The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1871-01-25
The End Close at Hand-The Com
ing Treaty Of Peace.

We copy as follows from the Cincin
lati Gazette:
NEW YORK, January 11.-A distin-
yuishcd American, who has had every
to obtain information from
politicians and soldiers abroad, writes
thus of the European situation in let
ter from Vienna:
"The war is rapidly drawing to a
close. Trochu will make one more des-
rerate effort to cut his way with his ar
my out of Paris, leaving the Parisians
to their fate and to the PruSsians. He
is not likely to succeed, nor very like
ly to survive the effort. If he is driv
en- back, the government will probably
try to escape in a balloon. If, howev-
er, they remain. it seems to he gener-
ally supposed that the people will COM
pei them to make peace before the ex-
piration of the month of January
They will not be permitted to capitu-
late and go out simply as prisoners
That is pretty definitely resolved upon.
They must stay in Paris, and until they
can agree to sign such a treaty as Ger
many will accept. In preparation for
that event the Prussian Government is
reducing to possession all the territory
and fortresses that she means to keep,
providing them with German laws, Of
ficers and flags, and etfacing as fast as
possible all traces of French sovereign
! ty. The purpose of this is that when
Trochu g. Co. come to sign the treaty,
they will not have to sign document
that alieDates French territory, but
simply, in regard to territory, accept
the status guo-leaving with those who
occasioned the losss all responsibility
for it. BY taking thus what they
please in territory, the pecnniary in
demnity will be proportiOnately less,
and of that Paris will be required to
pay up her share at once, in money or
paper, and it is pretty we'll understood
that tie loan negotiating i'll London by
Morgan g. Co. will go more to Berlin
than to Paris. In this way the bal
ance to be paid after the German army
retires will be so much reduced that it
will not be worth the while Of the rest
of France to continue resistance. Tro'
chm wishes to avoid any participation
in the treaty if he can, and will try, il
5 the course of a few weeks, to cut out
, 1t is expected to result in frlghttu
carnage. The Germans are under th'
impression that he will make his sorti'
in the direction of st. Denis, and arr
n preparing for him. The world outsid
h of Paris is so accustomed to the defea
;, of the French and success of the Ger
man arms thatsno one seems to antlcl
pate any but disaster to Trochn."
h A Paris balloon letter says Partisan
e believe the city will be forced to capt.
; ulate, but that they will not surrendc
y until forced by famine. Thay declar
e the fall Of the capital will have no in
e fluence in terminating the war, thu
e the more victories the Germans gal
the more rcsolute and stubborn til
French become.
'e Correspondence from other cities
e France shows tho feeling of the poop
ID unanimous in favor of defending II
re country to the last gasp, and dete
mined not to give one inch OF terrlt'
DC nv. The French peasants, reused
I'd the fighting point, defend their prope
e, ty aud homes with untiinching cou
H. age, and often with extreme desPe
r. alton.
" Ernest Feydeau, well known lite
ateur. author of Fannie and other no
. els. writes to the Tribune a wild a
he neal to civilization in behalf of Fran
D. against tyranny and brute force
Germans. He reliearses tie old CHAR
~ of treachery and espionage by viii
In tbe French have sought to account
,te the very simple fact that the Prussia
,r- were we'll acquainted with the resol
ces and topography of the count
thew have invaded. He very trul
ar fuljy denounces the empire as respc
ID sinle for the war, for which the Hone
TO zollern question furnished no pret'
IKE whatever. He passes over IN siiei
'ei. the popular delight with which I
II war was hailed; lie finds IN the dn
n"o incidents of campaigns material
me imnassioned rhetoric. which bears O
fed ON the exceeding sinfulness OF all W
ant and rising with his theme he denou,
NV! the curse of death and sterlllty NJ
as the year just finished, because WI
,s'' France extinguishes her loren, Ga
1--WE ness covers the universe. He wa
are the world at large of the disastrous
1or suits that will follow when the kin
om- Prussia sets us all to learning.
the Postdam goose step, and c"nciu
iceo with the only spark OF consoia
.Sn' glimmering amid the Imminent
'her pair, the prospect that France, W
: or annihilated and dispersed, shall
leho petuate herself throughout the !
nc verse by a succession OF transml
'': tons. Feydeau's letter says furt'
llhg Gan is crushed, polluted, suppress
aseG annihilated, in country winch
sslul up to this time, the most lovely,
were most gracious, the most chlvairous
iat- the world. Commerce exists no l.
It , Is er, industry is paralyzed. There
; but longer vestige Of public service,
ange Their posts nor telegraphs nor rallrf
leeo The few journals which exist are
MT TO lent and don't circulate. Fam
$ the friends, the learned, the educated
uni no longer correspond with each o
nut Scarcely any news Of the rest o
once world arrives in France, thanks t.
ventul GUS expedients, such as pig
and balloons, can inform other Ma
Ienry of the world of the events occu
.ofes there-a state of things to whit
- tan other people, either through inter'
Il 'e" through gratitude, or through a
o the of Christian charity, dreams OF pu
onr an end. Is this picture exasger;
IDS to Far from it. 1t expresses scarcel
acher shadow of the truth of the no