Litchfield enquirer., 1844-08-15

! ON~~~e~-Ss "a few Circassians in inner apartments, but these are generally baFgained for at private sale. They all seemed happy and contented, laughing, chatter
 ing, and making fun. and anxious to be sold, as their treatment and fare is much better, after than before that event, There were Turkish women bargaining for one or two. They are allowed to take them on trial and return them if not satisfied. One lady was chafering for five days, not content with three and another came to bring one back after short trial. The objection was she s'0Ored so loud that the mistress herself could not sleep, and as she wanted the slave to be always Dear and about her, this was, of course, fault not to mended. Anoth- CT slave was taken back to her quarters. having been put up for sale without any offering to buy her. Slavery here, however. is not so great evil as with us we apt to imagine. except being toEn from country and kindred, which. perhaps, in this instance, is not much regretted. They are kindly treated and we'll cared for; often adopted as chil dren, and frequently promoted to offices in the household which entitle them to authority and Fes- pect. The Koran requires that they shall be freed after term of seven years, and the Turks are pro- verbally kind hearted people, when custom or policy does not require them to be otherwise which does not often happen in these latter days.- The Circassians sell hcmselUes or aresold by their parents. As any one here may rise to the highest rank family having nothing to do with the matter,
 they of course have the same opportunity to rise as others. The son-in.law of the late Sultan was an instance of this, and indeed 1t is not unusual for slaves to rise to high stations.
 From the slave market we went to tke CisteFn of the Thousand -and-one columns, an immense reser- voir under ground. the roof a kind of brick work supported by double row of columns, one tier above the other, the pediments of the upper and capitals of the lower row coming together. Half of the lower ones had become buried iR the ground, 224 in all, and in good preservation. They were supposed to be the work of Constantine, whose name we were shown in Greek characters on one of them. It is now dry and useless as cistern, but is occupied by number of people employed in spinning and twisting silk to be used in making the blue tassels to the Fcz red cap worn by he osder of the late Sultan Mahomed in place of the tHshan formerly used by the Turkish soldiers. There are two or three other of these subterranean csterns. but we only visited this one, being the largest and most interesting of all. But the pleasure and interest was much diminished, by the pale and sckly looks of the people moving to and fro in the bowels of the earth. And the sound of their voices together with the hum of their busy wheelsissuing from the apertures above, made to admit light and e'i' 0-" ~''- -S7-T7-" --- rr-. r--- -a ---a~-- of Pluto.
 have just been out for little air and exercise, which was obtained by walking sp and down and around the bastions of our pleasant prison, and could not refrain from cutting eGpe's." But which capcrs, lest you should think much travel "hath made me mad," I will inform yoa, grow abundantly in all parts of said walls, and arc of spontaneous growth on this rocky isle, and are the same berry brought to us piekied in bottles' ana forming so good sauce to the leg of mutton of which J. and H. arc so fond. formed quite pretty boquct of these and white fox glove, and pretty flower growing in clusters, and curious plant reared in pots by us and known by the name of [. powdered beau." This, while you are shivering over the fire, will give you idea of the temper ature we are in - enjoying the sea air coming m from the open windows and when called to din' ner, I think you would have been delighted with the dish of Maltese oranges with their fresh green leaves and stems, and delicious melons, with which we were regaled at dessert. Bat now, instead of, as the French say. Eetsrning to our muttons," let us leave our muttons and go back to the far east. Once more breathing the free, fresh air, ateryis' itng the cisterns, we mounted our Rosinantes and soon found ourselves at what was formerly the jan-
 zaries, now the ;" Seraskers' tower--a title with I US equivalent to generalissimo or commander-in- chief of the army. The tower is situated at one end of large square forming fine parade ground for the troops, and is white, large and lofty; from the top affording the most extensive view of any point. Here, indeed, the whole of this enchanted ground with its fary.land scenery, was spread be- meath our view. On our right, the sea of Marmora, on our left. the Golden Horn, while before us was the Bosphorusall opening wide their several beau ties the shores of each sprinlled wih palaces, k' osks and innumerable mosques with their clustered domes piled one above the other and asched by fhe blue vault above multudes of tall, white, slender minarets, extending far upward. seeming to touch the heavens forts and Notifications, walls and tall towers both ancient aud modern, fleets ofmerehant vessels with their white saAs spreaA. immense war ships with their threatening ports. mygiads of light caiques bounding over the waves. intermingled with which, and adding SO much beauty to any scene, here are the green banks forming part of
 every view, along the shores of the different wa
 ters; the houses having always back ground formed
 hv . rrsttv 0arden with tah rose bushes. covered.