St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-08-23
The Syrian Massacre.

at once in matters which concern OF
may be held to concern France, has
ordered formidable expedition Naval
and Military Comprising $4,000
troops,) to assure the safety of the re-
naming Christians in Syria. Praise
be to him for his energy and decision.
That England will act vigorously and
heartily in this case cannot be doubt
ed, no more than that America will
coalesce with France and England in
rescuing the surviving Christians of
Syria from the demons who have
sworn to extirpatc them but what
species of vengeance can be cxacted
for the massacre of hundreds-nay,
thousands of our fcllow-mcn What
reliance can be placed on the pledges
of the cffeminate being at the head of
the Turkish Empire? What security
for the future can common sense be
satisfied with?
The case let's in question in which
Russia has more than once attempted
to interest England and France
namely: the cxpediency of hurting
the Turks back into the desert. Such
an undertaking is perfectly practical
bic, for they Gin Europe) do not num-
Der more than fifteen millions, and
perfectly justitiable by even the weak
ness of the Turkish Empire, which
because of that weakness, keeps
Europe in perpetual anxiety and agi-
tation, but especially because of the
horrifying immortality, proAigacy, and
fanaticism of all professors of the
Ottoman faith.
The Paris Moniteur says the pro-
posals made by France, with the OBJ
ject of arrcsting the efl'usion of blood
in Syria and of protecting the Chris
tian inhabitants, have been acknowl-
edged by the great Powers. England
is ready to cooperate with vessels,
and recognizes the expediency of
sending c0rps d'armee, of which
France would furnish the whole or the
greater part Austria and Russia
have given the same opinion The
Prussian Minister of Foreign Affairs
is gone to receive the orders of the
: Prince Regent on the subject. A
convention is to be signed for deter.
mining the character and object of the
European intervention. The acqui.
esccncc of the Porte is now only
awaited
The French division under General
Trocila, from the camp of Chalons,
was 10 embark on the Odd at Mar
settles for the coast of Syria. The
present division, which, it is said,
will be followed at no great interval
by second, consists of 5000 infantry,
exclusive of some 5000 or 1000 ma
rincs, engineers, artillery and wagon
train-in all about - 600 men.
1t was reported at Paris that Add.
cEkadcr was to be entrusted with the
government vi SYRIA.
The French Consular reports from
Syria state that the massacrcs are the
result Of a conspiracy of Mussulman
fanatics. A report having been
spread among the Druscs that Euro
pcan diplomacy was about to drive
away the Turks from Europe, the
Druscs determined on cxterminating
the Christians in Syria. The French
Consuls therefore state that the Porte
will be unable to rcprcss rising or.
gained in it's own favor.
\ Paris letter says that England
will send Il feet Of mcn-of-war and
three thousand five hundred men to
Bcyrout.
Three Dutch war steamers have
been ordered to Beyrout.
By the latest adviccs from Turkey
i: seems that the slaughter in Syria
is stayed, temporarily at least, after
the destruction of some ten thousand
Christians and fifteen hundred Druscs
1t is now well ascertaincd that the
Christians were the aggressors. They
are a sort of hybrid Catholics, under
the influence of the Church of Rome in
some degree, but retaining many o!
the Mohammcdan notions and Gus.
toms. Uunder the instgation of the
Jesuits they had organized associa,
y,An, 10 r Al -.
old enemies, the Druses, and were
collecting arms for that purpose, when
the Druses anticipated them, and so
got the advantage. The Christians
made but feeble resistance, and nearly
a hundred villages were burned and
the crops of the peasants destroyed
Not less than sixty thousand Chris
tians arc now without shelter and de-
pendent upon charity for their daily
bread. Their condition appeals loud
ly to the compassion of Christcndom !;
and the Catholics, to whom they are
most nearly related, and by the folly
and wickcdness of whose cmissarics
they have been exposed to this terri
BILE suffering, should not allow the
Protestant world to excel them in OK
tending the necessary relief.
In Japan boys become men at about
fifteen years of age. They then re-
ceive new names and have their heads
shaved. There is nothing very "odd"
in all that as compared with the GUS
toms of our country. In America
boys become men at a much earlier
age. They then call their fathers
names and shave assiduo usly-for a