The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1855-11-02
From the New York Tribune, Oct. 10.
THE FREEL0VE MEETING.
IN NEW YORK.
IMMENSE ATTENDANCE.
Interference and .arYests.

buRe, on Tuesday last, was very largely attend
ed. Thee could not have been less than five
hundred persons present. Most ofthe ladies oi
the club, anticipating great crowd of all sorts
OF people, Staid away. Not more than fifteen
or eighteen were present. Mr.. Andrews was
confined TO his-bed, having had a severe attack
OF hemorrhage of the laDgs. Those of his lady
frieads who had called TO him, he had ex-
horied TO attend the club, and 10 be firm aud
brave, whatever might occur; he fraFed that
this night tile crisis would come. They must
remember that they We're struggling now for
the freedom OF their sex in all time to come.
The crowd came iG, and the room was filled
almost 20 suhocatlon. Most people had to look
behind the crimson curtains at the mammoth
stove described in the Tribune, and some Of
them contemplated it as though it was tre-
mendous engine to blow up society WITH
Your reporter was novice at The club, and was
among this number. Others, however, after a
careful and searching scrutiny uto all faces and
behind all curtains, whispered 10 their friends
that the whole affair was a hum6ug, and they
didn't believe in Free Love at all. After des-
prrate efforts on their part to get their quarter s
worth in starIng, and wondering when the per-
iormancs was 10 come on, Mr. Henry Clapp
mounted on platform at one end OF the hail,
and made speech. Your reporter learned shat
this sPaech-makiag was device of Mr.. An
drews to drive away the crowds of men whom
II was supposed the expose in the Tribune
would bring. Whatever may be thought of
Mr. Andrews as practical man generally, no
one can deny but that this was most ingenious
and effective eXpcdient. As the speech was
intended to be bore, and the smaller room
was rendered fndurabIe by the withdrawal Of
people 10 hear the speech, your reporter made
himself as comfortable as possible in hal room,
in conversation with some ladies' 10 whom he
had been introduced. few Struggling words
which reached his ear enabled him to know
what was going on. Mr.. CIapp gave an ac-
count of the origin aud growth of the league,
and told how il was transformed into the club .
better history was given in our issue OF Tues
day. Mr. ClapP told all outsiders that they
had been fooled by the press. and would not
find anything Of tire Kind which had been aidf-
clpated 10 fact, that they had been cheated by
the newspapers out of twenty-five cents. Most
OF those present cheered this declaration OF
their own asSlninity, evidently determined to
cheer something. SO closed The first speech.
Mr. Albert Brisbane then took the platforms
and made few remarks on the same subject,
stating that Mr.. Andrews object had been to
organize amusement for the people; to get up
place for them where they could come at a
small expense, find rational amusement instead
OF going 10 grog-shops and gambling-houses-
He proceeded to make some remarks on lhe
sovereignty Of individuals, and exuted consid-
erably over the fact that The time had come
when the great principles of Free Love could
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which Temperance and Anti-Slavery met with
10 their early days, and rploiced that the doc
trine Of Free Love also had passed its time of
persecution. He mentioned incidentally to
those who came ont of morbid curiosity that
the free love which they desired they could
fed in Mercer street.
The speeches, 10 considerable extent, bad
the desired effect manv people having left, and
ne ball bryan to be comfortable again, when
suddenly Ii was noiSed about that the police
We're at the door and about 10 arrest tbis party
en- masse. The effects produced by the an
nouncement were various. Men scattered like
sheep, and very soon there was an equilibrium
between the sexes. Masculine Free-Lover
were among the missing and more than one of
the ladies was obliged to accept the arm OF a re-
porter. The lady of the chief of the lea2be re-
rained until all had gone. When asked to 60,
aud when threaiead by the police with arrest,
she said, "My Willie is here-he viii have TO
stay until al! are gone | cannot go and leave
him." The passage down stairs was tolerablv
well lined with policemen, and the ladies found
no great difficulty until they arrived at the side
walk. Here the entrance was besrt by several
hundred roudies, among whom there was no
policeman, as usual.
The crowd velfed and hooted like demons,
but readily made way, so that :here was little
difficulty 10 passing through them. il was long
before the crowd disappeared, even after all had
gone and the door was locked.
SCENE At THE STATION HOUSE.
A crowd Of two or three hundred persons fol-
lowed Captain Turnbull and officers Cunning
ham, Roach, McGinner, Van Buren and Beach,
with their prisoners to the Eighth ward Station
House, where the scene was of a most exciting
nature. The prisoners were marShaiird before
the bench, and their names as follows taken by
Captain TurnbulI, and euttred, with their Oh
fences, upon his register:
Albert Brisbane, disorderly conduct.
Thomas Hariand, assault and battery, and
keeping diSoyderly house.
John Henderson, interfering with officers IN
discharge OF their duty.
Benjamin Henderson, attempting 10 rescue
prisoner.
The majorityof the persons IN the Station
House serr personal friends fthose arrested,
although there q7ere several among the crowd
Who seemed to relish the affair asa great joke,
and acted in such manner that the captain
was obliged to call them 10 order.