Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1860-08-31
The Syrian Troubles.

rate letters received in this city. By
hem it will be seen that a villainous at
empt of the Governor of DER to rob
he Christians of large amount of jew
elry, has been defeated:
BEIRUT, July 10, 1860.
The frman of the Sultan, comforting
authority on Fuad Pasha, was published
this day.
july 20. The French steamer which
took the news of the massacre at Damas-
Gus 70 Smyrna, to forward by telegraph
to Paris, and await the Emperor's an
swer, returned this morning.
Before the massacre at Dier-el-Komar
the people placed their jewelry and bull
lion in the keeping of the Governor of
DER, and after the massacre, the Cover
nor sent twenty-six boxes containing ii
to Sidon, in the mean time getting the
Druses to burn the seraglio, where it
had been deposited. On arrival at ST.
don, the Custom House officers stopped
the boxes, and this coming to the ears of
the French Consul, he went to Sidon and
found ii as had been reported, and two
DAYS since the French Admiral went to
Sidon to ship these boxes for the benefit
of the surviving heirs. The value of
this property is estimated at 100000
piastres (S1, 100000
Fuad Pasha wished to see some of
the fruits of the war, and this afternoon
he went to the Barracks and about 5000
women and orphans presented them
seves before him, and he spoke comfort
able words to them, the English Consul
General being present. 1t was very
affecting scene, and one calculated to
melt heart of stone.
July 81. The Pasha, who went over
to Damascus, had not done anything fol-
the peace of the city up to the 18th inst.
/, nor read his Firman. There was nc
safety. No Christian goes out. The
: American Vice Consurs loss is GS00C
, sterling. Mr.. Frazier's property wa.
. plundered and burned. (Mr. Frazier is
an American missionary of the United
t Presbyterian Board.)
e The main facts in regard to the afro
! cious massacres in Syria have alread,
t been made public, but the English ant
e French papers continue to publish inter
esting statements concerning them. Th
:. Beirut correspondent of the Londo
y Daily Neacs writes on the 18th of July
; g In the case of Damascus, the fir;
: account, although horrible enough, wa
n not nearly so bad as we now find the al
tual details to be. In my first Telegram
le | announced that the number of Chri
- tians massacred amounted to 500, br
lie there are now ascertained to have bee
upward of 1000, some accounts givin
:, twice that number. On the evening {
in the 14th inst, the massacre, having las
u ed six days ceased, for the very simp
reason that no more Christians could /
m found out Of hiding to murder.
as Tie fire was also stopped for much IL
ng same reason, namely, that the who
Christian quarter-the habitations {
. $4,000 human beings-had been bur
" down. The residence of Mr.. Brant, Il
te English Consul, had been spared, beir
=, in the Moslem quarter, and close to Il
he great mosque, which would have certai
le- ly have caught fire had the British Co
'se sulate beer burnt Poor Mr.. Graham
of the Irish Presbyterian Mission, W
murdered within few yards Of the co
sulate, to which he was making his {
cape from house which had been bur
over bis head. All the friars of t
III Terra Santa, or franciscan Conye
viii eight priests and a lay brother-consi
elr ing of three Austrians, three Spaniar
- two Italians and Maltese-were nj
The dered, and their church and resider
in pillaged and burnt. But what is perhs
l most revolving of all is, that some sew
vim hundred respectable Christian women
the wives, daughters, and sisters of nat
anu merchants, shopkeepers and others-h;
- been taken away-some to the haremi
Not the Moslems, others sold to the Kul
give Bedouins, or whoever would buy tn,
and very many taken away from th
homes into the desert by these barbi
ans"
A letter of the 2Sd in the Paris
trte says:
"At Damascus one part alone,
quarter Maydan, comprising about |
.u,. hundred houses escaped destruction.
Jan Christians there supported a regt
ner- siege, and repulsed their assailants. T
orth were assisted by Mussulmans of
five quarter, all artisans, who lived on Y
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