New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-11
SYRIA.

The following is an e,' ,...ur e..,, c.n,
pa,u, TO sse . ron 49, ,T Eymooth Ha~.
roIt, June 90, va. A"'A'' '''
al have received infor nation that the Druses con-
template aa ckDg the Christian Districts in the north
1.-THE tribe Of TIE Meuans, on slight provocaton,
have burned some houses in Tr this Of course led to
retaliation on the part Of the Christians ana war
which wac dying ont TO the southwark may extend ts
and butche res TO the north Great fears are
entertained of combined attack of Druses, Bedouins,
Me,uas, and Mosems, upon Damascus.
"The Christians living not an hour RIDE from bey
rout Just delivered petition TO the Turkish Governor,
and sent copies to the European Consulates, that
the irregular cavalry under the Government who are
sent for their protection, are rebbi1g and abusing
them and depIivipg their cattle Of fodder The Con
sus General have demonstrated in the name OF their
respective Governments, against these acts; but DO
not think that in the utter prostraton OF law and jug
tce,. when applied against the Moslems, 1t Will nave
much effect.
"Tbe emigration of the natives still continues. The
Arcadia takes $50 to Alexandria and Malta, but the
authorities have now prohibited any more emoarSing.
Tomorrow is the feast Of the Bairam and if the fesi'
val passes off quietly have great hopes that the 70 WINS
on the seaboard may gradually have confidence restored
TO them. But the silk trade for this year is lost the
and trees having been ruthessy pundered or
destroyed in many localities by the Druses.
"Tbe American mission stations all abandoned
in the Lebanon The schools broken up; the fol-
lowers have either been killed are now destitute OF
homes
leaving for America as there is no field for their Ia
BORE"
The Christians who escaped from Hasbeya, aud
were brought TO Beyrout by the Mohawk, say IN a
memorial 70 the Consul-General OF Russia:
"The number killed exceeds 800. we VINO re-
manned alive owed our salvation to having thrown
ourselves under the heaps Of dead under cover OF tne
approaching darkness. When night had set In we
fed and cane here and do not know what passed al
terward; only know that the women and children
took refuge under the protection OF Slit Nalsie SISTER
to Said Bey Djoublat with about AO men, VINO had
forced themselves into her residence. Our homes are
in ashes and the dead are in heaps. The women and
children remain exposed death from starvation cold
and fear if they escape the sword OF the Druses.
1t appears that the massacre at Damascus com
menced in the afternoon Of the 9Th and that before
ipht 500 Christians had been killed. The first Con-
sulae attacked was that of Russia The Russian and
Greek Consus took refuge with Abdel-kader. All
the Catholic and Greek CHURCHES and converts, as
well as the COnsuates, are burnt. Inc american
Vice. Consul was wounded, and the Dutch ViceCon-
sui aaid to be killed.
Druse atrocities in the neighborhood of Sidon con-
tipue undated Christian priests and villagers near
Sidop, and near Damascus have been forced at the
point Of the sword to embrace Mosemism by hundreds
Between May % and June 3d. writes our CORE
spondept at Beyrout, the Druses have murdered IN
cold blood upwards of four thousand Christians, in
Guiding more than hundred Catholic and Greek priests
ard monks. They have burned upwards of 100
Christian villages, including more thhn lVV cnuIcnes
and IL converts.
Three thousand Turkish regular troops arrived at
Beyrout on the 18th in line otbatle ship and two
frigates under Khalid Pacha Two thousand leave
for Damascus. As yet "the Turkish government has
not punished single Druse. In every case OF outrage
upon Christians, the Druses and Mosems are in con-
cert"
The plumber of church plate and other vauabes, and
the damage done TO cropa houses and to the country
in general is said to amount to upwards of elk millions
sterling.
The Lecan Herald of the 18th observes that the re-
ceipt of the nnggence from Damascus has excited the
gravest anxietes of the Porte:
"On Monday, after interviews with Sir Henry Bull
wer and M. de Lavaette, bis Highness Aali Pacha
had an audience of tie Sultan, and was closeted with
his Majesty till late hour-on what business it is
easy to imagine. Yesterday, again, Sir Henry, and
Mr. Williams, the American Minister, had long con-
ferences with the Camacau the same subject. AS
the result of the Ambassadoral Counsel il s said that
the Porte besides despatchng additional battalion
from Thessald and from Batoum, purposes 70 ask
the Viceroy of Egypt to send an auxiliary contingent
of TO- coo men into Syria to aid in accomplishing the
prompt and complete pacfcation of the province"