, 1861-11-07
Havoc Of I.iSe by war.

It Is difficult to conceive what fearful haEoe
war has made Of human life. Some of ils incl
dental rayages seem to defy an belief II hng ..
times entirely depop1lated immense districl1
In modern as well as ancient times, large tracts
have been len 50 utterly desolAte, that trayeof
might pass from Village 70 filnge; even from city
to city, without 1inang aOlitary inhabitane
Tho war Of 1866, waged In the heaIe q EaEope;
LEFT in one instance no less than twenty eontlgul
Gus villages without single man Or beast The
Thirty Years War in The seventeenth esptqgY;
reduced the populntiO6 Of Germany from y, 900.
900 to 4,0000 -three-fourths; and that 81
Wurtemburg from 100000 tO 4e, O00-more than
nine.tAnthsi Thirty th6hsind villages WeIf
destroyed; in many Others the population en-
tirely died out and diEtTicts once Sindded with
towns and cities, there sPrang up immense fol-
ests. 81 icat sip
Look at the havoc Of .sieges--in lhat Of Lon.
donderry 1900 sOldiefss beside vast nunpst
Of inhabitants; in that Of Paris, IN the sxtepl,e
century, 10000 victims eE mere. hungeiA and
in that Of MalpIa4uet, $4,000 soldiers alone n
Ostend, f2O, 600; oi Mexico, 10000 \. of Acre.
Seo,ooOi Of Carthage, 100000; q 5srusalsus
Marx the slaughter Of single ba.des--a. II
panto, twenty-five thousand; At AuEterllE
thirty thousand at Eylau, sixty thousand; at
Waterloo and Qunftre Brassone engngemenf(
in faets-seyenty thousand; ct Borden, eighty
thousand at Fontehoy; bne hpndred thousand;
at Arbela, three hundred thousand; q Chalongs
three hundred thousand Of Atilla's army llonsi
four hundred thousand Usipetes were slain b
Julius Cesar IN one bsttley and four hundred tnd
thirty tEfousahd Germans in another: re-
Take only two casts more. The ermy Of
XerxeS says DR.. Dick, must have amounted %
nka 1na.fn
third as great Is afe common at the present day
In Eastern countries; the sum total must have
reached nearly six millions. Uet in one year,
this vast multitude was reduced, though not en-
tirely BY death, to three hundred thousand hght.
iAe men and Of these only three thousand -
capped destruction. Jenkhis.khan, the terrible
ravaRer Of Asia in the Thirteenth century, shot
ninety thousand on The plains Of Mesa, and mas;
sacred two hundred thousand ct the storming of
Kharasm. In the district Of Hcrat he butch;
cred one million six hundred thouslnd.S end n
two citieS, With their dependencies, ono jnIllion
seven hundred and sixty yltwo lhous.nd During
the laet twenty years Of bis long reign, 10
Is said 70 have massaeFed more than half } mil
lion every year; and IN the first foufteen years,
he is supposed, BY Chinese historians. 20 have
destroyed not less than eighteen millions sum
70 al of osef tlirty-txo millions h iorly-one
10 any view, what fsIi destroyer 4 var
Napolson's wars sacrificed fhll six millions. and
all the WIS consequent on the French neVolu.s
ton, some nine or ten niiilioha. The Spaniarll
are said 10 have destroyed ID hrlyrtvo years.
more than twelve millions Of American NdInsi
Grecian wars sacrificed fllleen milllons; Jogish
wars twenty-five millions ne war3 of The
twelve Caesars, in an, thirty millions; the Wnr1
Of the KoihanG, before Julius Cesar, sixtv MD.
lions; the wars Of tile Roman Empire, Of The
Saracens and the Turks, sixty millions each !
those Of the TaftarS eighty millions those of
Africa, one h6n6rsd millions
Dr.. Dick says that Il We talH " tohlileFa-
ton Che number not only Of dhlkt who hare
fallen in battle, but Of those Wh6 hd1e 1eFfhed
through the naturaI equences b wal, II WI
not be oveFFating the destruction o. huoin nc,
IL we alIirm that ohe-tenlh Of the hnmaa l1co
has been destroyed BY " fayagos d uar snd
according 10 this estimate, more dl6n nnlit1n
thousand millions Of human beings have been
slaughtered IN war since be beginning d ne
world Edmdid Burke went SIN fnfihtfs md
reekoned the sum total 81 rs fngagcs; ron ~
6Fst, ct no less than thiriy-nve fhoui9Qd millions