Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-08-16
AIEXA ANDRIA VA WEDNESDAY. AUGUST l6, 1876.

chiet tied around the head, completes the dress
They wear nothing around the neck. 1t Woulo
seem that they are constantly in expectation o.
being hung. Everything they have 90 is hltny'
repuguant, hideous Such are the men wno'
according to Turkish newspapers, leave theii
hearth aud home" to rob "in defence OF thetl
country"
Ihaye said that OOOregular, trained troops
which have not been sent, would have been
more effective, but 10000 Bashi-bazouks have
been sent Instead They will assasslnate more
than 10000 persons. The fear Inspired by the
authorities before an attack on some or the
Christian villages caused them to ABANDON
everything. A hundred and twenty one villages
were burned | went by chance to look at one
| of these-Peroutchitza- history OF Whlcn
| will give. According to the estimate OF
disinterested persons and European othclais,
this is the one hundred aud tweuty-frs!!,
and this may even be considered as beneath
| the number Peroutchitza is situated to the
left of the railroad between PhiIippopoll and
| Pazardschyk. midway be ween these two places,
and 6, 900 or 5000 yards from the railroad. 1t
was Christian village Of $50 houses and hav-
ing more than 1000 inhabitants, planted, as 1t
we're, between several Turkish boroughs as
Door by their idleness as PerouchiIza was rich
| by it labor. The instant the call was made Tor
volunteers Peroutchitza was shut 10 between
all its peiphbors. The mobiles who were saved
iu time arrived at Philippopoli, where they de-
mapded aid more loudly than any one OF their
fellow citzens, saying they had nothing to do
With the insurrection. The Governor replied
to the effect that he would think about it. The
| corsuls inerveued and addressed themselves to
an aide de camp of the Sultan sent from Con
stantinople to report the true state of things
| They obtained promise OF help, which was
| reduced to the sending Of a commission OF COD
ci!iatioD. The commission did not even 60
into the village, which the assailants wanted
| disarmed, to begin with.
This, in effect was the way the Bashi ba.
zouks operated: They presented themselves be-
fore Christian village, aud, according to the
''oruer Of authority required complete DIS
armament. After this order was obeyed a
| massacre of the men so disarmed was begun.
In case the villagers refused to hand over their
guns, &c., their village was Immediately set on
fire. Several villages which had never been
armed, and which, consequently, had no arms
to deIiver-a fact we'll known to the murderers
were treated in just the manner l have lndl-
Gated. The people of PeroutchiIza answered
that they would deliver their arms to soldiers
of the regular army, but not to the Bashl- ba-
souks Then the attack commenced by firing
the village at the four corners. The hight last.
ed four hours. and the Inhabitants surrounded
by fire, took refuge 10 one of the two churches.
The authority" then sent cannon, but the un
fortunate people held together, though at this
point they were willing to parley. At length,
completely outnumbered, they consented to
surrender. The first to leave the church
was shot down in cold blood the instant they,
showed themselves; they then oomprehended
that the attack was made with but one object,
namely, general determination, and they
resolved to stand out to the last, Thus, 10 a
word, there now remains OF this village abso.
lutely nothing of the $50 houses-nothlng,
nothing, nothing. defy any one to find any
other trace than portion of the church, whose
four walls are riddled with bullets, and piece
of another wall few feet 10 height. The on
ly object remaining Inside the church was the
half a painting representing st. Paul. l have
sent it to you, and you will be in possession OF
all that remains of a township which paid
500, 900 francs year tor duties.
And as to the population of over 1000 per
sons, they are now reduced to $50 old people
and children, who mourn among the ruins
which cover all that was dear to them. Not
strong man is left, DOT q woman. All these
have been slain, aod all those who escaped the
massacre have been carried away into slavery
to the other side of the Salkaus, where they
will be subjected to the Pomacs, renegade
Christians, still more ferocious than the Mus
sulmans themselves, and who are always on
the raid The abandoned children who strayed
into the country have been caught and sold at
au average rate of fifty plasters eacb-a little
less than S3-the little girls, at least those who
were pretty, sent to Constantlnople ana piaceo
upou those secret markets for such bargains
l. tbar mill ha
among the harems, where the ladies always
have little girls which they raise to sell when
thew become of age. These are their little per-
ouisites. You will understand that the slave
dealers are expected from Mecco' rumor
now being in circulation that the sale OF women
is about to be recommended. 1T will be seen
that the old Turk is just as low as he was the
moment after the conquest; indeed, these peo-
ple have not advanced one step morally, and
some of the recent events have destroyed all
that European civilization has been able to
achieve in fifty years upon this essentially bru
tai population Ooe hundred and twenty one
VILLAGES burned women violated and children
hacked to pieces. The Bashi bazouks take the
latter by an arm or leg, give them one terri
Bile cut With their knives aud then pass on to
the next. Those considered most adrolt 10 this
bloody work cut the little ones IN too across the
waist a; blow. A priest told me that some
few days previous, while he was crosslnga ford
one of these half bodies injured the legs OF his
horse. One priest was cruolhed, another was
roasted alive. Further on he saw women i'm.
paled on stakes drawn from ricks of bay. My
mind shrinks from tho remembrance of these
horrors, and will conclude in the words OF
some of the countrymen to me, wv hatsoeVer
you may say to your readers, you will always
| be within the truth.
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