A Practical Vindication of Female Suffrage.—Yesterday morning the judges of the second precinct of Marshall Ward (J. F. Shinberger, Esq., presiding) were surprised by the appearance of a lady at the polls. She wished to deposit a ballot, but as the judges declined to allow this, in view of her not having registered, she then asked to be permitted to have a paper with the following inscription placed in the ballot-box:
“By the Constitution of the United States, I, Mrs. A. Whitehead Bodeker, have a right to give my vote at this election, and in vindication of it drop this note in the ballot-box, November 7th, 1871.”
This paper was taken by the judges, and will be deposited with the ballots in the archives of the clerk of the Hustings Court.
