Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1855-03-24
Demetrius the Diver.

There are no bygones that have greater need
to be bygones than those of wickedness, vio-
ence and cruelty The blood and dust that
besmear some pages of history might glue the
pages together for ever. Yet from time to
time necessities will occur that leaves us no
choice but to open the old grave, to turn to
the old dark register to unlock the old, dark,
grim skeleton closet, to turn the retrospective
glass towards the bad bold days that are gone.
We are at present the alIies-and worthily
so-of the Turks \ brave people, patient,
hgLmiGded slow TO anger. terrible vet magma
nimouS in their wrath Yet while we acknowl-
edge and respect all the good qualities possess
ed by this valiant naton it is impossible to for
get that tbs Turk has not ALWAYS been the
complacent Pacha in European frock-coat and
seal!ng-waX cap and blue tasSei, who writes
sensible, straight forward state papers, reviews
Europ, u troops, Co.'s not object to quiet glass
Of Champagne, and rcgales English ncwspa-
per correspondents with coffee and pipes Nor
is he always the Sententious, phlcgmatic, ia
citurn, Osmanli who, shawled and turhancd,
sits croSs-lcgged upon the divan of meditation,
smoking the pipe of relectiveuesS, who counts
his beads and says his prayers five times a-day,
and enjoys his kcf; and who, as TO wars and
rumors Of wars, fire, famine, pcStilence and
slaughter, says but : Allah-akbar"-G is
great.
There arc men in London whom We meet
and converse with in our daily walks, who can
remember the horrible massacre of Sc0. in the
wear OF salvation eighteen hundred and twenty
two. We had just begun through the edfying
cob-web spinning of diplomacy, the passionate
poetry of Lord Byron aud the crude because
badly informed) intelligence of the English
press to understand that there was something
between the Greeks and the Turks i'm the Mo-
rea the PelornnneSuS and the Archipelago, and
that the former We're not, on the whole, quite
rightly used. We We're just going to see about
forming an opinion on these and other matters
when the news of the massacre Of Sico burst
upon Us Ike a thundcr-clap. Glocmily and sue
cinctlv the frightful news was told uS how the
terrible Kara Ali-oF the Black-Pacha had
appeared with feet and an army in the har
bor of Sco thea one of the faircSt peaceful
lest, most prosperous, most densely populated
islands in the Gerrico-Tnrkish Archipelago. and
that all that all peaceful rayahs, gold aud
purple harvest, university. commerce. wealth
had in three days disappeared.
The story of the massacre of Scio has never
been fully told in England and only in 50 far
as it affects my story am | called upon TO adj
vert to it here. Besides, no tongue could tell.
no pen describe, in household language. 1.-THE
of the atrocities perpetrated in the defeucelesS
island by order OF the Black Pacha Suffice
it to say that for three DAYS Scio was drowned
in blood that the dwellings, of the European
consulS were no asylum that the swords of
OSmanlis murdered alike the white headed
patriarch, the priest OF the family, the nursing
mother. the bride of ycstereay the bride of
that tomorrow which was never TO come to
her, the tender sywkling and the child that was
unborn. Upwards OF eighteen thousand per
sons were maSsacred in cold blood: and the
blackencd ruins of Scio became a habitation
for bats and dragons bowling dogs aud wheel
ing birds of prey.
Some few miserable souls escaped the ven
gcance Of KARAT Paeha There is a Greek ec-
cleSiastic now in London, who was hidden by
his mother IN o cave during the massacre aud
brought away unhurt When the fury Of the
invaders began through laSSitule 10 Good, ,hsy