scantializ.d
by the utterances of the apostles OF the
system. Few people outside the range of
these revolutionists can adequately con
celve tho nature Of one Of these meetings.
jhey are composed, as might be sup
posed, altogether Of pGSSee females and
nlddle-aged men, soured with the world
and with themselves. Young men anh
young women are frequently to be found
IN attendance, although the women are
usually of that nge and condition of
facial decay which renders them safe from
insult. The meeting last week took
place in the Pninc Memorial Hall, a
building recently erected to the memory
OF Tom Puine. the infidel. Many of the
Boston proprietors Of public halls have,
OF late years, refused, very properly, to
let their rooms to the free-lovers The
Paine Memorial Hall supplied the de-
hciency, and thither the apostles went
The first business WAS the annual PASS
age OF resolutions. These resolutions
were to the effect thnt marriage is q curse,
and advocate the levy Of n Tux on all the
property OF the nation to provide for the
children born ont of wedlock. This is
the underlying principle OF the whole
free-love movement 4 Mrs. Briggs. Of
New York, made o speech full OF pro-
nounced lewdness, and stated that she
had four children and WAS very desirons
OF having i good many more, but she
did not have time for them. Other reso-
iutions We're passed condomning prudery
IN relation to the sexes, and marriage AZ
obstructive of domestic harmony. +"
From the Boston NelcS we extract the fol-
lowing from report OF the meeting:
~ couple of strong-minded female,
now passed around the boxes to collect
the shekels from the audience. Al the
same time, Shaker, Miss Mary Knights,
dressed In extrnvngant costume, and car
rying Il little cane III her hand, took the
platform, shook out the shirts of her
blooner garment, and went to work.
She related her experience among the
Shakers, s,,ng II Shaker song, mnd then
subsidized. A maiden lady, of uncertain
age. we'll known in certain suburban
town as 'Old Liz Crosby" inflicted
some rhymes upon the audience, anu en-
pressed her wish 20 have the race played
out. The speaker is evidently doing all
SHE can to hasten this consummation.
Inc performer IN tights next skipped
forward briskly to the platform. This
was Mary j.. Tillotson, of Vinclanl, who
was dressed in mems clothes, and wor. n
Jockey hat and feather Her topic was
q dress reform, and, as with her right
hand she gently fondlcd the bust of
Paine on tho platform, she assaulted Tic
audience with such words rs practical
ICED, 'individualization, 'basic, and the
like. MIR. Barker, of California, sang a
song mt the last speaker, and then John
hamsdell spoke, and soon got excited in
his opposition to ffee-love, Brother
Haywood couldn't keep quiet, and sent
In the first conundrum of the day. The
speaker was indignant, and went for
Haywood, and for few moments there
was quite breeze Of excitement about II
man beating his wife, and vice versa, las
Father Cluer suggested,) divorce, TO- A
woman asked the audience to repress
their risibilities while the speaking was
going on. Mrs. Jones, Of Acton, said
ishe had been married twenty -nine years,
and her husband had never commanded
her. He knew too we'll that she would
NOT obey. This remark was emphasized
with compression Of the mouth and a
snap OF; the eye that excited the synlpa-
thy Of the audience for the husband."-
"a This is all very disgusting. It is tho
iunyaiiing Of u moral ulcer. It shocks tho
sensibilities Of every pnre-minded man
and w9M4p in the country.
There Is but little oredence placed at
Omaha, Neb., on tho stories of the
miners from the Black Hills II Is gene
rally considered as a movement of inte-
rested towns, which hope to reap har
vest in fitting out people. The Interior
Department at Washington, however, in
view OF the tendency Of emigration, has
taken steps to bring to the national capi.
t4 2 delegation OF the Sioux proprietors
of the soil, for the purpose of negotiating
for the extinguishment Of their right.