The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-04
"LA .LANTERNE."
The Twelfth Number of MIR. ROcheEOrt's
Paper.

The N. Y. Iribune'S correspondent writes
from Paris, August 2l, as follows:-
The L0nterne, No. IL, was printed in Belgium,
and not suffered TO pass the frontier OF this
stlongly-governed France. Its author and
editor, Henri Rochefort, has returned to Paris
from the capital OF that free country, and
announces that No. 13 shall be printed here,
and, police providence permitting, be distributed
to subscribers tomorrow. During his week OF
absence at Brussels he was condemned, on the
charges noted in my last letter, to one year of
Imprisonment and 10, 900 francs fine. From this
decision Of the lower tribunal he appeals to a
higher, as does also the prosecuting States
attorney-the official appealing min'nld, as
the technical phrase goes, that is, crying aloud
that the lower court put the penalties too low.
To what heights the letter of the law lets them
arrive my last letter tells.
1t would take more space than belongs to
your Paris correspondence to give full weekly
under the tribunals here. The moral of
them all is briefly and pungently summed up in
the display heading that constantly precedes
the abbreviated report of them in La Ltberte,
La Peute, Irresistible, say, in free translation,
The Down-hiil Road.
The display heading coucenters the signid.
canoe OF long speeches and octave volumes of
political prophecy and historic record. All
with the press, and all go down in the trial.
They all prelude their ta'l by variations of
prosecutions OF the press. There is fatality
about it.. Charles had the journalists prose-
cuted and of course, condemned, and could not
conceive that their condemnation was their
triumph. Louis Philippe had, and failed
to conceive likewise. And now this EX-
perimenter is going over the same ground.
gum, is stopped at the frontier. Now
mark, primo, ii you are ready to pay sou or
two extra per number, l can furnish you thou
sand copies of that political LQnte1,ae here in
Paris, day atterto-morrow. bribe of a hundred
francs will secure frontier custom-house
officers completely in the importation. No. 10
OF the Ldnte17ae Rochefort Is printing on his own
account as a clause in the last of the numerous
law0 against the press permits him, at his risks
and perils to do. Henri Rochefort is not man
10 be stopped by risks and perils. Let re.
spectacle folks, who never risked anything
for principle, try to accept since
they cannot comprehend, that fact
and trait in Rochefort's acts and nature There
Is certain appreciation OF his somewhat rare
self-respectipg Independence, of which the
indications, Doing the Boulevards yesterday
with an American who, by grand exception, is
both an American and sympathizer wit h
FTenchmen who sympathized with us in our
struggle for human rights from 1861 to 1866, /
was amused to note his quick discovery of these
fprnisher's shop windows, handker,
chiefs with a lantern stamped in colors in
the corner; there were breastpins and
brooches, initiating in enamel and metal the
diminished fac Sinl5te of the cover of La Lam
te'ne; there were packages of sweet biscuits in
closed In paseboard boxes, initiating the form
OF lantern, and reproducing the colors La
Lanterne; there was, besides, this and that other
sign that caught his wRtchful eye, and there
would have been yet another at the cigar shops
noat me high and sublime central police au'
thoIlty OF that strong Government has just for
bidden revolutionary fabricant OF cigarette
paper to promote its sale by the anarchical
device OF q lantern on the envelope.