The Viza Horror

[ConstanUnoplc Cor. Londou Daily News.] In the uidstof the lefugees, following in the wake of Mehemet Ali Pasha, and who, since the day before, hr "Í teen constantly passing through the town. there suddenly appeared, coming toward Viza, a large body of armed men cousistiDg entirely of Bashi-Bazouks Zeibocs and Circassians. Not the slightest suspicion of them entered into the minds of the popnla tion. On the contrary, some of th townspeople, in obedience to tho orders received f rom the Turkish Commander in-Ohief, and confiding in the assuranc given by him and his oflicers, went fear lessly forward to meet the new-comers and offer the provisiona they had pre pared. It is at this point that the cur tam is drawn up, and a sight presentec to the world so ghastly that the under standing fails to comprehend it, and be fore which imaginatiou itself become distracted with horror and wonder. No sooner were they in the town than these savage herds of maiauders, witbo.nt single word of oxplauatiou or warninc feil like hungry wolves upon the unpre pared and peaceful inhabitante, seizec almost all of them, and, after plunder ing them of what they happened to have about their persons, obliged them, bpointmg their guns at their heads, to sa; whether and where they had any mone; bidden. There is uo torture which tho' did not invent in order to extract from the months of their victims such a con fession. Massacres, murders, tortures mutilations, rapiñe, pillage, flre; snel was their infernal programme. Priest were seized, insulted, and ultimately tied on pilos of wood aud burnt alive Many a parent would have preferred were the eption left to him, to put hi owu eyes out, like CEdipus, rather than see his daughters, innocent young girls sacrificed before his very sight at th altar of dishonor, and trodden under the heels of shame, he being made to statu by and witness, with tied hands anc feet, the dreadful sight, Godonly know with what u speakable agony. Until late last night the firing of mus ketry continued with unabated fury, anc th number of corpses lying about in the streets and witUin the houses in creased every moment. In the mean time the pillage of houses and shop went on mest savagely. The plunde was being continually brought out ani laden on carts and horses, and, so ben did the eavage marftuders seem to be iipon destruction, that tho goods tha the carte would no longer hold, beiDj already overladen, they threw nnder the wheels, and, passing tho carts over them broke them to pieces. The roefs o houses were pieroed through or pullec down that nothing that might by chance be hidden there should escape thei greedy grasp. Thus many people who in the hope of escaping the general mas sacre, had ried to the tops of their houses, met there with their deaths af te being submitted to the most horriblo tortures. Kespectful and peaceful citi zens, women, children, none were spared, but either put to death by tor ture, shot, or mutilated. The hands o a sick and dying person, who was being carried to a Mussulman house by i Turk, were cut off, and the porter had his sknll brokou. After the bands o Zeibecs, Bashi-Bazouks and Oireassians came the Gypsies, seizing upon eveiy thing that tho others did iiot consider worth carrying off, and completing the work of plunder aud devastation. Evtn the very mats of the houses were carriec away. On the following day, from etnb dawn until night set in, musketry fire was continually heard, from which it ap peared that the savages must have returned to Viza for the purpose of completing the work of the precediag day They plundered again the houses anc shops, seized upon every thing that couk bo carried away, mercilessly put to death all the inhabitants, men, women anc children, that they could lay their hands upon, and flnally ended by setting fire to the town, which soon became a whirlpool of flames and smoke, while thej rushed toward the mountnins, where a few of the inhabitants had manag?d to escapo, and whom they now sought out, their thirst for Christian blood not being yet satiated. The inhabitants of the village of St. George, 800 souls in all, Greeks entirely, flying before the Ciroassians, who had attacked and destroyed their village, managed to liide themselves in u large civü near Kara Dere. The Circassians, ever thirsting for Christian blood, were sconnng the country in search of victims, and flnally feil upon and discoyered the place of refuge of these unfortunate people, and immc:liately tried to effect au entrance into ïho cavo. In this, however, they were baffled, the entrance to the cave being well guartied and bravely defended by the refugees. This show of resistance on the part of the people, and tho f act, serhaps, that three of their number were mortally wounded by the shots ïred from within, seemed to exaspérate ihem the more, and, after two or three 'nrther attempts to effect an entrance, iut without success, they determiued by iny possible means to put immediately ;o death those within. They accordingy set to thoir infernal work, aad, by means of crowbars, they ultimately sneceoded in opening a hole on the roof of ;he cave, through which, without loss of ime, they proceeded to pour a large qnantity of brimstone and asphalte, to wlüch they set fire by iiring their guns lirough the hole. Asa consequence, ■he inside of the cave was in a few minutes filled with smoko so dfcnse that the poor people droppod down one by one, dying of suffocatiou, and the souls of 800 martyrs fled almost simultam ously toward the foot of the throne of their Crcator, the Alinighty. Out of the 800 who entered the cavo only eighteen were saved, almost by a miracle, having, on lirst entering tlie cave, taken their stand at the furthest end of it, and having, after the Circassians liad taken themselves off, exulting, no doubt, in their abominable work, come out of that immense grave by dragging themselves over the dead bodies of their fellow-villagers. Large numbers of young girls were carried off by Circassians and Bashilinzouks, countle8s women were dishonored and afterward put to death, while parents, soeking in agony for their children, wero seized, despoiled of all their property, and shot in cold blood. It beconieB impossible to describo all the atrocinus doo Is co.nmitted - the murdors, (hu pillage, tho rapes, the massacrep, tlw mutilatioue- or to fix the ber of young girls thnt were cnrried off. No less than 6,000 carta were lndeu ■with plunder and yonng girl '.