Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1862-06-04

xur xx|naTnkx xkseC o. wAk-
u Il i al III o. sire whas tsassal
svos shs Issoss 81 ar has made Of ha-
-. liSs. BoHe Of it1Insidansal ravstes
aces 10 asts sslssa. h has n times -
sirely dspopalased immense districts. In
modsrn. - wsll - ancient times, large
tracts have BEEN lefs 20 asssrly dsssolass
sass ons nishs pass from village 10 viz
lass, ssen from city socatys witheas and
Ing : solitary inhabis&ns. The war bs
1855, wagsd = INC heart q Europe, iess,
Ia enc Instance, no less than swsnty con-
sigioas villages without . singia man or
beast. The thirty years war, In The ssv-
snasenth century, reduesd The popalasion
ii Gsrmany from Ii, 000, oooto 1000, geo
--saras-foarshs; and that Of Wirssmburg
from 500, 900 10 4s, 900 mora than nine
senthsi Thirty thousand villages were
destroyed In many Others the population
entirely died oas; and in districts once
ssudsd in towns and cities, thera sprang
up immense forests. + II SEQ
Lock At the havoc Of ssigsa In thai Of
Londonderry $4,000 soldiers, besides q
| vast number Of inhabitants; in that Of
Paris, In the sixteenth esntury, $4,000
vieEima Of msrs hunger In thai Of Nal
phaauss, "a, 900 soldiers alone in that Of
IanAii, &c, 600; Of Vienna, TOO, 900; Of
Gssand, III, 900; Of Mexico, 10000; Of
Asse, 200, 900; Of Carthage, TOO, 900; sf
Jdrusalam, 1000, 600.
Mark the slaughter Of single battles
at Lepanto, Is 900; At AustesLtk, 80, 900;
II Eylas, 90, 900 as Waterloo and Quartz
Bras, one engagement, in fact, LOO. 600
At Borodino, as Foutsnoy, loo, 600 n
ArbelA, SOC, 900 at Chalons, sO0, 900 Oh
Asiila's army Alone; 4o0, 200 Usipess'
slain by Julius Cesar in one battle, ane
430, 900 Germans in another.
/ Tax only two cases. The army Of
XRxesy says DR.. Dick, must have amount
ed to 5 ,2s8, $40; and IL the attendant
were only one third a. great as comm 81
1t the present time in the Eastern coun
tTiss, tho SUM total mast hare reaches
nearly 5000, 900. Yet, in one year, thi
vast multitude was reduced, though no
entirely by death, to SOC, 900 lighting men
! and Of these only eight thousand escape
destruction. JaHghis Kahn, the tsrribl
ravager Of Asia in the 18th century, sho
*, 900 on tha plaina Of Sessa, and massa
creed 200, 900 ut tbs storming Of Chars
ism. In the HsraE district he busehsrs
900, 600 snd in swo cities, with her d.
pencies, l,7oo 900. During the last i've
; ty-seven years Of his long reign, he 10 sal
to have m&sascssd more than half mi
! ion every year and, in the first foursssl
years, be is supposed, By Chinese hiasc
e rians, TO have destroyed not leas than Is
6 600, GOO sum total Of 50, 0O0, 900 1
Q foYsy-nn years!
: In any year, what fell destroyer is va
} Napolaon's wars sacrificed soma 6, 000, 0C
and all the wars consequent on the Frens
0 Revolution, come nine or ten millions
The spanisxds are said to have destro,
= cd, In forty-swo years, more than L, COO
Q 600 Of American Indians. Gnsoian wA
o sacrificed Is ,e00, 900; Jewish wars Is
g oO0, 900 the wars of the Romans, befo
: Julius Caesar, $4,000, 900 each; the va
e Of the Roman Empire, of the SAracel
J, and the Turks, 60, 900 900 each those
% the Tartars, &C, 000, 600; those Of Afric
y 1O0,000, 600. 'qf we take in consider
= tom" says the learned DIR. Dick "tl
r number not only Of those who have fall
in battle, bat Of those who have perish
0 through the natural consequences Of wa
Il it viii not, perhaps, DO oveEraslng the d
q stEaction Of human life, IL VIC were TO q
e firm thas the human race he's been d
. Btzoyed by the ravages of war; and q
= cording to the estimate, more than II
" 000, 900 of hannah bangs have bean slam
e tered in war aimee the beginning Of 6
worid,". Edmund Burke went still fu
Is tber, and recanasa ahe sum total Of its "a
u ages, from ths frat, at no less th N 81
., 0O0, 00o, 900.