The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1860-08-10
Foreign News.


July the massacres of Christians
were continued. A correspondent
writing from Beyrout, under date Of
July first, says he has collected nu-
murous accounts OF the horrible bar
barities practiced towards the vic
tims, from refugees, a few of which
he instances:
One poor woman--l knew both
her husband and herself well at
DER el.kamar, where they were
wealthy people--told inc that when
the Druses attacked tho town the
sccocd time q should mention that
it had surrendered, and all the in.
habitants had given up their arms
somo twenty-lour days previously to
tho Druscs, and had been promised
protection by their Sheiks) her hus.
BAN was hacked to pieces before
her eyes by the largo knives Of the
Druses, who then declared that they
must kill all male children in the
house. The mother tried to hide
her two sons, one fifteen, the Other
nine years old. The Druses, how.
ever, found them out, and ds she
begged and prayed for their lives,
and endenvorcd to cover them in a
corner with her person, tho Druses
hacked at the lads over her shoulder
and gashod them until they botl
dropped down apparently lilcless.
The Druses then made off, anC
the woman thinking her two sont
dead, remained in n sort OF stupo
/ for two hours, SO lar as she cal
calculate. At last shc was rouscC
by hearing Gc eldest la1 call her il
faint Voice, 'rying to assure hel
that he was n"i get dead. On thi,
she felt the body Of the youngest
boy, and found his hc.rt beating
She got some water, ana after giving
it To both her children, 80 ar rs sh,
could get them to drink it, starte,
into tho town to SEQ whether sh,
could procure assistance t. get mel
aud her boys away. She got AS ia
as tho scraglio, or governincn
house, but there she found that SOM
500 Christians, who had taken re
ingc, were being cut to pieces by
the Druses, who had been invited L
enter the precincts of the buildin,
by the Turkish soldiers OF the gar
ris"n- these latter helping in th
L.;,i,D, au,i '.O,us 80 Int wUrs'
than Druses that they abused in til,
most Infamous manner all the wo
men. Seeing no help could be ob
tanned here, the poor woman turne,
to fly, when she came across an ole
Drnsc, who had formerly been &
farm servant Of her husband g. -
After great deal OF entreaty on he
part, the man consented to protec
/ her aud children down to the coast
about four hours journey, on con
dllon OF receiving AN order on he
brother, wealthy man in Bey
rout, Tor 10000 plasters. To thi
she agreed, and they returned to
gether to her house. She had no
been absent more than an hour, bu
she found her two children cut int,
pieces, joint by joint, climb an'
trunk severed TO use her words
las butchers cut up sheep'--heads
legs, arms and bodies being hacke,
mp into shapeless mass of blood,
flesh and reeking bones. Som
other poor women then joined hel
and together they made their way
a mulberry plantation outside til
} town, where they passed the nigh
A day ybreak they were discOverc
by party Of Druses, who, aile
stripping them to find whether the
had any money Oh their person:
, and taking away what little the
possessed, told them they might 4
where they liked.
Four Of the poor creatures ha
babies, all under u year old. {
these infants two were girls and tw
! boys; the former they did not touch
, but the latter they said might gro'
I to be men and hear arms again
. the Drnses; they therefore took IL
' poor little creatures, and beioi
q their uothcrs' ey' tIre them mp Il
. middle and limb by limb--"eXacIly
u To use tho poor woman = own e.
pression, "as you tear mp fowl th'
n is to be cooked with plllau." h
= member, all this done, not in tt
t heat OF fighting, but deliberately,
c cold blood. And | have hearl
u el ven other exactly similar cases
child destruction by the hruses,
"a nine of which implicitly believ
n having every reason to do 80.
II DER el Kan r contained, mon
l. ago, II population OF 5000 souls,
20 which about 1000 were men ri
a lads, 3,50o women and girls, al
10 800 children under ten years old.
Dt OF the men not more than $50 ha
N escaped; OF the women and gin
10 about 900 have reached l}eyrol
to and ol the young children less thI
70 1000 are alive. Don't forget, Ia
~ that this liendish massacre was pt
ca pctrated upon population whlc
20 twenty lour days previously, b
III surrendered to the Druses, had bo
e. promised protection by them, a
rs were disarned previously 10
nj murder.
"a, SEVENTEEN YEAR LooUsTs. -