The Penny Press, 1859-08-22

I j t , ' I j Italian Military Forces. The military organizations are continued with the utmost zeal. In Lombardy there will be a general levy of all those born in 1831). The division Garibaldi numbers at present about thirteen thousand men, and is divided into three brigades. They have left tho Valtellina, and are stationed now in the province of Ber gamo. The General, himself, is sick fromr tne enacts oi the peace, iie is in Lovero, on Lako Isco, under medical treatment... Tho Tuscan Division has returned to Tuscany, and is how over fourteen thousand strong. in Mouena, a part ot tne national uuard has been mobilized, and joined the armv. which has been raised by that reinforcement to ten thousand men. In Bologna there are ovor ten thousand men under arms. ; $33" Tha eight-children-at-one-birth story, published in the Now York Tribune, not long ago, is now pronounced by that paper a stupid hoax. The Trifttme says: Tha Penimniiir,, nf Wnn,n OIiJa wllai .1 the request of Mr. Timothy Bradley, of Johnstou, Ohio, to say that tne story of our isurrespvoueut, announcing mat jars. is. was the happy mother of eightchildren at a birth, is a malicious hoax, and adds: "Mr. and Mrs. Bradley are both respectable persons of respectable fumilies have been married about six years, and have never had any children." , - Jt$l A competent authority says that those little black-headed erections of ly mph in the pores of the akin upon the face, which are vul vulgarly - garly vulgarly known as "flesh -worms," ani which are so troublesome to many peoplo, may be got rid of, and prevented from returning, by washing with tepid water, by proper friotion with a towel, and by the application of a little eold cream. The longer these little corks are per permitted - mitted permitted to remain in the skin, tho more firmly they become fixed ; and after a time, when they lose their moisture, they are converted into little bony spines, as dense as bristles, and having muoh of that oharaeter. Cucumber Ketchup. Take three dozen of lull grown cucumbers and oight white onions. Peel the onions and cucumbers, and then chop them" as fine as possible. Sprinkle on three quarters of a pint of fine table salt; put tho whole in a scivo nnd let it drain twelve hours. Then take teacupfull of mustard seed, half a tenoupfull Of ground black pepper, and mix them well with the cucum cucumbers - bers cucumbers and onions. Put tho whole into a stone jar, with the strongest vinegar; close it up tightly for three days, and it is fit forua. it win Keep lor years. Uarrwbmo uman. Proportion op Ci.kkoymen to Population. According to tho census of 1850, there were in the United Btntes 23,190,876 people. At the same time there were 26,842 clergymen, or one clergyman to 803 persons. But New Hampshire takes the lead in supporting clergymen, as she has one clergyman to every 490 persons. Connecticut stands next, with one clorgyman to every 620 persons. All the New England States support one clergymen to less than 000 persons. New York has one clergyman to every 722 per persons. - sons. persons. Virginia one to 1,317; South Carolina one to 1,410; Louisiana one to 3,000. Death from TnE Bite op a Turtle. Tho Middleboro' (Mass.) Gazette gives the par particulars - ticulars particulars of a painful death of a boy in Plympton, in consequence of a bite on the finger from a turtle. The symptoms were tho samo as hydrophobia. Not long after the bite the lad became feverish, and after the finger had been lanced black spots dd- peared on the other hand, and paroxysms luiowed. m wtiicn llio sunerer would nnn and bito at whatever came in his way, after iuu iiiuiiiiur ui a turtle. A Meteor. The people in and round about xroy, . x., were startled on Thursday morn morning - ing morning last, about seven o'olook. by a torrifio de- Ltonation, which scemod to come from the sky, mouga penectiy eiear, and whioh wasaooom wasaooom-psnied - psnied wasaooom-psnied by a trembling of the earth. The wise men of that locality are unable to account for tneextraordinary phenomenon in any other way than that itwos aslichttouohof an earthnunke. It may be proper to add that the editor of the uswego Jvttamum, of meteorio noloriety, has uutumg iu uu who, tae artoir. Th Pillibostbrs. We have satisfied our our-self - self our-self that the rumors of a current effort to or. ganize a gang of filibusters for another raid on Nicaragua, is wholly untrue, and that it has its origin simply in the desire of steamship parties to prevent, by hook or by crook, the proposed speedy reopening of the-Nioaragua routo under the Van Dyke-Wallace oontraot with Nicaragua, and the contract recently made by th Postoffice Department with Mr. Johnson. The object of starting the story is to alarm the Nicarsguan Government to the ettent of pro procuring - curing procuring action on its part, calculated to prevent American passengers from crossing their ABiumus. irasiiniiuii oral'. Is Napoleon's Stab on the Wane? Our Jfaris correspondent states that many men in Europe are of opinion that Louis Napoleon has now reaohed the zenith of his good luck, and that his fall will be as rapid as his rise. Such a suggestion was made here soon after the nows of the peace treaty was received. Napo Napoleon - leon Napoleon does not appear to have any very warm friends among the rulers of Europe. Even Bussia, usually spoken of as bis close ally. has. according to late advices, assured Prussia of ner irienmy disposition in any future European political oomplioationB. Boston Traveller. .33 Eeoently a most extraordinary race took plaoe in a fashionable ladies' seminary school in the Thiergarten, Br!in, where thirty thirty-three - three thirty-three young ladies contested for the champion championship - ship championship in swimming. The winner, who is nine nineteen - teen nineteen years of ago, and very handsome, is said to have provod that she might as well challenge the other sex as her own. The race was fol followed - lowed followed by an elegant lnnoheon, only ladies beine; present, and the promenaders in the neighborhood listened with astonishment to the lusty oheers that followed the toasts. pSTJAr. La Mountain, who made a balloon ascension from Watertown on the 11th inst., landed about eight o'olook in the evening in safety on the farm of Elisha Slmmerman, near the haadlof Pnrnh T..lra In .T.ff.MAn nnnn, J about twelve miles north of Watertown, the trip haying ocoupied about two hours. The greatest altitude attainted was over threo miles. Tbe fcronaut arrived at Wntarrnwn. nlih hi. balloon uninjured, the next day. A Woman who Does Not Believe thb Newspapers. It la rlntd that . arnman in Chicago was recontly ohlded for not going to ...a Yw. - 1,-t.nJ I. - 1..J L - I J, . 1 so uwi MiuuBuu, nuv utu ueeu uauiy injurou. ITaP ATAI1RA WAS that, aha nnl. ka.iA nf Ma In jury through the papers, and "they don't al always - ways always tell tha troth.'' Pnrhana aba wnnld hava believed them had thaw aald t'na hn.kand started East, a party to a runaway match. Russian Demand for American Books. Tbe New York Evening Pott observes that few people have any idea of the extent to whioh Soma nf Alia hnfttr - nnltltana.. im In l.-.l-J l the Russia trade. Lait week the Appletons filled an order for three hundred doien Ameri American - can American WArlra. ahtafla- nt Ama-lAan i.lh.u lk a few reprints, for St. Petersburg. The Amer ican uuuaa go io hock a oircuiaung norsry in the Russian capital. MlflB ARli HlTHMr atann a.. Ml. - - a- -v..h ., 4M.ua and rats are very easily destroyed if we set uuu. i m earnest, uoc live piaster-parit and Anna ml .nam la aAMt . I . ! lay it in dry places, and sprinkle a little tua-ar n-.i. . a . . . aiuvug iv. I) rats anoi tnioe etc ravenously, tbe plaster sets firm direotly ar it is moist-, ended, becomes a. lumn Innl.la r hills to a certainty.

