The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-05-26
American Travellers ADrond.

vivaciouH correspondent OF the Buffalo COur
rie,- writes from the ancient City Of Rome as fol-
lows Rome, he says, is perfect hive of tourists:
Three-fourths Of this travelling public are.
Americans Lam always interested to ob7erye
how these look and behayo and will give you
the result of some of my observations. In tue
first place. they spend twice as much money, man
for man, as the people OF any other nationality;
secondly, they bring abroad with them BY far the
handsomest. young ladies'. "The Americans are
not out hs. gentleman say on the
on the promenade" Certainly the American girls
show finer types Of beauty than. any l have seen
native to Europe. remember pure Saxon head
at Covent. Garden, queenly English woman or
two riding on Rotten Row, and very fewsplendid
brunettes of France in the Bois de Boulogne, whose
beauty might lord it over anything TRANSATLANTIC;
but aside from these, there is scarcely compari-
son in my mind. With its well-fled purse and
handsome women, America, as might be sup
posed, is not slow to cut stylish figure, socially,
wherever it can, in Europe. There are many
Americans in Paris who entertain dukes and mar
quises at their dinner tables, Gnd some OF whose
daughters (and dowrios) even princes are not too
proud to take possession. In Rome the American
circle is confessedy at the head OF everything
foreign in the soci ~ay Before Lent its costly
entertainments the talk of the city, and
made the cinerar, Is OF the ancient Romans
rattle with tho trt festivity. We.haye some
Americans in ELL. 'ho seeu have come
hither for no othoi ,se thIp thus to take up
their accustomed nable pursuits in new
fields and with un lrroundngs. ''There is
nothing at Rome its society,"" said dandy
New Yorker to mt other day in perfect good
faith. Fortunatei. mis- class OF intelligent travel
lers is not very large. Its members when you
meet them, profess to bo exclusively bored by
sightseeing; they find nothing worthy their en-
thusiasm except the garments Of the no
bility which may chance to have brushed
them in some accidental meeting, and in general
they wish to be considered as we'll dressed con-
gregation Of martyrs. We have another
small and select class, Of young men princi-
pally, who have been so smitten OF England and
everything English that America will not knont
them when they get back, If indeed they
60 back, for do bt whether a country 30 COM
mon, 80 unrefinel lacking il everything Eng
lish, or even Fren is worthy to receive again
the exiled Cheste." 's. Only little more con-
temptible than til :, the moro numerous varie-
Of American sono der the yo1ny bic Sssd dEngdsh Ggad
boasting its matte y il the Paris bar-rooms,
and declaiming in terms Of choicest American
against q country and people whose pro-
greatness it has only observed on the Liverpool
docks and from the windows Of drailway carriage.
Young Americans OF this stripe attest the supe-
riority of democratic institutions by devotion to
easy grace In the consumption of tobacco and
spirits But these arc exceptional characters in
tho American multitude abroad. by far the
greater number OF our country-peope here be-
have like ladies and gentlemen, and do not suffer
by comparison with any. They have their little
oddities to be sure, but these arc only amusing at
The worst. For instance, there are some who "do"
tho sights, the ruins, the churches, the galleries;
&C., with zeal not altogether according to
knowledge or appreciation, and who check ptf the
satisfaction, as if they kept tally OF cotton bales
Dr. loads of wheat,