Banker, Financier, Editor, and Advocate on many platforms of the Rights of Women. If multiplicity of offices entitle this lady to any consideration, she has undertaken the performance of a greater variety of duties than any member of the opposite sex has in general thought himself qualified to assume. Mrs. Woodhull brings the woman's question to the front, as only an American woman should have the bravery or the boldness to do; and as long as we are willing to make a woman a queen we cannot consistently deny her ability to be a president."

Times, October 28th, 1872. Chicago (Ill.).

"The Academy of Music was thronged to its utmost capacity to hear Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull's lecture. Long before the hour at which it was announced the lecture would commence, all the seats had been sold, and a large placard was hoisted bearing the legend, Standing room only.'

"Mrs. Woodhull commencing in a low tone of voice, she warmed with her subject; enunciating some more than ordinary idea, she carried the audience by storm, being greeted with hearty cheers."

Tribune, October 28th, 1872. Chicago (Ill.).

"Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull lectured last evening at the Academy of Music. The audience that gathered was the largest ever seen within its walls."

New York Herald, November, 1872. New York City.

WOODHULL AND CLAFLIN'S ARRESTS.

"During yesterday a great many visitors called upon the imprisoned sister-brokers and reformers at Ludlow Street Jail. Notwithstanding the influx of visitors, there was yet about the domicile of Mrs. Woodhull and Claflin a gloom that pervades all prisons which affected everybody with despondency. This feeling was not alleviated by the surroundings of the apartment of the sisters.

"The Herald reporter, on entering their cell last evening, discovered Mrs. Woodhull and Miss Claflin seated on a cot. Both the sisters expressed their willingness to suffer for what they conceive to be right. Their persecution, they declare, is the seed from which is to spring the perfect flower of a new religion of humanity."

Sunday Mercury, November 17th, 1872. New York City.

"Cell No. 11, now well known as the residence of Woodhull and Claflin, was a perfect camp meeting yesterday. On a small table was an appetizing dinner served for Mrs. Woodhull, who had eaten no breakfast. Just as Mrs. Woodhull began her dinner a woman entered and whispered 'your food is being poisoned,' and her appetite fled."

Chronicle, December 1st, 1872. Brooklyn (N.Y.).

"Yesterday morning Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull and Miss Tennie C. Claflin, accompanied by two deputy sheriffs, were driven in a close carriage from the Ludlow Street Jail to the United States Attorney's office to meet their bondsmen, who, on the previous day, executed bonds in $16,000 each for the release of Mrs. Woodhull and Miss Claflin: they were there awaiting the decision of the District Attorney as to their capability to become sureties. In a short time the bondsmen were informed that they had been accepted.

"While the women-brokers were in the District Attorney's office, a gentleman stepped up to Mrs. Woodhull and told her that it was his duty to tell her that there was a conspiracy against her. He said that it was understood between certain officials and prosecuting parties that Mrs. Woodhull and Miss Claflin should be forced into Jefferson Market Prison, and, while there, the prison would be fired and they left to perish in the flames. He added that the parties referred to were determined to be rid of them at any cost. Mrs. Woodhull and Miss Claflin

could barely credit the story, but the earnestness of the man, and the promise that, at an early day, he would tell all he knew of the plot, forced them to place credence in his story.

"The women-brokers then entered their coach, and an officer of the Jefferson Market Police Court stepped up to the door, and placing his hand on Miss Claflin's shoulder, said in a loud tone, 'Stop.' A gentleman hastened to the rescue, and pushing the officer aside, said, 'No, you don't. Mrs. Woodhull and Miss Claflin are still United States prisoners, and you cannot arrest them again,' as they have been warned of your infamous plot.

"The officer wilted. The women-brokers were then taken back to their old quarters in Ludlow Street Jail. To-morrow they will probably take their departure from that jail and procure bail in the other suits.

"The authorities seem determined to do their utmost, by placing every obstacle in their way, to prevent them from obtaining their freedom."

Herald, December 1st, 1872. New York City.

"Mesdames Woodhull and Claflin were taken again to-day from the County Jail to the Federal Building, preparatory to giving bail. They were accompanied by their counsel. Soon after their arrival they were conducted to the office of Commissioner Shields, where the bail-bonds were prepared. When the case was called,

"The counsel said they were prepared to give unexceptionable bail, but it would be useless for them to do so, as an officer of the Jefferson Market Court was outside in the hall, waiting to re-arrest them. He thought it would be better that his clients remain in the County Jail than to go to a cell in the Jefferson Market Prison. He had heard that the judge had been spirited away for the purpose of preventing the prisoners from being bailed.

"Mesdames Woodhull and Claflin were sent back to the County Jail."