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Show (iKSEKAU DcTIlOURIAND. Gen. B. de Trobriand has returned lo ih:s city after sis months' leave of absence in his native country. lie comes back in exxcellent health, and, :is we understand, will shortly return I to his command near Salt Like City, where tho regiment of which he i.-Iihe i.-Iihe Colonel is stationed. While in j I'jiirope he has passed his time princi-j princi-j pally in the east and south of France, I but was sufficiently near to-1 he f.eld of operations of the Army of the Loire 'to witness many of the important ; events of the war with Germany. We leitrn that he has not been in Paris. Gen. De Trobriand's account of the j condition of France is not encouraging. He says that the extent of corruption I which tho empire has carried through-1 through-1 out every part of society is astonish. Dg. Djmoralization is universal amoug people of every class; and he sees no solid ground on which the nation can ho again built up into greatness Vigor of character and morality, all the manly virtues seem to be gone. 1'he natiou is in dissoluiioD, decline military, political, social; and how to extri .-ate it from its C:ilam"itiei is in his view an insoluble problem. New Yurk Sua. |