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San Andreas independent., 1857-08-15
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The Invocation.

The Invocation.
Ye gentle spirits of the night,
Who watch the dreamers bed,
Come, bring me visions sweet and bright
And strcw them round my head;
Drive from my care-worn, o'er-presSed brain
Each thought of daily strife,
And let me have those dreams again
knew in early life.
Go, wing We through the moonlit air,
And bring me scenes from home;
Go, follow through this world of care
Wherever they may roam
All whom my heart holds dear,
And let them round my couch attend
Till mornings beams appear.
Then, bring me every JOY I've known
Each face that made it bright
The fragrance of each good I've done,
Though little still my might J
And let the smiles, the love, the joys,
Like graceful music blend,
And, while the dream my brain employs,
Give such to every friend.
But, spirits, if yed have my soul
With pride and pleasure beat
Would add the sweetest JOY of all,
And crown this dreaming fete-
There's one whose gentle features seem
Forever by my side,-
Bring her, and let me in my dream
Imagine her my bride. Ida.
SAN ANpREAs July 29th, 1851.
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TIE MINT Deficiency. understand that
the investigations at the Mint into the amount
OF the deficiency have progressed so far that
the deficit for the last year is definitely known
to be something between $50, 900 and Sl60,000
above the amount allowed for waste by the
government regulations. Since the total amount
of gold refined during this time was less than
100000 900, the loss is more than one-half OF
one per ceut.-Stdte ,joHaal.
San Andreas independent., 1857-08-15

An ODD Fellows MAGAzIxE.-Wc have been
informed that gentleman is now engaged in
this city preparing for publication the first num-
Der of Il monthly magazine, which will be devo-
ted to the principles and prosperity of the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows. This is an en-
terprise which we hope will meet with success,
and we know that will be the result if only one
quarter of the Odd Fellows in this State will
lend their aid and support.-.Statc Journal
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GRAIS.-Farmers manifest disposition to
hold on to their grain for higher prices than are
now offered, which they expect to get on ac-
count of the short crop in the State. Wheat
ranges from q to q cents; barley, u cents ;
oats, cents.-Napa Reporter.
San Andreas independent., 1857-08-15

4 LoUIsvILLIAy MURDERED.-Cndert this head
the Louisville Courier calls to mind the fact
that it was stated about the time that General
Walker landed in the country, that just previ-
Gus to his capitulation, one of his soldiers was
shot by his order for leaving the ranks to OBJ
tain drink of water. The Courier SAYS it is
ascertaincd that this victim was Mr. Emmett
Scales, son of DR.. \. ". Scales, a much re-
spected citizen of Louisville. We wonder
whether the Doctor was one ofthosc who were at
particular pains to receive Walker with dis
tinguished consideration upon his recent an
pcarancc in Louisville. Gen Hennngsen. we
recollect referred to the murder of yonno
Scales, defending Walker for the action in tbat
case, saying that the young man had deserted
and returned to the camp, and was captured
while attempting to persuade his comrades to
desert The soldiers refused to fire at Scales
when his execution was ordered, and he fell by
apstol shot from an officer, who is said to be
hissane, the forgcr, acting one of Walker
pirates under an assumed name-Ctncinna
Commercial.
San Andreas independent., 1857-08-15

STAMPs.-The total amount of cash received
for the sale of stamps, says the Sacramento
Un'on, from the Office of the Comptroller for the
month OF July, is $l5,226 %. of this sum
S4,46S 56 was received from San Francisco,
and the balance, $ll,257 sc for stamps furn-
ished from the Office. The amount issued to
County Treasurers, for which there have been
no returns, is S43,45S So The total amount
of stamps turned over by the Commissioners to
the Comptroller is ! I86,924 90.
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8. B. STEVENS

