Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-08-16
The Parls Lantern analls rdllor.

passing, and cannot keep lookout owe
his pocket
The Paris lantern andIts Editor.
The Paris correspondent of the New
York Times says;
After that, We have standing aston
ishment in the success of a newspaue
called the Lantern. There is nothin,
like itin the history of newspaper enter
prise. The old fogies of the press stant
with their eyes and mouths open at tn,
size Of this rising light. NJ. de Vile
messant, the founder of the Figaro i
the founder of the new journal, and tn,
Count de Reehefort editor. NJ. de
Roehefort has long filed the place q
chroniqver on the ffgsro, where he mad,
a solid reputation as critic, and where
he at last became immensely popular fol
his masked attacks on the Government
Anybody, in this city of opposition. Whe
can attack the Government. and keep out
fof the police correcti0aelie. IS clever
man, and finds at once the war1nest cor.
fner in the hearts Of his fellow-citizens
Any one who can skirmish with sharp
weapons on the extreme frontiers. any
one who can deal in the so&s eatenas
with such prodigious talent as young
Henri de Rochefort, is sure to grow into
a rapid popularity, ifhis arrows are only
directed at the Government.
So NJ de ViIlemessant, who is the
shrewdest publisher in France, when he
saw his fayorite FTrago well established
in It's present form. (for-it now has adai.
ly circulation, of 70,000) dreamed d
something better for his clever young
chroai9aer, NJ de Roehefort. In con-
Junction with his business man on his va
rious publications, NJ. Dumont, he found.
ed the Lantern on the following basis
A weekly paper in duodeeimo, pamphlet
form, containing about the matter o.
three columns Of the Times, to be entire
ly written by NJ. de Rochefort, and to
sell to the public for eight sous, oreents.
0fthe proceeds, the printer, the govern
ment stamp, and the discount to venders,
were to, consume four cents a number,
NJ. de Rochefort was to receive two cents.
and Messrs. de Villemessant and Dumont,
founders and directors, one cent each;
total, eight cents.
Of the first number 60,000 were sold:
of the second, $4,000 of the third, 100.
000; and of the fourth, 100000. This
gives NJ. de Rochefort 10000 francs. OF
S2400 a week, or l624 900 francs (sI25,-
O00) year ! it gives to the directors for
doing nothing but keeping NJ. de Roche
fort up to the work, for he Is a regular
Bohemian. and needs watching, each an
annual sum of $4,000 and gives the
printer an immense profit,
Never before did one man receive 81, =
f00'a week. in gold, for writing three
columns of original matter, and never
before did.so small an amount of printed
matter sell weekly to the epublic for s12,
600 in gold. 1s i.
You may Judge Of the excitement
caused by this predigious success. 1t is
the thing people talk most about. Imi-
tations without number have sprung up.
The Little Lantern; the 4Hcm acith The
Lantern, the Paris EdHtern, and so on,
andit has even been republished in Ber-
lin in German, and in st. Petersburg.
Other journals try TO increase their sale
by attacking Rochefort, and BY publish
ing earieatnres of him. The town is full
of these portraits; good and bad. Turn
which way you will, it is Roehefort.
The walls were not besieged last summer
by Sothern, (Lord Dnndreary) than they
are now by the new lion: Only Lord
Dundreary stuck up his own portraits,
and Henri Rochefort does not.
NJ. de Rochefort has not found his
way to this stppendous popularity with
out having to light for it. The world is
full of epvious people, and these are as
apt to be found among colleagues as any
where else. He has had several duels.
and proved himselfa formidable adger-
sary. The other day, because he could
not find the editor, he caned the printer.
of sheet which attacked him ander. the
head of Hepri de. Rocltef6rt FdSsdal-
near, in an outrageons,way.
NJ. dc Rocheforti is slim, middle.sized
man, about ut-thirty-two years Of. age. His
hair is dark and kinky, his forehead
broad, his face runs to. point at the
chin, his small, blackeyes burn you with
their sharpness he has athinmoustaehe
and imperial, and his whole face is that
Of a NIephistophiles- Only in form.
He is a generous fellow, good compan-
ion, aud throws his money away without
He runs on the Boulevard
with the Yiscount de Noe, ethe famous
sGham, Of the GhaaUa51) and to see4
.hese tWothin; nervous, military, aggres-
i've looking men together. you think IN
Of the Irishman who wanted
some one to.step on his coat tail But
: Cham, at least; is no longer a duelist.
he bellioose ardor of his youth is worn
If, his intimate friends (oIi the init
nate friends say that his wife has tanned
lin, and, moreover, be wears the deeora-
ION of the Legion of Honor, which pre-
rents him from saying or doing anything
igainst the Government. But he -iyes
us friend Rochefort many of his sharp
,st things, while he stands in the back
ground.
NJ de Villemessant, with his four or
i've journals and able corps of editors,
low monopolizos the public attention.
lie has arrived at such point of pros
,erity as BE able to buy the best wri-
ers with the weight of his gold. He |
,ays any price for the cIeyerest man, and
loes MOI stop on questions of friendship.
man with whom ne has crossed swords
Ie will approach.with the same confidence
8 another enmities DO not stand in the
ray of business. The purely political
iapers are in a complete state of marasm
n account of the success of the literary
ress.
Two boys Of New Orleans, e. H.
becker and -. Weigel, cousins, sbove
0urteen years of sge, were born on the
anne day and within an hour of each
ther. They have been companions
through b0yhood. On Friday, bothI
rent swimming at the Stock Landing,
9th we're drowned, and when found
hey were locked In each other's arms.