Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-04-19
Embalmiag the IDead.

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A Washington correspondent gives
the following account Of the process OF
embalming adopted there:
The body is placed on an inclined
platform the mouth, ears, nose. ETC..
are stopped with cotton if wounded,
cetton is put in the wound, and pias'
ter is put on an incision is made n the
wrist, the attachment is made from an i
air-pump, and fluid injected into the
arteries. The wound is then sewed up
and the body hoisted up to dry. To
save the eyes from sinking 10, wax IL pot
under the eyelids. The ha'r | found tc
come out very easy, but after the en-
balming it could not be removed. Ihe
bodies take, on an average, about sew.
enteen quarts. There we're some eight
bodies on hand some had been there
thirty days. The operators say IN four
months the body will become sohditied
Ike marble, but no chance has yet been
had to prove it. Col. Bakers body, on
arriving at San Francisco, was in an &C.
vanced sta.e Of decomposition. Dr.
Holmes, late Of Williamsburg, Long Is
land, is the oldest in the business here,
and l am informed be has made thirty
thousand dollars.
Mcssrs. Brown and Alexander are
trying to get bill through Congress
for the exclusive right to embalm bodies
and to have Congress authorize corps
of embalmcrs for each division. The
charges are $50 for an officer and $25
for private, and / must say the bodies
look as life-like as if they were asleep.
| Comparative Loss in Great Battles.
Tie loss of killed and wounded at
Pittsburg can be compared with other
great battles by the following figures;
The loss in killed and wounded at
Marcngo was, French 5000, Austrians
5000; whole force engaged, French
$4,000, Austrians 10000. At Austen
litz, French loss 10000, Allies loss 3d.
600; French engaged 10000, Allies
engaged 10000. At Jena, French loss
400, Prussian loss $4,000: French en-
gagged $4,000, Prussians engaged no.
900. At Friedland, French loss 5000,
Russian loss 1900; French engaged
lOl 900, Russisas engaged $4,000. AT
Wacram. F,cnch loss $4,000, Austrian
loss IS. 900; French engaged 10000,
Aust.lans engaged 100000. AT Water
Ico, French loss $4,000, Allies loss 49,.
500; French engaged $4,000, Allies
engaged 10000. At New Orleans,
American loss Is, British loss 1902
Americans engaged 1000, British en-
gagged $500. AT Alma, Allies loss 81
100, Russian loss 5000; Allies engaged
81, 100, Russians engaged $4,000.
PLUMB Men LIKE PREAcHING.-Th
Fortress Monroe correspondent of tie
Philadelphia Press, says: There is
good story going the rounds here con-
cerning certain General, who is p!ous
enough in creed, but, on certain occa-
sions, when his "daDder" is up, can do
full justice to his feelings by "giy,ng
them mouth" When the Merrimac
came down, the General was all motion;
he vas highly excited, and now and
then he eased his feelings by certain
forcible CALCULATIONS. A contraband,
who heard him, gives very good dc
scription Of how the white-haired old
man moved about 10 the midst of the
storm Of shells. "By golIy, boss" said
he, "but de way dat old mass gin'ral
moved about dat day war a caution.
He went dis way and dat way he went
hea' and he went dar but to hao hearn
de old mass giu'ral swar! Boss, IT'S
de solemn truf dat de way de old gin'ral
swar was plumb nigh like 2,reachin' :"
SENATOR CARLILE HAS FIsr Flour.
The Wheeling (Va.,) Mtelligencer
has the details of a fight, on Saturday
morning last, between Senator CarliIe