Southern shield., 1847-01-09
A TALE OF HORROR.
MASSACRE OF THE HISTORIAN CHRIST

we learn, says the New ork Courer, through the correspondence of the London Morning Chronicle from Constantinople
 that another terrible massacre has occurred among the Nestorians. In his letter bear ing date Nov. 7, he says that the fact o: such an event having occurred was known
 at Constantinople, but great pains were ta- ken to conceal the particulars. lnhis letter Iof the 9th, he gives further details. About a month before, Beder Khan Bey, knowing that the efforts of the Turkish Government to thwart his designs must prove futile, col lected various detachments of troops under the command of the Beys of Haizarai and Bevari, and himself taking command of a large body of Kurds, marched into the country of tbe Nestorians, Knowing that he would meet with no resistance, he dlvid- ed his force into small bands, and sent them in various directions to fall on tie defence less Nestoriah villages. Of the result of this expedition, the correspondent gives the following details:
 Thirty-six of these villages al the least, have been thus made the scenes of the most narrowing wholesale murders. To speak of their having been sacked, plundered and burnt to the ground, would be to draw at tention to an incident of small importance in the face of the greater horrors which these bloody barbarians committed. Men, women and children crying for mercy; the women and children in the agonies of ter TOT, were put to death by every species of torture which cruelty could invent. Happy were those who were shot, or who fell by the sword, who had not their bowels ripped out of them while living, or who were not impaled amidst the shouts and laughter Of the murderers Two of the bishops of the Nestorians, if not more, were impaled, and several of the priests. What impahng is l suppose your readers 10 understand. But that was not the worst torture that was inI fictcd. Children were torn from theirI mothers, some from their mothers breasts and in presence ot their mothers, who were obliged screeching, to look '1 put in theI most shocking manner 10 death. The mothers afterwards were sa;rifced. The youth of both sexes underwent sacrifices which cannot be mentioned, before theirI throats, in disgust and satiety, were cut.
 The pen refuses to record more of these atrocities, though 1 might goon, and alludeI to abominations of cruelty, and worse than cruelty, which call for a retribution as nearly equal to their bestial mthEessness in severity as can be infictedl Three Mon sand ot the NestorlanS haUc 2erjShed in MiS massacre, 0n thc l0WeSt calculation. This most extensive slaughter took place at a large village, or township called Bias, where Beder Khan Bey was himself pre- Isent. Here the two bishops were mpaled, and from this place were sent the three hundred heads (pichIed) to the Pacha of Moussoul, with the insulting message, that | if the Porte presumed 10 moest the sender, he would send to Constantilople. instead of Nostorian, Turkish heads enough to make pyramid.
 Whilst these things were happening, council; over which the Nestorian Patri arch, who has escaped from Moussoul, pre- sided, was held at town called, if recol- lect alright Artchy, one of the principal Nestorian settlements. Here it was deter mined that, as resistance was vain, the whole people of the Nestorians should emigrate without an hours delay, into Per sia, where numerous body of their coun- trymen are settled on the banks of the lake ! of Oroomiah.
 The execution of this design was, how ever, difficult, perilous and disastrous. The fugitives were obliged to leave behind them all their property; most of them crossed the mountains in struggling, frightened wretched bands. But one corps of emi- grants, stronger than the others, command ed am told by the patriarch, was attacked on their passage by the soldiers of Beder Khan Bey. After an obstinate conflict in which many fell on both sides, the Nestorl- ans gained the victory.
 But the whole mountain district of kur- dstan, on the Turkish side, is a- this mo
 ment filled with houseless, famished wan derers, hiding themselves in dens and caves
 under all the worst circumstances and gul- ses of misery, from their pursuers. Bedel Khan Bey swore, before he started on hIs
 expedition, with all the soemnities of his creed, before two Imaums, that he woulo exterminate the whole Nestorian people , and all of them who have not strength tt 3 reach Persia will certainly experience tht ] full realization of this oath.
 , The Constantinople correspondent O. s the London Herald gives further partlcu s lars of this calamity, the leading facts n which there is TO room to doubt. In e Heralds account is as follows;
 j. Advices of the 18th of October hay I just reached us stating that Beder Khal s Bey had attacked the Nestoran Christian e of Bias, and had put to the sword some 20 n of those whom he had taken prisoners He then sent Mahomnd Khan tone of h.