8. B. STEVENS,
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, NOTARY PUBLIC
AND CONVEY ANGER.
VXIILL also draw up Deeds, Mortgages, Pow
w ers of Attorney, Agreements, Mechanics.
Liens, and other articles in writing, and will
give advice in regard to titles to land, free OF
charge. when he is employed to draw up papers.
Agreements, Promissory Notes and Contracts
written. and all other instruments of writing
executed with neatness and dispatch.
RsE~Office in the Jordan Bath Building
San Andreas, January 81, 81. jan 3l-3l
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ANOTHER OVERLAND MAIL.-James E. Birch
1t appears, has received a contract from the
government for carrying local mail from San
Antonio III Texas to San Diego, California;
This is to be scmi-monthly and has no con-
necton with the S600,000 contract let to But
terfield & Co. Mr.. Bircl is to receive for his
services Sl49,S00 per annum. The govern
ment has reserved the right to suspend portions
of the contract at pleasure The first mail left
San Antonio the 9th of July and is to leave
from either end on the 9th and oath of each
month.
San Andreas independent., 1857-08-15

TOTAL LENGTH OF SUB MARINE CABLES AL
READY LAID DowN.-The following table gives
the length Of each of the submarine cables
which have been laid in different parts of the
world, since the first attempt to establish sub
aqueous communication between Castle Garden
and Governors Island:
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Gotrls, RESTAURANTS, Mr.
KINDERHOOK EXCHANGE.
"A NJ. CALLAHAN, PRopRIEToR. "a
-X4. -lM..A
Corner Of Broadray Main ST.. SIN 1NDRE1S

vNHlS POPULAR AND COMMODI0US IIO-
IL tel, situated in one of the most pleasant and
convenient localities in the town, is constantly
open for the reception of TRAN SIENT I and
PERMANENT BOARDERS The rooms are
spacious, thoroughly ventilated, and furnished
with view to comfort The dining hall is the
best in the place, where the patrons of the house
may depend upon finding the table spread with
the choicest ediblcs the market affords
The Bar is furnished with the choicest bl andS
of Wines, Liquors and Cigars.
BOARD AND LODGING.
Per Week, single rooms, ,........... $1,000
Per Week, double rooms, s,............... 800
Without Lodging, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 100
Single Meal. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 10
Meals at regular hours.
Baiy9 Payment to be made invariably in ad-
vance. nov D. '56-tf-55
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MILES
From Dover to Calais, ,...................... 2l
From Howth to IIolyhead ................ 65
Between Ireland and Scotia nd, ........... 20
From England to Holland, ................ll5
From Dover to Ostcnd nd.................... 90
From Balaklava to Narna Black Sea,...3I4
Between Sardinia on the main land,
ana corsica, ................. 90
Between Corsica and the Island of Sar-
ulilt, y
Across the Gulf of St Lawrence from
Cape Breton to Newfoundland. ........ "a
Across the Straits of Northumberland,
between Cape Sormcntnc and Prince
Edwards Island, ,......................... 10
Total miles now laid, id,.......................S .S05
When the Atlantic cable shall have been laid
this total will be increased to nearly twenty-five
hundred miles,
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THE INDEPENDENT
ARMOR & Co. puh,;snor.

=" r koosER, ON. cLAyEs, GEO AnMoR
published every SATURDAY MORNING,
S' oan Andreas, Caaveras County. Cal. Office
IN inc independent Building, st. Charles Street,
above Main.
IEkMS OF SCBSCRIPTION.-One year. in
varlahly IN advance. $500; six months, $500 /;
three months $500.
TERMS OF ADVERTlSING.-One square of
twelve lines, first insertion, $500 each sub
sequent insertion, Sl25 A liberal discount
will be allowed to yearly advertisers. Busi-
ness Cards, not exceeding four lines $500 per
month
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WILLIAM IRVINE, Prophet,
FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN!!

