The New York herald., 1868-08-27
ROME.

Society In the Eternal City~--American Visitors
and Family Renni0ns-Pi0unnt Satire of Pub
lie Persona es-nIetropolisan Census--IIri-
gandnge and its yIcii,ns-Public Aruse-
ments and Papal Promotions.
ROME, August Z, 1868.
We are getting through this summer remarkably
we as far health goes; the doctors have little to
DO and the hospitals are not full; there Is even
much less FEVER than usual. The air IL purer In con-
| sequence perhaps, OF whole month of thunder
| storms every day.
But en- repdncIe, the town was never more empty.
| Last summer many families remained in Rome
not knowing where to go, cholera being every
where; not so Dec 01Gtfas, this year. although in
consequence am left, like the last rose of summer
'blooming alone" Fortunately for my peace OF mind
| know that Dec uoiefate, October and November
will bring back many periodically migratory Ameri-
cans. The Storys and the Davises OF your city, by
the by, who play great part In society here-tw0 OF
| the daughters are married to Romans--Marchese
| Javotti and Duke Lante. They are all charming
and know also that their house Is delightful. Last
! winter was too busy to go much into society," but
next season | shall then be able to describe to you
some Of these pleasant reunions which Mr.. and Mrs.
| Davis and their daughters, married and SINGLE make
so fascinating to excite the envy OF many of the
| Roman ladies' who cannot understand why all prefer
the Palazzo Silvestre where they Iive) to the mag
| nlhcence OF the Palazzi Burghese, Salvat ROspg-
i
compare houses myself, and then will tell you the
reason of the great popularity OF the Davis family.
Except those two families there are no other Ameri
| can fiXtuges-in society, mean
| We have though, ain happy TO say great artists,
| of whom will write to you some day, and we have
Dr. Burridge, the dentist, who not only is one OF the
best in his profession in Europe, but Is universally
liked and respected, by Romans as well as by his
| countrymen: so you see our banner Is high here.
| There a custom in Rome, which certainly arises
from there being no newspapers, viz.:-the private
circulation OF satires against well known people, l
1 hay inst nj q nd
brother These satres are always in verse and some
times very clever but this lacks cleverness alto
| the Cardinal Is stupid There Is one thing worth
mentioning in it, which, although not well told. is
brother OF Berardis, Don -, sold once for
s25, 900 despatch which he must have found on the
Se Of @ tns to S Hndsf
that time Minister OF War, had determined to
have him shot, but pardoned hum on hearing from
himself that 1t was not from love OF Italy that he
| had delivered up the despatch, but merely from
want OF money. AS you may well believe. don't
| The census has just been made There are 1888
Inhabitants in Rome and the suburbs Since last year
there has been only an augmentation of 1906. While
from 1866 to 1867 Of nearly 5000 This difference Is
partly account OF the cholera last summer. which
| made nearly 5000 victims There are 2S cardinals,
Is bishops and 1,372 priests: OF monks and nuns,
1886; 4602 Jews and OF military, 10, ;3S There are
| sixty.one different religious orders for men ana
has the greatest number OF students 5s7: then comes
| the English then the Roman, the French, the South
| American and, sixth in number. North Amoricu,
| which has tnfrty-seven students. or course, the
| military counted are only the Romans for with
strangers the Pope has an army OF about $1,000 men.
| We do not hear Of many new encounters OF the
brgands in the provinces with the gendarmes but
IN Frascatl there have been two affairs Of private
nature. Firstly, ten days ago. Mr. Sant0yecchia,
very rich prolrietor was shot at and wounded in
the shoulder and neck at twelve O'Clock in the day
while passing In his carriage along road quite near
Frascati. Both lie and his coachman were wounded.
They only saw two men with guns, who rose on their
| approach ana fired. The second is more serious.
The c,stode person In CHARGE OF the villa Multi was
| murdered twp nights ago. six men came up to him
at halfpast Iine IN the evening. a. he was returning
to the villa, vhich Is close upon the town, tied him.
| and were taking him, no doubt, up to the house.
| which they would have entered and robbed the in
mates, II MT worse. There were three families
| living there VINO have escaped TO Rome in
dreadful night; but the wife Of the poor
| fans, unfortunately. perhaps screamed. The bri-
gands escaIfd but not before staboing their victim,
| leaving him dead. Count Sartiges las made such
fuss about ts AFFAIR that yesterday the government
sent twenty-five gendarmes and twenty policemen to
Plus TX. is TO pay another visit to the camp at
| Rocca di Pipa next Monday the 10th. Great prepa-
be Soped III a s %e ee viii be- NO rain the
| eX-King o' Naples has taken house In Rocca Ill
Papa, whde he comes occasionally. You know he
| IL devotedto the Touaves aud they 10 him. IL was
said all over Rome the other day that he had gone TO
| the camp HIS house being al the bottom OF the
steep hi OF Recca d Papa, IL is dl6ieult TO 40 on
foot or os o donkey. AS did not see 1t don't an-
| swer for lhe truth Of this piece Of news.
sions In ior balloon / have just beea told that she
had sore difficulty in finding a proper place
| for tbes ascensions, Prince Borghese refused
| her HI, villa unless she left half the profits
i for ths charitable institutions at the head
| OF whldl is his wife. Nine. Potevin could not al
| ford tins and got permission TO 'go up from place
| Of pubic amusement beside the Barberini Palace.
Here she only paid quarter Of the profits but not
| wthsnndng the great crowds who assisted at these
air excursions she made nothing, so has gone OF TO
Naples, where they have assured her 10000 francs Tor
| four representations
You win have seen, probably published In the
| HHRALD, the treaty OF commerce between SwitZer-
land and Rome, 1.-THE subjects OF his Holiness, the
| objects and merchandise coming from the Pontiica
Stars ~ be consumed IN switzerland" &C.. &C. ''wi
be geated like the most favored nations" &c., and
Uicf rerso, Of course, signed G Card. Antoneli and
| Lonis Schatter. -
| There Will be no consstory held before the month
| OF september. In this consistory the nuncios OF
| Madrid and Lisbon Bari and ferriere will receive
| their cardinals hats. You know they were named
in the last consistory II is thought that the Pope
| will name several new cardinals IN september. The
names cited are Chlg, at present nnnco ~ Paris
Falenelli nunco IN Vienna and ferrari ana herode.
FRANCE