The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-12-16
NO. 624.


mains deposited in their last resting place
" The will of the deceased has lust been
opened, and it is found that he has put his
whole property in trust, excepting, we believe.
one legacy of ten thousand dollars, providing
for the payment to his wife of $4,000 per an.
mum, and single daughter (now with her
mother and two sons five thousand dollars each
per annum, on the condition of forfeiture if
either of them ever gives one farthing to the
married daughter. And to meet the REQUIRE.
ments of law, he gives to this married daughter
the plttance of four hundred dollars per annum,
to show his relentless hostility to one of his own
blood, who saw fit to bestow her affections upon
one she loved
INTERESTING FROM Constanti,aople.
Oct. 27.-The Wabash sailed last week for
Beirut and Jaffa. The Macedonian has also
gone IN the same direction. They go to secure
the punishment of the miscreants who commit
ted the outrage upon the American family near
Jatfa, last year. -Four out of the FIVE are in
prison, two of them having been proved guilty,
and two of them having confessed their crime ;
but, without the show of force on our part, it is
doubtful whether any of them would be hung.
The local Government is too weak to take so
decisive step, especially as one or two of the
culprits are men of influence among the wild
tribes of the country. Two American ships of
war, however, lying in the port will greatly
strengthen the Pasha, and aid him in doing his
duty, and If he should still hesitate, no doubt
our Commodore will take the law into his own
| hands. Indeed, we are told, these are his in
structions.
We hear the most exaggerated accounts from
Europe and America, respecting an excited
state of the Mussulman mind in Turkey against
the Christians. A late number of the New
DIRK Observer contains extracts from private
letter, In which the writer gives the most alarm
ing statements in regard TO Constantinople it.
self, and the dan3ers of Mussulman insurrec
ton here. We, who live upon the ground, hap.
PLY, are Ignorant of any such state of things
We may be in the greatest danger, although
We know it not and this danger those at a dis
lance may discover, when those who are near
are blissfully ignorant of it. However, think
it will be hard to make any one of US believe it,
and expect to sleep just as quietly since read
ing the letter of the ObserUey's correspondent,
as before. Iu the same paper it is gravely an
nounced that an uprising of Mussulmans had
taken place in the city of Aloppo, and that the
whole city was destroyed We have heard of
this for the first time by way of New York, and
| rather think that every house in Aleppo is
Still standing just as it was a year ago. The
fact is, that the true Turkish spirit is spirit OF
fanaticism, and of hostility to men of every
other creed; and in places remote from the
CAPT al, an occasion only is required to call this
spri. into lively exercise. Such an occasion
was offered in Djdda and every now and then
it is offered in other parts of the empire but
that there is at present anything like general
reYiving of the old Turkish hostility to the
Christian races, foreboding general uprising
and massacre, do not at all believe. And as
to the capital, why, there is not Turk here but
knows that in single day a few foreign ships
could destroy this whole city with the greatest
ease
The fact is, the Turks are dispirited and they
haye occasion to be. In European Turkey
especially, including, of course, Constantinople
they stand on very precarous ground. Out OF
fifteen or sixteen millions of inhabitants, not
more than four and half millions are even
no aenally Mussulmans and of these, not more
than one and a hah millions are real Osmantli
Turks, the rest being of Christian origin. |
can well believe that there may be, before many
years, something like general instruction OF
the Christian races against the Turks but moth
ing of the sort against tho Chrstians.-COr.
Boston TrdUeler.