Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-08-22
Mrs. Swisshelm's Lecture.

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fifty persons were present, perhaps not so
maryland. financially considered, the
lecture was failure. The lady appeared,
attired in plain but neat and tasty dress.
After taking her position behind the desk,
and making bow to her audience, she
offered 6 brief prayer, which, to say the
least, took every body 10y surprise, the
more so because it had the immediate eff,
feet of checking the applause which was
about to follow her appearance. The
prayer being ended, she stated that she
did not offer it through any desire to be
regarded as eccentric, but because she be-
lieved that it was her duty to do so. She
then entered upon the subject matter of
her lecture, warning the reporters, paren-
thetically, that u they published any part
OF it they might expect q prosecution for
libel-so she had been given to under
stand. We have no desire TO ventiate
anything that the lady said and, when
We state that the whole story was one of
domestic misery, from the wedding day
until she finally separated from her huss
banda period of about twenty years
we are sure our readers will not desire 10
hear it. She lifted the veil which has so
long covered the secrets OF her heart, and
her lecture seemed like a Pandora's box,
from which rushed out "a multitude of
evils. 1t was q narrative made up of in
Vulnerable little details, such as inanv
wife might recognize, but to the recital of
which not one in ten thousand could be
brought. At times she was grave, and
wept and sighed over the recollection of
her wrongs, her utteran GO being freqnent-
ly choked, and her whole manner beto-
kening the most painful emotion. Then
again she would indulge in the keenest
rdicule, causing her hearers to shake
their sides with laughter over her mimi
table pictures of domestic economy" -
Altogether, it was the strapgest medley
we ever listened TO.
She concluded by giving n very vivid
description of her experience in Mime
sofa, where she began the publication OF
her paper, four years ago, at a time when
she was in constant danger of the scalp.
ing knife, aad had loaded musket con,
stantly by her side, to be used in case of
emergency. But, strange as it may ap>
pear, these have been the happiest days
of her unhappy life! She hopes to do
some good in the way of helping to break
up that system oftyranny which now holds
so many thousands of her welded sisters
in bondage, inasmuch rs she has been
made "a strong minded woman" under
that very system Of masculine oppression.
According to her theory, men mako all
the "strong minded women," for she is
fully convinced that God never yet made
onol
She touched upon tho legal disabilities
Of married women, but did not elaborato
this branch of the subject. although her
whole experience, as detailed by her,
went TO show that she had been as thor.
oughly n stare as ever stood upon tho
shambles. In concluding, she stated that.
she had hoped to be able to compress all
she wished to say into one lecture, but
she found this impossible--and although
she intlmated that other lectures are to
follow, she did not positively announce
them. PinSJ,Ug Press.
Tue CAMBRIA IRON WoRKs.-A writer in
the North american, in describing the Cam
bria Iron Works, tho most extensive of
the kind in the country, says: The entire
establishment at present comprises near
ly three thousand operatives, twenty-seve
en- thousand acres of land, rolling mill
covering S3,215 square feet, sixty four
pudding furnaces, twelve heating furna>
ces, fourteen pair Of rollers, twonty-nino
steam engines giving an aggregate Of q
500 horse power, two locomotives, % com,
pleto domestic market, including separate
dry goods. grocery, feed, meat, shoe and
tailoring establishments, one hundred and
; forty head of horses. a draught and pat
term making shop, wheolwrigt and black
smith establishments mnchino slOnS
forge shops, powder house, three hundred
railway cars, etc. Last year $4,000 tons
of railroad iron were turned out. The re.
tail stores alone make sales amounting to
100000 per annum. During the past
year there have been slaughtered for the
/, meat market $50 bceves and GOO head OF
hogs.
peA.A Quakeress, jealous of her hus,
band, satched him, and one morning ac-
E tually discovered the truant hugging and