Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-08-23

did not take refuge with the famous Algerine
chief, Abd-el. Kader, (who has behaved most
nobly throughout the business,) were murdered
at once. But, although the affair Nigh have
been stopped with the greatest ease before dark
on the Monday, after that hour the mob increas.
ed in numbers every minute. Late in the eve
ming, about 300 soldiers were sent to put q stop
to the outrage, but very shortly Joined in the
plundering such rs did not do so actually used
their arms to massacre the Christians. The
whole Christian qua:ter-which includes some
of the finest palaces to be found in the empire
was soon one mass of flames and-for this
there is the positive authority Of q European
eye. witness, who res hiding in the neighborhood
all that fearful night-as the Chritians tried to
escape from the flames, they were thrust back
on the burning pile by the bayonets of the Turk
ish regular troops. However, when We r~ecollect
that one of the military chiefs who commanded
in Damascus was Osman Beg, the miscreant who,
but three weeks previously, had delivered up at
Hasbeyia upwards of fifteen hundred Christians
to be massacred by the Druses, oil wonder at
the conduct Of the military ceases at once.
When our last advices from Damascus left
that place, the whole Christian quarter had been
utterly destroyed. Four thousand Christians
had taken refuge in the house of Abdel-Kader,
who defended them against oil corners Three
thousand had taken refuge in the castle under
the Pacha, and several hundred in the English
consulate, which as yet-being situated in the
Moslem quarter Of the town-had been respected.
Upwards of two thousand Christians, it was cal,
culated, had been murdered, oil in cold blood,
and the estimate loss of property, money, val
uables, &c., was 81, 200, 900 sterling.
Frem Allepo the news is bad. They had moi
heard of the Damascus massacre, but fully e1'
pected, almost every hour, the Moslems of the
town to rise on the Christians. Captain Payn.
ter, of her Majesty's ship Exmouth, senior nava
officer here, has despatched her Majesty's ship
Mohawk to Latakia and Alexandria,, so as tc
pick up and save fugitives from Moslem fanat'
icism.
In Beirut the panic among the native Christi
ans has been something fearful yesterday ano
to. day. They are embarking by hundreds il
the different merchant steamers to Alexandretta
Alexandria, Corfu, Malta and even for England
Nearly all the French and English merchant:
are sending away their families to Europe. Al
trade is stopped for the present. Syria has hae
O blow from which she will not recover for sixty
years. In Alexandria all the refugees that havt
fed there have been very handsomely treated BY
Said Pacha, who gives food to the poorest, mon
ey to many, houses to all. In Beirut the En-
glish and Americans have formed O fund to re
lieve the poor who have fed to this place il
thousands the French have done the same thu
Sisters of Charity have relieved hundreds every
day with food; the French, English, Russian
Austrian and Prussian Consuls ito soy nothing
OF the American missionaries who daily feec
three hundred people, give bread, cooked meat
rice, clothes &c., to several hundreds of these
poor, starved, burnt out peasants. All the med
ical men have attended to their wounds and sick
ness gratis and even the crews of her Majesty:
ships E1mouth and Mohawk, as well as the
French Imperial frigate Zenoble, have coutribu'
ted their mites Correspondence London Post