THE HISTORIAN CHRISTIANS
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The massacre of great number Of tn
HISTORIANS, as reported by former arrival
is unhappily confirmed by the paper
brough! bV the last steamer. This inleres
sing people. who have latterly been visiteC
and instructed by American aad other mis-
sionarIes, weSe found to have retained th
religion of the Bible In a great degree o
purity, although surrou nded by Mahome
atan tribes Il seems that the hostility o
their enemies was excited towards them by
the too jealous labors of the Christian mis-
sionafies. The following Statement is from
an English paper:


"Nassacrc of the HISTORIAN Christians
The expedition of the Pasha of Mosul
gainst the Mountain HISTORIANS has been
attended with the most depiorabe success,
sustained, as was to be expected, from the
cooperation of his savage auxilaries, the
k0rds, with every sort of atrocitv The
houses of the wretched inhabitants were
fired. and they themselves hunted like wild
beast and exterminated, neither sex nor age
met with favor or mercy; the mother, broth
ers and sisters of the Patriarch were the OBJ
lects of peculiar bafbarity, the former hav-
ing been literally sawed In two and the lat
ter most shockingly mangled and mutila-
ted. The Patriarch himself succeeded In
efecting his escape, and has taken refuge in
the house of the British consular agent at
Mosul. The number of victims who have
perlshed In this massacre is not yet known.
The population of the mountains amounted
to one hundred thousand Their fate has
been truly lamentable & extraordinary. Sur
rounded by Mussulman hordes, pent up for
ages IN their native fastnessess the very ex-
IsteDce of these children of the primitive
church has remained almost a secret 10 the
rest of Chrstendom.-H Happy for them in
deed, had 1t continued so, for their o5scuri-
ty seems TO have been their best protection.
No sooner had their country been explored
by missionaries. and the interest of learned
and scientific men been awakened with res
pect to them, than this terrible visitation be-
fell them ; and the public is called upon 10
sympathlZe with them in their destruction
BEFORE perhaps 1t had become generally a.
ware of their existence. Letters from Mo.
sui throw innch ofthe odium of the sad af-
fair upon the Europeans. 1t was the i'm
prudent zeal of rival missionaries that first
excited the jealous apprehensions of the
Pasha of Mosul, and caused him to .slet
slip the dogs of war; on the unfortunate
HISTORIANS. 1t is affirmed even. that some
ofthese gentleman, with view of preiudic-
ing his mind against the American mission
aries. suggested to him that they were assis
ting the mountaineers to raise forts, where
BY they would hereafter be enabled TO set
the Sultans authority at defiance These
reports were altogether unfounded-their
consequences. however, have been conlem-
plated by the inventors of them, who have.
nevertheless. brought an awful responsible
sty upon themselves"


A Constan.inople correspondent of the
London Morning Chronicle. under date of
August II. states the particulars, as follows


on have been informed Of the combi-