The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-02-01

/ practically inyincible, unless 1t is met
by one equally well organized, and much
superior In numbers. In both these re,
spects the French army, instead Of being
superior, was. nmensurably inferior. Tie
lesson. has been, a bitter one for France, but
she viii profit by 1t, just as the Prussians
did by the experience gained at jena.
Years hence this war will be renewed. II
Is only bought out for q time. All France
will have but one object after peace is re-
stored-to get ready for war again, and
take fifty years, but the work will be done.
The loss of territory will never be perma-
nently endured by the French. And the
next time the struggle is waged it Is source
ly probable that all the conditions of sue
cess will be on the side OF the Germans.
from the Philadelphia Day.l
1t is to be hoped that this surrender OF
Paris will end the war. It would seem to
be madness for France, under the circum-
stances, to pretend to continue the war
against her powerf ul and victory-fushed
invader. BY stopping now she will save
enough to form tn" basis of future nation
atty, and, having learned what she needs.
may become again leading power, but by
perseyering against present odds she might
lose all that she has, and the chances of all
that she should hope for hereafter. Let us
nope that by the fall Of the French capital
"this cruel war; is ended.
From The Philadelphia Ledger.]
There has never been precise report OF
the German losses either as to particular
battles or in the aggregate since the begin
ming Of the war. we learIe vaguely the
great extent Of. these in the5nriyate letters
which come to this country, telling of the
vast number of homes in which young
widows and bereaved fathers and mothers
are left to mourn. Whilst people are dying
in Paris at the rate of nearly 1850 week,
there must be commensurate mortality from
disease in the German entertainments
around that city, and in their camps every
where, for we know how camp diseases
killed far more of our soldiers than were
struck down in battle. The very silence on
this part Of the subject observed by the
German authorities proves their reluctance,
If not their fear, to lay the facts before their
countrymen. 1t is therefore in the interest
of the homes of the German people, as well
as for the sake of France, that every one
should hope that the end Of the war is
within sight:
lFrom the New York World
Nobody can tell what new schemes may
NC udICueu UeIWeen blSQlaICk anu Ndpo-
leon to soften the humiliation of France if
the empire is restored. The proposed Sc
cret treaty which came to light and caused
so much excitement last summer, soon
after the beginning of the war, is evide nee
of what each of these consummate in
triguers would like to do. According to
the accounts then published, Napoleon
wanted Belgium, and Bismarck proposed
to take Holland to redress the balance, to
which Napoleon would not consent. IL
such bargain of spoliation should be car
rled out now, Germany would gain the
Rhine to It's mouth, with valuable ports on
the North sea, and France compensation
for her loss of Alsace and Lorraine.
From the New York Standard
That the resuscitation Of France from the
effects Of this disastrous war may be as
speedy and satisfactory as has been the re-
suit in this country is more than probable,
not only from the buoyant dispositions of
the people, but from the confidence in
spired by the fact that they have been ena-
bled to test the strength of self-goyernment
under the most trying circumstances. They
will be able to work with more reliance in
themselves, and the republican education
they have received in school of fire and
shot will not be neglected or forgotten, but
perfected in time of peace. And, as the
republic of France, they may yet have the
proud consciousness Of teaching their vic
tors that the people are masters and En-
parorS a 1pjIJSioO.