The Times publishes a singular estimate of the loss of
life caused by the American Civil War. It calculates Mr. Lincoln's calls at a million of men, deducts from them the number on the rolls, and gives the remainder as the total loss, or some half-million of men. The Confederate loss is also taken at 250,000, and the whole of the "prodigious drain" set down at 750,000 men. The Times forgets the three months' men, the nine months' men, &c., the invalided, the deserters, and the " bogus " men, who never existed save on the pay roll. The real "loss" on the Northern side on 1st July was 150,000 men, the probable loss on the Confederate side was 50,000 less, and the total, therefore, was a quarter of a million—a fearful loss, but not equal to two years' immigra- tion of adult males into the Northern States alone. This is the element we are all so apt to forget. Exhaustion is diffi- cult for a people who gain some quarter of a million of' souls a year from Europe alone.
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