Show the civil war in syria A correspondent of the boston writing from beirut on the ath uit gives the following account of the civil war avar now ragina raging D near that city ile he says cruses and Christians numbering hundreds of thousands are now engaged in wholesale murder arson and pillage iri which fiend idt lit work they are aided by I 1 turks moslem arabs and ami the people known as the Meta walies walles fj om my cay window last week I 1 counted from tw twi nty itty to thirty burning hurning villages upon the mountain a brew krew rew few miles from belbot arh whence the flash flah of musketry may easily be seen and the heard ohe ode after another in rapid succession as they echo through the A valleys a ileya the dying klied klind and the dead are ato bron bran brought glit plit daily into the town tn in numbers mia ibers ibera and abd the widows and the orphans toay inay be seen in great crowds weeping and walling about the streets the barbarity of this waris waria war Is truly shocking eh 0 clan I 1 men med women and children are overtaken while while fleeing for refuge and without arms and ruthlessly slaughtered while praying for far quarter braying rhe the christians have bave t buus us far suffered most terribly thein thell vi lages have been burned their crops destroyed and great numbers have been brutally murdered while arcile the cruses who are better warriors and far more courageous are assisted by the turks moslems and andreta meta walies and up to this time have proved successful c cess ess f ful rul i 11 this bloody war var which is waged on both sides as a war of extermination has its origin in religion and political causes the christians and druces hate each other with arith a deadly I 1 hatred on account of the difference diffie rence in their 1 religious faith and the christians hate the cruses with avith a special hatred because the dhe cruses are in a great many of the mountain christian districts feudal chiefs and rulers over the christian or and greek catholic vill villages aFes apes the american missionaries in mount lebanon have been greatly exposed but as yet have haxe vre are a suffered ered only for want of pro aw ons upon the breaking out othe of the war ivar mr ajr consul su I 1 johnson sent guards for their protection and in some cases provisions previsions some of the families of the mission a n have llave come ome down to under udder an escott escort furnished by ahe consul and others are daily expected no danger personal to the americans in mount lebanon is a apprehended as they are well known and well avell protected but their work is stopped by the war their houses become asylums for the wounded am angl anil the fearful in fact they are crowded out by the people who seek their protection tec tion for wherever the american flag Is i seen on the housetop the people noc flock k in great numbers for admission the humanity shown by the americana Ameri Americ cang ansin in beirouty wounded the homeless and the i starving refugees from the mountains will mill iong long be remembered by the natives of fhe be I 1 country the american blis hiis mission sion slon premises are crowded day and night by women and children ay ry in ing for bre bread ad which they receive with avith comfort confort and consolation from froin the american missionaries information is 13 daily received of fresh cases caes odthe most horrible butchery of native christians and it would seem as if the dauses and moslems were leagued to exterminate them root and branch this morning we learn of a large number af pf t peasantry having beer been induced to return to their villages v 11 ages adl adi where ere they were milea in cold blood wood and of the of five ecclesiastics of the latin church who were shot down dovi near inear the walls of sidon the success of 0 the cruses Brusca hasund has jirred up all the diol Arci moslem slem siem hostility bostl bosti lity to tzu toa fians and a general insurrection seems tobe bobu trembling in the balance the presence ofte of russian frigate of thirty guns gives the feell of a security ec arity to the Frankl frank franki population iop lop of B bergui Ber ej i oui g and the expected arrival of a fleig f as it geh gen generally generall erali crall hailed with delight the mence absence of an american ves war vat is deeply regretted at this time the U steamer iroquois is somewhere in the fanean it is supposed she is det detainer alifA in sicily sicil y |