Show aj DISASTERS I 1 I 1 THE reported success of trochu anh ducrot in their corties sorties from pariee paris last week do not seem beem to have produced as favorable a change in the aspect of affairs in france as was waa hoped fo for foi according to the dispatches today to day the french army are meeting defeat at all points and the capitulation of paris is confidently looked for in two or three weeks at the longest there seems to be nothing now to prevent thia this event and grid it will iii com complete piete the hamili alioa of the french nation and people foo forno powertan po power ban avert the dismemberment of the french empire and king william will 6 enabled to consummate what is said tabe to be one of the darling objects of namely dle die te pe baci aceto to th the french edich in their thein own capital as ss eranee france once oneo did to prussia in berlin the prussian capital there have been periods in the worlds history when the trying circumstances in which nations and people have been surrounded have evoked spirit genius and energy equal to extricate them from the ordeals through which they have been called to pasq pass nril atil and at least twice has his this been the case in the history of france once in the lath century when the the immortal wald mald maid of orleans led the french troops to victory and expelled the english then overrunning france and later when that cyclopean genius the first napoleon reared empire order and gov eminent from the thet horrible chaos created by revolutionists and tyrants the most bloodthirsty mentioned in the pages of modern history in vain have the friends of eranee france waited to see some such a tum turn the third time tima in french affairs hut hui greatness seems to have departed from the french nation and mediocrity alone to remain the result being seemingly irretrievable and ruin it Is 19 deplorable to see sea a great nation thus thua humbled but however much it may be regretted all must admit that france forced the guage of battle upon prussia and though the latter has used her hen power powen and superiority cruelly she WAS dealing with a determined fand and hereditary foe and it 16 is extremely doubtful whether france would have shown greater magnanimity to prussia had bad their present relative positions beeri reversed by the fortunes of war sentiment entime nt and alid generosity 1 under such circumstances seldom haye have ve any influence it is said in to days telegrams that in two or three weeks frenchmen will be under armb arms but viewed in the light of every move yet made since the commencement of the campaign it will be a pity if the statement is verified as it seems to indicate only additional defeat reverse and disaster for the french nation to retrieve themselves them theme elve selve si seems berris now hopeless and as well submit to the best terms of peace that can be obtained from prussia as to continue a bloody ruggle struggle at under such circumstances A REGENT RECENT number of the new now york aftin an contains a a sensational article describing the dik dio discovery covery of df the buried treasure of the noted pirate captain kidd which bas haa been sought by so many waby parti parties esat at different times and in different localities the suns account says it t was as discovered by a dream and by y t the e aid of a clairvoyant buried burled in the the side ofa of a mountain in an iron box a few miles below west point the discoverers showed seven thousand gold dollars in sovereigns and old spanish doubloons doub loons and stud a quantity of jewelry all of which were discolored by mud and water |