Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1824-12-29
GREEK SUCCESSES.

! ANCONA, OCTOBER 0.--LetterS received
from Ithaca, Zante and Cephalonia, all
at the same time, smention that in all
parts of the Morea the people are trans
ported with joy, and are employed in
public celebrations at the news of the
complete destruction of the Turkish and
Egyptian fleets. The Greeks have had
three battles with their barbarous enc
mics; and after having taken, burnt and
sunk more than hundred vessels of diff
ferent sizes, in the neighborhood of
Rhodes and Cos, and on the coast of Ca
ramania near Coudroum, they have sue
ceeded in burning the last and more
beautiful frigate of Mohammed Ali. On
board OF this vessel was the son of the
Satrap of Egypt, his admiral Ismael-Gib-
raltar, and a new pacha, a Frenchman
by birth, who embraced the Turkish re-
Iigion short time ago. These three
chiefs threw themselves into shaIlop
when their ship took fire but they fell
among the numerous boats and vessels
\ which the Greeks always keep at sea
with the hope of taking prisoners Of i'm
portance, and by which they lately cap
tured the nephew of the Bey of Tunis,
near Samos. The three prisoners were
conducted in Triumph to Napoli di Ro-
mania, together with frigate, a cor
:, vette, and vessel loaded with eight
millions of Turkish piastres, the treas
: ury intended to pay the Egyptian expe-
| dition. In the engagement near Rhodes
they had before captured 80 Turkish
and Egyptian transport vessels.
The following extracts of letters from VAL
paraiso satisfactorily account for the vent
Of America flour in the Pacific. Formerly
Chill supplied Lima (the only markeO with
an immense quantity of wheat at a very
low rate
VALPARAISO; AUG. "a, 1924.
| There are two different pests that
have entered the wheat, known before
but never so general or destructive as
for the four years past. The one is
called yotUilio and appears when the
wheat S within six or eight weeks OF
maturing, and commences at the root of
the stock, and very gradually proceeds
to the top or bard ofthe wheat.-View-
ing it in the fields. it resembles rust upon
so many iron rods, and imperceptibly
advances till it ascends the bard, and
then, entering the kernels, (when they
are formed aud maturing) the hopes Of
the husbanjman are lost. In passing
thro' it, one is covered with rust re-
sembling yellow snuff, from which it
takes its name. Arriving at the grain,
fields of wheat, whose early promise had
filled the husbandman's heart with 10Y,
are suddenly converted to stubble, over
which it appears as if some 6 flaming
brand" had been waved. During its
progress it was almost the only subject
of interest and attention, and the com
mon salutation of the day in the country,
instead of show is your health" was
what is the progress of polpilio with
you p
1.-The second cause of the changes in
The market, is the pest called bulico,
which, if possible, is more dreaded than
the other. This is degenerate and
poisonous species of wheat that springs
up with the other, which likewise has
never appeared so formidably as within
the last four years, and which one not in
timatel y acquainted with the subject,
would pass by unobserved, in all its pro-
gress TO maturity. Its stock or stem is
little higher and more delicate than that
of good wheat, and in the barded part of
it the kernels are more loosely disposed.
Neither at the time of applying the
sickle, nor of threshing Cor treading it
out) is it possible to separate them nor
when brought to market in the grain,
would any OF us suspect The mixture, I'M
: Jess the proportion Of balico was very
great. This has induced the owners of
many haciendas to send flour instead of
wheat, and in this form it is only by be-
Ing poisoned that you can discover the
duality of the bread you have eaten.
" The kernel of baico is somewhat
smaller than that OF good wheat, of dark
'r colour, and is little .fattened, and
Ilmperfectly formed at one end other
wise you could not distinguish it. 40
kernels of this, in penny loaf, would
reduce any ore who eats it to the same
situation as if he had drank 10 glasses of
brandy and its effects is called the an
toricntion of balico: and what was at
first almost incredible to me, is, that men
eat 1t, and hogs eat it, and sicken; but
fowls, that do not chew, select the
wheat, and leave the poison, so admira-
BILE are the gradations of instinct. Ihavc
preserved samples of both, and of pol
vilio, in all its stages.
NETWORK, DEC. 18.
A Bold Robber.--This morning, while
Mr. Gassner hroker in Chatham straaf