The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-07-31
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THE MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS IN SYRIA
The Massacre Continued--French Troop.
Going to syria.-The Americans, &c.

The Massacre Centinued--French Troor5
Going to syria.-The Americans, &c.
The Boston Traveller has letters from Beirut
as late as June 23d One of them says
The large towns of Zsleh and DER ei kamer
have heen mt 10 the sword, and thousands OF
dead bodies lie exposed to the jackals and hy-
epas which infest that part OF the mountain.
The news is hear trendng. Men that we
knew have persisted in This awful butchery.--
W idows and orphans are creeping slowly to-
wards Beirut for safety. But alas they Will
And no safety here. Mosieins are in arms,
and Christians are trembling IN their honses,
fearing a general massacre.
Even while am writing, i am surrounded
by multitudes of men, women and children
crying for protection. The house OF Frank
is considered as an ylum, and the house OF
every American is filled with the despairin2
unfortunates. Beirut is now filled with Turk
ish troops Just landed from Turkish an-of-
war bat what confidence can be placed in
them. when their conduct indicates hostility
to all Christians
moment as to prevent me from finishing this
letter. Christians have closed their shops and
have retired TO their houses, where they trem-
blngly await the issue. Moslems are rush
ing about the town, crying "this Is the time TO
klli the Christians and their women and
children are rushing about the streets shout
ing MAY God cut off the Christians" IL is
impossible for us to buy provisions, and our
Christians have been beaten, and some of them
most severely.
Yesterday at the conference Of the consular
corps, the city authorities were summoned To
appear and give assurance of safety. When
Questioned by the French Admiral as to the
number Of troops At his command, the Gov
ernor replied II don't know" The military
commander was then summoned and gave the
same reply.
The want of harmony and concord among
the naval commanders and the consuIs NAV
result in most serious evil. There is a want
of unanimi ty rs to the propriety of landing Q
troops for the protection of British and other
foreign subjects. The Pasha was request ted to
invite the cooperation of the European Ad
mirals now in Beirut, which he refused to do
saying he saw no necessity for foreign inter
ference. The CDnsuls do not believe that the
Turks are acting III good faith.
The British and American Consuls declared
that they should invite their countrymen tC
take refuge on board the naval vessels now in
the harbor. 1t is greatly to be Iamented that
there is no good Frank organization o1 land
To cooperate with the forces at sea.
Yesterday, the American Consul called 6
meeting of Americans, warned Them of theil
| danger, offered his house as an asylum to all
| and proposed that, upon the first alarm, al
| Americans should 20 at once TO the American
! printing establishment, rs the best place fol
mutual protection, rs II Is q cas- lie in itself anC
| affords ample facilities for esistin2 an attacl
1 or standing 4 siege. Provisions have beei
placed there and there is now at least al
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| American organization. This step has alread,
inspired confidepce.
A Turkish line of battle ship arrived las
night. Beirut may be saved, but the country
| is lost. An extract from a letter, have jus
seen, will serve as an illustration of the con
dition of the large interior towns.
"June - -Dier Ell Kamer "a town of severa
thousand inhabitants,) lCdS, but rs no longer
| The accounts from there are heartrenuIn.
beyond description were our minds not in
| cessantly occupied by other and more trylnl
| matters, we should sink under the burden -
| The dead, who can number them and tht
widows and orphans, who can tell their dis
| treSs
| Some twenty or thirty persons were left il
| the house of the American missionary, Mr.
| Bird, and note from one of them this morn
| ing would indicate that they alone are left
| The women aud children, as yet, have no
| been touched. few houses remain-amon,
| them is that of Mr. Bird, which was pro otec tee
| by the Druse Chief. After to-day Deir rel
| kuner will probably be uninhabited for som
| time, from the stencil of go many hundreds o
| unburied bodies.
