New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-10-27

Of the moot honorable officials in the empire. He has
change of the hsrem Of the Sultan. In TIE hrem all
tie woven claws, acquired by purchase, inherit
aDce gift; there are among them several hundred
black slaves who do the coarser work Ct tie house
hold. TIE number Of white slave women is not less
than two hundred. As there ia none Of equal biFth
with whom the Sultan contrac. marriage, TO avoid
the evil esults of Ntpotism be selects from among is
white slaves from four to seven First Women, ca
dimes The first OF ,hess who bears Tim takes pre-
cedepoe Of the oihers snG rsceys tine honors Of tho
Fist Woman of the realm If this arrives At the
throne, his mother becomes the Vaiide, the Saltan
mother ana usually has very considerable Influence
IN TIE affairs Of State. Next in rank to the cddnes are
twelve eedikhki, who serve the Sultan personally.
The others are divided into Odas or rooms. each OF
which has is superintendent and all are sa ct to the
mistress Of the court, who is called 6etehoda' Inc
younger save-girs are brought up in yerl carefully
qua ded psce until they arrive at the age Of puberty,
when they are tIansfersed TO the harm. Marriages
between free Turks ana slsve-women from the harem
Of the Sultan frequent and il is not seldom that
the, married to slaves who have been brought up
in their households. Mothers often purchase and
eoIese slave girls to be married TO their sons. by
ma riage they become free.
The price OF slaves has risen considerably since the
last century. The average price of stout, welform
Cd black rave in Cone,anl ope is from $50 to 500
White girls Of extraordinary beauty FELL az high
a. s. 600. The trade 10 white Crcassian gira is now
mostly carried ia the coes bousas of Galas ard To-
phsna a, lie kept as from Europeans possible.
The average importation of slaves into Contts0tioople
ia now about two thousand from Egypt and i've nun
dIed FRI N the Caucasus annually.
"Of late years there have been many Of slaves
esying their masters and taking refuge in the houses
of Christian Europeans The Convento Of ST. Benedict
TO has been made asy INN for them. Not one has
ever been reclaimed by the Turkish police. The runa-
WY slave girls oftp fall into the hands of pandsrers
who, to the shame Of the Christian name, carry on
heif vile trade undisturbed in the Frank quarters of
CorstsnIinople
Immediate abolition Of Slavery in TGrkey is an i'm
possibility; the Turks have no free servants. The Ra
yabs-GIeeks, Armenians and Jess-are served by
free persons as they slo wed to have 10 Mobsn-
uedsn slayes. But these servants are usually very
Ivy al unfaiibfu and exceedingly yiing to
in Turkish houses Slavery DO abolished only
when the Sultan and the chief officers Of the empirc
will give up their barems the service Of the harems
renders Slavery Deoessary; no free woman daring to
appear Unvaled before free men, her nearest rsi
tives. The customs which sre sancf,d by The Koran
can oily he sbol he'd by charge in the rel. Of tho
highest eronsges Of the country, and OF this there s
LILLE hope ether by the childish proeci Of the Greek
Roman Catholic Pitzpios, or through the splendid BIZ
bic lately presented TO the Sultan in the Of the
British ana Foreign Bible Society,"