run SALt Al "A bAhuAlN
ANE HALF INTEREST in the American
~ Bakery and Restaurant. San
Andreas. This is the oldest establishment in
the place, and is now doing the leading bus-
ness. The building is stone, fire-proof-and
the ovens, fixtures, &C., are in good order, and
nearly new. Beds and bedding for twenty four
dodgers, on the premises. The undivided
half interest of this property, owned by Joseph
Zwinge, will be sold at bargain, for cash.
For Sale-Also, the Dwelling House
near the old Brewry, st. Charles street. together
with the premises, &c. now occupied by the
subscriber. The building is new, and eonven-
lent to running water; a fine garden, with forty
four fruit trees, of different varieties surround
inc the house. The property will be sold on
most reasonable terms, as the proprietor wishes
to change his business and residence, on ac-
count of i'll health JOSEPH ZWlNGE,
San Andreas, June 20ths 1851. 2 III.
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E. v. BOYNTON,
WATCH MAKER AND JEWELER,
Nam ST., opposite Odd Eeilors Uoft,

Nam ST., opposite Odd Edlows' HoH,
SAN ANDREAS,
ATllERE may be found large assortment of
Wv good Brass Clocks, such as Eight epoP
Day. and Thirty Hour Striking and Ma ETTIA
rine Alarm Clocks. Also, beautiful Par sNs..A
lor and Bedroom Clocks, all of which will be
,eayranted to keep good time gear
Also fine magnifying Glasses, with double
power, expressly for examining Quartz Rock
Also, Spy Glasses, Spectacles, thermometers,
Pocket Compasses, American Pocket Knives,
Steel Tweezers, Watch Guards, Keys, first quail
ity Italian E strings, fnger-boards, tail-pieceS,
keys, bridges, rosin, bows, &c.
Also, a large assortment of fine Gold Pens,
Gold Fob Chains, Fob Buckles, Seals, Slides,
Ladies' Gold Curb Chains Belt Buckles, PEN
ellis, Silver Thimbes, Coral Beads, &C. Also,
fine Gold Rings, Ear-rings, Breast Pins, Lock-
cts. Snaps, Infants Coral and Gold Armlcts,
Necklaces, &c.
Special attention will be given to all work,
such as repairing Clocks and Watches, manu-
featuring Rings, EARRINGS, Specimen Pins, &c.
n. B. All work warranted, if well used.
| would also embrace this opportunity of
thanking the public for past favors and hope,
by trying to please them, to still merit their
appreciation. jy ll-tf:v2n2
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NOTICE. .

Da Bounty Land Warrants. @e5a
YNHE undersigned having completed arrange
IL ments with his Correspondent in Wash
ington, d. c., is now ready to procure Bounty
Land Warrants granted by an Act of Con-
gress, passed March Sd, 1855, giving land (l60
acres) to all connected with the Army or Nary
of the United States, in any of the wars in
which the United States have been engaged
Also, State Troops, whose services have been
paid by the United States.
B9% Information given gratis.
B9aeNo charge, if said warrants are not OBJ
tanned. r. THOMPSON i p
p9AsOfice, Centre street, next door to Stur-
ges' Stone Building, Mok. Hill feb 7-tf-46
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WM. MILLER. Constable,
A. ROSENFIELD g. CO.
Newspaper, Book, stationery
Cigar and Tobacco store,

POST OFFICE B U1LDING, MOk. HILL.
HAVING recently purchased the interest OF
Ii Mr. S. Guthrie in the Newspaper and re-
riodical Agencies, at this place, they would re-
specifically inform the public that at their estab-
lishmentscan always be found the latest Calfor-
MIA and Atlantic papers, Illustrations, Maga-
zines, Steamer Novels, and standard works to-
gether with large assortment of Fancy arti-
cles, best brands of Cigars and Tocacco, etc.
Mokclumnc Hill, January l, 1857. jan lott
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= AooshR' 0. NJ cLAYEs, GEO. ARMoR
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-12-12
Farmers, Protect Your own