3J It is stated that a fuad of $20,000 his already been invested in Massachusetts for the benefit of the children of Horaoo Mann. Dootor Ellas B. Edmonds, of Lancas Lancaster - ter Lancaster County, Vi., died suddenly on the 4th init, of apoplexy. T" We understand that the former direc directors - tors directors of the Northern Railroad intend to iuo the New York Timet for libel. The aggregate damages loot up ttfuuuu. yuite an item. JZSyA ship with yellow fever on board having arrived below li'en Orleans, much apprehension is expressed lest the disease should bo commu nicated to the city.' iSf Sir. Ten Broeok was not the onlv ver- son upon whom fortune smiled at the Goodwood races, jus friends backed. Starke froely, and bagged $35,000 for their enterprise. r-f Tounir Carlo Patti, the brother of Mrs. Rtrakosch, has just married MieeEITio Gormon, the pretty and popular aotress. The hymeneal. toon piace at rrovidonce, it. I. 2TA correspondent cninmerices a letter thus: "I write from a cockloft of tho Amherst House, in a room about twico aa largo as a oaratoga wuiiK." EOThe Frenoh Minister of Stnte has just oiuoiauy appointed Mauemoi;olIe Xngliomi to be inspeotress of all the dancing classes at tho opera, and to ported such pupils as she may considor imoly to become Brat-rate performers. rrt Wise men and handsome women have always been in great dotnand. Beauty is more prized than wisdom, and accordingly finds a bettor market. A pretty faoe is worth tenfold more than a well-tilled head. Yes, indeed ! Amkiucans Can Kskp a Hotki,. Mensrs, R, H. Lamont and Joseph Harrison have pur chased seventeen acres at Saratoga, with the view of ereoting a hotel capable of accomrao dating twenty-eight thousand guests.. This will do for a village of a moderato size. s2rA Paris correspondent of the Inicuen drnfis Ilelge soys he is assured that one of the last things uttered in. the now celebrated in interview - terview interview at Villa Franca, was a promise mado by the Emperor of Auatria to pass somo days next winter nt me Turneries. jSSfi-Tho 'Vinnennes Sun snvs that W.J. Stevens, Esn late Superintendent on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, will again be called to fill an important station on the road; elnn.l.hot. fluiitnin Ttnlrlriilen will hn placed on duty. 2psr At the recent Woman's Rights Conven Convention, - tion, Convention, holden at PouehkeoDsie. the Rev. Mrs Antoinette Brown Blackwell introduoed a series oi resolutions, one of which was as follows: "Retohed, That wo assort the entire equality, uul uut me lusDiuy oi too sexes. Yo oan't swallow the "identity" then. Ukited Status Convention op Univie- SAM8TS This convention will meet in Roch ester, N. Y., on Tuesdav. tho 20th of SoDtem her, and continue in session on the following Wednesday. Rov. E. II Chopin is the preacher oi iuo occasional sermon. A Whale Captured. On Saturday last a fln-baok whale, measuring forty-two feet, got into shallow water near Lewes, Delaware, and wasionnwttn attaokea by the citizens, with every available weapon, and after an hour's struggle, Killed. Tub Mountain Mkadows CiiiMinuN Snn cial Agent Jarvis. who came Eastward with tne cli-ldreu saved from the Mountain Mead' ows tiiussacro, has arrived in Washington lie loft the children at Fort Lantmie, and tnoy win not rencn Leavenworth before tho otliot September. MrA Washineton disnatch snvs the At. torney General has decided that payments are to be mado from the TreoBurv for carrv- ing oconn and foreign mails, the act for that purpose Doing a permanent appropriation for paying contractors out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in sums eqtiiu to uie amount ot receipts lor postage, Jkwb in Russia. The Emperor of Russia has authorized the Jews to raise a fund, the inturost of which is to bo employed as prizos for tho best literary works in thellebrow language which shall be presaiited to the Academy of Sciences. Ilia Majesty has also iounacu nve scnoinrsnips at tlio Techno Technological - logical Technological Institute in favor of young Jews. The Bkhikbt Rattlesnake. A rattlesnake was killed lately twenty miles West of Torre Haute, Inditns, twenty-one feet In length, eighteen inches round in the largest part, and whioh had one hundred and eleven rattles. This same snake, or one like it, was seen in the SAme locality thirty years ago. This monster was killed with a rifle-bullet, and is undoubt undoubtedly - edly undoubtedly