The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-07-08

Mr.. Burlingame, though popularity assO
ciated with Massachusetts, is native of the
Empire State. He was born in New Berlin,
Chenango County, N. Y, November IA,
1922. His early years were passed on the
Western frontiers, far beyond the confines of
civilization He graduated from the Law
School, at Cambridge, Mass, in 1916: in
1852 was elected to the State Senate, and in
1854 was chosen a member of Congress,
where he served three terms. In 1851 he
was appointed by President Lincoln as Min
lister to Austria, but on account of his sym
pathy with the Hungarians, the Court at
Vienna hintetl that another American would
be more acceptable, and Mr. B. was ap-
gointed Minister to China. s5laiaa
Mr.. George Francis Train has been lee
turing to large audiences in London. whose
enthusiasm to see and hear the great Amer
lean orator not even an admission fee of one
shilling can overcome. AT his first lecture
he advanced the proposition that his own
election to. the Presidency of the United
States was about the best redress for Irish
grievances that cogtl be accomplished Re-
ifsrrine to Enrlisl, politics. he said he look
edupon Mr.. Disraeli as the greatest Radical
/ in this country, and prophesied that the
right honorable gentleman would be one day
President Of a Republic in England.
a. The wardrobe of the Princess Metternich,
it is said, consists OF 119 dresses of silk,
each of 119 pieces, and trimmed with 1900
yards of trimmings; 1854 morning gowns of
various materials, adorned with one mil
lion of buttons 81 walking dresses and
cloaks, ornamented with one ton of bugles !;
81 shawls of various sizes and colors; 152
petticoats in variety; 275 other under gar
ments; 365 pairs of stockings; 156 pairs
of gloves of every known color 40
pairs of boots and shoes; II sashes and
belts; IA brooches, in variety; ~ pairs of
earrings, in variety; 81 fans; "a parasols !;
umbrella. ,a0a1-v 81 a zaa{
= Omaha seems to be under cloud. Dis
astrous failures have recently occurred there,
and more are threatened. 4 correspondent
writes: sour streets look as if the place
was being deserted. Omaha can never get
up the same exeiscsncnt as she slid this
spring. In my opinion she is dead for years
to come. and if Il truth was told by all
they would eoint ide with me. Two months
ago there was not a store to be rented in the
place. To day there is sixty-one stores for
rent" .a ~ = ~
Investigations undertaken by the Italian
Benevolent Society of Paris show that the
little Italian street musicians and mendi.
cants, who infest the streets of that city, are
literally bought from their relatives by the
.padresn who fatton on the proceeds, and
are expected to furnish street musicians and
mendlcants all over the world.
Fanny Ellsleris now 81 years old, having
been born in Vienna in 1911. She is said
to have acquired a superfuousness of vulgar
! flesh, and limbs very unlike those with
] which she pirouctted herself into the affec.
tions and the pockets of the public. SasH >
The Hon. Reyerdy johnson, the new
American Minister to the Court of Great Bri
4 tain, will sail from the port of Baltimore or
the 1stof August Mrs. Abraham Lincoln
and her son :. .Tlladdie' will be among tn,
| passengers. She will beunder Mr., John
sons protection to Liverpool, where she viii
meet her friends II fotTuK1
An ingenious Englisllman, not long ago
announced in the papers of the French de
partment of Manche, that hes would sent
/" two beautiful engraved and colored 'por
traits of the Queen of England" to an,
4 person enclosing him the modest sum of sil
pence. Receiving several Thousand letter
4 enclosing sixpences, he sent to each of hi
correspondents two postage stamps exhi
biting the august lineaments Of Her Majesty