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Horrible massacre-destruction Of the Nesio.
rtan christians by the Turks.-The pure and up
right HISTORIAN Christians, dwelling in primit We
simplicity and happiness. in their mountain fast
ncsses, havo boon sought out by the bloodhounds
of Mahommed, and doomed to annihila,ion. Tho
circumstances connected with this sad event are
melancholy in the extreme. and are detailed by a
correspondent of the London Morning Chronicle,
writing from Cons:un,inope under date of l7,h
August, follows


You have been informed Of the combination be.
tweon the pacha of Mosul and several powerful
kurdish chiefs, for the extcrminatior of tho Nes.
torian Christians, or Chaldeans. Letters receiv.
cd the day before yesterday contain deplorabIe
account of the results of the attacks of the United
troops. They had penetrated into the centre of
the Tiyaree district, burn: tho village and church.
es, and destroyed the crops, and put the inhabi.
tants of both sexes to the sword. Three, or nc.
cordlng to other accounts, five brothers Of the Pa
trlarch have beon slain. his mother was cut IN half
and his sister horribly mutated. The Patriach
himself had fled to Mosul, and taken REFUGE in
tho British vice consulate. Thus, a sect which
had preserved its independence for centuries, and
mad resisted the prosecuting sword of Islam, when
welded by the most powerful and in,oIeran, Of
the followers OF Mnhommed; which, in its SIM
P'iclty and isolation. had maintained the doctrines
and iorms OF the primitive church for above four-
teen centuries, and which had escaped the cor
ruptlon OF religion, of morals, and Of character
conspicuous in all other Christian sec,s in the
East, has now, in the weakness of Mahommed,n n.
ism, and the strength of European Christian; n;tv
been delivered over TO destruction.