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Correspondence Of shs Boston Tra,e!es.l
Bunu7. syEa, juno .. 1850.
Syris is now the scene of one Of the most
.an1uiuary conflicts ever enacted in this land.
wh;ch haa erer been the battlefield Of the old
world. and Mount Lebanon is now one vast fu~
II uruses E' and Christians, numbering hundreds
Of thousands, are now engaged 10 wholesale
murder arson I'D RrEf in Moss; Te'sh 1na1. 1rabs
and The people u tho netawalies.
From nv window last week, counted from
twenty 10 thirty burning Eills9ea upon the
mounfsfus 4 few miles from Beirut, from
whence the dash Of musketrJ may easily be
seen. and the yolieys heard one after another
in as as. nay sss1
daily into the town in 1arge numbers, and
The widows and the orphans may he seen in
great crowds, weeping and wailing about the
streets. $780,.
Men, women and childFea are orer&aken wh,ie
lessly slaughtered while praying fur quarter.
The Christians hare thus lar suffered most
terribly. Their villages have been burned,
their crops destroyed, and great numbers hare
been brutally murdered. while tue Drusea, who
are better warriors and far more courageous,
wales, and up to this time have proved success.
full
The bloody war which is waged on both aides
as war OF determination has its origin in religi-
Gus aud political causes. The Christians aud
Druses hate each other with deadly hatred on
account Of their religious faita-and the Christ.
ians hate the Druses with special hatred be-
cause the Druses are in great many Of the
mountain Christian districts feudal chiefs and
rulers oyer the Christian OF Maronite and Greek
Catholic yilsges.
The more Immediate causes of the war may
be traced to the bloody fends existing between
Druse aud Christian tribes. Last summer at
| butt Mari quarrel arose which threatened to
precipitate war in which the Maronite Christ
ians we're victorious, having repulhed the
| Druscs, killing forty ur more, while their own
loss was less than oce.thlrd ot that number
Although peace wzs~then declared, the Druses
have since assassinatcd every Christian who
came in their way, with Gu evident determina-
| ton to make the number oi the Maroolte loss
| equal to that of the Druses.
Denounced as traitors and rebels, their homes
| having been burned, their crops destroyed, and
I in some cases their families hutchered, the
| Christians are rallyfug for the forlorn hope, for
they feel that the Druses, sided bE The proEin-
| ciai authorities, will endeavor TO exteru,inate
them. This, however. will not be IN easy mat
ter, as the Maronise Greeks and Greek Catho-
| lies number about two hundred aud fifty thou
sand, ard II, rs they hope and daily expect, the
| European Powers will come to their aid, they
may not only be saved, but greatly improv's
their condition, by being pl.ced under the rule
| OF European prince who may be placed over
| the government OF Syria.
| The American missionariesin in Mount Lebanon
| have been greatly exposed, but rs Jet have
| suffered only for want Of provisions.
The humanity shown By the Americans in
Beirut to the wounded, the homeless and the
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