The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1856-04-05

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The s witliimlSthe. enclosure
Of the PFC .nicatcs with it bytw6
gilt gat - arc watched day afda
night AID not even their superior
dare Ct rcshold unless blythe express
comm iaonasch. e9hftla ypelss,
OF NsnaniiY. the Sultan IS the one
who cs iaipiof inequality Of condition.
AT NJ land beneath all others, he alone
Isl iepn5 The right to G WIN
y N rsriagss Md lIw allows fop I
d believer, who can supper -ansa
e hutIonly es1. him ."fhe
Ne aW5antaSa
practice dates fromths aay
Il, in GIT up dtosthat unsf
Sultan canld contract s
Several cases are recon- : .,reH
were Christians. A tradiui. of 3theI
credence III Europe that the ess OIL
c~onauerors Of Constantinople wasy fee
French descent, the betrothed, of
Emperor, John Palelogus. Aftet
on which the princess was, had bees
Admiral Sarutshi Pasha, Mnrad III, as
them reigning Sultan, gave the PashaSAl the.
treasures which she bore for her dowry, and
placed the princess herself in his harem.g; En-
chantede by her genius and her grace, afte
time he. married the captive, and had by '
one son, Mahommed II. go 2E
"Ihe mother OF Mahmound, also, who die in
1856, was, I am told, a French woman of
American descent, born in Nantes. The name.
of her family was given me, but have lost it
now. She was scarcely two years old, so the.
story went, when her parents, on q voyage to
America, were captured by a corsair and taken
to Algiers, where they died. The little. girl
was bought by q slave merchant, n~n her.
fourteenth year had become a dazzling beauty.
The Dey then boughthe of the slave merchant
for o handsome sun Of money, and presented
her to the Sultan Abdul Hamed. She was
soon raised to the rank of a cadine, and gave
to the world the Sultan Mahmoud.
The women of the harem are digided, ac-
cording to the nature Of their employment, into
five classes. l. ~ %ai
The highest are called cadines, o VIC de
rived from chotan, which is applied all
Turkish ladies Of rank. They are by naniSsthe
I" beloved" of the Sultan, and enjoy all the
privileges which were formerly possessed by the
Sultans- The number is limited by law to
seTan.
Oner lines and the
othe niger by
th called
I or,
il One
is4 es-
siYe st
success r
the raj IA.
the yea mi
Mejid = f. love
illness, K Mrs.
Three ! 40 has borne
a e is q perfect
b, .. Five is n bl1e-eyed
Ma. -, an enchanting blond,
purchased in Salonica. Mrs. Seven, o very
Gircassian beauty, but with a face
MS tie moon and eyes like the eyes of
the hours, ! give these particulars as they
were told me; I cannot vouch for them.
After this crown of feminine stars Of the first.
rank, the suns OF the hayem, comes o group
from fifty to sixty planets, designated by the
name Of 0fafyg, %cdalsques devoted to the pri-
service Of the Sultan most of them bear
the name and title Of their political function.
So there is a superintendent Of the wardrobe,
The Sultan is attended by female domes-
alone. ~ = Linn at table, battle
him, Gle" IS off keep the
a vatch ut his
pillow perform
more { Hadines
The lay rite
is er
e
'kbnl, Z Is
pre- ,e.
ne
His
sultaD-
n . rank in
he
TIL - mt limited
,ither by ne taste or huinor
IF the Snltan is the only rule. Murad ". had
more than 800, by whom he had 1870 childreR.
But since Mallmond ], sultans have been much
nore temperate in this respect, either out Of
considerations Of economy, or respect to popu-
or opinion, which is more powerful in Turkey
han is generally supposed. Next to the
'dalisqpes ome the ustas, whose business it is
% serve the Snltan-mother, the cadines and
heir children after them come the ~noyices,
md finally the ommon slaves, the menials Of
he Scraglio.
The five distinct Glasses compose a personnel
from three to four hundred mi princi-
ally natives of the Cherkees country, and from
'ther portions Of the Caucasus. Most of them
nov neither their family nor the place Of their
birth those who are not designated by their
a%nctions, receive a name for some popularity
n personal charm, MS Hayati, the lile-giyer;
the dispenser Of joy; Dibesto, the
Noori Saba, the light of the
Gulbahar, the rose, of spring. All
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