Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-09-01

wonder at the cor luct Of the military ceases
at once.
When our last odyccs from Damascus left
that place, the whole Christian quarter had
been utterly destroyed. Four thousand Chris
tians had taken refuge in the house Of Add
cl-kadcr, who defended them against all
comors. Three thousand had taken refuge in
the castle under the pacha, and several hun
drcd in the English consulate, which rs yet
being situated in the Moslcm quarter of the
town-had been respected. Upwards of two
thousand Christians, it was calculated, had
been murdered, all III cold blood, aid the
estimated loss of property, money, valuablcs,
&c, was 81 200 600 sterling
From Alcppo the news is bad They had
not heard of the Damascus massacre, but fully
expected, almost every hour, the Moslcms of
the town to rise on the Christians. Captain
Payntcr, of her Mojcstys ship Exmouth,
senior naval officer here, has dispatched her
Majcsty's ship Mohawl; to Intakia and Alex
andrctta, SO as to pick up and save fugitivcs
from NJ slcm tanuticism.
In Beirut the panic among the native Chris
tIans has been something fearful yesterday
and today. They are cmbarking by hun
drcds in the different merchant steamers TO
AIcXandrctta ,Andria, Corfu, Malta and
even for FL Nearly all the French
and English merchants arc sending away their
families to Europe All trade is stopped for
the present. Syria has had blow from
which she will not recover for sixty years.
In Alexandria all the refugees that have
hcd there have been very handsomely treat
cd by Said Pacha, who gives food to tho
poorest, money to many, houses to all
In Beirut the English and Americans have
formed fund to relieve the poor who have
fed to this place in thousands the French
have done the same; the Sisters of Charity
have relieved hundreds every day with food :;
the French, English, Russian, Austrian and
Prusian Consus (to say nothing of The Amer
lean missionaries who daily feed three hun
dred pcoplc) give bread cooked meat, rice,
clothes &c, to several hundreds of these poor,
starved, burnt out peasants. All the medical
men have attended to their wounds and sick
ness gratis; and even the crews of her Ma
jcsty's ships Exmouth and Mohawk, as well
as the French Imperial frigatc Xcnoblc, have
contributed their mites.
Correspondence Lo,u}om Post.
\ TERRIBLE FREslIEr The nnod by
which we were visited on Monday last, was
far greater than ever before known since the
settlement of the county. A rain set in on
Saturday morning, and continued six or eight
hours, saturating the earth with water On
Sunday morning the rains again commenced,
and fell necessarily throughout the day but
it was not till Sunday evening that ANYTHING
like flood was apprehcndcd. But now, as if
,..;n IosonnIoI ~ .an.o,,.a "o'" opo" :n :nc
hcovv ,vind ond tl,rnda. ,,tI NJ ,Su ~ "iv.'
nino Thr numerous hcamt;f, ; .troa'S. ''e' e'
wh;ch or,. ro,,;aa ~ ao,,,'.u' - lI'' '' io'
were +hcn fonnd swoIInM ;nto an,,m, ,,,,I;i
foods .wirt 90 tLo a,,,,,ai,, - S' o''I
hr,rina oT o,o.,.,L;,,a ~ ~, "':'
rcsistlSss t;dcs Cnrn rm.,om f,oi, "5 w Int' I.;,I
"ns nile and honsos hoUo n' Lnon 'o"o'ns' p''.'
The dm,~c iy @rc,t and ,l"ost i".I ITIS
Thc trac, onI cmL,ml of tLn HT'ho
ma and Tcnnnssac R,I noaI Lo"o hnn,, ".
mnch nin.o1 ,s 70 nrnvo,,t tIn 90 I, Io
cars Nt Mr. H,rcly's t,c nhamI. @,o,,t ,a, .''o
swrnt ow.y f,r d, L,tnnoo l,f t,;nt,, c'at i;I
nc,r Mr. jToodcn'. Il w,s oo,.n;oI a,,a. g..
,o,r,. ,f ,homi ,r.'.; >;nar iir;o I""o -, :"
.tbcr d,moDc wos snytoinc1 I,v No rnpI p1' W.
learn that no ecroms d,n,ac.o H,,s ~,
low Butts St,tion and tL,t t,n tr,;,, f.,,,,
Selma reached tboi no;nt NonIa,, orn,,;a,.
me nrinc;n,l stroams of ,To ao,,mt5,.
Chocco,dnnn rLo.,,,ai, ,,,I r'mo
considerably higher than the ever memorable
lreShet OF ioio' 1t is estimated that not less
t,'ah twenty lo"r inches OF water fell during
III, 1mo rams rs oil sunday and Saturday night
me ~ ,u,' extent OF damage Is not known
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