New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-09-19
NEW PUBLIC ATOMS.

the WOMEN OF I H. AMERICAN htF'L' i'''-
by ELIzAHEIli f. ELLEr Author Of The Characters oil
schiller Country Rambles, &C.. Y vols l<mo -
3l-. 3l2J is a work We heartily welcome II emDo1le'
brief biographies and beier sketches OF some TWO nun
drcd mstr0ns and maids OF our country hefoc age
including ali who were and many who were mol n''neio
L,,, B., connection with our Revolutionary History
Portraits Of seven Of the number are sl'eh-'Ph'''u
and doubtless authentic. Al time when the Rights and
sphere Of Women are coming prominently anu Pup
yi,f nytc view IL il well that the Deeds OF Woman
should also be considered Before dec'uhs 'HS' ~"
leb,s the whole area Of Womans duties ana
a.,+,s,,,rs le, n. see whether she has or has not
s,e,,ed boyond that narrow circle to her own hono'
s,d tho co,nmunity's enduring good work ike the
one before us. written with no polemic purpose anu
In ,,i,e Inconsistencies of any such application may
often more thoroughly subserve the cause oil Ifu'n anu
Progress than any other
We counsel especially the young women VI o"'
country 10 Law aside their novels At least until they
.beu have read The Women OF the keVou'ioh -
qgso cf them who have souls will lind treple1e Win
i,,eres, and instruction The narratives are tefse
clear and graphic and the anecdotes and extracts OF
lc,,ers hiring the times that tried mems souls very
fresblv and wildly before We trust many WI! rlse
from s perusal better fitted TO meet Lies cares ana
Steiner duties than before. Baker a. Scroner' FaIK
row. -,
r,zss "VIrws A-FooT; or Europe seen with
Knsussck and staff By J. BAYARD TAYLOR, with
Preface bv \. p WILLIS" q vol. l2mo. PIP. 4O4) we
have nothing new 10 say of this pleasant volume except
that we have here a new edition, being the e9Am' u
Seems 10 Us but Yesterday that the author set out to see
Europe with the sanguine spirit Of happy boyhood and
the light hearteduess natural 10 light purse not aoso
lp,elv empty. carried abroad by one who leaves no
houses behind 10 burn up in his absence. Two years
nsssed and he returned having visited the goodiest
nortions Of the Old World, paying his way by writing
for American journals (The Tribune among them) Out
prepared 10 work his trade OF printing II necessity
and opportunity should combine to suggest tnat eNpe
dent He came home more intellgcnt lover oi our
own land and her Institutions and well con'ehed 10
abide with them henceiorth and the moral Tor which
we summon these recolections is this Dung irena
don't venture across Europe with $50 your pocket
expec,ng 10 rambe from land to land for year OF TWO
and come back healthy honest out OF debt ana reputa
b ness YOU are SURF you have the talent adaptation
address and economy of Bayard Taylor Ten 90 one
Won would much better stay home than attempt IT,
g. p Putnam, l5J Broadway
f1F- "THE EXCELSIOR ANNUAL, or Pupl 0it
for lsi9" Edited by EDWARD b. FELLOWS is richly
bound volume OF POI pages Just issued by Mans q Cor
nsh Its peculiarly that it is composed entirely OF
original compositions by the pupils IN the Common
schools of our City, prepared part OF their school
Exercises We object AS general rule to the PRINT
nr of juvenile illusions there is great danger OF turn
ing the heads of the writers yet 1t something TO I'VE
in land where such culture is here eyinced Is open
and free to the poorest children
fg- "THE MECHANICAL PRrNclrlA; containing
Sr4s.,, u
and ON the different kinds OF Machinery used in Manu-
featuring With Tables showing the cost OF Manuac'
turing different kinds of Cotton Goods BY CHAs. L.
lxosAnp has lust been fairly issued by Leavtt Trow
A Co lql Broadway 1t must be Indispensable to those
engaged in erecting running machinery
~. TuE PeIsoNEK's FRlEND opens a new vol
ume and series with September in the far preferable
form of an octave Monthly Magazine OF d pages each
No illustrated 10y an Engraving terms, - per annum
Rev CHARLES sItAR is sole Editor and Proprietor as
sisted by contributions from DR.. Walter Claiming,
Charles Sumner DR.. : q Howe Mrs L. w Farnham,
and others The work will now be easily preserved as
well as richly worth preserving, and we trust the
humane will every where commend II to wide circu'
ation We make the following extract from the No
before
ABOLITION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN GERMANY.
Oar hrst number will contain one OF the most i'm
porant facts that has occurred yet IN the history
Of the deathpenay Is the great isct that all Ger
many is awake on this subject and the decree mas
gone forth of the entire abolition OF thc DEAN penalty
In all cases except in sentences by Court Martial Du
ring the sittings of the German Federal Assembly at
Frankfort the subject of Capital Punishment was dis
cussed and the result above stated This IS I'm
portan as an expression OF opinion Of the German race
Prussia had already adopted a similar measure eN
cept In martial law and high treason, by vote OF PA
against 81. ,,,, !, =,
same vote The division 2sS against l46.
Concurrently with the measure for the abolition OF
the Desthpunshment the Frankfort Assembly passed
habeas corpus law of liberal description No one Is
10 be arrested for any offence unless taken in the act
without explaining the nature and cause OF the arrest
All prisoners must be taken before the Judicial authori
ties within twenty four hours, or else sci at liberty
and they are also to be liberated on bail, except for
crimes Of great magnitude. Damages likewise may be
recovered Tor false imprisonment More gratifying IN
telEgence could not come from abroad Russia Bel
linn TUSCANY and others have long led the way
While in our widely extended country, but one State
has tried the experiment and that Is MICHIGAN ana
when will Massachusetts, awake 70 thls subject herc
she has now one OF her citizens waiting Tor the honr OF
execution In Boston jail She still fingers behind.
doubling the expodiency of sbolishing the
IT, and allowing the elder portion OF the saxon family
to deprive her OF that renown
~ THE TRUE SCHOLAR, A MAN OF THE Poo
PIE is the title of very fair Grafton delivered before
the Students of Madison University, Hamilton, y y
July it'll, lsis, BY Rev. ROBERT RAYMOND, Syracuse
Us ideas are not very arreaching but judcious and
sound.
~ THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HoMEoPA-
Thy for September repete with its usual entertain
ing variety Dr. KIRBY is making it a very valuable
companion 10 Medical Students Practitioners and
advocates of the peculiar system Of curative treatment
il advocates will ind the Journal very excellent me d.
um Of expression
FROM BRAzIL AND La PLATA-We take the
following later items Of newsirom these countries from
the Baltimore 4merioda Of saturday
Senior Sergio Texcira de MScedo was appointed In.
voy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipetenusry TO the
United States from the Brazils the 5lst July last
MoNTEvIDEo, July - lsiS.
The Island of Apple, belonging TO the Argentine Re
public and lately possessed by the Corrienies oops
had been taken by forces from Paraguay, and the cap
tors forced All the inhabitants TO leave within three