The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-06-05
The CncassIan Exodus.

1t has been already stated that, in
consequence Of the recent Russian sue
cesses in the Caucasus, great numbers
of the Circassians have emigrated to
Turkey, suffering many privations on
their voyage, owing to the want Of prop
per provision for their transit or sub
sistence on arrival in Turkey. A let.
ter from the Constantinople correspond
ent Of the London Times, dated April
18th, gives a fearful picture of the suf-
ferings they have endured:
when the ultimate defeat and sur
render Of the Circassians became ap-
parent, the Russian government made
overtures to the Porte, in view of as
certaining whether the Sultan would
receive into his dominions such proper
lion Of the Circassian tribes as would
desire TO leave their country. The
Turkish government consented to re-
ceive them on the condition that the
emigration should be gradual, and
could not commence before the fine
season. 1t was then believed that forty
AAiOh0aAAA W MY Al4OuHdLtA h0ulu avail
themselves of this refuge
The progress Of events, however,
has been 50 rapid that these stipdla
tons have been totally disregarded,
and the successive victories of the
Russian army in the Caucasus produc-
ed the panic and the fight which have
been recorded above Such arrange
ments have been made as could be de
vised in the eXigency of the moment
for procuring shelter and nourishment,
but they are so inadequate to actual
requirements that considerable alarm
is felt for the future
The same correspondent adds:
" Twenty-seven thousand of these
unfortunate creatures, IN the most ut
. ter restitution, have poured into Trebi-
zonde. The privations- Of the voyage
in a most inclement season have pro-
duced disease of the very worst kind
among them, which IS not only COM
uniting fearful ravages i'm their own
tanished ranks, but is extending to the
local population Typhus and small
p0x are raging in TrebizOnde, and the
place is threatened with famine. 1t is
calculated that no less than three hun
bred thousand will, within the next
TWO or three months, seek shelter in
this country, and half that number are
now seeking the means of transporting
themselves to the Turkish coast of the
Black Sea.
Unfortunately 1t is most difficult to
obtain transports for this purpose The
Turkish government have offered every
pecuniary inducement for obtaining it
without avail Ii is now their. inten-
ton to disarm some of their men of
war, and employ them for this service;
but even this source will not be sufii-
Gent 10 meet the difficulty Some idea
may be formed Of the mortality raging
among them when il is known that out
Of TX hundred Circassians who took
passage in a steam transport after a
voyage of three or four days three
hundred and seventy only arrived at
their destination.
The accounts that are received Of
the helpless and destitute state of un-
unhappy beings surpass in misery and
horror any thing have ever seen re-
corded in connection with suffering
humanity Women in childbirth, ex-
posed to the inclemencies of the Black
Sea Journey, without assistance or the
hare necessaries of life, enveloping
their new born in a corner of their
own ragged garment; sturdy warriors
who had achieved many gallant deed
lying PROSTATE in the agonies of hor-
rible death, decks swarming with the
dead and dying. These are things now
of every day occurrence on the waters
Of the Euxine'