Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-08-16
Havoc OF Life by War.

full havoc war has made of human life.
Some Of its incidental ravages seem to
defy all balief; 1t has at times en-
tircly depopulated immense districts.
In modern, as we'll as ancient times,
large tracts have been left so utterly
desolate, that traveller might pass
from village to village even from city
to city, without finding solitary in.
haitian. The war Of 1856 waged il
the heart of Europe, left in one in.
stance no less than twenty contiguous
villages without q single man or beast
The Thirty Years. War, in the seven.
teents century, reduced the population
of Germany from 100000 to f..
100000 three fourths and that o.
Wurtemburg from 100000 to $4,000
more than nlne-tenths Thirty
thousand villages were destroyed ; il
many others the population entirely
died out : and in districts once studded
with towns and cities, there sprang W
immense forests.
Look at the havoc of sieges-in thai
of Londonderry $4,000 soldiers, be.
sides vast number of inhabitants ii
that Of Paris, in the sixteenth century
10000 victims Of mere hunger il
that Of Malpaquet, $4,000 soldiers
alone ; in thar OF Ismail, 1000; Wen
ma, 1000; Of Ostent, 10000 o.
Mexico 1856, 900; Of Acre, 100000; o.
Carthage, 700, 900; Jerusalem, l ,O0O,'
600!
Ma k the slaughter Of single battles
at lepanto twenty-five thousand; a
Austellisz, thirty thousand at Eylau
sixty thousand at Waterloo and Qua
ire Blas-onc engagement, in fact
seventy thousand; at Borodino, Eighty
thousand; at Fontenoy, one hundred
thousand at Arbela, three hundred
thousand of Atil'as army alone ioul
hundred thousand Usipetes were slair
by Julius Caesar in one battle, arc
four hundred and thirty thousand Ger.
mails in another.
Take only two cases more, The
army Of Xerxes, says DR.. Dick, must
have amounted to 5,283, 800; if the
attend .nts were only one third as great
as common, at the present day in tho
Eastern countries, the sum total must
have reached nearly six millions. Yet
in one year, this vast multitude was re-
duced, though not entirely by death, te
three hundred thousand fighting men.
and Of these only three thousand
escaped destruction. Jenghis- khan,
the terrible ravager Of Asia in the
thirteenth century, shot ninety thous-
and on the plains Of .$essa, and mas
sacred two hundred thousand at the
stormins Of Kharsm. IL the dlstric,
Of Heras, be butchered one million six
hundred thcusaLd and in two cities
with their dependencies, one million
seven hundred and sixty-two thousand.
During the last twenty seven years Of
his lor < reign, he is said to have mas.
sacred more than ha million every;
and in the first fourteen years, he is
supposed by Chinese historians, to have
destroyed Tot less than eighteen mil
lions a SUM total Of over thirty two
millions IN forty one years.
In any view what fell destroyer is
war Napolcon'a wars sacrificed full
six millions, and all the wars conse-
quent on the French Revolution, some
nine OF ten millions. Tne Spanic rds
are said to have DESTROYED, in forty
two years, more than twelve millions of
American Indians. Grccian Wa. s sac
rifced fifteen millions Jewish wars,
twenty five millions he wars Of the
twelve Caesars, il all, thirty millions ;
the walls o; the Romans, before Julius
Caesar, sixty millions the wars of the
Roman Umpire, of the / aracens and
the Turks, sixty millions each those
Of the 'I'artars, eighty millions those
Of Africa, one hundred millions
!r, Dick says, that if We take into
consider ration the number not oaly Of
those WHO are fallen, III battle, but of
those who have persisted through the
natural consequences Of war, it will
not perhaps lie overrating the destruc-
Of human life, i We affirm, that one
terth Of the human race has been de-
streyed by tic ravages Of war and,
according to this estimate, more than
fourtt EN- thousand millions of human
beings have been slaughtered in war
since ginning of the world. Ed
mund Burke went still further, and
reck oncd the sum total Of its ravages,
from the first, at no less than thirty
FIVE thoasand millions.
VALUABLE INFORMATION ABOUT M
pURA MATER. Set pitcher Of water
in pom, and in a few hours it will
have absorbed nearly all the respired
gases in the room, the air Of which
will have become purer, but the water
will be ut erly filthy. The colder the
water is, the greater its capacity to
contain these gases. At ordinary
ten pcrature, it will absorb a pint Of
cafbonie acid gas, and large quaint
tyof amlno 'la. This capacity is near
ly doubled by reducing the water to
tie temperature Of ice. Hence water
lept in the room awhile is always unfit
for use. For the same reason the We
Ter in pump stock should always be
jumped out in the morning before any
s used. Impure water is more iniuri-