Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-09-24

THE RETRIBUTIoN IN SYRIA-Letters
from BEIRUT, Syria to the 22d of August, give
details of the work Of retribution going on at
Damascus against the murderous Druses and
their Turkish contederates. The arrests al
ready exceed 1000 in number, and comprise
individuals of all ranks. The accused are di-
vided into three classes those punishable with
DEATH those to be condemned to the galleys,
and those to be sent to COnstantinOple to
serve in the army and the number of this
class is expected to reach 3,000.-On the Goth,
the executions on large scale began Gibbets
were erected in the various parts of the city,
and 81 persons, some of them of rank and
importance, were hanged thereon, to the stu.
petactiOn OF the tanatica multitude, who per-
sisted to the last that the whole affair was
merely farce got up to mistity the Franks,
and that only few obscure individuals would
be sacriticed.-On the same day 10 regular
soldiers, and bashibazuks were marched to the
Medan, the most turbulent and fanatca,
quarter of Damascus, and there shot. OF the
second class of criminals, 40 have been sent
to the galleys, and the shiekh of Hasbeyah,
who presided at the horrible butchery there,
has also been shot, with another chief guilty
of similar crimes. The state of Damascus is
described as extraordinary, and its appearance
is almost that of desolate city. The streets
are comparatively deserted except by the
military patrols and the wives and families of
the criminals executed. who wander about the
streets shrieking and waing but no one
dares to show any sympathy with them.
These women, few weeks ago, were hound.
ing on their relatives to their bloody work,
and sharing in the plumber and destruction.
The arrests go on; the whole council OF the
pasta will be tried, and many of them, it is
believed, will he convicted.
All seems quiet in tile mountains a few
Druses are proving about, but it is reported
that on arriving at Hasbeya Hassan Bey
found that the Druses had decamped, and that
instead OF their being 1000 Christians to bring
i'll there were only Il few hundreds. The
numbers receiving relief at Beirut are very
large but ii has been found necessary to aban-
don to a great extent the giving of money, or
even of food that can be sold Clothing, also,
if not carefully looked after, is sold like the
food, and fictitious mountain Chri tians'
abound it has become lucrative trade
From the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser, Sept 49,
WHERE Do THE TooTHPIcKs Come FROM
The next question to be considered is, where
do the toothpicks come a? 1t is supposed that
the Yankee, when he first felt the necessity of
cutting a stick OF timber in order to provide
himself with toothpiek gained the knowledge
of whiting, and has since kept and improved
uluil lliG lCSoOus n ANCM SyllSlduutI Will plO-
duce toothpick with his knife from almost
every thing except bar of iron, but with all
inventive genius it has remained for the ma
tives of Chill to supply this tooth-picking ma.
ton with large proportion of the instruments
for gratifying their habit or necessity. The
aged and decrepd and the youth of both sexes
of Chill are engaged i'll preparing those little
orange sticks that one fluids at every restau-
rant and hotel in the city and country. These
they white out with astonishing rapidly, at
the rate of five or six hundred an hour. The
sticks are then packed in bundles OF a thou
sand each, and sent to this city being import
ed expressly by lady in Division street,
whose son superintends their manufacture in
Chill. Here the toothpicks are sold for twenty
cents thousand and scattered over all the
country, placed in all the restaurants and ho'
tells and in the hands of every toothpicking
Yankee in the kingdom.
To such an extent is this traffic carried that
the proprietors of the Astor House alone pur-
chase eight or ten barrels of every importation
and retail them among the country hotels. a
restaurant with good run of custom will con-
sumo about twenty thousand toothpicks in
three weeks.
The adage, 'it's an i'll wind that blows no
body good" is in this case verified. We find
that the American public by the persistent
practice Of picking their teeth give employ
ment to hundreds Of poor persons and children
in Chill, and at the same time assist the army
of dentists who thrive upon our suicidal
courses of life. We drink scaldng hot pota
tions in winter, and freezing mixtures in sum-
mer and not content with that are constantly
punching our teeth because we have acquired
the habit, and cannot or will not refrain from
it.