New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-01
SYRIA.

ence of q NJ gro delegate, and disclamed any intention
of insult or dsrespect.
SYRIA.
Affairs in Syria were unchanged. Matters continued
to very grave aspect.
France was actively preparing for powerful inter-
yention, and had notified the other Governments IN
order TO have concert Of &C ion.
The Sultan has written TO France aud England an
EXPRESSION Of grief at the events which have trans
pred, and promising an effort to reestaoiish order.
II was reported that the Russian Government mad
expressed desire to act in harmony with France and
England.
THE MAssACREs.
Correspondence of The London Dsily News. o
BEYRoUT, July i, 1860.
Until last evening had hopes that this mail would
take home more cheering respecting thls unhappy
province. Unfortunately, our prospects get oar ier
every day. for each hour brings el.her news OF iresn
atrocities committed by the Druses or more decided
that the of the latter connived at by the
Turkish Government. 1t is now asoertained and
nominal list of them has been made, that up 70 last
night the Druses have burned and paged no less thn
one hundred and fty-one Christian villages since the
18th of May last, while no less than from 'o,Wo 70
80 OOO Christian inhabitants of Lebanon-maDy OF
whom were month ago wealthy men, others 10 quite
easy circumstances and all strangers to anything IKE
pove,ty or want-are homeless beggars depending on
actual charity for their daily bread. Over and above the
number OF Christians sbot In actual warfare, between
1000 and 500 have been butchered- to death
would be the filter tern-as no butcher ever used IN
his calling half TIE cruelty of these bloodtbrsty mis-
creapts-S cold blood by the Druses. And besides
this, more than 5000 widows, who, until this Druse
campaign, were happy wives and mothers, nave iost
their husbands brothers fathers aud all male rela
tives even the male infants at the breast; and six
teen hundred children now orphans. All these hg-
ures have been very carefully compared with othsrs,
and weighed in the balance of English local opinion,
before given a. facts. And after conversing conpar-
ing, and digesting all hear, after bringing my own
four years experience in Syria to bear upon the sub
ect am bound TO cay that have considerably under.
Al rItntrk
not pay for the towns villages hamles and silk fac
tories destroyed throughout the rnouutanal the prop
erty of the Christians There is besd fe Arfully
long list of converts churches and nunnenss belong
Jog TO the came people, all of which have been plum
dered and then destroyed by the Druses. In short,
what commenced as civil between the two sects
can no longer be called by that name. For the last
twenty days il has been nothing less than wholesale
mae sacre Of Christians by the Druses and wauton
destruction of all property belonging to the
former by the latter To give you some idea
what these Druses are, viii enumeraSe
few instances of their frightfal barbarity, all OF
which / have heard from the unfortunate sufferers
themselves, now refugees from Lebanon. One poor
womsn-l knew both her husband and herself well at
Deirel- Kamar, where they wealthy people
told me that when the Drnses attacked the town the
second time Il should mention that it had surrendered,
and VII the inhabitants had given up their arms some
"a hours previously TO the Druses, and had been
promised protection by tier slelks her husband was
hacked pieces before her eyes by the large knives OF
the Druses, who then declared that they must Kill all
male chidie in the house. The mother tried 70 hide
her two sons, fifteen the other niue years old The
Dru.es however, found them out, aud az she begged
aud prayed for their lives and endeavcred to cover
them in corner with her person, but the Druses
hacked at the lads over her shoulder, and gashed
them until they both dropped down apparently lfeles.
The Druses then made OIL aud the woman, thinking
her two boys dead remained in sort of stupor for
two hours 50 far as she could calculate. AZ last she
was reused by hearing the eldest Lad call her in faint
voice. try ing TO her that he not yet dead
On this che felt the body OF the youngest Boy and
found his heart beating. She got some water, and
after giving it TO both her cbiidrenso far as she could
get them to drink it-started into the town to see
whether she could procure assistance 10 get her and
her bows away She got far as the seraglo gov
erpment house, but there she found that some 800
Christians who had taken refuge, were being cut TO
piec. by the DIuses who bad been invited 70 enter
The precincts of the building by the Turkish soldiers of
the garrison these latter helping in the butchery and
being far than the Druses that they abused In
the most infamous manner all the women Seeing no
help could he obtained here the poor woman turned to
fly, when che came across an old Druse, VINO mad
formerly been farm servant OF her husband. Alter
great deal Of entreay her part the consented
10 protect her and her children down TO the sea coast
about four hours journey, condition OF receiving an
order her brother, wealthy man in Beyrout, for
together to her house. She had not been absent
than an hour but she found her children cut into
pieces, Joint by joint, climb and trunk severed TO
use her words, Gas butchers cut up sheep'-heads
mass of bloody esh and reeking bones. Some other
poor women then joined her. and together they made
their way 10 a mulberry plantation outside the town,
where they passed the night AT daybreak they were
discovered by party of Druses who, after strip
ping them TO find whether they had any money
on their persons, and taking away what little
they possessed, told them they might 20
where they liked. -Four Of the poor creatures had
babies, all under year old. OF these infaats, two
were girls and two boys the former they aid not
touch, but the latter they said might grow up to be
men, and bear arms as ans the Dises; they therefore
took the poor little creatures and before their hers
eyes, tore them up the middle and limb by limb"
adly," 10 the poor womans own expression, "as
you tear up fowl that is to be- cooked with plllau.
Remember all this was DONE not in the heat OF fight
ing but deliberately in cold blood And have heard
of eleven other exactly similar Of child destruc-
ton by The Dfuses, in nine Of which implicitly be-
heve having every reason 10 do 70. Deir-el lamar
contained month ago, population OF 900 souls, OF
which about 4 600 we're men and lnds, 100 women |
and Grin, and 500 children under ten years Old Of |
the men, not more than 80 have escaped; Of the 4
women and girls, about 2Coo have reached Beyrout;
and Of the yonng children, less than two hundred are
alive Don't forget, too that this fendish mnsslcie
Was penetrated upon population which twenty.four
DAVIS previously bad surrendered TO the Druses, had
bee n promised protection by them, aud were dlsarmed
10 their murder.
-Four DAYS ego an English gentleman here was de- |
putcd by ali the consuls general 70 proceed 10 Nook
lara the seat of great Dru5e chie there TO convene
All tie PRINCIPAL shcss end try 20 got them 10 make
or al any rate Tor the present TO put end 10
he srsr of slaughter His miss has been entirely
the chiefs will lstn TO nothing, and re-
nort sys ba, they have again raised the war cry, and
,ra nroce ed agains. the Kerouan, district exclu-
ivev Cbririn very thichly populated with an indus
rops and peacefol people and ja Of e0Dyens, hume