Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-10-11
Syria Tranquii..Fuad Pasha's

Syria TRanQuil..Fuad Pasha'a
/ - e Justice. ~
/ The horrible civil war in Syria is at an
end, but the Moslem population, writes the
Beirut correspondent Of the Boston Irau.
eler, lies wrishing in firm grasp of Fuad
Pascha, who IS acting the part ofa true pat
riot and lover Of justice.
The execution on the goth OF Aug. OF
the Commander-in-C Chief of the Bashi Ba-
zoucks, with one hundred and nine of bis
officers and men, is lesson to the native
Moslem soldiery that they will never forget
land the proud fanatical spirit Of the in
tolerant Damasceue must surely be some
what humbled, if not entirely broken, by
the sight of several of the chief Efendis
hanging dead before their doors on the
morning Of that memorable day.
That they should be executed simply
because they killed few Christian dogs,
was doubtless tremendous shock to their
religious sensibilities; but that they should
have been hung, actually strangled, was
to the Moslem something terrible, for they
never strangle any living creature. Fuad
Pascha chose this method of execution as
an additional means of humbling The city.
Beams were thrown across from window
TO window in the narrow streets, and the
criminals were drawn up BY rope around
their necks, and were left by the execution
ers to dangle and die in their agony, with
out any of the usual aids and appliances
used in America for the breaking of the
neck and consequent shortening of the
death agonies of the victim. Never was
the naughty city of the Moslems so hu-
miliated-never. in the days of the Cru
sades, was the pride of the moslems brought
so low.
Hardly had the inhabitants of this Mus
sulman Sodnm realized the full weight of
theiI depreciation, when the city was again
conrulsed with agony at the announcement
that three hundred of the prisoners, among
whcm were many of the wealthiesi, most
haughty and aristocralic of their citizens,
had been condemned to hard labor for life,
in the galleys at Constantinople. Intense
was the grief and rage of the follows of
the Prophet, and especially of the wives
and relatives of the condemned, who tore
their hair and rent their garments in de-
spair. They were inconsolable, and their
demonstrations of grief might have touch
ed the hardest heart, were it not for the hor
rible crimes they had committed.
A few days ago three hundred consign-
ed to the galleys arrived at Beyrout, hand
cuffed in gangs, and guarded by Turkish
soldiers, who were under bonds for their
safe keeping.
This extraordinary spectacle drew crowds
Of Christians, some of whom were refu-
gees from Damascus, who gazed upon the
manaeled criminals with sad satisfaction.
Many Of the condemned were recognized
asSwealthy merchants and etfendies, and
as they passed throu "a the city to the sea,
where they were to be embarked for their
final destination, they were seen to cover
their faces with their shackled hands, to
prevent recognition and display of their
agonized couutenances 10 The widows and
relatives of their victims.
The American Colony would, l am con-
v'need, be quite satisfied with the admins
tration of the present magnates Fuad Pas
ha, Ismall Pasha General Kmetty the
Hangaran,) and Abro Effendi. This, how
ever, is no compliment to the Turks as
Emetty is Frank aad Christian, and
Abro Effendi is an American-and all may
soon be recalled from the Syrian field.
Fuad Pasha's last administrative acts in
Damascus have, report says, brought him
into trouble. The people of Damascus
were recently thrown into great amaze
ment aud indignation at an order from the
Commissioner Extraordinary in Syria, re-
quiring them to eyacuate three quarters of
the city for the benefit of the seven or
eight thousand Christians who are unpro-
vided for. The rage of the Moslems knew
no bounds, and the Moslem women on see
ing the "Christian dogs" placed in pos
session of their fine houses, screamed and
yelled as if going to execution. The fol-
lowers of the prophet began to feel that
their punishment was greater than they
could bear, and when they saw files Of sol
diers in every street and all their young
men seized and borne off to the castle as
conscripts for the army, they became wild
with excitement and gnashcd their teeth
with uncon.roilabIe rage. Indignation
meetings on the Oriental plan were every
where held, and report declares that they
determined to close their Mosques and an-
nounee Fuad Pasha as an enemy TO the
Moslem religion and no true believer. To
prevent this learn from the same source,
Fuad Pasha stationed soldiess at the door
of every mosque with orders to cut every
Moslem who attempted to close the door.
The shops are shut, and again the city has
the appearance of a plague stricken city.
No one is seen in the streets, save the Off
GERS Of justice, and the silence is unbroken
except 10y the wall of some Mosem wife or
mother who has just discovered the absence
of her husband aud child, who have become,
sadly against their will, soldiers TO bis |. M.
the Sultan.
These are strong measures of Fuad Pas
ha. How could the pride of that city be
brought low more completely than by the
hanging of some of its leading Sheikhs,
shooting its native soldiery, unhousiug the
aristocratic enthusiast to give place. TO the
families of his victims, aud the dragging
off of the flower of their youth for the
degradation and drudgery of army life.
R Signor Tonini, a young Italian en-