The anti-monopolist., 1874-08-13
HOW WE ARE DRIFTING.
Could Our Emperor Find the Mater.
ial for his Court .---Our Blue.
BlOOded RelativeS...I1ist of Ameri.
can Ladies Who Have Married
Foreign Titles.

There is at this moment but one lady
of American birth who wears an English
coronet. This is Miss Magruder, o1
Washington, now Baroness Abinger in
the peerage of England. Another Amer.
lean lady, Miss Kirby, of Maryland, is
entitled, however, to the same rank as
the wife of the eleventh Lord Fairfax.
But as Lord Fairfax has never claimed
his title, nor ever visited England, at all,
this is without the least purpose of a
pun) case of "barren honor" Miss
Warden. daughter of MIR. Francis
Warden, of New York, former partner
of Mr.. A. 7. Stewart, IS married to the
younger brother of another peer, Lord
Darlington, who stands now as heir pre-.
sumptive of that not very ancient ba.
rony. But Lord Darlington himself is
very young man still, and may at any
moment rebut this presumption by tax.
ing to himself baroness. A daughter
of Mr.. Jerome, of New York, who has
recently married a younger son Of the
Duke of Marlborough, need not be in
cluded in this account, the chances of
any succession in that case being very
remote, as the Dukes elder son, the
Marquis of Blandford, is a married man.
So that in England at this time there
are no American ladies occupying such
coigns of vintage as those 'three
graces Of Baltimore. On the Contin.
ent the present generation Of American
ladies has made loftier conquests, speak
ing still, of course, from the strictly con-
ventional point of view. The wife by
inorganic marriage by the Ex-King Of
Portugal, formerly young actress from
Boston, Miss Henxler, may be excluded,
of course. But the highest conventional
honors won in matrimony by an Ameri-
can lady of our times are those borne by
Miss Hamel, Of New Orleans, now Her
Royal Highness, the wife Of Don Luis
de Bourbon, eldest son of His Royal
Highness the Count of Aquila and of
Her Imperial Highness the Princess of
Joanna Of Brazil, daughter Of the En-
peror Don Pedro l. and of his Empress,
the Archduchess Leopoldine of Austria.
By this marriage Miss Hamel is con-
nected with the royal house of Bourbon
and with the two imperial houses of
Braganza and of Hapsburg-Lorraine.
This ought to, but perhaps may not,
console Louisiana in a measure for the
sufferings inflicted upon her by the car
pet-bag dynasty Of the Kelloggs and the
Caseys. Next in conventional rank
after this lady comes Miss Lee, of New
York, now the widow Of His Royal
Highness the Prince de Neor, originally
Prince Frederic of Schleswig- Holstein.
Sonderburg- -Augustenburg.
A long interval, of course divides these
royal and semi-royal alliances from the
next in order, which is that of Miss Ag-
nes Leclercq, of Maryland, the widow Of
Prince Felix, Of Salm-Salm, younger
brother Of the head Of that once sover.
eign and famous house, mediatized half
century ago. The adventures Of this
lady and of her lord, who, after narrowly
escaping death in the service of Maxi
| milan of Mexico, was killed gallantly
charging with his Prussian cavalry at
Gravelotte, would make quite striking
historical romance. After her, in con.
ventional precedence, must be placed
Miss Parsons, of Ohio, now the wife Of
the Prince Won Lynar, the head Of a
family of Italian origin, long settled in
Germany, and holding a respectable
place among the Prussian nobility who
were recognized by the German EN-
peror before Napoleon ! abolished that
"head and fountain - Of all modern
feudal honors. Next after the husband
of the Princess Won Lynar in point Of
conventional rank, though much above
him if the question Of family and fame
is to be entertained, must come Charles
Maurice, Marquis of Talleyrand-Peri-
CORD. son and heir of the Duke of Dino
of that illustrious house, married to Miss
Curtiss, of New York. And with this
French Marchioness is practically ex'
hausted the roll of American ladies who
have acquired by foreign marriage titles
of nobility important enough to be recog'
nized by the Continental heralds and
"annuaires de la noblesse."
Disinterested benevolence and mutual