Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-05-05

into distinct corporations or Esnafs,
aud are governed by an inspector or
Kiaya. These bodies are very num-
erous, and include corporations of
bonnet-makcrs, pipe-tube manufac-
turers, water carriers, boatmen, and
Others the corporation Of boatmen
being amongst the largest. These
men are the cabmen of Constantine
ople, and ply upon the waters Of the
Bosphorus. in their litile vanished
kalks. They are nearly all beggars,
ar bachelor Adventures, who leave
their homes on the borders of ASIA,
for Two or three years, To earn money
enough at Cons,anInople to return
in comfort TO their distant villages. -
Their object being TO economise as
far as possible they generally club
together IN bands of FIVE or SIX. 10
hire one large roprn (Which they get
for about twenty piasires, equal to
three shIllinss aud lourpencc per
mont aud therein each member
has his carpet and his bedcloihes.-
They give sum about cquil with
the rent, to some old man, who is
charged with The arrangement of the
room, ard with the preparation of the
boatmen's supper. This old man is
W II cared for by his employer, and
IS ;helr umpire is disputes. Thus
these prudent fellows gather their
modest harvest quickly, and return to
their homes, unless in the meantime
by the exhibition OF some rare talent,
they have been made captain pacha
The capitalists and landowners
are reputed to be grave, diguiied,
intensely .prejudiced class of men,
They preside over their farms or
business, take great care of their
homes; extend 10 their neighbors a
beautiful hospitality; pray give
away abundanlly in charity educate
their children and, with the we'll
loved tchIbouk or pipe, enjoy the
kef, that irresistible. idle dreaulness
that the Ottoman loves 10 nurse, sill
ting cross-legged upon his splendid
carpet He sees the progress gong
forward in his country with the look
of hopeless man He says. A." When
the medicinal properties OF the plants
revealed themselves To Hickman, not
one of them said to him, = | can re =
store life to corpse Sultan Abdul
Medpd is another Hickman, but the
, empire IS corpse, all true Mussel-
mans are under gre und." lf he be
rich man he will order his relatives
to convey his body TO the great CEN
etery Of Scutan of Asia, tina, the
infidcls may not disturb his bones
when they shall have taken possess
ion of Slamboul. He represents a
4, large class ci men IN The Turkish EN-
puv. Those men look upon all The
; reforms which have been going on
during the las, fifty years as So many
hopeless attempts to restore ANNA
{ ton TO dead body. The, are tn,
Turkish Torres, longing TOR The goo
: old tunes when the pachas were un.
: questioned tyranis; when The slave.
market was brisk IN the open squares
OF ConslaniInople and when IN,
: Koran was interpreted 10 defence o
oppression aud of wrong. The,
are, IN fact, the lalnt type of To,
: Turk vulgarly known ihroughou
Europe. they are represented al
! exhibiting those virtues which char
u aclerze the Arab Hospitality relig
: Ious zeal, and scrupulously mora
q life but they are kuown TO be crafty
u aud, when reused, cruel. They ar,
d declared faialisls, AID any Turk vii
e see his property fall from hiu, with
e out a murmrr. The doctrine q
predestlnallon has IL stem. dliself u ,o
&c his sou! he expresses 1t in many dit
i ierent proverbs The blood desr,n
c ed 10 be shed cannot be retained i
the artery = When Destiny az
e rlves the eye of Wisdom becom,.
'e blind" I" When the darts of dlvlhs
"a will have been sped from the bow !.
J Destiny, they cannot be warded d
. by the shield OF Precaulion." 1het
&c are among the old Turks popul'
!" proverbs and although the enliga-
~ ened Ottomans of the present d,
u ceased TO preach the errors OF iatl.
'e ism, the belief in IL continues to oe
"' rate throughout the dominions OF be
&c Sultan, aud To parallze the nalioa
: energies. But while this fatallsm B.
tards The progress of the Otiomans. il
- imparts a singular dignity to Them.
h' The old-lashloned Musselman i,
never astonished, mover del,shte,
/ never stricken down with grief.
- his house IS consumed by fire, he say
calmly, 1t was written" Vine
u he is upon his death-bed, he quiet
performs his ablutlons, repeats b
- ndmar; trusting to his prophet an
" his God, he directs that his hea
shall be turned towards Mecca, all
~ expires.