A REMARKABLE WOMAN.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 207, 18 January 1872, Page 7

A REMARKABLE WOMAN.

The " Boston Advertiser " contains the substance of a biography, by Mr. Theodore Tilton, of a most remarkable woman, named Mrs. Victoria Claflin Woodhull, of New York, who is described by the multifarious titles of " banker, broker, editor, author, anil cmdidate for Presidency of the United* States." After stating she was bora in Homer, Ohio, in 1838, and was the seventh of ten children, that her mother was insane, her father brutal, and her childhood utterly wretched, and thai in her fourteenth year, urged by her parents, she married Dr. Canning Woodhnll, the biography continues as follows :—": — " For years she lived a wandering life, sometimes earning a little money, oftener in abject poverty alwaj^s neglected or abnspcl by her husband. At last the spirits directed her to take rooms at tbo Bateshouse, Tndianoplis, announce herself as a medium, and treat patients for the cure of disease. She did so, became at once the town's talk wrought miracles and grew rich So she went from city to city, till her yearly income reached nearly 100,000 dollars. She supported all her relatives far and near, and yet had something to invest ; and when her property in 1869, amounted to 700,000 dollars, the spirits told her to discontinue her practice. In December, 1869, it is staled, Demosthenes, who has been one of her familiars! provided her with a memorial, which she addressed to Congress, and inspired a speech for her in the Capitol, when she " won the favour of General Butler, Judge Lou^hridge, and other statesmen." In 1870 she nominated herself for the Presidency; and is now a candidate for that office.