Litchfield enquirer., 1860-08-23

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 bodies left along the roadside to be deyour T ed by dogs" s,is.ss <. .,,.e,szs a' \ The territory now the scene of this war o1
 extermination, includes Syria, Judea or Pal
 estine, being some 450 miles long, varying
 in width from 150 to 200 miles, and con
 tains about 4S, 900 square miles. The pop ulation is estimated Ut I, 800 900, of whom ,fi 900 900 are Mussnlmcn, (Tnrks and
 Arabs. $50, 900 Christians Of the Greek
 church, and 250, 900 of the, Roman church. ILls would leave aboat 200, GOO to be class ed as Protcstants, and though not 30 lafge Ein numbers as the two fornefa were on the increase. through thesefforts of the Mission-
 aries, sent out from Englaad and our own
 country. Agalnst all those Christian branch. les, whether they acknowlsdge the Pope, the
 Greek Patriarck,, or cal 4hemseises Protest snt, the vengsance Of the FDroses is directed, taad war Of exterminatiou seems to have
 been determined upon and prosecuted with
 the most damning and inhunan fsrocity. The storm seems to have been brewing as
 far back as May. but the first serious de
 monstration was made on the 2d of June
 last, upon Protestant village, called Has, belya, located at the foot of Mount Her.
 mon., This the Druses attacked in over
 whclming numbers, aud when the contest
 was ended, out of 4,000 persons belonging
 to the Greek Orthodox church, and 200 of
 the Protestant, only thirty-tlirce Greek citi-
 zefs, and two men of the Protestant com
 punity. were alive to tell the tale--the rest
 were butchcrcd in cold blood, while the wo-
 mcp and children were carried away by their conquerors. t' f' ---e
 7 Tine following hesrt-rending description of
 the massacre at Dcir el Kamnar, which oc- cured on tlioS23d of June, is from the pen
 of Miss Amelia c. Temple, missionary in Syria, addressed to her father at Worcester
 Massachusetts. The lady as an eyewitness,
 thus gives expression to her feelings
 Toward dawn on Wednesday morning, a work of slaughter commenced, at which my heart stands still as write of it. From i lionsc to house the rufians passed. From boys ut the ngc of ten years, to tho totter- l ing old man of eighty, not cue escaped. In many houses. two, three, four and five, fell before the destroying sword. Around and around, the blood thirsty gangs roamed, | hunting every nook and corner, in cells and l in wells, in stables and on the house-tops till not a. man was left to bury the slan There they still lie, rendering the place re- sort for vultures, and uninllabitable for mon. ! Women, crazed by their fears, the sights, and their losses, rushed fiantically arqund- houseless, homeless--for the fire was made to consume what it could lick up with it's ten thousand tongues. Tho population of n.in ,dro 'nv "Umen If they, fno. lad shared the late of their husbands Aia- " fled to the Governnvrrt 7 4Ea1 n the midst of the city. These, to the num- I OCT of two or three hundred were standing without the gate, which had been barred against thcm begging for admission. i)rnse words aud hatchets made short work wltil hem Those who had taken refuge within, were one by one thrown out of the windows, % rcct the fate from which they had fled. Only two houses are left standing, tho Rev. Mir. Birds and the dwelling of one of the Governors Departments se.,s ,.g 7,f .a. i1 $ On the 9th of July an attack was made upou tho Christians Ut Damascus, the result of which had not fully tran.pired. Large numbers of the men were killed, and many women carried off for llarcms. The French, Russian, and Greek Corsuls took refuge in the house of Abd-elKadcr. The attitude of the Turkish authorities was undcclsive. and rather injurious than useful to the Chris 1 tians. The next point of attack will prob ably be Beyrout, and as every strong hold iu the mountains which the Christians pos scssed, has been taken, and in case of the capture of that last place of refuge, there is 10 telling wkat will be their fate. :, ]
 It is said that Russia has expressed de- siro to co-cperate with France and England in uuttiuc stop to these barbaritics--but anu,ihilation will have done it's work. The h,,lnbng phantom, called the 1" balance of power,S should be abandoned, and all Chris tendon should unite in giving lesson to the Mussulmsn tribes, which would last for alI time to come. The future peace ot the world demands it. .- ' ;" &