American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-12-25
A TALE OF HORROR.

A TALE OF HORROR.
MASSACRE OF THE HISTORIAN CHRISTIANS.
We learn, says the New York Courier,
through the correspondence Of tho London
Morning Chronicle from Constantinople, that
another terrible massacre has occurred among
the HISTORIANS. In his letter bearing date
Nov. 7, he says that the fact Of such an event
having occurred, was known at Constantine
pie, but great palns were taken TO conceal the
particulars, In his letter Of the 9,h, he gives
further details About month before, Beder
Khan Boy, knowing that the efforts of the
Turkish Government to thWart his designs
must prove futile, collected various dCtach-
mcnts of troops under the command of the
! Beys Of Haikarui and Bevari and hmselftak-
ing command Off large body OF kurds, march
cd Into the country Of the estorians. Know
ing that he would meet with no resistance, he
divided his force into small bands and sent
them il various directions to fall on the de-
fenceless NesLoriaA villages. OF the result of
this expedition the correspondent gives the
following details:
Thirty-sx orthess villages at the least, have
been thus made the scenes eff the most harrow
ing wholesale murders. To speak Of their
having been sacked, pundered aad burnt to
the GROUND, would DC to draw attention to an
incident Of small Importance in tho face of the
greater horrors which these bloody barbarans
committed. Men, women and children crying
for mercy; the women and children, in the
agonies OF terror, were put to death by every
species of torture which cruelty could invent
Happy were those who were shot, who fell
by the sword who had not their bowels ripped
out OF them while living, or who were not i'm
paled amidst the shouts and laughter of the
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torians, if not more, were impaled and several
of the priests. What impaling is, suppose
your readers to understand. But that was not
the worst torture that was inflicted Children
were torn from their mothers, who were oblig.
ed, screeching, to look on, put in the most
shocking manner to death. The mothers af
forwards were sacrificed. The youth of both
sexes underwent sacrifices which cannot be
mentioned, before their Threats, liz disgust anc
safety, were cut.
The pen refuses to record more OF these
atrocities, though might 90 on, and allude te
denominations OF cruelty, and worse than cruel
ty, which call ior retrl6ution az nearly equa
TO their bestal rnthlessness in severity as car
be inflicted. Three thousand Of the NeStorian
haze persisted in this massacre, on The t0cest cal
eutafton. This most extensive slaughter TOOK
place at large village, or township, calico
Bias, where Beder Khan Boy was himself pre-
sent. Here the two bishops were impaled
and from this place were sent the three hun
tred heads (pickted) TO the Pacha of Moussoul
with the insulting message, that if the Porte
presumed to modest the sender, he would senC
to Constantnople, instead Of HISTORIAN, Turk
ish heads enough to make pyramid.
Whilst these things were happening, a coun
Gil, over which the HISTORIAN Patriarch, whc
had escaped from Moussoul, presided, was hello
at a town called, if l recollcct Alright, Artchy
one of the principal HISTORIAN settlements
Here it was determined that, as resistance wa,
vain, the whole people ofthe HISTORIANS should
enigrate, without all hours delay, into Persia
where numerous body of their countrymer
are settled on tho banks of the Lake of Oroo
miah.
The execution of this design was, however
difficult, perilous and disastrous. The fugitive.
were obliged to leave behind them all thei
property; most of them crossed the mountains
in struggling, frightened wretched bands. Blu
one corps of emgrants, stronger than the 9th
ers, commanded am told, by the patriarch
was attacked qp their passage by the soldier:
of Beder KtsssNBey After an obstinate con
aict, in whitkRHny fell on both sides, the Mes
torans galnedThe victory.
But the whole mountain district Of kurdis
hhii oh tllS uIhlSu Slue, is at lLlS moment nl
cd with houseless, furnished wanderers, hiding
themselves in dens and caverns, under all the
worst circumstances and guises Of misery, from
their pursuers. Beder Khan Bey swore, before
he started on his expedition, with all the so
Identities Of his creed, before two Imaums, thai
he would exterminate the whole HISTORIAN
people; and all of them who have not strength
10 reach Persia will certainly experience the
full realization of this oath
Tho Constantinople correspondent of The
London Herald gives further partcula ofth
calamity, the leading facts Of which there is nc
room to doubt, The Herald's account is a,
follows:
Advices of the 18th OFT. have just reached
US, stating that Beder Khan Bey rad attachce
the HISTORIAN Christians Of Bias, and bai pu
to the sword some 200 Of those whoa he had
taken prisoners He then sent Mahn0ud klan
Zone of his sltoliiles,) wi.h the ilaads OF hi:
prisoners, as a token Of defiance to Tayal
Pacha Of M2ussonl, who was advancing galnst
him, with Il. 600 men, and was enoanaed al
Eikosh,' abJn4 Sc mics from Moussoul -
The embassy, fearing 10 approach tho town
loaded ten mules with his horrid trophies, and