The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1854-04-20
MISCELLANEOUS.
From the London Times.
Society and Manners of Turkey.

Society and Manners of Turkey.
In Christendom it is rare that an OBJ
scure boy attains that power in manhood
which enables him 10 direct the good or
bad policy of states. Splendid excep-
tions there are but the Gregorys, VOL
seys, Cromwells, Ganganellis, Cannings,
De Borgos, and Napoleons are few in
number. It's true that W ashingtons and
Franklins, Jeffersons and Adamses, Jack
sons and Calhouns have arisin; and other
great men of humble birth will arise in
the far West; for the American soil is
far more genial to their growth than the
ground OF old Europe. That they will a.
rise and grow strong in the latter, the first
half of the nineteenth century has given
demonstrative evidence and long before
the other half passes away, the pointed
reply made by Grammont on the arrival
of a stupid fereign ambassador to Louis
XIV, who had, in the war of the success
ion, allowed the incapable relatives of the
ministers to be employed as generals and
officers who committed daily blunders,
will no longer be applicable to Europe
Louis having expressed his astonishment
at the dullneSs of the ambassador, Gram
mont remarked, "Vous verrez, sire, que
Sc sera Ia parent de quelque minstrel
"You see, sire, he is the relative Of some
minister
Let us see how they manage those
things in Turkey. Read Ottoman histo-
ry, and you will be familiariSed with a
despotiSm which has usually no other
moderator than the bow string. Yet we
find in its annals sublime examples Of
magnanimity and generosity, and recent
events have proved that these virtues are
by no means extinct.
In Turkey the term slave has very diff
ferent signifcation to that which the word
expresses in English. It's true they are
bought or taken prisoners; and not being
lslamities, when purchased or captured,
they are considered infdels, and therefore
unworthy of respect or confidence. But
when they once enter a Turkish fami-
ly, or the service of the Sultan, it is rare
ly that they do not after some months a
dopt the faith of Mohammed. When cir
cumcised and numbered with the faithful,
there is no barrier to exclude them from
the highest posts in the state. They may
become Pachas, that is, general or gov,
1ernor of the first rank, or Grand Vizir,
AI%ho is the Prime Minister of the empire
Countlessnumber of slaves and renegades
have attained both ranks. Some have
risen with honor and usefulness. ThG
celebrated Reschid Mehemet Pacha was
born about the year 1900, at Kutayah in
Asia Minor; his family were GeorgianS,
and his father was Christian pastor
When little more than child he was pur-
chased as the slave of an old Seraskier-
the notorious Koshrew Pacha-and was
brought up in the Islamic faith. The
slave so introduced mingles, eats and
drinks with, and often marries one Of his
masters family.
Young Reschid, on becoming animate
of the family of Koshrew, made himsel
remarkably useful; and being faithfully
attentive to his devotions as MusSul
man, he gained the full confidence of the
old Pacha, who treated him rs son, anC
who was himself formerly Georgian
Christian slave. The late Sultan used t.
call him father, and two of Koshrew'
other slaves, HALL and Said, the compan
ions of Reschid, have not only risen to tn,
rank of pachas, but they have each re
ceived one of Sultan Mahmoud's daugh
ters in marriage, and they are now th'
brothers in-law of Medjid, the reignin!
Sultan.
With respect 10 the highest Turkisl
families, they have little other than Chris
tian blood in their veins. Their mother
for centuries have been the daughters @
Christian parents. purchased in Circassi
and Georgia, or captured elsewhere. TIL
mother Of the late Sultan isbelieved, a
Constantinople, to have been . beautifu
French girl, who, with her parents, wer
captured in the Mediterranean, an
bought for the harem of the late Sultan
father.
Reschid was remarkably handsome AN
he early displayed superies,abilities an
an ambitious spirit, Which soon Fistir
guished him. He was oClatsa in A82C
to the pOEsI stt7; or y oAsSt
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lu, and wss segSe
under Ishaif "a
ma. He scl
lie of Ku
put Veil IN IN
to death,
soon after oTdC zee
: the terrible Al7 Pated.-
'p Two youths, the gegc' hoV
" ever, received and ne harem
10 Reschid. He then dcieated and near
q annihilated the rebellious army OF the r
nt cha of Dana. In 1926 and 1896, ii
N command in chief Of the army in Gree
IS was entrusted 10 Reschid Mchemlt,
rs Seraskier Pacha; while he still retalne
IN the Kutayha pachalic. Missolonghl an
s. Athens surrendered to him and 1t is dl
,e to his merciful interference that Il
IN Greeks, who retrcated to the Pir@us,
ne order to escape on board their vessel
,y were not massacred by the ferocious Cha
K doupa. Observing their intentions, lie
child galloped up to them and shot the
H., leader with pistol through the hea