Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-08-13
From The oor4e,poadeace oftls London Post.
HORRIBLE TRAFFIC. IN CIR
CASSIAN WOMlGN..INFANr
n1IOIIlE. IN .rHIIR KEY. 49,


There has been lately an unusually large NUM-
Der of Circassians going about the streets Of Con-
stantiuople Many Of them no doubt belonged
to the deputation which came to petition the
Porte that their country might be taken under
the suzeTainty of the Sultan: A considerable
portion. however, of the Circassians now IN the
CAPITAL have quite another mission than polti-
cal one to fulfil. They are here as slave dealers
charged with the disposal of the numerous par
GELS Of Circassian girls that have been for some
time pouring into this market Perceiving that
when the Russians shall have reoccupied the
coast ofthe Caucasus this traffic in white slaves
will be over, the Circassian dealers have redou-
bled their efforts ever since the commencement
of the peace conferences to introduce into Tur-
KEY the greatest possible number ofwomen while
tho opportunity ofdoing so lasted They have
been SO successful, notwithstanding the prohi-'
bition of tho Porte, and so many of Her Majcs.
tvs ships in the Black Sea, that never perhaps,
Mt any former period was white human flesh so
cheap as it is at this moment. There is an abb
solute glut in the market, and dealers are obilg-
[ ed to throw away their goods owing to the e4-
tent of the supply, which in many instances mas
been brought by steam under the British flag
| In former times a good middling Circassian
girl was thought very cheap at el00, but at the
present moment the same description OF goods
NAV be had for IS. In fact, the creatures are
eating their heads off, and must be disposed of
at any sacrifices however alarming.
Independently of all political, humane and
Christian objection to this abominnble state of
| things; there are several practical ones which
| have even forced themselves on the attention of
the Turks With low prices low class of pur-
chasers come in to market Formerly a Circas-
sian slave girl was pretty sure of being bought
Into a good family where not only good treat
ment but often rank and fortune awaited her;
but at present low rates she may be taken by
any huckster who never thought of keeping a
slave before. Another evil is that the DISPOSE
ton to possess Circassiau girl ut such low
price is 80 great in the minds of the Turks that
many who cannot afford to keep several slaves
have been sending their blacks to market, IN
order 10 make room for newly -purchased white
girl. The consequences is that numbers of black
women, after being us many as eight or ten
years, in the same hands, have lately been con-
signed to the broker for disposal Not fsw OF
those wrctched creatures are in state quite un9
/ fit for being sold He finds them so unstable
that he has been Obliged to decline receiving any
more. y single observation will explain the
reason of this, which might appear strange
when compared with the value that is attached
to an unborn black baby in some slave countries.
In Constantinople it is evident that there is
very large number of NEGROES living and having
habitual intercourse with their Turkish masters
I-yetit is rare thing to see npukatto. w hat
becomes of the progeny of such intercourse? l
have no hesitation in saying that it is got rid OF
by infanticide, and that there is hardly family
| in Stamboul where infanticide is not practiced
| in such cases as a mere matter Of course, and
without the least remoTse or dread.