New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-20

'fN'N'@N' V DryRoUr, July 10, 1860.
On the 18th inst, dispatched you TELEGRAM wa
SMYRNA giving the summary OF toe hrss &c.
commits which had reached as respecting tne a.
" rote Won III tie her details which had then come
~ hand respecting this fearful tragedy Since my last
more foil and sccu ate details have oeen communicated
by CO. sular dispatches private eters ano otasr chan
tels. ASS o neral rule be first aeeounts which ge
receive of any great calamity subsequently found
70 he exagpe ated. IL is not So however, IN the csse
of Damascus indeed the rest of this nnholy pera9-
cu'ioD Of the Christians, which az first we were de-
nded into naming the civil Lebanon. In every
massacre that has taken place from the commence ment
the fret accounts have received have been ater-
ward found TO describe only half the evil IL was 60
when the refugee Christians flying TO Sidon on the "a
June were me at the gate Of that town and upward OF
800 men, women, children, monks. priests, and nuts
were butchered by an infurlated moslem population,
aided by the Sutsn's troops. II was the same when
we rsces ed the of the massacre az dasbeya OF
zoo Christians being fret dsarmed by the commsnder
of the Turkish soldiers and then handed over to be
butehered BY the Druses.
OF the wholesale mu' der of Christians at Hasbeyja
we at first heard but half the evil 50 also when the
whole Christian population OF Delrel,hanar % .ss
swept away by the knives of the Druses, being rst
dsarmed by the local Turkish Governor II was only
by degrees we learned the whole tearfdl uuth. Anu
now seain the case of Damascus the trst account al
though horrible enough was not nearly 90 pau az
now find the actual detail TO be- In my hrst
anpounc ed that the number of Christians massscreu
amounted 10 500 bat there are now ascer.aihed 70 nav
been upward of 1000 some aOcou 1's the mas
npmber On the evening of the l4t1 INST Tue nas7a
ere having lasted six days, ceased for the Simple E
son that no more Christians could be found out Oh ma
inc To murder The fire also was stopped lor NUN Tue
reason s9a 6oo ne hv wnUe oeen
hnTnes down, The residence OF Mr.. Brant the En-
0iish Consul had been spared, beirg In the mosiem
quarter and close to the great mosque, which would
dsrtsiny have caught fire had the British consulate
been burned. Poor MIR. Grahame of the Irish Presby
terrain Mission was murdered within few yards OF
the consulate TO which he was making his escape from
a house which had been burned over his head All the
fir are Of the Terra Santa Franciscan Convent eight
priests and Law Understanding Of three Austrisns,
three Sganiards, two ltalisns, and MAtsse-were
murdered and their church and residence piagsd aud
buFaed But what is perhaps most revolving VI all is
{ al some 200 respectable Christian women-Wlves,
daughters and sgers Of native merchants, shopkeep-
ers and others--have been taken away, some TO the
harems of the Mosems others Did 10 the kdrds, Be-
douins, or whoever would buy them, and very many
taken away from their homes into tne desert py tnes9
barbaTiaDs. "
Throughout the fearful scenes and events which
lasted from the Monday TO the Saturday, Achmet
Pasha the governor, never moved from his serial or
palace any steps taken TO stop the ouaSes,
except that OF serd into the town troops who lmne-
dately ioned in the piage in many cases taxing part
in the massacre Although an old man, and going ont
at the risk Of his life the Engsa consul surrounded py
a strong guard of Abd-el Kader's men, fou1d means
three or four times of reaching the Pasha and OF beg
cling him to take some steps to stay the outbreak But
no, he would do nothing, al hongh at the commence.
of The riot his troops regulars and Hegulrs out
numbered the rioters by at least ten TO one Can we
be surprised at the native Christian subjects OF the
Porte mstrusting the Turkish officials and troops after
this The tragedy of Dan ascus liz but repetition OF
the events with have happened in the Lebanon since
the Doth May last only larger scale. And OBJ
serve a most significant fact connected with these
Syrian massacres-namely that although all along the
Druses have engaged the Christians in open warfare,
and, after the horrible custom OF this and burnt their
villages whenever opportunity offered, yet, mis-
ceans and b0odtbirsy they are, nowhere have the
Druses massacred the Christians in cold blood except
at such places as Turkish troops were present.
In fact the native Christians Of Syria have far
greater terror of the Turkish troops sent to preserve
order in the province than they have OF the Dru5es or
even Of the Mosem population. This very mornlng
was Try ing to dlssuade native Christian merchant
from emipIatipg TO Alexandra, and used as argu
ment to induce him stop that ttere would now be no
disturbances in Beyrout, A. 600 more troops were
reported to be on their way hither. :" That makes
exactly" was bis reply, four Thousand reasons why
should send off my family to Egypt by the very first
steamer" And if such is the dread inspired by the
regular troops what must be the terror with which the
Bash Bazouks, Arnaouts aud other irregular mscre-
ants are regarded? English officers in the Crimea
found il difficult TO manage these scoundreG but the
TuIks-pot paving then-are in absolute dread OF
them. No later than last week, here in Beyrout,
Christian chic of eight years old was in open day. and
under the windows Of the Government palace treated
with uncomfortable atrocity by one OF the Basnl-
Bszouks her mothers cries being heard in the very
bail Of leo aed justice, bat notice whatever being
taken Of the circumstance The man, owing to very
strong remembrance ON the part Of the COnsuls was
put his trial; but in spite Of the la u humayoun,
no Christian witness criminate Moslem, and the
Christian mother was the only witness.
have full confidence wish the natives of Syria
habitat The Porte will yet punish and spare not
the evil doers in this matter The day before yester
day-to the satisfaction Of all Christians TO the dsmay
Of the local Turkish officials and to the great surprise
Oh r. H;nta IS a.
Constantinople arrived here without any kind of
warning whatever. He is armed with full powers,
even of life and death, and ia accompanied by two
Turkish and two Christian commissioners TO look into
the state of affairs here. Moreover, by the same
steamer learned 10 very great saisfaehOn that
Namik Pasha Of Jeddah notoriety, who had been or
dered 10 Syria Commander in Chief, was not CON-
ing at all, but that certain Haeem Pasba had ar
rived in his place. This immense relief TO the
Christian here, for Namik Pasha Is well known TO be
ODE of the greatest fapaics III the whole empire. SO
far then, good. only with that cOnit see that
Fuad Paba tad put of the officials here on trial,
OF had them under arrest az preparatory meas IRE.
Those most mplca ed in this affair Kurcnid Pasha
the Civil Governor Of Beyrout; Osman Etendi, his
rkia deputy; Achmet EfeDdi his sscretsryi
Tire Pacha Military Chief of Division; and Achmet
Pssha, ComDauder.n Chief 10 Syria and Governor of
Damascus. These men have among them TO
for the blood Of about ten thousand Christian subjects
Of the Porte and accessories both before and aftsT
the fact any Jury in England would r9turn verdict OF
gully against them, if arragned for this wholesale
murder.
p S have Just seen most authentic statement
of the Damascus affair." the number killed ia stated TO
he at least 3 500 to A 600. The murderer of Mr..
Grahame is well known.
THE TRIBUNE reproduces from Impartial Of
symrna translation Of Turkish letter from Da-
mascus, giving the Mussulman version Of the origin Of
the massacre.
DAMASCUS, July l3.
"a Christian, living in this city, having been found
IN tla bonsa If Mosl.Tn Woman WAC arrested and