Show loss of liseby life by wars we have seen it sometimes home tome imes remar remarked ked in reference to the loss of life I 1 in n tile tiie crimea that certain baties balies were among among the bloodiest ever fought the sacrifice of life the greatest ac but such lers either forgot or certainly know very little about the terrible battles fought in lit former tim time and even of a comparatively recent date dite d ite and within the memory of per persons sons cons liv living in g L let et ys PS n notice 0 some of these at the battle of arcola the austrians Aust rians lost in killed and wounded men mail the french 15 OCO at the austrian loss less was the french at austerlitz the allies out of 60 men lost in lit killed and arid wounded or prisoners the french loss only I 1 at jena and Auster stadt the tile prussians lost men klied and wounded and nearly as many prisoner making nearly GO in all and the french in kial gilld d and wounded at the terrific battle of elau blau E blau the ru Rii I 1 ims ons loot lost lot ia killed and dand the french at fridland the rossi loi aoi was 1700 in killed and wounded the french frelich loss at WiLy rani the and french arst each eacil men or 50 in all in killed and wounded at sk the french loss was men nien that of the at borodino borodine Bo which is sali sald r ali caid to have hare heen been itee ithe ine ire most roost murderous marderos and obstinately fought battlo battle on record the flip french lost in lit killed wounded and prisoners men eilf ru the rumans ru Rn Inns mans about the flip I 1 same number I 1 making in all au men in oke OKO I 1 battle at luzen litzen the flip french loss lose wag was w ag I 1 8 men I 1 the allies 1500 at the tho french lost men the allies at Di diesron Dres esden esdon dan where the battie battlo histed listed two days the tho allies lost in killed wound d and dri miers men and tha tho french Fren cli cil between and 1200 at leipsic which lasted three days lost 2 marshals mt hals 20 cener coner hIs and arid about GUM oum mn men in klied killed wounded and Friso prisoners ners tho tilo allies 1700 officers and about 40 men upwards of men ill in all at tigny digny the lost men in killed woun wounder deil and prisoners the tire fresch the battle of trebbin lasted lusted three dava and the tho french an I 1 allies lost each about men or in all al here we have battis batti bat bit tir als s among which are saine some compared to which these in the crimea wilmea but small engage engagement great as they iiley benear to ns us besides these were everil otinus of minor importance to the foregoing as to tile the loss 1093 ol 01 men but bat larget in the aggregate there were those of or the bridge of or lodi a most desperately contested fight the tha ramous famous battle of the nile a sea fight in which nelion nation nels neis on lost men in killed and wounded and ahn th french 25 men in killed and wounded prisoners and 13 antof 17 engaged in the action that of the B bay ay iy of aboukir Abou kir the tho french had men engaged anil aird the hie turks and every mail man of the turks was lost in lit killed wound wounded d and prisoners novi engers hiar engo bengoa a mm most I 1 desperate and bloody engagement maida where rethe the french butof menen men en lost loft about I 1 in 1 a killed wounded and prisoners talavera another famous fanous and moody bloody engagement arbilera Alb nera ilera whore where the british out of men engaged lost salamanca vittoria Tm toulouse louse paris and quatre basin all these batti esthe losin lossin killed and aou wounded nd ou on all sides was at least a million of men be sides bides thousands in skirmishes m minor i inor lnor ariga engage e ments merits aa and that within a period of lest an than ha thirty years enormous as is this loss and injury of ille file of these who fell iu in battle and are maimed by wounds it is but small compared to the hie loss of ilfe life caused otherwise other wize by war the numbers killed and wounded in battle says a writer are no full fall index to the loss of life in war and seldom comprise one fourth of its actual victims it Is small compared to the immense numbers carried offey dise diSC disease Lse ase exposure and other casualties incident to war allison says says rays of the campaign of 1799 in little littie more than four mouths months the french and allied armies had lost nearly half a of their collective forces those cut off or irrecoverably mutilated by the ilia sword being about men ard the survivors of the tile french frelich army from froin the Russia russian ii campaign were not n i cit more than men out orau of an army of about N Y times of jan 21 IRON TRON my bly att has lately been drawn to this tirla subject and while oil on a vilt viat last week to an ironwork iron work in wales I 1 made the following owing experiment nt seeing a