Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-07-19
White Slavery in Turkey.
T lPsre Correspondence Of the London Times

rPsre Correspondence Of the London Times. ]
A gentleman from the British For
eign Office who was here IN 1869, was
satisfied by ocular evidence that slaves,
both black and white, were still sold
and bought with very little reserve in
the immediate reserve in the immediate
vicinity of the Surleymanyeh, or Sely-
mans mosque. The trade, besides,
was carried on this side of the Golden
Horn, near the Tophauc or Artillery
Arsenal, and has ouly lately, and in
consideration of the feelings of the
prying Franks, teen removed to the
Koom Capoo, or Sand Gate, a quarter
inhabited by Circassians, on the tar side
of Stamboul, on the Sea of Marmora.
Since the advance of Russia on the re-
gion of the Caucasus has either led to
the subjugation or emigration OF the
Circassians, the recruiting of wives for
the wealthy Turks can only be carried
on under difficulties, and the business
Is reduced to q profitable but rather
petty retail trade. The business is
generally managed as follows: A Mos
lem dealer, agent, or broker travels to
the happy land where beauty and Tirtue
may be bought, guaranteed frst-han
He makes choice Of four young, un-
sophisticated girls, marries them, i'm
ports them to ConstantInople, keeps
them as pure as when in their maternal
homes, sells them, and then goes back
for another slot ;" and if he can only
achieve four such trips in year lie can
make a decent living out Of sixteen
women-a noble, self-denying, and use-
full trade, tolerated by the Government
and consistent with the Mohammedan
code. Many of the Circassians are set
tied in Turkey, and there actually
breed children for sale, having no more
shame about it than fashionable Eng
lish mother may feel about bringing out
her girls for the matrimonial market.
The Circassian, however, does not care
for rank or family connections, but for
hard cash. FatiEa is knocked down to
Bey or Pasha. Her father takes
his baksheesh, and the girl becomes the
mistress of harem till her successor
arrives. l can, meanwhile, positively
assure you that there are in Stamboul
as many as twenty-four houses where
the sale of Circassian aud other girls is
freely carried on A young Mussul'
man of my acquaintance told me thai
at one of these beauty shops he wa'
asked $50 Turkish lire and he offered
$50 lire. That even the constant sup
ply of Circassian and Georgia slave:
has little effect towards improving the
breed of Turkish women We may argus
from the specimens of the +" flowers o.
the harems"-- fine types of womanhood
as they originally are-whom we see
driving up and down the Grand Rue &C
Pera, especially on Friday afternoon
On this, their weekly holiday, thest
lovely beings do not Gisdain to parade
their charms before the despised Gia'
ours, the gossamer texture of theil
vashmacks allowing one to descry theil
features as if that meie sham Of dis
guise we're removed. How little rea
beauty there is to be seen among then
mast be obvious to any one who com
pares them with the bevies of frest
colored, elegantly shaped Greek anC
other Levantine girls who are tripping
along the muddy footpaths every day
and at all hours of the day, to say
nothing of the dainty European ladies
out for shopping in their Sedan chairs