Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-08-19
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SEvsSrY-FIvE THOUSAND TuSs OF He
a4N Bloom "A writer IN the Jefferson
c6suiy (N " Yo-k) UaioH, who hss
been making calculations relative to the
number Of men killed thus far in this
war. gives the following very startling
resal,s:-L Louisville Journal
There has been enough already slain
to encircle our State, If their bodies
were lain in one continuous line
If they were placed 10 collins and cor.
ded, they would count thirty nine thoas
sand cords.
! II laid in vail twenty-five feet thick
aud thirty feet high, it would be over one
and ons-fourth miles Ia length
If Eve feet thick and ten feet high. the
pils-wassaa reaob across the State.
IL piled upon ten acre l0e, thew would
be nearly two hundred feet high.
Aud Il laid upon the ground they
would cover every foot OF soil IN Jefer-
son county. Ssventy-fvs thousand tnns
Of human blood have been spilled on
Dixie's soil--enough TO turn every spin
die IN Lowell. and IL th. tears we're added
70 the food, it would turn the machinery
OF The continent; and The unsvailing
sign would fiH every ocean sail
The one-hali has not yet been told.
The millions Of wounded aud manned
for life mast be taken into account ia
summing up the grand total Of evils IN
eideuts 20 this bloody war
The above bit OF Munchauseuism is
quoted by our colemporary without com
ment and With tse approval at least Of
silence. The paper from which it IS
taken belongs to that class Of Copper
head journals which are doing their VI
most TO embarrass the Government end
defeat the cause which the journal pro
iesses 70 advocate. We have also been
making calculation" with Startling
results as follows: In space embrae-
ing 10 acres in area and 200 feet in
depth there are s7,l20,000 cubic feet
II We divide. this By three as the number
of cubic feet in the human body. which
is high average, We have 29,O40,000!
Let US make a generous allowance %
say 9.040,000 from this qnotient for tie
interspaces Ia this ''ealculators NOR
tuAry pile and we have left only 20, 900. :
600 men slain in this war That is
about two thirds of the entire population
Of the United States If the readers
will refer to an article in another col
umn on the Fighting Population North
aud South he will find it instructive in
I this connection.
But on comparing the other items in
this calculation with this one or with
each other they viii be seen to harmo-
[ nize as little with one another as with
facts The wall mile and a quarter
long for instance contains 4,e0, 600 cut
bic feet. Dividing and substracting as
before We have dead roll OF |, $50, 900
Whilst deductions from the tnn. Of blood
split, give about 2,500,000. This is a
specimen Of Copperhesd arithmetic and
Of the mental nour;shment on which the
docile pupils in that school feed Il il
4 plain that the sciences are not quite in
the Copperhead line They should le;
all figures alone but figures ofspeech.
Poetic generalization ars their forte.
In flights Of the inauguration they are
unspproachabsl
Our calculator strikes the true key
when be speaks Of sighs that would al
"every ocean sail aud tears that would
turn the machinery of the continent
And we should like him to tell Us Wills
| he is in the calculating way, how much
additional machinery could te run wher
the force is augmented by the frest
tears which he and his fellow eonspira
tors would fain add to the alrea IL tragic
aud terrible flow
God knows there is grief enough il
the land We have no desire TO under
rate il. But the scouudrels who snive
, inithe aooEe ridiculous manner are doinl
: their utmost to deepen and protract tha
: grief indefinitely Louisville UBior