After subscribing for the Bugls, az ip duty
bound, to keep up with the News and Politics Of
the times, you will want another paper. moro
exclusively devoted to your bushes, such as
Farming, Stock Raisiag. Gardening, F,uits. &c..
and should immediately join with your neighbor
in a club or send by yourself. for the good old
OHIO CULTlVAT0R Volume XIV for 1858,
THE STAR THAT NEVER SETS! 7
Published at Columbus twice a month, begin
ming with January each year. Brim full OF new
and original reading the champion of labor
and farmers rights - n-'rT
TERAs.-Single copy, 81 a year-Three copies
for S2-Six copies for $4-Nins copies for Sc,
and a copy extra to the getter up of every club
ses-lnquire at your Post Office. or send for a
specimen, and get up q club among your neigh
bors. Specimens sent free. ~ .Sflnrs 10 "
Address H q NS.sD. HARRIS.
Editor and Publisher, Columbus, q,
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pUNCH's CHARGE TO THE JURY.

GENTLEMEN OF THE Jury You are sworn in all
cases to decide according to the evidence; at the
same time, If you have any doubt, you are bound
to give him the benefit of it. Suppose you have to
pronounce on the guilt or innocence OF o gentleman
accused of felony. You will naturally doubt
whether any gentleman would commit such offenc.
es accordingly, however strong may BIO the testi-
mony against him, you will, perhaps acquit him.
The evidence of your own senses Is, at least, as
credible as that of the witnesses; if, therefore, your
eyesight convince you that the prisoner is n we'll
dressed person, you have a right to presume his
responsibility and il is for you to say whether u
respectable person would DO likely to be guilty Of
the crimes imputed to him. In like manner, when
you see a shabby looking fellow in dock, charged,
Tor example, with sheepttealing, the decision rests
with you first whether or not that individual! is n
raganufin, and, secondly, how far it is probable
that a man Of that description would steal sheep.
Of course, as has been before said you will always
he guided by the evidence but, then, whether the
evidence is trustw or not. is a matter for your
private consideration. You my believe i, if you
choose, or you may disbelieve it and whether gen.
tlemcn of the jury, you will believe it or disbelieve
it will depend on the constitution of your minds.
IL your minds are so constituted that you wish
to find the prisoner guilty, perhaps you will believe
it it they happen to be SO constituted that you
desire to find him not guilty, why then, very likely,
you will disbelieve it. You are to free your minds
from all passion and prejudice, if you can, and, in
that case, your judgement will be unbiased but
il you cannot, you will return Il verdict according
~. 1t is not, strictly speaking, for you to consider
what will be the effect of your verdict; but if such
a consideration should occur to you and you cannot
help attending to it, that verdict will be Influenced
by it to a certain extent. You are probably aware
that w~henyou retire, you will beIlocked up until you
contrive to agree. You may arrive at unanimity
by fair discussion, or by some of you starving out
the others, or by tossing up aud your conclusion,
by whichever Of these processes arrived at, will be
more or less in accordance with your oaths. Your
verdict may be right it is to be hoped it will it
may be wrong, it is to be hoped it will not. AT
oil events, gentlemen of the jury, you will come
to some conclusion or other; unless it should 30
happen that you separate without coming to any.
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~ANTI-SLAVEkY TRACTS.

