Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-09-16

Since the creation cf the world, fourteen
thousand millions Of human boincs have
fallen in the battles which man has waged
against his fellow creatures II this amaz>
ing number OF men were 10 hoid each other
b. the hand. at arms length, they would
extend over fourteen millions five hundred
and eighty three miles of grouad, and would
enclrce the globe on which we dwell SIX
I hundred and eight times II We allow the
/ weight Of man 10 Tie o. an average one
hundred pouad (Which i. below the mark },
we shall come 20 the conclusion that Fix mil
Ions two hundred and City tons of human
hesh have bsen mAngled. disGgured, gashed
and trampled under foot The calculation
will appear more striking when we state that
If the forefngers Of every one o! those 70 lr>
teen housand million. Of these human beings
were 10 be laid in straight
line, they would reach more than six
hundred thousand miles beyond the
moon and that if person undertook to
count the number, allowing nineteen hours
in day, and seven days in q week, At the
rate Of six thousand per hour, il would oc
cupy that person three hundred and thr>
,y>six years And. awful is the considers
ton three hundred and fifty thousand
pipes Of human bio d have beon splt in
4 battles Who would not exclaim with
Bishop Hall Give me the man aho can
devise how TO save troops OF men from XII
4 ling, his namo shall have room in my cal
endar. There is more true honor in civic
garlandI for the preserving Of one subject
than for the laurel fer the victory over
many enemies" Or, with Bishop Tyler
"lf men were only subject TO Christ's law.
then could they never go to war with each
other"- DR.. Thos. Dick.
TnE Albuquerque New Mexico) Press rev
ports numerous outrages having been com.
nit,ed by the Navajo and Apache lndians.
Two hunters were killed in the San Matteo
Mountains on the lst Their bodies were
found in their camp by their comrades,
mutilated. Four others are missing, sup>
posed 20 have been killed. On the 80,
twenty Indians drove off thirteen thousand
head Of sheep. The inhabitants pursued
the lndians, but they escaped with five
hundred head.
The New Orleans Crescent says that 'any
northern people who wish to come 90 Louis
lana will find plenty opportunities to buy
small farms At reasonable rates and will re-
ceiye . warm Welcome Every quality of
lapd can be bought hero at every kind Of
price, and much Of it is good enough and
cheap enough, one would think, TO tempt
the sensible poor men Of every region.
The Montana Post, Of August "a, says
that DR.. James Dunlevy. while exploring
the headwaters Of the Yellowstone, discov<
cred a sslt>wster lake, covering about forty
acres. The water is always ct the boiling
temperature; meat thrown in was boiled in
less than forty minutes. The water con>
tains large percentage Of tincal, the crude
material from which horax is manufactured
The Montgomery Nail says that the ems
suing cotton crop If Alabama will be sstis>
factory The cropis estimated at from fifty
to seventy thousand bales.
At Fort Seigwck, Colorado, government
pays $33 per cord for fire wood The arti
Gle is 40 scarce that only one tree is stands
ing in distance Of forty five miles from the
I pret
George Armour, one Of Chiesgo's lealin z
citizens, proposes to give two thousand dol.
lars year, for five years, for The benefit of
the library Of the Young Mel's Christian