The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-08-10

INTERFERENCE OF FRANCE, ENGLAND, AND
MR.. DALLAS AND LORD BROUGHAM.
The steamship Bohemia arrived at Que
bee, on the Both, with Londonderry dates
to the 10Th.
THE MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS.
The correspondent of the London Daily
News, in letter dated Beyrout, June %,
says:
Yesterday we had the fearful news of the
village of Dheir.el- Hammer being sacked,
burned, and every Christian male, to the
number of two thousand and more, being
put to the sword by the Druses, who, a
fortningt before, had disarmed them, in cold
blood. The women end children were al
lowed to escape, and reached the mouth of
the Damoor river, half way between this
and Sidon, yesterday, whence they were
brought up last night and this morning, to
the number of eleven hundred, by 81. B. M.
ships Ganet and Mohawk OF the men of
Dheir-el-Kammar, not more than thirty
have escaped. The town is all burned.
The refugees say that the Turkish soldiers
sided with the Druses, helping them to
butcher the people, and that they 1.-THE Sui.
tan's troops) we're the only people who in-
suited the women, of whom not few met
with the worst treatment by them. Bey-
rout itself is in panic to-day.
BEYRoUT, June 1.-THE attack of the
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menced on the evening of the 9th. Several
men were killed and many women carried
off. The French, Russian and Greek con-
suls took refuge in the house of Abdel
Kader.
The attitude of the Turkish authorities
was undecisive and rather injurious than
useful to the Christians. 5000 Turkish
soldiers arrived to-day. The fears of the
Christians are redoubled and Commissioners
Derby and Norwich are expected with i'm
patience. Details to July l say it was then
ascertained that the Druses had burned and
pillaged lOl villages since the goth of May,
while from 1900 to 5000 Christian inhabi.
tants of Lebanon, many of whom were
wealthy, and all strangers to anything like
poverty, are homeless beggars, depending on
charity for their daily bread. Over and
above the number of Christians shot in &C.
tual warfare, it is believed 1000 or 5000
have been butchered in cold blood.
The massacres at Damascus was not
known at this date The most sickening
details are given of barbarisms inflicted on
all ages and sexes. A French vessel had
been sent to Lotaka, and was obliged to
take up position within firing distance of
the town, in order to restrain the tanatical
portion of the inhabitants from committing
further outrages.
The Austrian frigate Radetsky bad been
ordered to proceed to Syria, to cooperate
with vessels of other powers there.
PARIS, July l9.-The Mon,teur says the
Sultan has addressed the following letter to
the Emperor, On the 10th Of July:
have at heart that your Majesty should
know with what grief have learned the events
in Syria. Let your Majesty be convinced that
l shall employ all my powers for establishing
security and order in Syria. That l shall Sc.
verely punish the guilty parties whoever they
may be, and render justice to all, in order to
leave no doubt of my government. I have in
trusted that important mission to my Minister
Majesty is acquainted.
LONDON, July l9.-It is reported in Par
is that the French government have received
a communication from St. Petersburg, ex-
pressing the desire of Russia to act in &C.
cordance with France and England, in the
East.
The Russian cabinet reiterates its Opn.
ion that the recent events now TRANSPORTING
in the East hold in suspense, the pace of
the world, and that the very existence of
Turkey is at stake.
The Pays seem to imply that more massa-
ores are in contemplation, and that the ex-
citers of the disturbances in Syria have
rami6cations with other parts of the Otto.
man territory that the events in Syria
were only prelude to formidable rising
of the Ottoman population against the
christians and the sinister projects are stat
ed to have been long since concerted by fa-
natical conspirators.
THE DRUsES.
Who are these murderous people? is in
everybOdy's mouth, about this time.
The latest and best authorities trace
them to the confines of Syria. They are
Arabs, and settled in Lebanon and Anti.
Lebanon within the last nine hundred years.
"Syria," says the reliable DR.. Thompson,
who wrote from a twenty years residence
and travel in that country, "has always been
cursed with multiplicity of tribes and re-
ligions, which have split up the country in
to small principalities and conflicting clas-
ses, fruitful parent of civil war, anarchy
and confusion
To give some idea of the populations of
Syria, the Doctor enumerates them as fol-
lows:
Aurds. ...:................ $4,000