Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-10-02
An Kmpres. Fditor.

From the Boston Post.l
If we may believe travellers, letter writer's and
newspapers, the Empress Eugene, Of France, is
one of the prettiest woman in Europe, and, like
all pretty women, liable to caprice of the mest
extraordinary kind. The hoop skirt was one of
her capricss, and most beneficial one, too. Il
has furnished employment to thousands and
thousands: enjoyment to milliOrs and millions,
and inconvenience to billions and billions. But
no living woman has ever denounced it so, we
repeat the hoop skirt is benefit. Embroidered
i p-tt-c-ts also are another caprice Of the royal
! lady, engendered by the pity her feminine heart
experienced at the distress among the work girls
of Paris. They wanted occupation; the sewing
machines, they piteousy cried, had taken the
| bread from their mouths. So Eugene devised a
/ iupon which the machines could not achieve; it
must be done by hand alone, and the nimble
/ fingers of the grisettes were again in motion,
plying their needles at their little attic windows
and blessing "the good Empress" for her benevO-
! lence. A sudden and uuTOyal-like visit to Lon
don was another caprice With it came rumOrs
/ of very astounding things; quarrel with Louis,
/ and fierce family row involving the fracture OF
palatial crockery; the disposal Of the abstracted
/ regent diamond to the Duke of Sutherland for
! q fabulous sum; and pspsl plot prejudicisl to
I ceTiSln Protestant interests. Promising to have
another baby was another caprice; becoming dis
! tressedly pious another. But the most singular
of all, the queerest for titled Flora McFimsey
whose If, was h0wsry, perfumed one, whose
wishes were laws, whose pets the agOny OF
fond old rous husband is the latest: Starting
a newspaper Fancy her lovely hands sOiled
with the ink of proof sheets. Imagine her
selecting, clipping, revising, arranging and
indlctiDgi conceiving leaders instead Of chill
dren, and arranging ideas instead of eolors.
! All the pocket money, they say, that she can
! squeeze out of her grim lord is now wasted in
types; all her time is passed in seectir editors
| snd prescribing copy. The old fogy MOniteur
| in vain bestirs itself and holds up its venerable
| hands in terror st the bantling who now pre-
sumes to first publish edicts and comment upon
! them la vain docs the time-hOnOred organ Of
the empire Try to pooh pooh its presuming c0tem-
! p0TaTy. The quck-witted B0Urse has discOv-
cred the young ones inspiration and CANDLES
shrewdiy by it. The stock brokers speculate on
its contents, and Europe reads it with interest;
for Europe knows the power Of that weak little
woman over the continents aTbiter, and respects
its intimat:ons accordingly. The gOssips have
| already discovered the personnel of the newspa-
per, La France, its title, nominslly issues the
diction of LsGuerTouniere, an able but unprin-
cipled parasitIcal psmphleteer, who has done no
, eud OF dirty work for Louis Napoleon, has
taken no end of MireS' palm money, and Occu-
pies distinguished position in that clique of
F'leurys, DeMorassa, PersigDis, who, in the
Presidents time, joined in the orgies of S.
Cloud, and now thrOng the ante-ehsmbeTs of
the Emperor, OF the bOudOirs of the lorelt5s,
according as interest or pleasure may suggest
Lac. is the great PAM lndTum. He has interviews
with her Imperial Majesty, hears the imperial
will, and loses no time in executing it. The
chief under-stfsppeT is NJ. de Saint POncy, q
man decorated with every external distinction,
who is evidently intended to fulfill the part
with M de LaGuerOnniere, which that gentle
man has fulfilled with the Emperor - that is
| to say, the only qualification required of him is
being able and willing to sign his name. He is
not required, indeed must not wish, to read or
write anything more than that The other
members OF the stsf consist Of N. de LaPou-
terie, former private secretary to LaGuerOnniere
and editor, by virtue of this distinction, of the
Constitutional and PdtTie. Before appearing
as a political writer under the auspices of the
all-powerful Senator, NJ. de LaPJuterie, who is
about thirty years of age, was editor OF French
opposition paper in Canada. NJ. Colour comes
next in importance. He is one Of the writers in
LaPresse, where, for years, he has been spin
ming long and tedious political yarns, weak thin
and brittle, like those of the greenhouse spider
A good specimen Of his powers of invention
will be found in the glee with which he an
uOunces the discovery he has made of the real
solution Of the American difficulty: LET the
South abolish slavery-and the South will i'm
mediateiy be supported by the Empire Liberal
the new cant word for the despOtism which
reignS in Frsnce-invented by the Emperor
himself so people say, IN order to hstter the Lib
eral party. Then comes NJ MOntagu, from the
| ReUH deS DeuL MOHdeS He, it seems has writ
ten nothing as yet, but is expected to take the
Office of tailor to the jOurnsl-appOinted with
needle and thread to sew up the rents and tears
made in the course of its various evOlutions,
to patch up and join together again wherever
hole appears. M Caro- follows He is pro
fessOr OF philosophy, and has already opened
4 sharp FIRE against Garibaldi. He is evidently
Nominated to the Improbable and unpopular
post of the political policeman, commissioned
to arrest the moral progress of the dictator in
France. The scientific portion of the paper is
assigned to n. Eiguier, who for this has sban-
dOned the Press. With blunted arms and bag
gage heavy with enHui, be has formed the train
bands-nO fear of the wagons no. being sufi
GENTLY loaded. The financial resources of the
journal are of course unlimited, as the Empress
takes especial care of that important accessory
to journals success. So La France fairly
started hes jumped at once into an enormous
circulation, and is as impertinent and assuming
as it unquestiOnably has right to be- 1t takes
different ground from the old MOHlteHT on
every political topic 1t discusses the RO-
man question with vigOr characteristic of
the Church 1t has been appointed an ambas-
sadoT to Rome, and Is the most thoroughly up
pish and dogmatic print in all France. 1t takes
a high tone on art questions also. In science it
assumes to lead, and gives the Aeademy raps
over the knuckles which that respectable antique
can hardly relish. Diplomats, politicians, litera-
Tours savans begin to tremble lest they incur It's
malice, and of course the gay world of Paris is
amused La France forms is sensation The
cafes ring with the scandal about it, and joke at
its immunity from d" warnings " and suspension
1t is very funny but some bright morning
La France will 60 too far, and the SPiinT, who
likes being hen-pecked little, will become des-
perately savage. His, morally, huge paw will
be stretched forth, and La France scoOped up
like an egg shell, will crackle and disappear.
It's quiet and efficient way they have of doing
things in Paris, and quite peculiar to that city