The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-08-30

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| While tits only birds of Eden 7es
| 3, Just in mercy flying past', sgesg 50
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| = Quivering through the heart of pain, sci
| Would our womanhood dare doom them
| Back to haunts of guilt again? -T-'
| Life hath many tangled crossing;
| Joy hath many break of woe;
| And the cheeks, tear-washed, are whitsst;
| This the blessed angels know. 81
| Let us reach within our bosoms, ~
| For the key to other lives,
| And with love toward erring nature,
Cherish good that still survives;
| So that when our disrobed spirits
Soar to realms of light again,
We may say, dear Father judge US
As we judge our fellow-men. r
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Correspondence of the Boston Traveller.
The Civil War in Syria.
Great Massacre Of Christians Z Da-
naasc,ss ia Rains Consulates Burned
The american Coauaselw Agent
| Wounded.
BEIRUT, Syria, July IA, 1860.
On Monday, the 10th inst, children
who had been making crosses in the
mud, and otherwise insulting the Chris
tians of Damascus, were arrested by
the Governor, and after short impris-
onment, were sent to sweep the streets
of the Christians. This step was the
alleged cause of the outbreak, and
every Frank considers it but a part of
the general plan to produce the result
which am about to communicate.
A mob of about five hundred per-
sons rushed to the reliefof these child
rem, and attacked the Christian quarter
at o'clock p. m. At this hour the
! Christian merchants were away from
their homes in the business part of the
city, and were unable to reach their
families after the. breaking forth Of the
insurrection.
The signal for death and destruction
having thus been given, the work Of
slaughter commenced, and at the date
Of the latest advices, yesterday, at 3
p. m, the work of murder and pillage
was still going on. -.
The Christian population Of Damas-
GUS has been estimated at twenty-five
thousand souls Ten thousand Chris
tians can now be accounted for, lodged
in the castle ofthe town, and under
the protection of the famous Algcrine
chief Ab-del-Kader, who has proved
himself great friend of the Christians.
But where are the rest? Fifteen thous-
and are unaccounted for! One hund-
red fugitives are crowded into the Brit
ish Consulate but who can tell how
long they will be safe?
a letter was received from the Prus-
sian Consul of Damascus, by his Cor
sui General at Beirut, stating that a
majority of the Christians had been
saved up to that time that the Consuls
had taken refuge at the houseo of .Abdel
Kader, with the exception of the Eng
lish and Prussian Cousuls, who were
fortified in their own houses in the
Turkish quarter, and that the Russian,
Greek, French, Austrian, Dutch and
American Consulates had been pulled
down or burnt. ,lr..,.
On the evening of the 10th the mob
increased to the number of twelve
hundred. On Tuesday the Arabs and
Druses were admitted and, fresh from
the bloody fields of Deir-el- -Karmer and
other massacres, these fends in human
shape rushed into the Christian quar-
ter, killing every one they met. The
work of destruction is so complete so
far as burning and pillage is concerned /;
not habitable Christian house re-
, mains.
The British Consuls attributes the
! safety of his own Consulate merely to
the fact that it is situated in the Turk
f ish quarter, into which the rebel mob
is not allowed to pass-the owners OF
J the property, the land holding Mos
lens, standing in the entrances Of the
streets with arms to prevent them.
i The Prussian Consulate further
states that the Governor here, as at
other places, completed the destruction
of the Christian quarter.
Five thousand regular and irregular
| troops were placed around the Chris
} tian quarter SO as to surround it entirely
and these men who could have pre-
vented the insurrection with blow,
: allowed free ingress and egress to the
? insurrectionists, and instead of allow
, ing the fleeing Christians to escape
slew them, and threw them Back into
/. the flames.
II Thousands of the citizens of Beirut
have fled, and every medium of trans
portation is pressed into service fol
r those who leave to-day and tomorrow
Rev. Mr.. Graham, of the Irish mis-.
sion, a British subject, was found
among the dead in the streets OF that
, ill-fated city.
His case was a peculiar one. The
. dangers that have long threatened thu
Christians of the interior induced som,
of the missionaries to withdraw to tn,
!, sea coast, as it had been resolved at
! meeting of the Irish and American
mission that every one should avail O
such means of escape as he though
proper. This meeting occurred abou
f ten days ago. Rev. J. Frazier unt
!, family came to Beirut accompanied b.
S his co-laborers, DR.. Haiti and Mr.. For
y rest. Mr.. Graham prepared to accom-
J. lpany them, was booted and spurred TO