Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-05-23
Letter from Paris.
Special Correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazette.
PARIS, April is.

Special Correspondence Of the Cincinnati Gazette.
PARIS, April is.
PRRsoNAGEs OF THE EXHIBITION.
The resident American population here,
at this time, is about five thousand. 1t is,
ordinarily, no more than three thousand. II
supports in the city Of Paris, apart from the
great Exhibition, eight special restaurants,
six American bar rooms, four American Ply
scians, four dentists and five banking
houses. 1t has no newspaper, truthfully
speaking, the Franco American being print.
ed, not in Paris as alleged, but in London
and folded in Paris. This is, however, a
wretched sheet, owned by an unrepentant
rebel, and disgraceful in point of intelligence
and manliness of the nationality il repre-
sents. The Paris Times is an English week.
ly, dated Paris, likewise, and devoted to
praising all the hotels that will advertise.
Galignani's Messenger pronounced Gally-
Nanny is the only daily paper in the Eng.
lish language published on the Continent, II
we except the Levant Herald, at CONSTANT
nople, which is sometimes daily and some
times monthly. The Galignanis were Ital-
ian, resident in England, and in 1914, when
Napoleon was beaten to Elba, the enor-
nous number of Englishmen that came pell
nell to Paris to triumph in the humiliation
of France and see its monuments, suggested
to them book store and reading room, and
afterwards a news circular This was a
mere tract at first, but in the long space that
ensued, twenty thousand Englishmen a year
crossed the Straits at Dover, and ten thou
sand of these settled in Paris; the little
daily paper grew apace, till now it is hall
the size of the Gazette, and the subscription
price of ii is $50 year in gold.
1t is cheaply edited, being in great part
reproductions or translations of news and
editorial from French, German and English
Journals and it is so closely managed that
If YOU desire to buy five copies of any num-
ber you must order them the night before
issue. The Galignanis report an income of
S25, 900 year. The senior brother HIS been
decorated with the cross of the Legion OF
Honor, and, together, they have founded a
small hospital for Englishmen at Neuilly,
near Paris. Their guide-book of Paris is
the best in the English language and they
have published better editions of Byron than
any English house. Their CIRCULATING library
is dear and profitable, and altogether they
combine the grasping nature of the Italian
with the envy Of the Englishman. During
our war they wore a half chuckling face,
and so incenscd the loyal Americans here
that the money has twice been raised to
start lam American daily for our own people
and for liberal Englishmon. have been
offered the management of this paper, but
am not satisfied that it can be made either
profitable or influential, and one does not
care, at best, to permanently exile himself,
and to have for his daily audience only lott
ering travellers. The restrictions upon ex.
preston are so grievous, also, that few men
brought up in American journalism, would
be obsequious and discreet enough to avoid
..t
and francs must he paid into the hands Of
the Minister of the interior before license
to print a newspaper will be granted. This
is used to subtract fines from, if the news
paper commits any oifense. A regular spy
| is then employed to go through your publ
cation, line by line, advertisements and all,
| every day, and he sends marked copy TO a
| superior censor, who goes over the question
| able paragraphs. Not only are you liable
| for any utterances upon the ruler and his
satraps, but for any comparisons Whatsoever
detrimental to France as she exists. If yor
| print telegraphic news or copy or write any
| thing political in any sense, stamp costing
cent and half is imposed upon every
copy. This is why non-political papers like
Lie Petit Journal circulate so enormously
they pay no tax upon circulation.
have had two experiences with the Gov
ernment here. In 1866 was sent to dc
scribe the German war, and when it sudden
ly came to an end stopped some months
in Paris, to write lesser matters. One o
my letters related some facts about the En-
peror's social life, when the rebel editor o
| the Anqlo and FrdncO-d1aericd' was q
pains to clip out and send to the Minister o
the Interior with his compliments. Th'
third day afterward confident-looking
pale-eyed man came to my hotel ar1 aske'