All the people Of the town above referred Il
| were deliberately slaughtered in cold biOoC
| after they had given up their arms TO tn,
| Turkish authorities The Turks, after dis
| aIminS them, turned them over To the Druses
| who put them TO the sword, AIDED by III. Turk
| tSh SOtdteYBi
| Our blood is CONCEALED with horror at thes,
| atrocities. They occurred about half day.
| ride from Beirut, or, 10 speak after the man
| ner of the West, about twenty miles. To- day
| these Druses are at our doors. The setting
| sun may iell bioodier tale than has yet beeI
| related. The ships will bombar the town
| after the town Is in possession OF these fiends
| but then ii can do us no good. The mex
| steamer will no doubt carry You intelligence
| that Beirut has also been blotted out, and tina
| much Christian blood has been spilled or yoi
| may hear OF y cessation of hostiiitIes. Were i
| not that the MOsiem element has bean $,
| largely stirred up, we might hope that th,
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| slaughter; but now the Mosiems are inyitln;
| the Druses TO come to their aid.
| L have seen from my window the military
| Pasha going about the town trying 10 calm
| The tumult and disperse the crowd. Thi.
morning the American missionaries reaches
| Beirut from Sidon, which has SO long been
threatened with massacre. 1he same British
maD-of-war which brought away the AmeIi
| cans, brought also 600 refugees 10 Beirut. Da
mascuS has only been preserved from des true
Ion by the efforts OF the famous AIgeriu'
chief, Abd-el Kadar, who has organized al
| eiEiceut corps, which patrol the city day anc
| night. But the alarm is very great even now
| and letters appealing for help come by every
mail.
The following intelligence from Syria, tn,
| latest received through the English press i.
from the LaVant Herald of July Ith:
| I'VE have received a dispatch from SMYRNA
| dated 2d of July, announcing the arrival Of III,
| Syrian steamer, and giving the following il
advance OF her arrival here:
"The steamer left Beirut on the 23d of June
| aud reports that at that time the panic among
| the Christian population had become general
Nearly the whole of the Frank Inhabitants
| and as many of the native Christians as could
had taken refuge on board the English French
| and Russian men OF war in the roads HeI
| Maiesty's steamer Exmouth had embar ked tn.
cash, books and personnel OF the Ottoman Bank
| and as many of the other English residents a.
possible. In addition 10 this parties OF marine;
lrom the English, French and Russian ship.
had landed 10 assist in main tanning order il
| the town. AT Damascus the Christians wer,
also In Il state of panic, and A hd ell kader haC
protection.
The Paris correspondent of the Mornins
Herald, writing on the 9th, says:
- brigade of infantry has received orders
10 proceed by rail from Lyons to Toulon
where they are to hold themselves in reaii ess
10 embark for Syria. Orders have also baer
sent 10 portion OF the Mediterranean squao.
ron to proceed with the u tmos speed 10 Beirut
Al the same time it is reported, and the report
rs highly probable, that the present confiagra.
tlon III Syria is due TO French agency. Fo!
years past French agents have kept up feud
between the Druses and Naroni,es and there
| Is bnl too much reason to believe that France
VINO iaIa the train, fired the match. Long be.
tore TINS outbreak took place in the Lebanon
the Patrie and other semi-of,icjai nrinrs an.
nounced mat disturbances We're Imminent
aud that French squadron would shortly h.
sent 10 the Syrian coast"
A Young LADY KILLED BY A WaDrpov ,
CANNoN.-On Tuesday night at Portsmouth
New Hampshire, Miss Ann Maria, daughter
of Mr. Thomas Marin, died from the eifsct Is
of singular wound received on Saturday
when a salute was fired from the yacht Zinga
Expecting display OF fireworks from the
Zinga. as she was coming in, large number
of people had gathered on the wharf. A sa-
lutte from a two-pound cannon was fired on
board the yacht The wad was of waste cot
ton. and of course was very dense and al
though the muzzle of the gun was Judged to
be depressed far below the wharf Vet, bel e