large quantity of iron chain lying about and learning that scarcely worn it has been laid aside in consequence of or the breaking of some of tile the links I 1 examined ed several from daft different erent parts of the chain challi I 1 found that a single smart how with a hammer was sufficient to snap the ilia metal the fracture of which was crystalline and find its brittleness such hat that it could without difficulty be broken into small pl tes wes under the hammer v 1 now heated tron strongly trop gly in a foige some of the broken links and allowed them to cool very slowly underneath a bed of fine sand after the lapse ofal of 21 hours they were examined evarn ined the metai metal was found to lolave lave recovered its tenacity it could no longer be broken to pieces under the hammer and when at length after repeated heavy blows it did partially yield the texture or oatlie tile tiie metal was found to be perfectly fibrous every trace of a jinja structure had bad disappeared I 1 this tilis fact proved that the metal was dood food and there cn call ba little dou doii 1 t that the crystalline texture orthe of the sunhe unheated unbelted cited links had been produced gradually by the mechanical action vibration to w which aich the chain chala had llad been subjected darin during its use now in the case of Nas myths mon man monster tar gup gur the ilia brittleness of the metal has been bean occasioned occasion occa ae d not probably so much mugil from its having been kept rora for nione alone our time in an incandescent and soft state as from its having while in that condition been ban subjected to violent and long continued hammer ina ins I 1 would sug suggest Lyest these therefore fore as an tin experiment well worthy trying that llie ilia glin gun should after it i is 3 finished be submitted to tnt a careful annealing pro process viz that it should be to exposed to a ve very y high temperature and then to cool u as slowly as possible by I 1 abilio that the fibrous tex ture turc of the mead would be restored and its ten tell retty cons consequently regained I 1 need scarcely point out oui the ilia a rtha riha nhe above remarks to the probable condition of metal in wrought iron bridge tile tiie iron must of course have been subjected to violent percussions percus lons ions during the ilia erection of the bridge and every toco leco motive with its long rattling line of carrh gp that lilly n ly passes over it must contribute a certain share in the induction of a crysta line st state te among tita the particles odthe of he metal mid and wid 1 I cann cannot 0 t see how flow the inre inference rence h M to be avoided that by such all an arrangement of molecules tile tilo str strength enoth of he ilia duthrie must be gradually atad london time S RIFLED this tilis recently invented wea wet pon if it possesses one half the power and capacity chimpo for it ft by its proprietor is soon snort to eveah other oilier weapon for war like purposes now iti lit i a it is the mor moot emmic effic efficacious licious and terrible ter riba ribe firearm I 1 il existence the small smail carbine carbina now used by he the united cited states mounted men mail throws n ball bell with deadly accuracy one cne quarter of a mlle milr and can bo be fired ten times per minute II 11 is not campli alte c ted d in structure is epsily cleaned and suffers no injure injury f om the wea her mr sharp ij preparing models for felir four new species ap pp fips firs cf hii hil weapon namely A small pistol calculated to a minnie ball one hundred hondred yards a cavalry iliof pi sol bol with a range of give five hundred yards a rifle suitable for oot bot footmen with a range of or one mlle mile and a large gun to throw a two ounce ball bell or a small shell otie one uc u C mile and a lor lod liili or orns as far as aa a 1 mail man or horse call can ba be spen seen to advantage with villi this latter weapon mr sharp d clares CIAres le ie can cin c in set on a llo ito house housa s or r a ship at a di dif tance tarca of two miles and u eo prevent the use nse of or field artillery lv by killing the borses horses belore before the ilia b guns nuns guns are brought within good range tilli tills rifle in the hands hinds of a goad good in s equal to ten teli muskets bavo baro bayonets nets and all for lor place a man six rods distant with a musket and bayonet and before belore he can bring the alio bayonet into inlo use the ril hil nil can be loaded and discharged ten tim they carry balls balte v ith ath 1 great precis precision loii and forno force I 1 mr sharp intends these rifles to bertane a national weapon and arid should congress by brusina usiri usina n little liberality purchase the patent the country would bo lie possessed of a n means of I 1 warfare une in tito tire world missoura missouri democrat odona nt sleep away your senses |