Weekly Trinity journal., 1862-07-26

THE TERRIBLE Havoc OF WAR.--It is diftfcult
10 conceive what fearful havoc the custom of war
has made of human life. Some OF its incidental
ravagrs seem to defy belief 1t has at times
entirely depopulaled immense districts. 10 mod
eru, as we'll as ancient times, large tracts have
been left so utterly dpsoate that one might pass
from village TO village even from city 10 city,
without finding solitary inhabilant The war
of 1856. waged in the heart of Eurape, left in
one instance, no less than twenty cOntgious vii
lages without single man or beast The thirty
years. war; in the seventeenth century, reduced
the population of Germany from $4,000, 600 to
5000 600 three fourths; and that of Wurtpm
bnrg from 500, 900 to 48,000-T more than nine
tenths Thirty villages destroyed in many
others the population entirely died out and in
districts once studded with towns and cities,
there sprane up immense forests.
Look at the havoc of seges in that of Lon
donderry 10000 soldiers, besides a vast number
Of inhabitants in that of Paris, in the sixteenth
century, 80 600 victims Of mere hunger; in that
of Malpaquet, "a 600 soldiers alone in that OF
Ismail, 10000 of Vienna, 700, 900; of Ostend
100000 Mexico, $50 900 ; Of Acre, 300 900 ; Of
Carthage, 700, 600; of Jerusalem, 100000.
Mark the slaughter of single battles-at Lee
panto, $4,000; at Austerlts 5000; at Eyau,
60. 600 at Waterloo and Quatre Bras, one en-
gagpment in fact, 100000 at Borodino and
Fontenoy. 100000; at Arbella, 300, 900; at
Chalons 100000 of Attila's army alone 400, 900
Uspetos slain by Julius Ceasar in one battle, and
43O 900 Germans in another.
Take only two cases. The army of XerXPs,
says DR.. Dick must have amounted to 5,28s. 800 ,,
and If the attendants were only one.third as
great as common at the present time in Eastern
countries, the total sum must have reached near
5000, 900. Yet, in one year, this vast multitude
was reduced though not entirely by death, to
800, 600 fighting men and of these only 5000
escaped destruction. Jenghiz Kahn, the terrible
ravager of Asia in the thirteenth century, shot
90 900 on the plains of Mesa, and massacred
100000 at the storming Of Charaism. In the
Herat district he bntchered 900, 900 and in two
cities with their dependencies, 100000. During
the last u years of his long reign, he is said to
have massscrcd more than half a million every
year and, in the first fourteen years, he is sup
posed by Chinese historians, to have destroyed
not less than 100000 a sum equal to $4,000,
900 iD Al years.
In any view, what fell destroyer is war =
Napoleon's wars sacrificed some 100000 and
all the wars consequent on the French Revolution,
some nine or ten millions. The Spanards are
said to have destroyed, in AZ years, more than
10000 900 of American Indians. Grecan wars
sacrificed Is 600, 600 ; Jewish wars 25,000,000
she wars of the twelve Caesars, 30 600, 900 ; in
all the wars OF the Romans, before Julius Ceasar,
so 000,0 900; the wars of the Roman Empire. of
the Saracens and the Turks, 60, 600 900 each
those of the Tartars, so 100000 of Africa, 100,
ouo,OUO II we tdhe into CoHSlueTatiou, says
the learned DR.. Dick, the number, not only of
those who had fallen in battle, but those who
have perished through the natural consequences
OF war, we will not, perhaps, be Overrailng the
destruction of human lfe if we affirm that one
tenth OF The human race has been destroyed by
the ravages of war according to one estimate,
more than $4,000 100000 of human beings have
bean slaughtered in war since the beginning of
the world" Edmond Burke went still further,
and reckoned the sum total of lbs ravages from
the first at DO less than 35, 100000.