the biggest rattlesnake on record. Extravagant Dinners at Saratoga. One lady is reported to have given a dinner to twenty friends which cost $100, and a New York banker paid $750 for twenty-eight per persons. - sons. persons. A Southerner, however, surpsssed that, be having paid $1,400 for one dinner, the largest-priced dinner ovor given at that fashion fashionable - able fashionable resort. Botton Journal, Rise in thc Price op Viboinia Lands. On the Sth instant, Waller Taylor sold bis tract of land on Bluostone, in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, consisting of seven hundred and seventy -six sores, to Dootor George 0. Venable. of Halifax County, for $10,500. For the larger part of this traot, embraotng the dwelling bouse and Improvements, Mr. Taylor paid $4,000 nine years ago; for the residue he paid $4,500 four years ago. II is net profit, there therefore, - fore, therefore, is $8,000, nearly one hundred per cent wool Trade in Ohio. During the nresont season one individual at Columbus, Ohio, has purchased four hundred thousands sounds of wool, at a cost of about $18(1,01)0; and it is estimated that the quantity bought and sold in the State during the season will reach ten million pounds, and as it is principally pur purchased - chased purchased ly foreign dealers and manufactur manufacturers, - ers, manufacturers, will bring into the. State nearly $4,550, $4,550,-000 - 000 $4,550,-000 a right snug sum of money, which will to some extent compensate the State for the loss said to be sustained in the grain crops. ' Washington ok view and Amusimints. "Let vice and immorality of every kind be disooursged as much at possible in your bri brigade; - gade; brigade; and as a ehaplain is allowed to each regiment, see that the men regularly attend Divine Wonhlp. Gaming of every kind is expressly forbid, as the produotion of evil, and tne cause or many gallant and brave officers' ruin... Games of exercise sod for amusements nay not only be permitted, but enoouraged."

The Hungarian' mail and passengers will reach Montreal to-morrow, sometime before noon. Tho general news brought is interesting, but possesses no features of striking importance. Among the long list of the takers of this stock appear the names of Baring Brothers A Co.; George Pcabody, of the firm of Georgo Peabody & Co.; FrUieth A Co.; Samuel Guerney, of the firm of Overn, Guerney A Co.; N. RothsohildA Co.; Hankey A Co.; Barclay, Beaver A Co.; J. II. Schroder, of the firm of John Henry Schro Schroder - der Schroder A Co.; C. Lampoon; Thomas Bassey, and William Brown. The Peace Congress met at Zurich, on Mon Monday, - day, Monday, the 8(h inst, aoeording to previous an announcement. - nouncement. announcement. Nothing had transpired regard regarding - ing regarding tbe proceedings thus far. Sardinia was represented in the conference. Napoleon was on a visit to camp Chalons. The British Parliament was still debating the Italian question, but in a more subdued tone than has hitherto characterized the speeohes. ' ' The official authorities at Zurich had given the Embassadors to the Peace Conference a warm welcome, and were to entertain them at a public dinner on the. 11th inst. The completion of the Great Saltern was formally celebrated on the 8th inst. by a banquet given on board, which was attended by a number of distinguished persons. The vessel is about ready lor service. Tbe London Timet has an article on the stipulations of the treaty, alleged to have boon arranged between tho American Min Minister - ister Minister to Moxico, Mr. McLane and President Juarez. Although tho limn thinks the treaty would be beneficial to Mexico itself, as well as the world, yet it fears it would result : - i . : i - -. r , l l iu injury vj vuv iiiwreBMi ui lurmgn uuuu uuuu-holdcrs. - holdcrs. uuuu-holdcrs. The Grand Duke Constantino of Russia had arrived at Spithaad in a Russian vessel of war. The London papers publish the provisions of Sidney Herbert's new bill, organizing the military reserve force. Mazzini publishes in several of the London journals an article under the caption of the European Vmip a Ltat. n-1. , r : i i t i Aiiu jiiaincbn, uubu Ajiverjjvu; Ullil A.UUUUI1, don, were generally quiet, without material change. The Liverpool cotton market was steady, but not very active, the sales of three days reaching only a moderate figure. Breadstuffs dull, but. without material change m price. Provisions closed steady.

