The Nevada journal., 1855-12-21
NEVADA CALIFORNIA FRIDAY MORNING. DECEMBER o. 1855
BOGUS AMERICAN DIGN1TAR1Es.-Th


pleasant correspondent of the New York
Times, writing from Florence, gives the
following "frst rate notice" of some of
the American bogus dignitaries in Europe
Anecdotes of Americans in Europe
abound here. l have made notes of a
quantity, for private circulation only, as
they are too personal to publish But a
capital book, one highly illustrative of ma
tional manners, might be made upon the
subject and under the title of ''The Amer
lean Bearer of Dispatches upon the Con-
tlnent; )" the volume to contain a narra-
tive OF the honors and attentions claimed
by the distinguished Cabinet Courier in
question, and to conclude with his arrest
IN Austria on the charge of having social
ist manifestoes in the guise of dispatches
Io prove his innocence, he is forced to
declare and to show that his dispatches
consist of nothing but private letter to
Miss Stockwell, in Rome, forwarded by
the Embassy, and an old number of the
Presse, to give the bundle bulk. Or else,
taking wide range, the volume might be
called "The Titled American in Europe .
and give stories of our numerous Generals,
Colonels, and other militia (but taken for
military dignitaries abroad. The Gen
eral, if ever plumply asked the question,
whether he belongs to the army or to the
National Guard, usually says the army.
The famous Judge, so called from his hav-
ing been umpire in cockfght, passes for
Judge ofthc Supreme Court, invariably
Your ex-President moves noiselessly and
unostentatiously, while your bogus great
man, armed with spurious prefix or boil
stored up by brown paper dispatches,
swells it over the Continent like the Mas
sau balloon. The London Neacs is clam
oring for British Legion of Honor do
take up the cudgels for an American hi
erarchy of nobility. No one sports a title
with more gusto than an American no
one is more ready to claim attentions ia
behalf of it, or to insist upon the respect
due to it but, for heavens sake, let the
title be Legitimate, the dispatches genuine,
and the assumption justi6able.
The "Sayings of Americans in Europe
might form an amusing duodacimo. Such
as for instance When Louis Philippe
said to the Kentucky people sleeping three
In bed, he replied, "Well, they think
two's enough now % Upon the presenta-
tion of gentleman to Louis Napoleon,
he said, 81 was in Europe, Sire, when
your illustrious father was on the throne p
Upon the introduction of one of our young
militia officers to the Duke of Wellington,
the Duke remarked, "You arc rather
young, sir, to have acquired that grade !"
to which the other replied, 81 am just the
age your grace was at Waterloo !" Moth
ing could have been better than this re-
Joinder history saith not, l believe,
whether the Duke pursued the conversa-
tion after this repulse. Let some capable
person come to Europe and collect the
annals Of his countrymen abroad, and with
the aid of few sketchy illustrations, he
might get up book that would delight
two hemispheres, and produce very heal
thy effect besides. l will engage for my
part to furnish the history of the King Of
Saxony, incognito, and the confidential
agent Of the United States Cabinet-a his
tory, by the way, which ought to be told
by Thackeray and embelished by Cruik-
shank.