ry. Her story will pass into standard
history, however, as sadly illustrative of our times. She herself
is known and loved wherever the horrors of Libby and Belle Isle
are mourned and denounced.

VII.--WEST VIRGINIA.

Hon. Samuel Young, in a letter to _The Revolution_, dated Senate
Chamber, Wheeling, West Virginia, February 22, 1869, writes:

In 1867, I introduced a bill in the State Senate, looking to the
enfranchisement of all women in West Virginia, who can read the
Declaration of Independence intelligently, and write a legible
hand, and have actually paid tax the year previous to their
proposing to vote. But even this guarded bill had no friends but
myself. * * * I introduced a resolution during the present
session of our legislature, asking congress to extend the right
of suffrage to women. Eight out of the twenty-two members of the
Senate voted for it. This is quite encouraging--advancing from
one to eight in two years. At this rate of progress, we may
succeed by next winter. I give the names of those who are in
favor of and voted for female suffrage in the Senate: Drummond,
Doolittle, Humphreys, Hoke, Wilson, Workman, Young, and
Farnsworth, president. The same senators voted to invite Miss
Anna E. Dickinson to lecture in the state-house during her late
visit to Wheeling.

VIII.--NORTH CAROLINA.

We are indebted to Mrs. Mary Bayard Clarke of New Berne for the
following:

Since 1868, when the constitution was changed, a married woman
has absolute control of all the real estate she possessed before
marriage or acquired by gift or devise after it, except the power
to sell without the consent of her husband, who in his turn is
not at liberty to sell any real estate possessed by him before
marriage, or acquired after it, without the consent of his wife.
Should he sell any real estate without the wife's consent, in
writing, she can, after his death, claim her dower of one-third
in such real estate. If she owns a farm and her husband manages
it, she can claim full settlements from him, he having no more
rights than any other agent whom she may employ. So her property,
real and personal, is her individual right, with the income
therefrom. But she cannot contract a debt that is binding on her
property without the consent of her husband. With his wri