Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-04-17

VINO 1ecans W nave been persuaded INTO the experiment
rather BY pay ambition 70 be considered patron Of
public Improvement than by any real desire ON his own
part that il should succeed to get up model farm so
that all who had eyes to see might witness the superiority
Of ajudicious system Of agriculture An American gen.
tleman, from of the Southern States of known capa
city and intelligence placed at the head Of it, and
great promises made should the result prove salts
factory Poughs of the most approved pattern and all
the best implements of husbandy brought
the United States and put in operation but, notwh
standing the most faering progress it failed from want
Of encouragement The result not sufficiently magi
cal to arouse the Turks from their habual ethargy the
productions Of the earth did not spring up in single
night like of their tabled temples and money began
to grow scarcer least found to be sasfacto
ry invested in purchasing good faith from bad ministers
or repenshing the har with fresh supplies of fat cattle
from the mountains of Caucasus The director and his
family after undergoing all the tolls and prvations Of
long soour among besoted and barbarous people, and
suffering In health and purse were finally compelled to
give up all hope Of and return to their native land
where, 1t to be hoped they by this time surrounded
by the comforts Of home and the blessings Of civilization
II Is strange life here-haf civilized half savage.
One lives in such atmosphere Of orientasm that he
unconscousy becomes oriental in his habits and smokes
chbouks and drinks muddy coffee matter of
were not for the cvilizing influence Of hotels be-
luxury Of lazness. No traveller considers himself
pleey initiated into the beauties of oriental life till he
has suffered scaldng and strangulaton in Turkish BATH
purchased fez, and smoked himself sick a nargula.
When he has done all this and learned 60 about the
bazaars slone and say osh what does it cost he
may congratulate himself upon having mastered the rudi
ments Of Turkish If he double up his legs and squat
like tailor, it will be all the BETTER he will be invited
to sit the floor whenever he visits native house Some
- i'll
TONS and keep three chairs for their guests but
this is exception the general rule For three weeks
have hbored hard to surmount these difficulties and
now pride myself on being very respectable Turk-in
outward show at least for should be sorry say any
thing about morals have been thoroughly boiled out
of my slim in public bath have suffered my beard to
grow till can by it; smoked narguillas till
within a of getting the delrium tremens; and pur-
chased fez which two hours every night before
going tdbed in the hope of conquerng certain bash
ulness fhich yet prevents from appearing with in
public Sitting cross-legged the floor the great
trouble 1t frst but that difficulty have also surmount-
ed by had practice and risk Of dslocatng my limbs
which required immense deal of twisting and stretch
ing befoe they would into the proper positions and
now wuld defy any Turk in STEAMBOAT to squat more
gracefully In the matter Of chibouks great caution and
judgment necessary No person pretending to have the
slightest claims to orientalsm will disgrace himself by
smokingwith glass mouthpiece. Amber is the only
true indication of quality. None but the hama, bur-
den-carr1rs smoke glass This fact for the bene
fit of all Jewellers who have ambition to be truly Turk
shthe glass mouthpieces being dexterously colored
that requires adept to distinguish them from amber
poison pays three dollars very pretty which
he suppose be the purest amber and after discours
ing all lis friends upon its superior softness and deli
cacy of temperature quietly told by kind resident
VIII onon he cannot disnute that ia common
worth about twenty-five cents, he has right speak
eengly Of the subject The must be six feet long,
and of thu best cherry. Jasmine, for short smoking
makes admirable stem, and rosewood is not bad All
these be had and bored order in the pipe bazaars
The perpetual risk of life and limb which the uuwary
traveller is subjected in rambling a1 NJ streets Of
Constantinope may be regarded an6 test of orien
talism consider that any who spends three weeks
here and employs his time useuly in oungng about the
azaars and streets of Sambou and hanging around the
uays and public bridges Of the Golden Horn, without
losing eye suffering dislocaton of ankle,
plete bodily crushing under bale Of merchandise de-
serves ever after to be regarded shrewd and
plished traveller Running muck among the Maays is
agreeable pastme compared with the running of gaunt
lets through the Of Gaata Stambou Take as
an example morning walk from the Hotel de Bryant to
the the other side of the bridge Confident
your ability to find the way without Carlo, who has al
Iready made small fortune out OF you rather hoping at
the same time meet with adventure which you can
relate on your without witness you sally FORTH
stick hand and steer your way through the graveyard
to tower the left with green top. This you fix up
on as q sort Of landmark So far, very we'll Now you
enter gateway the tower where you beset by
whole legion of beggars There is general camor for
alms-a whining and beseechng that Italian begging in
all its variety never attained. EenSii E6endi! is all
you can understand; it means gentleman; most noble,
exalted and honorable sir in the present OF
you pay few pasers for the pleasure of hearing
yourself called eendi; it sounds oriental and makes
one feel Turkish. But this is only the first gang you
have only fought your way through with small change
to start up still determined gang little below
Whole patoons of old and young ragged boys and
ecrept men, either side Of the street. attack
you with efendi eendi and double-dyed effend rang
ing the most dulcet soprano the importunate
alseo You walk on under the conviction thait would
be impossible to relieve all this misery. Suddenly voice
of thrilling reaches your ear it is des
perate in its appeals rresstiby imporing and
to say so plainly for Gods sake eendi, don't fell
low-creature sarye do human life by dropping
half plaster herejust what would buy you cigar
give it and make poor wretch happy for day-that
your conscience mtes you and you feel that it would be
a sin to purchase momentary pleasure with what would
give a days relief to fellow down goes the
half plaster Alas this is only drop in the you
instantly beset by the whole legion the purse of For
would be Intellectual in appeasing the yoracy Of