Banner Of Liberty (Newspaper) - August 22, 1860, Middletown, New York N Y AUGUST NO 34 The Damascus of the London July 1660 On the instant I forwarded to yon vi Smyrna a telegraphic dispatch giving an out line of the fearful tragedy which has jost bee witnessed and which when the last accounts left the place was by no means finished a Damascus Since then further details of this outrage have reached from variou authentic sources Damascus is the real capital of Syria and i the largest city of Asiatic Turkey It is con by all Moslems a holy town as from j departs and to it arrives every year the ho or pilgrim caravan to and from Mecca The population of Damascus exceeds o which are Moslems Christians and Jews Ever since the murder of th Christiana by the Druses in Lebanon com and more particularly since it becam every day more and more evident to all men that the Turkish government showed partiality to the Druses the more disreputable Moslems of Damascus began to be exceedingly to the Christians These low Moslems are t numerous a very troublesome and an exceed ingly bigoted race in all large Oriental towns and are tenfold more so in Damascus than ii auy place I know in Asia Hearing how tb Government had everywhere not only against their but how it hat everywhere in Lebanon actually helped to be tray if cot really to murder them the Chris of Damascus were from the very downhearted and frightened as well thoy might be when threatened from day to day that the Moslems would rise and exterminate them Matters got worse and worse the one party becoming daily more frightened the hourly more insolent until at last on Sunday the 8th InsL when the Christians came out o their various churches a mob of Moslem iads were busy in the streets making crosses ii chalk on the ground and then stamping and spitting on the sacred emblem But so utterly downhearted were the Christiana that they did oot even complain to the authorities ol this wanton insult On the contrary all they did was to confine themselves still more their houses for the rest of the day What must then have been their astonishment on the Monday morning to see these same lads who bad made and spat upon the crosses on the previous day sweeping the streets of the Christian quarter in chains by order of the Turkish head of police They at once posed that this order must have been given for the very purpose of exciting a riot and they were not mistakes At two P three hundred of the lowest Moslems of Damascus rushed armed into the Christian quarter ing Slay the dogs of Christiana 1 and immediately the work of plunder burning and murder commenced Achmet Pacha or General and Commander in Chief of the field marshal in the Sultan's was at once informed of what had taken place But although he had at bis disposal some eight hundred regular troops and several field pieces not a man nor a gun did he move He never showed himself in the streets nor took any steps whatever to atop the massacre de- old story of and he bad not troops enough to do any good The Russian Consulate was almost the Erst house attacked and all those Christians who did not take uge with the famous chief Kader behaved moat out the were murdered at once But although the affair might have been stopped the ease before dark on the Monday wier that hour the mob increased in numbers every minute Late in the evening about 300 soldiers were sent to put a stop to the outrage but very shortly joined in the plundering such as did not do BO actually used their arms to massacre the Christians The whole Christian includes some of the finest palaces to be found in the soon one moss of flames for this there is the positive authority of ropean eye witness who was hiding in the neighborhood all that fearful the Christians tried to escape from the flames they were thrust back on the burning piles by the bayonets of the Turkish regular troops ever when we recollect that one of the milita ry chiefs who commanded in Damascus was Osman Beg the miscreant who but previously had delivered up at wards of fifteen hundred Christians to be sacred by the Druses ail wonder at the con- duct of the military ceases at once When our last advices from Damascus left that place the whole Christian quarter had been utterly destroyed Four thousand tians bad taken refuge in the house of Kader who defended them against all comers Three thousand had taken refuge in the castle under the Pacha and several hundred in the English consulate which as situated in the Moslem quarter of the been respected two thousand tians it was calculated had been murdered all in cold blood and the estimated of valuables was 00 sterling From Aleppo the news is bad They bad not heard of the Damascus massacre but fully expected almost every hour the Moslems of the town to rise on the Christians Captain Paynter of her Majesty's ship Exmouth senior naval officer here has despatched her Majesty's ship Mohawk to Latakia and Alexandretta so as to pick up and save fugitives from Moslem fanaticism In the panic among the native Christians has been something fearful day and to day They are embarking by dreds in the different merchant steamers to Alexandretta Alexandria Corfu Malta and i for England Nearly all the French and English merchants are sending away their ilies to Europe All trade la stopped for the Syria has had a blow from which she will not recover for sixty years In andria all refugees that have fled there lave been very handsomely treated by Said Pacha food to the poorest money many houses to all In the ish and Americans have formed a fund to re- ieve the poor who have fled to this place in housands the French bare done the same the Sisters of Charity have relieved hundreds every day with food the French English Russian Austrian and Prussian consuls to say nothing of the American missionaries who daily feed three hundred give bread cooked meat rice clothes to several dreds of these poor starved burnt out peasants The Slave From tbe Liverpool Post It is unfortunate for the of freedom and civilization that the Anti-Slavery party in tbe United States judging from its in England resembles in one respect tbe teetotal advocates in this country With the best they are unpractical and appeal to the sympathies without pointing to a possible remedy for the evil that they desire to exterminate Let us hear what is the nature of the ment and of tbe proposals made by those who visit our shores