The Executive Committee Of the American Anti.
Slavery Society have issued the following Tracts
for gratuitous distributions:
No. l. The United States Constitution, Examined.
No. 2. White Slavery in the United States.
No. 3. Colonization, BY Rev. o. b. rockingham.
No, A. Does Slavery Christianize the NegroY BY
Rev. I. w. Higginson.
No. 5. The Interstate Slave Trade. BY John G,
Palfrey.
No. 6. The "Ruin" Of Jamaica. By Richard
Hildreth.
No. 7. Revolution the only Remedy for Slavery.
No. 8. To Mothers in the Free States. By Mrs. +
l.. Follen.
No. 9. Influence of Slavery upon the White Pop
%ulation. By a Lady.
No. 10, Slavery and the North. By G. G. Bur
leigh.
No. IL. Disunion our Wisdom and our Duty. BY
-. Rev. Charles L. hodges.
No. IL. Anti-Slavery Hymns and Songs, B,
Mrs. L. L. Eollen.
No. 13. The Two Affairs; or, Two Pictures in
L., One. By Mrs. Harriet B. Stowe.
No. IA. Glow can l Help to Abolish Slavery ?" or
Counsels to the Newly Converted
BY Maria w. Chapman.
No. Is. What have we, as Individuals, to do will
Slavery? By. Susan G. Cabot.
No. l6. Thu American Tract Society and it,
Policy of Suppression and Silence.
Being the Unanimous Remonstrance of tn,
Fourth Congregational Society, Hartford, CT.
No. IL. The God of the Bible Against Slavery
By Rev. Charles Beecher.
All donations for the Tract Fund, or for the cir
culation of any particular Tract of the above Sc
ries, should be sent to Francis jackson, Treasure
Of the American Antislavery Society, 81 Corn
hill. Boston.
Fifty Dollars will stereotype an oight.page trae
and print fce Thousand copies of it.
Application for the above Tracts, for gratuitou
distribution, should be made to SAMUEL MAY, Jr.
Il Cornhill, Boston to the Anti-Slavery, Offices
1873 Nassau street New York, and 81 North street
Phil adelphia; to JOEL MCMILLAN, Salem. Columbi
ana Co., Ohio or to JACOB WALroN, Jr, Adrian
Michigan.
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MURDERED BY HIS sLAvEs.-On Wednesday, the
llth ult., Mr.. VIM. Pierce, of franklin parish
Louisiana. was killed by two of his negro men a.
his plantation in Boeuf Prairie. 1t appears from
the evidence the two slaves had picked little or M
cotton. and finding they had done nothing thai
day Mr.. Pierce proceeded to chastise them
Whereupon one Of them seized him by the throa
threw him down, and the other fractured biz
skull by n blow struck with the pea of the steel
yards. They secreted the body until night, anc
carried it about three miles from the place wher,
the act was committed and placed it on a road
They laid the hat of the deceased near the body
smeared the side of a tree near by with blood anG
performed other acts with the view to create thu
impression that :heir master had been killed b,
being thrown from his horse against the tree
The body of Mr.. Pierce was not found until Frida,
following the preparation of the murder. The
slaves have been arrested. Mr.. Pierce was ,
young man Of twenty-one or twenty-five, unmar
ried. -
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LOCAL AGENTS FOR THE ANTi-sJAvERY BuoLr.
Phebe I. Merritt, Ionia, Michigan.
Adrian, Samuel nayball, Michigan,
Livonia, Harriet Fuller
Plymouth, Isaac N. Hedden,
sYpsilanti, Samuel d, Moore,
Union City, John d. Zimmerman, Michigan
McRoy Grove, Tho's Fox,
Battle Creek, Phebe Ii. Merritt
Bedford, Henry Cornell,
Pennington, Abram Powers,
Ann Arbor, X. Glazier.
Edinburgh, Thomas G. leighton, Ohio.
Joseph Pickett, Winchester, Indiana,
VIM. Hern, Brighton, Indiana.
q. l.. Gale, Northport, Indiana.
VIM. Hopkins, Fremont,
Elizabeth Morse, Angola,
Henry Bowman, Johnstown, Barry Co. Mich
Daniel Earle, Newton Falls, Ohio.
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A MINNESOTA MEETING HOUSE.

