Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-09-26

for the evil Of dear bread then hanging the trscks
ers in grain and throwing the bags into the ponds
and rivers. II is reported, from various quarters,
that in France this year. the crop is not even an
average one. Last month thrty-two pirates landed
from two boats on small island near to Rhodes,
pundered all the public stores, and carried off all
the cash and manufactured articles Of the principal
village, after having bound and gagged fifteen of the
inhabitants. The Governor Of Rhodes, when called
upon to resist and pursue the brgands, could do
nothing, having no force whatever at his command.
What difference between this condition and that
of the Rhodes of DID, with its stalwart knights, the
alert and favorite champions Of all Chrstendom!
The record of the Convention of Wine Growers
at Lyons, opened the Doth August embraces Gu
rious document, dug up by the Register of the de-
partmen Of the Cote dor il is an energetic ordi-
nance of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, is
sued in 395, against that odous kind of grape then
already called ganlay, and which even now is
grown every where in Burgundy. Here is the or
dinance, which one could wish to render in style
possessing the charm of the good old phrase 1--WE
have heard the complaints of our good cities OF
Beaune, Dion, and Chalons, and the adjacent dis
tricts, celebrated for the antiquity of their vine-
yards, which produce the best, most precious, and
suitable wines Of the kingdom TO nourish and sup
: port every human creaure-wines which our
MY AauiCi, eiC OpSs ilC Ming Vi anu hic
great lords and clergy have the habit Of buying in
: abundance as the noblest, the most excellent, the
most perfect that are known These wines yield
much honor and profit to this region, and afford
the people the means Of providing for the neces-
sites Of life. We are informed that within a
short time past many Of our subjects, in order to
have greater quantity of wine, have clandestine-
'ly planted very>bad spurious, and unworthy
: grape called gaamez, which gives them, in large
quantity, an extremely bad wine, sweet at first,
but soon sour and spoiled, which Injuries public
: health and causes dangerous maladies: We have
learnt, moreover, that all sorts of trashy manure
are cast into the good plots Of ground, which ma
nure greatly deteriorates the product: we see that
in consequence trade is esranged from our States,
an enormous evil, requiring of us prompt rene
dy. Seeing all this wrong and abuse, we hereby
order it to be solemnly proclaimed that the plant
gaameS be cut down, extirpated, and utterly des-
troyed forever, wherever il shall be found. Re-
: fractory people will be vigorously compelled to
: execute this our command A heavy fine will be
inflicted on them, as well as on those who intro
sluce the aforesaid manures into their vineyards
their cattle and carts shall be seized. 1t would
SEEM from statements made in the Lyons Conven-
tion that an ordinance of the kind is as much want
ed now as it was in the fourteenth century. Some
members observed that if they could not decree
penalties, like the Duke they could at least give
encouragement, by offering premiums for good and
honest growth.