for the purpose of soliciting aid in their noble cause they say is an abominable crime It is not only a that atmosphere of the States but one for which all humanity is re- sponsible and you Englishmen yon men cf Liverpool are among the supporters and tors of Not alone do you look on complacently while your brothers are being bought and sold but you actually encourage the traffic by clothing yourself your children and your dependents with vestments made from the cotton that is cultivated under the lash of the slave driver and of which every bale is drawn from the womb of mother earth at the cost of a tortured body or of an oppressed spirit Shame on you mercenaries I will you not BO far deny your selfish wants as to mark your tation of this pernicious system by refusing to purchase the bodies and souls of these dark brothers in the shape of Yankee cotton Break off all association with these man venders If our teachings have not served to convince them of their error your dif pleasure and expediency will probably bring about a result more favorable All the medical men have attended to ti wounds and sickness gratis and even the crews of her Majesty's ships Exmouth and as well as the French imperial ate have contributed their mites A meteoric stone weighing from 400 to 500 pounds fell cr was supposed to Tall in Juniata County Pa ou the ath nst A rumbling noise was heard by many ersons at 5 p tu and one lady saw hing falling rapidly into a field Near the lace indicated by her the stone was found laving been examined by a geologist be made jis That it resembled limestone that it la circular in form 3 feet 4 inches in 18 inches thick Now reader what does this practically Why it amounts to Until you are in a position to grow cotton in your own territories in sufficient quantities to supply your wants you must lay up against your quays a few of vessels and allow them to rot you must throw out of ment some hundreds of seamen leave unclothed of your countrymen and must beggar hundreds and thousands by taxing them in to increase the tion In your poor houses and provide for the shelter and support of other thousands of your citizens And lastly you must quarrel and rupture your connection with those whom you wish to influence for good 1 And for why Because we inhabitants of the Northern States arc unable by precept and example to convince our Southern brethren that slavery Is a crime in the eyes of Uod and man and an in- that should be immediately abolished at any sacrifice I But there are reflecting men who may If your Northern cousins are doing their most to eradicate this evil bow comes it that Lewis Smith and Elda Rose two American slaves who hare succeeded by dint of toil beyond labor hours in purchasing their own freedom and that of their wives and the greater part of their are obliged to come over to England and appeal to ine Christian charity for required to purchase the freedom of the four children of Lewis Smith still in How la it that tbe leading anti-slavery men of the Uni- ted States could not manage to extract these try out of the pockets of the wealthy the free States Did we whom you accuse lation was comparatively small and you are richer than we Besides are you going to answer the appeal of these poor dork brethren who have crossed the Atlantic in order to so- licit your aid to liberate their children by referring them back to their own for relief and yon mean to instruct us in our duty by explaining to us that you are not so much sinners as we publicans No cousins we do not thus reply to your amusing strictures purpose of showing you the beam in your eyes we would simply draw your attention to the there is still greater scope for your efforts at home and that the means by which you suggest that we should aid you are are not dictated by wisdom and sound judgment or THE WIDE The bany Journal is very busy just now writing up the Wide and prints a frightful looking wood cut in representing three persons attired like the bell era or more like perhaps the three who were hung A German paper at Bock Island HI Informs its readers of the origin of the Wide The gentlemen of the Wide Awake who are DOW so zealously blowing their horn do not appear to know what historical are attached to this name The title wide first acquired notoriety in 1854 when it graced those bands of who somewhat later acquired such celebrity under the name of Know Nothings Persons who lived in New York in 1854 will remember the outrages which those white-hatted loafers who called themselves wide repeatedly committed upon the Germans of New York Brooklyn and Williamsburgh For the sake of decency the Republican battalions should have adopted a different cognomen CENTRAL HEAT OF THE The rate of the increase of beat is equal to one degree of Fahrenheit for every forty-five feet of descent Looking to the result of aach a rate of Increase It to see that at eeven thousand two hundred and nicety feet from tbe surface the beat will reach two hundred and twelve degrees the boiling point of water At twenty-five sand five hundred feet it will melt lead at en miles it will maintain a glowing red heat at twenty-one miles melt gold at seventy-four miles cast iron at ninety-seven soften iron and at one hundred miles from tbe face all will be fluid as a mass of ing and boiling rock in a perpetual molten state doomed possibly never to be cooled or The beat here will exceed of being tbe abettors of American slavery low our slaves in Jamaica to appeal to the charity of other nations for Did we take our neighbors on the continent to task for consuming slave-grown we iball be told slave with which man is acquainted it will exceed that of the electric spark or the effect of a continued voltaic current The heat that melts platina as if it were wax is as ice to it Could we see its our intellect would afford no means of measuring its intensity Here la the reign ol perpetual fire the source of earthquake and volcanic power Recitative It is Important that people should know that a law of Congress pawed some time since viding that when any person shall indorse on any letter his or her name place of dence as the writer thereof the same after re- maining uncalled for at the office to which it is directed thirty dayi or the time the writer may direct shall be by mail to writer nor tbe tame be treated dead letters till so returned to the of the writer and remained uncalled for
