Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-03-05
AMERICANS IN ROME.
Foolish Females Fishing for Titles
-ShOddy and his Family.

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| CORRESPONDENCE of the New York Herald.
Within the past month more than ON
| American girl has felt the soft fires tina
compelled Desdemona to love the dusk
Moor. They have not been kindled b.
the attentions of Mr.. William Smith, thu
Establishments of Mr.. Uriah Brown, mo-
the manly presence of Obadiah Jones
| No such riff-raff for the American Hgirl o.
| the period.n for those who have a gooC
balance in Wall street. They have higi
notions-admire the impecunious Italian.
for their titles and the blue blood thai
they suppose flows through their veins
| Italia's SONS have dstanced all competi
tors in the 'loVe chase;n they arc the
| favored ones; no one else has any show
| to be rewarded for ssworld of signs. !
But Sig1aori are assidious in their atten.
| tions, and sigh ''like furnaces" and
like-Italians. The latter don't mind
lineage in an American. Once the lady
arrives here or in any other part of this
sunny land, the depth, length and breadth
the cubic measurement of her fortune
is guaged by the poor counts and penni-
less scions of ''nOble" houses; and the
''fairest of the fair" does not feel dis
pleased to be told that Signor Maca-
roni does not care a snap for her,
he wants her fortune and nothing more
1t is stated, for fact, that some of the
ladies are so agreeable that they save the
"noble" born men the trouble of wooing.
The ladies do all that kind of thing. In
deed, saw one do the agreeable so point
edly to a rcputed nobleman in the
Zouaves, that felt kind of pity for the
good young woman. Americans, gentle
men, are very small potatoes, no matter
what may be their personal appearance,
character and abilities, with their cbun-
try women in Rome. 1t is kind of con-
descension on the part of Mary Jane and
Agnes, whom we knew in the town of
Newburg, at Sunday school, to nod to us
as they whirl over the rough pavement of
Rome with tawny Count or gaunt son of
a very amiable but decrepit Marquis.
All the fOrtune-hunters in Rome are
not worth, intellectually or morally, the
regard of any American girl worth row
OF brass pins. They are, for the most
part, worthless as men, and mere con-
sumers of bread, macarOni and cigars.
Morality, as we understand it, is hum
bug in their estimation. They are kept
by the women of the denli-mlonC1e in
fine clothes and pocket money, to strut
up and down the COrsO. A woman is
toy of pleasure, only to be married when
prOprietress of fortune Few of them
ever marry foreign born lady but to
spend her substanceon creatures of doubt
full character
Europeans in general are surprised at
the attentions, in many cases obscquious-
ness, of Americans when in company of
titled persOns-persons who have never
done anything TO merit any recognition
above ordinary respect, and that is due
solely as being member of a respectable
family. They are the best of democrats
when in Boston or Cleveland. Once
count or a counts brother rubs his coat
tails against one of their sofas or chairs
they are no longer plain republicans-they
set up for an alliance with some ''gener-
able very poor house-and trace their
ancestors to Plymouth Rock, jamestown
or Maryland, whereas the beginning of
this century found their parents playing
marbles or skip-rope in Germany, Eng
land or Ireland.
On dit, that half dozen or so Ameri-
can ladies are engaged to be married to
Russian nOblemen--- noblemen short of
cash. The ladies have plenty of cash,
and their future husbands have plenty of
poverty. The Roman nobility have a
knack of finding out who is rich and who
is not that is surprising. At present an
American family resides in the house of
the Senator of Rome, high official; the
Duke of Lante has another; the Baron
GavOtti has furnished rooms for another.
The Marquis of Guistiniani, who has a
chance of falling heir to the Princeship of
Bandini, will probably marry an Ameri-
can. There are plenty of nOblemen max
ing love to American girls, and there will
be quite a number of marriages, providing
the ladies have a couple of hundred
weight of the nccdful or corner lots in
eligible situations. There is New York
or here who was asked how his daughter
was by friend from home. He replied
that he did not know of any daughter but
the Marchioness --. The friend has
concluded to ask in future for the health
of E'my lady, the MarChioncss -