The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1848-12-08
he Turhlsh Capitnl ana Peonlo.

- - AZ iHtE NutliuNl1 " 81 hH6Aato ttht
the commercial business of the country is car
ried on. An immense multitude more Gu i.
GUS to vi " thnn even the exposition Of the
different wares, congreqa,os thither daily -
Constan,inople, nntwithst ,nding It's decline,
is always the point 81 Intersection between
the eastern and western world.
At this general rend zvous, WHITTIER Europe
and Asia send their representatives., one NAV
study the human species in al ,ost every vari-
ely Of type. American, English, Russians,
Greeks, T%ralians, Germ ms, Persians. Arabs,
Cnords, A ustrians, Hurgarian-, AbvssiDians,
Tartars, French, &c hurr, % and fro around
the Turk. Win smlkes and dsean,s, calm md
immoVeablc amidst he aetiaa throa which
presents an ircGnceiyable medic, 0fsiIk pelis.
SEES, white bornons and black robes surmouns-
ed by green lurbans, red fezs, and beaver
hats.
Numbers Of womc,, covered with white
d%ominos, = advance slowly and spectre-like
through the crowd, which ever now and
then opens its + nks 10 give passage to some
mounted Pasha, followed b, his attendants on
foot. Here and there may be seen rs es load
with bales, and at the farther end Of the gal
%leries are caravans of camels
Ones ears are ieafened with the piercing
cries Of the sberbet sellers, and the bowling
Of the dogsi while quantities ! pigeons coo
over the neads Of the motley crowd.
Although on king a general vi W Of this
spectacle there is htlle to admire, still one may
select from il an ininite number 1t original
scenes and pictures Iull Of character. Here
S for instance, al amhulating musician sings or
rather chants to an audlonceoneoftlos inform
G Unable ballads Of which the Turks never tire;
d there are half a dozen Greeks quarrcliing and
vociicrating so energetically, that one would
8 ex ppct nothing else than that from words they
n would come to bioodshed; while, while fur
Their on, a circle Of lrieods are RECALLING them
n selves owe, a basket OF green cucnmbers.
:. Talking Of cucumbers, they almost en-
2 tirely compose, in summer, the nourrshmen'
' of the Turks, The Sultan, Manhood Ii was
$ excess ely fond Of this fruIl, or rather vegei'
/. abGp, and cultivated it with his ~ hands in
{ The stragIto garden.
a Having one day perceived that some Of his
I cucumbets were m!Sing he sent for his head
s gardner and inlounot him that should sucn a
i, circumstance eccur again, no would rider his
Z head to be cut IF The next day three more
~ -. Iarn hal hon sgnlun u,..,n uyIfNh fh.
d gardner to save his own head, accused tho
pages ,ot his highnoss of having committed
the theft.
These unhappy youths were Immediately
sent for and having all declared themselves
innocent, the enruged Sultan, in order to dis
cnver the culprit, commanded them one aftel
another to bp disemboweled. Nothing was
IT found in the stomach or entr lis Of the first SIX
% victims, but the autopsy Of the seventh prov
n, ed him to have been the guilty one.
Is In the midst of the or wds in the Turkish
Ie %cepital, the women present . Gu ions spectacle
n wandering about IA they do covered with
white domlnos. or rather winding sheets. Thu
IN lot Of this portion Of the Mussulmaa popula
a. ton is much less unhappy than onewould he lee
ID to expect. They %certainl, hold secondary
station in society but, brought up as they arr
ia in The most complete ignorance, they are un
rs conscious OF their degraded position and know
in not that there is better. they are in gen
ernl, very kindly treated by their hue
ir hands and masters, ana do not undergo, az i
"a, IS supposed, either capricious or brutal treat
IT ment, Although in Europe they still believ
ne a Turk to be constantly surrounded by a mul
x titude ot'odalisques, 10 whom as it suits h.
n fancy, he throws in turn his hundkerc lief, a
A. ConstantinDple there are very few Osman
lees who have three or even two wives, an
p- even these they lodge in separate mansions
n in general tar distant from each other. Al
e. most all the the Turks, with the exception q
I'd the very few above MISUNDERSTANDING, pos
,st ssas n%general but one wife t, whom tler ar
as most faithful The grand seign lor alone 50 s.
as tan inthe full aud voluptuous acceptallon OF Y
ds term. Hens possessor Of a magnificent pal
'ir nee. where no mise irom without ever pens
to rates. aid where immense riches have collec
~ ted together all The wonders Of luxury. MAJ
he bic baths, lovely gardens bounded ~ a spark
o. ling sea. and vaulted by indigo SKY, legion
n, ~ slayes. who hive no will but his, no la
We but his caprice: and in, his'Eden three or for
IA, hundred women chosen from out OF the mos
at beautiful in the universe; this is the worl'
he this is the life Of that man; and yet althoug
nd he lie SO young, all who know him say th'
Ie- the present Sultan is morosr, sad, aod spl
FL netic.
oh The winyah,s q, Observer, IN illusions
ng the approaching 'ession of the Legislature
South Carolina, SAYS;
gsWe have not tho least doubt that {, me a
Of tempt will be made to bring about a souther