New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-08-27
Neh Orleans 1aIp Crestsnt.
.oorresponaenee Of b. london rlnes.

Correspondence Of the london Tlrnes,f
THE Latest PARTICULARS Paris, July %, Z A.
M.-Syria continues TO occupy the Paris papers
almost to the exclusion Of every other topic. Some
journals open subscription lists for the relief Of the
sufferers; others devote themselves to proving
those persons in error who have expressed be-
lief that the Maronites provoked the conflict in
which they have been SO grieTously WOYated. The
GonstN1tioaael has just undertaken both Of these
tasks. 1t gives long summary Of the principal
events Of the massacre, founded, il says, COM
plete and authentic narrative it has received, and
denounces the apathy, not TO say the completely, Of
the Turkish authorities, and especially knzchid
P s'la.
The Monte publishes the report on the fnasaaeres
Of Der-el-kamar addressed hy the surviving in
habitants of that town to the Consuls OF the five
great powers at Beyrout. 1t is an interesting and
painful document, and goes far to prove that, in
that part of Syria at least the Druses assaled their
Christian fellow subjects without the slightest pro-
vocation. Taught by former saiieripgs, and sur
rounded on all sides by Druse villages, the people
of Der-e-kaInar carefully avoided giving pretext
of aggression. Kurchid Pasha, in comnuniea-
ton to the Governor Of the town, had praised the
prudence Of the inhabitants, and guaranteed their
safety and tranquility, even though in order to
maintain them, he should have to use force against
| the Druses.
Nevertheless, when, on the very morrow Of the
receipt Of this communication the Druses attacked
the place, the Turkish soldiers shut themselves mp
in their barracks, and when on the second day of
the conflict the Christians implored aid shelter or
| at least ammunition all these were refused to
| them.
| The Druses passed the whole night in pilage,
| traversng the town with their women and bearing
| great torches. On the morrow, Thursday, June
Il, fresh Druses arrived in numbers from all parts
| of the mountains, and the troops, who saw them
arrive, offered opposition. Then the Christians,
finding themselves quite at their mercy thought to
do well in taking refuge in the barracks where the
troops and the governor were, and carried thither
what they had been able to conceal and save from
| the plunder of the night.
| The troops received them into the barracks and
another portion of the inhabitants took shelter in
the barracks of Betedine where the kaimacan also
received them. The town plundered, the Druses
| began to murder all the men and children they
| could find Some women also We're killed. They
| ripped up children their mothers breasts, cut
| the threats of husbands on their wives knees,
| violated women publicly, and burnt human crea-
lures in the open streets. 1t was an hour of desc
| lation the air resounded with the cries of women
and children, and blood flowed in torrents. The
massacre completed in the town. the Druses re-
paired to the barracks, which contained at least
500 men, besides women and children.
| They were allowed to enter, and in presence oi
the Governor and of the Kaimacan Of the troops
some soldiers, advancing, opened the doors of the
apartments in which the Christians had been re-
ceived The Druses rushed in, with hatchets and
other weapons, and at once began the mmolation
of these new victims. The death of some of these
was Tightful. The Druses first cut off their fingers
saying that it with those fingers they had writ
ten for suceUr. They poured boiling water on the
heads of others. g You have need to be shaved, =
they said, and the hatchet, replacing the razor,
carried off their heads.
The report gives details of number of atrocious
cases of cruelty and torture unnecessary TO eX,
tract. The despair and misery OF the victims had
no effect on the Governor and his officers. The
Turkish soldiers repulsed with the bayonet those
Christians who sought shelter among them, and al
lowed tho Druses to seek their victims in every
corner of the barracks. They even took part il
the plunder, stripping the Christians, and deliver
ing them to the Druses to be killed. The repor
accuses the Governor of the town of having pro
missed protection and safety to some who threw
themselves at his feet, condition Of their giving
him their money and jewels. They gladly com
piled, and were forthwith handed over to the
| Druses.
A few women alone escaped all the males, ever
the infants in arms, were killed. The barrack
rooms were flooded with blood and corpses lay il
heaps. The hideous work done at Der-elk kamar
the Druses went to the village of Betedine am
killed all the Christians who had taken refuge j
the barracks there, as we'll as one hundred an
nine belonging to that place and to the village {
Molasser. They then burned Betedine, in tn
presence of the Kaimaican and of the troops n
: turned to -kamar, sa cked the convent, kile
Q the monks and burned the town. The massacl
i lasted the whole of Thursday, the 2lst June. I'll
number of victims is estimated at 21Oo, beside
women and little girls. Scarcely tenth part
| the population escaped.