Mrs. Jane G.. Swisshelem-ou talented up.
the. river neighbor-writes from St. Louis TO the
New York Tribune. She has been to hear a from
tier clergyman preach in the woods of Stearns
county, and tells of il:
One of the days We spent in this vicinity was
Sabbath, and we had the pleasure of hearing the
first sermon preached in Rockville, one of the
Sank River towns, and a place which already
thunderstorm inhabitants, has n comfortable
hotel, a store, and a great heap Of hewed timber
which hopes to be a saw mill ip a very short time,
to sit in the "nook by the ~babbling brook" com.
pell the dancing waters TO turn a great wheel, and
manufacture the old trees, which have laughed
and nodded to them as they went shouting by for
centuries, into materials fer building another
kind OF canopy than that made by the green
curtains of their foliage, and for sheltering an
other order of beings than those which have 40
long found their homes amid and beneath its
branches. The sermon and its surroundings
made a rich specimen of Western life. Forty
eight people, counting baby, met in the store room
"a rough board house sixteen by twenty feet,
the boards nailed up and down, and an open
crack between each too, the floor of loose, unioin.
ted boards, the roof two-thirds s~hingled, and three
large openings in one end, designed, ultimately,
for windows and door. For pews, we had boards
laid on tresGles. Our preacher came in a wagon
drawn by two oxen, and, in a swallow-tailed coat
of Slpe cloth, with high collar and brass buttons,
sat behind the only table in the town, which,
DCluS JAM iiho az - NV oit
pended exactly but; as several ladirs arrived in
ox-wagons and on foot, wearing large hoops
white kid gloves, lace mantillas, and altogether dis.
playing a taste and toilet which would have pas,
sed muster on Broadway, we determined on some
display Of luxury to suit the occasion. So, by the
aid of a pair eff Mackinaw blankets and some
carriage'cushions. we got up an elegant scarle,
cusioned pew. Fortunately, to aid our efforts a
magnifoence, our preacher took for his text the
handwriting on the wall in the far-famend feast oil
Belshazaar, thus bringing us into close communion
with the palaces of Babylon. 1t so happened tina
the last sermon l heard in the States, and tina
but q fow weeks previous, was from that same text
by a man of the sam denomination, Methodist
in Christ's Church. one of the most elegand struc
lures in the Iron City, the pulpit being filled by
one of the most talented and cultivated men il
the body which boasts a Durbin. Well, the con
trast and the coincidence was rich enough, with
out the addition of the preacher reading the hymn
and then walking across the room to hand US his
book, that we nigh. aid in singing, and crossing
to return it he, when done, repeated the opera
ton at each time of singing. But | doubt not the
great Father smiled on the soul of the simple
minded, earnest speaker, even as His sun shone
down upon his body through the partially cover
ed roof,
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RiGnTs OF WIDOWS IN MAssAcHusETrs.-"Sep
tember we 5 l749. Then did Nathan Shearmar
take the widow Mary Taylor, in her shift withou
bead cloth, and barefoot, and led her across thu
highway, where the two highways NETT as thu
lao directs in such cases, and was then married
according to lau, by Mr.. Philip Taber. ministe,
of Dartmouth. MS, Records of Dartmouth, ex
tracted by |. L., 1856
The above appeared in the January number o
the Historical and Geological Register witl.ou
comment. An elder friend informs me that within
recollection a similar occurrence took place in Lit
tie Compton r. l. The ceremony was performed
from a belief that the husband elect was thereb,
released of the late pecuniary liabilities contracted
by the widow previous to her marriage with him
Possibly this custom had Its origin IN the mothe
country. Can any antiquarian throw light upoI
the subject ?-Boston Transcript
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FEMALE SUFFRAGE IN New JERsEY.-The follow
inc is from the Newark .Jonrna1.

FEMALE SUFFRAGE IN New JERsEY.-The follow.
ing is from the Newark Journal;
Women formerly possessed, and at various times
exercised, the elective franchise in New Jersey.
By the Constitution adopted July, 2, 1776. the
privilege of voting was accorded to ''all inhabi.
tants Of full age" $50 proclamation money, clear
estate, and who had resided a certain time within
the county. AS this could be construed to include
women. in 1890, a prominent Quaker member OF
the Assembly had the act so drawn as to read she
or She" VIXEN referring Unqualified voters. No
change was made until 1907. and women often
voted when elections were close, or there was any
special excitement. In the Presidential contest OF
1900, there were many instances Of their voting.
1t an election in Hunterdon County, in 1902. even
some women of color, were allowed to vote, and
their ballots elected a member Of the Legislature.
In 1907 an act was passed, restricting the right OF
suffrage to free white male citizens of twentv-one
years. And thus was extinguiseed female suffrage
in New Jersey.