Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-12-30
Fros, he New York .Ameri,san


terestlgfor publication, they are at your
for thevent of American -four in the Paci-
| nc. Formerly Chill Supplied Lima (the
only uRrkst) with an immense quantity OF
wheat at very low rate have seen
that article sold IN Valparaiso at "a cents
per taaeea of $40 pounds, after beng
brought on mules from 80 and 40 leagues
distance. Yours, &c.
Valparaiso. a4h .aagust, 1924.
| You can scarce torn an idea o. the
state Of business on this whole coast
'larkets glutted With almost every thing,
| ind no possibility OF selling, except tor
| promises, which are never intended TO be
fulfilled. Of more than 10000 dollars.
which are still outstanding here ! have
| not tor the last tour months collected l00C.
J went about tour months since to 81 Ja-
go, IN order 90 collect about 5000 dol
lars due there, and was obliged to bor-
70" money TO pay my expenses while
here.
As respects the poillicaastate of things,
sc have changes enough, bui not all i'm
/ provemsnts. We have had two or three
qn'e' rt1oiut,ons, the last oil which was
effected the other day in ST. Jsgo, by a
few dozen people, calling themselves Ii.
oerais, by which they upset the senate
and constitution, and made Freyer abso>
Lutte director for three months 10 be re-.
spcnslble 10 the Chose sovereign people
tor bis actions, and at the expiration of
that time, he might call another congress
To make sRotter constitution, it he pleas.
&c.
Blanco is again appointed admiral of
the squadron, ard his baud OF music
which is The only hing--Is in perfect rea,
diness tor sea. Wooster is among the
outs, whsre | think he bad better 9e.naln;
bu, ! believe that is not his opinion
With the prices IT Tue staple Commo-
ditles 10 his market, tor three or tour
years past, you are better informed than
am, but with the causes Of the great and
sudden changes lhal have so rapidly sue.
teeded each other, you bavr no, proba.
by bad SO good an opportuni y to inform
yourself. There are two differsnt pests
that have entered me wheat, known be-
tore, bu' never 80 generator destructive
as tor the fOur Years past be one 10
called pofu,tao, aud appears when the
wheat Is w'lh'n six or eight weeks OF ma.
turing, and commences at the root OF The
stock, and very gradually proceeds to the
top or bard OF tbe wheat. Viewing II in
the fields it resembles rust upon so many
iron rods, and ,mpercephbly advances
ill j, ascends the bard, aud then entering
the kerasls, when they are formed and
mstur'ng) the hopes OF the hdsbandmen
are lost. In passing though it. one is CO
vered With dust resembling yellow snuf,
from wbi h il takes lis name. Arriving At
the gram, fields OF wheat, whose early
promise bad filled The husbandman's heart
with JOY. are suddenly converted TO stub
BILE, over which IL appears as II some
flaming brand had been waved. During
its progress II was almost the only subject
oil interest and attentions: and the com
mon saIuiat,On Ut the day 10 the county,
instead OF how IS your health was,
rs bat !, the progress OF p0lv,iao with you. >
The seCon cau>e OF the ch nges in
the market, is the pest called 5at'eo which
il possible, is more dreaded than me o
hber. ibis is degenerate and POISONOUS
species Of wheat that springs up with the
so iormidably as within The last years,
and which one not intimately acquainted
with the subject would pass by unob-erv.
ed in all IT'S proc ress To maturity lts stock
or stem is little higher and more delica'e
than that OF good wheat, and in the bard
ed part OF il the kernels are more loosely
disposed. Neither at the time OF apply.
ing the sickle, nor OF thrsshing Cor tread
ing it out, is Il possible to separate them;
nor when brought TO market IN the grain,
would any OF US suspect the mixture, un-
less the proportion OF balico was very
great This has induced the owners Of
many baciendas 10 send flour instead OF
wheat, and in this form it is only by being
oil the brad you have eaten
The kernel,oi baico is somewhat small.
or than that OF good wheat, OF darker CO.
Tor, and is little dattened, and imper-
teciIy formed at one eud; otherwise you
could no, distinguish it. Forty kernel
OF this ~ penny loaf, would reduce any
one who eat. it to the same si'uatlon as If
lie had drank ten glasses Of brandy; and
It's effect is called the intoricGt,on OF bali
co; and what was al first almost lncredi
i BILE to me 49, that men eat it, and hogs
eat ii, aud s'cken; bu wis, that do not
chew, select the whea, and leave the poi
SON, so admirable are the gradations OF
instinct. have preserved samples OF both,
and OF poIviI,o, in all il. stages In or
near the hacienda where was during the
season OF sowing and reapng, the hsrves.
which had been calculated at 5 or 1000
tanrgas, did mol produce so many hun
! drsds
.Hy FIST impression was, that the poll
vllo must arise from the necessity of irri
gazing the lands 10 Chill, ont | have as.
/ ar,ainad that IL has anne AIRED thnnph In