St. Louis, August 20. The Overland Mail, with dates to the 29 th ultimo, arrived here to tonight. - night. tonight. The late arrivals at San Francisco had made some stir, but the market closed very dull, buy buyers - ers buyers holding off for better terms. Pork had de clined, extra clear selling at a fraotion over $11. Urain was in demand for export. Tbe mining news was favorable, but the re. celpts of dust were light. The Walker Rivor and Washoe Valley mines were attraoting much attention. Large numbers had departed for inese aiggings. The official returns eleot Judge Crane to Con. cress from the proposed Territory of Nevada. A convention was in session at Genoa, Car Carson - son Carson Valley, for the purpose of forming a pro visional government it being the intention of tno people to throw oa all allegiance to Mor Mormon - mon Mormon rule. They design eleoting a Governor, Judges, and all necescary officers. ' A party of Californians, en route to St. Louis, were attacked near South Pass, June 15. by the Crow Indians, and George Stephenson, of i-utsourg, Liavm More, ot Lancaster, Pennsyl Pennsylvania, - vania, Pennsylvania, and C. M. Hall, of Cincinnati, were killed, ilenry k lorenoe, of Carlisle, Pcnnsyl vania, was made prisoner. Advices from Oregon state that Mr, Stout, Democrat, is elected to Congress, by forty-one majority. Lieutenant Mullen was progressing finely with the new road from Walla Walla to Salt Lake. A large body of Frazer River miners bad arrived at the new dizzinzs at North Cal- ville, Oregon, who were reported to be making irom so iofiu per aay. me accounts from the Frazer River mines are more favorable. New discoveries had been made north of Fort Alexander. Rioh quartz bad been received at viotoria irom ljueen Charlotte's Island.

On the third day of the Pennsylvania Eo Eo-eimpment - eimpment Eo-eimpment of the military, on tbe far-famed battleground where Gen.Brnddook was defeated, a full-dressed "malioioui man," from tbeBaok tbeBaok-y - y tbeBaok-y State, visited the camp. The Pittsburgh Diipatch say st . About nine o'clock, Msjor Gen. Wilson of Ohio, was escorted to the eamn-srronnd from the Monongahela House', and honored with a salnte of eleven guns .by the Monongahela Artillery. He is a fine looking man an almost perfeot counterpart of his twin-brother, Adju Adjutant - tant Adjutant General Wilson, of this State. He was accompanied by one of bis aids, Msjor Neel. 1 A very pleasaut interchange of social and eonvivial feeling took plaoe at Gen. Negley's head-quarters at "high noon," at whioh hour a large number of invited guests, military and olvil, were seated at the hospitable board of tbe General. After the cloth (metaphorically) had been removed, and amid the popping of champalgne eorks, and an enlivening sally of repartee, Gen. Negley, in a few felicitous romarks, pro proposed - posed proposed the health of Major General Wilson, of Ohio, tbe honored guest of the encampment. This brought tbe Major to his feet. He alluded to the gratifying reoeption he had received, as the representative of the military of Ohio, and passed a very high compliment on the military bearing and proficiency of the companies en encamped - camped encamped at Camp Braddock. At the conclusion of his romarks, Gen. Negley, on behalf of his lady, presented the Major with a magnifloent bouquet, which was acknowledged in a happy manner by the Major, and responded to oy Gen.N.' Maj. Neel, Aid to Gen. Wilson, wag next called out by Gen. Nogley, to aocopt a bouquet, and responded.

."The TJtica Advertiier, alluding to the defeat of the Emperor of Bussia in the Vice Chancellor's Court, London, in his attempt to appropriate the 70,000 which the late Sir J ames Wylie, physician to the Emperor Nicho las, had invested In the English funds, says: Tho heir at law is Mr. Walter Wylio, ship shipowner, - owner, shipowner, Kincardine, Sir James' sole surviving brother, and the handsome sum of 70,000 will, fall to be shared by a few highly respectable families in our own distriot, and one family in Dundeo will also reap the benefit of the Vice Chancellor's judgment It was in 1846 that bir James wylie invested 50,000 in the Eng English - lish English funds, his intention boina- tu nurohasa an estate in Sootland, and thereafter return and spend tbe evening of his days in bis native country. The abolution of the corn laws shortly afterward gave ri60 to the ideain some quarters that the land would be dopreoiated in value, and Sir James delayed his visit to Scot Scotland. - land. Scotland. TheiaO.OOOmeanwnilelay accumulating till the death of Sir Jainos in 1854, and it has been accumulating since, till it has now reached the goodly amount already stated. The ex expenses - penses expenses of the lion fall to be ducted from the 70,000.