New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-15

yrass.widower dare bring back children with him or
| what would be worse, wives; so, in pious way 10
satisfy his physical desires, his domestic quiet, LIZ
finances and his religion, be devotes himself 10 the
! slsye-.rsGe.
Like the Abyss.nia- sisve-deaiers, lie IIarami
misuse glIls rom liie sec oi e.gn. Tie Hsdr'ini
Ibe;ines seldom keep them longer than two months
for fear Of iessening their .aae TOO n,nch ard
these unfortunate, innocent victims 0f Inst psss from
hand 10 hand and from one Ior "a another. until ss
perfected harlos, they come q: lax on the shore of
| the Mediterranean INTO the possession Of the e.z.ly-
| pleased Turks, where their wanderings cssse, and
tLer premature old aye ends IL death the life OF
| procuress on the streets.
Tie negro children Of The Soaclel coss. are used
more FOR work than for pleasure they there
fore fare much harder than the Galas subssting only
the OF the frugal repats Of the Arabs, and
being suhjec, to frequent punishment.
The voyage from Zanzibar to Jddah generally cccu.
| pied six weeks. The bad fare and the cold nights
particularly toward the end Of the voyage, engender
dnrrhea and skin diseases, to which the small pox is
frequently added. The dealers count on an average
loss Of third Of their slave eargces. The freight
a negro child with provisions, consisting OF coarse
| douna bread and dried fish, eosis g. recEoned, how
| ever. only Oh the Survivors. The average price OF
negro children the Soschel coast is $0 which the
mortality lie voyage raises 20 si5i the duty in
Jddah is 10 per cent the market price, 50;
the brokerage g. and much .of the expenses
of selling which brings the COS. Of the slave in Jid
| dab to about So. The average price of q sonnd
negro child in Jiddah is about $40. A third OF the
survivors, who have been injured more e's are OF
course below this price, so the profits, under favor
| able circumstances, SONG 20 per cent. Twenty
Al -
coast for S. and were then worth so much hess IN
| Iiddah.
Negro girls. # not particularly well formed. are
worth but little more than negro boys; while Gala
girls are worth half than boys Of that tribe 1t
| s mo-. easy 10 estimate the average price of Gala
slave girls for there who sold as high rs
$500 or ssC0 II would be prudent perhaps, tn fix the
average price OF such girls in Jdish At % and Of the
boys n. $50 in Massavah at $50 and 40 and in Adua,
the principal city of the Tgreh, at $50 and s2n, and
only half that among the robbers in the far south west
of the country; for this orcbe, unnatural emigration
oi young children is not effected without great sacri
fee Of life. When once they are on the coast, the
mortality ceases the further journeys take but little
time, and there Is always between them shorter or
longer rest at the seapors where the Gala slaves Are
better fed, clothed and housed than the negroes, and
seldom II ever abused since they easily driven to
suicide.
Many slaves are captured in razzias, which the
Christian chiefs frequently make, without any other
cause into the territory OF the harmless Galas; but
yet private Christian in Abyssina is osten-ibly
saverader; that business Is given over to immigraed
Jews, Greeks or Armenians. This moderation, how
ever Of the Abyssinan Christian must not be asbed
to any religious or humane moves. Fear of violence
and coniscation, based many bitter experiences,
has since the Mohanmedans have taken possession Of
the coast deferred the Christians of Abyssnis from
the c0ta trade and il open only to such ~ have
gone over 10 the nex faith. The Turks in Massayah
and Suakin are neither able willing to remove all
the Of tins fear, and the Frank Is still compelled
to pay fcY IN escort oyer the territory Of these barbs
rians If he would 90 safely.
4 third of the population Of Abyssnia are Moh.m-
medsns and both parties the Neguz Taidrus and the
Negussi fear thai if they abolish the slaveraie il
will attach the Mohamnedans 10 the other.
Mohamued made the slavc-rade means of spread
ing HE religion. Already several tribes Of the tallas
have been converted 10 Islam by returned slaves.
Every Mobammedan stakeholder considers il his daiy
to teach his new slave the formula of his faith 4 soon
a. the slave can say tls by rote he j. satisfied tie
slave is u Noslem.
As the Catholic Church refuses 10 sanction mar
,iagcs between believers and unbe6cver~ 10 and with
yc; greater rgor docs the Book of Books the Koran
forbid marriage that is, the purchase OF wife,
what i the same thing, q slave, between a believer
and an infiiel. The Turks, VINO are not precise
uIon this point of orthodoxy wnsed such alliances
between the Greek merchants Of the Red s.. and
their Mohammedan slaves. .o the great dissatisfaction
of The true believers, who at the massacre OF
Jddah did not forget the guilty female slaves Of the
Greeks and brought back by purchase into tie bosom
nf their church child two years OF age, the offspring
of such nnIoE.
The Turkish Government IN Arabia some time ago
declared that tine prohibition OF the siAve-tride de-
creed two wears and hall ago enforced, il would
excite l. rebellion in Suahin and Masssyah. Ia. that
was only subterfuge for the Turks are quite much
opposed 70 The abolition Of this traffic the trals.
Roth Masssvah and Suakin fe on small bare /
Islands neither of which has mosc than 3 GN inhab-
ants In January last, Massavah had two companies
and 30 Bashi- -Bazonks in garrison, with two field
pieces which oi could not have been needed Ia
oyorawc the inhabitants but 10 the respect OF
the Shohos and their Nab.
Half q dozen revenue cutters distributed between
Perrin Massavsh and Suakin. would le cutie sufficient
10 break up the savr.tradc between the Asatic ard
African coasts: and # measures a. strong those
taken against the slave-rade the western soa- oi
Area were taken on tins coast, no skipper w0ud dare
t take on board unwilling sailor, Rot to speak OF
slave cargo; for the idea o an Arab vessel running
away from English cutter is simply rdicuiOus.
Like all other Orienrals, the Arabs forget nothing
and Learn nothing; humanity be taught them only
bv force and e but tenth o the force and persever-
ance were applied 10 this ohec. which the English
have wasted on the west coast Of Africa for the sup-
uIsssiop Of similar bui far ess reprehens be traffic