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Show General De Trobriand. Among the passengers by the Ville de Paris, which Bails to-day for Havre, is Gen. Regis De Trobriand, who goes to Europe on a six months' Jeave of absence. Having served as an officer of the army in Montana and Utah for some four years, he has become by the usage of the service entitled to such leave. "iVe understand that he does not go, as several other officers have done, under a special order of the War Department to observe the progress pro-gress of military science in Europe, but simply to revisit his native country coun-try Brittany and see again personal person-al friends from whom he has been long separated. We learn that a prominent command in the French amy has been tendered to Gen. de Trobriand in behalf of the present Government of France, and that he has declined it. Though a Frenchman by birth, he is an American Ameri-can by adoption, and regards this as bin country. His sympathy with the calamities of Fiance is deep and intense, in-tense, but he does notcon-ider himself ,it liberty to hiy aide the ob'igations of American citizenship and of his commission com-mission as an American soldier. Such a feeling doco honor to this gallant gentleman and distinguished officer; and though in the present crisis wu .liuuld be glad if France could be aided by a General so brave and competent, wc are more than plcuscd that even the teijiptaiiom of ,-ymputliy and the profler of hii'h command arc unable l v.ithdraw ;.iieh a citizen from the service ser-vice of the Uui"'l Slad". X'i" York Sim. N'nr, |
