Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-07-07

SATURDAY MORNING, JULY :, 1850.

hreadstulS during the coming year. The
season has been so wet and cold in Eng land
that deficiency of at least four million
quarters is already estimated as certain,
while the supply in the markets Of the Uni
ted Kingdom Of Great Britain is less by
about one million six hundred thousand
quarters than last year at the same date.
Private letters from the highest banking au-
fhorities confirm the statements OF the pull
lie press. and predict large demand for
American produce. Nor is this impcndin.
scarcity confined 10 the British Islands,
The continent is not likely to have any sur
plus. All accounts agree that the crops
throughout Central Europe have suffered
much from the severity OF the weather.
The London Times gives "A deplorable PIC
tQre Of the havoc which the bad weather has
produced in the south. The heritage" it
saw. has been drowned or scorched up nm
der keen winds. The youngings Of the
hock4 aud herds have persisted Tor want OF
food. Lambs. which in ordinary seasons
produce wealth in abundance to the stock
growers. have been given away 10 anybody
who would accept them n gift. The price
of meat has flown up 10 point st which 1t
IS placed beyond the reach OF any save the
comfortable classes. Under the usual con-
diton Of affairs, Scotland, with its long
ranges Of sheep walk, exports mutton 10
England. England is now exporting NUT
ton to Scotland" This is gloomy and re-
pulsive picture. and it is, we fear, unhappl-
", too true. But a contemporary derives
comfort from the operations OF free trade
"rhn farmer on the banks Of the Ohio, and
the Belgian growers Of stock are working
for the British markets. Not many years
ago few months Of rain, 4 spoilt harvest.
and a rejected reform bill would have renre-
vented IN the hands of a skilltul agltator the
ground work for formidable agltatlon.-~~
Sow, at least, the humblest peasant or me-
chanic who may be suffering distress III con-
sequence of the hardness OF the times is
we'll aware that the Government of the coun.
t-y has nothing to do with his misfortune.
TIE Democratic Conventions at Charles
ton and Baltimore, composed Of the repre-
perts of the Union. and every State OF The
Irion, after long and anxious deliberations,
fm,,ll,, ao,loroa =, tho ,x1,Il that
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ters Of principle and policy, were so great
and irreconcileabe that, in the face OF a
tbrastnnad .riumnh Of the Black Republican
.,.,.-h a;.u,,,.;o,, ,rn,Ia dos
party "i'" At'''os'' ''''
troy the existence OF '"e "h'S ''''"'''''
party IN the country" they would break
~. dissolve, and each division nominate for
,,,o1e candidates onnosaa 70 each other. to
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he advocated upon Inherent Sroui"S' '"u
opposed zealously by each wing Of the party.
,Tha .E..rt ol,, i to stul,jf the action of
-. ,,o,,.,,,,,;, lo1o,,a,o. ~ da,l,ra tho4
either Douglas or DrraSinrdgn is Il go,'!
rnonqd candidate TO vote tor-~that which
ever gets the most votes is the proper inan---
and thar what created the difference. dEI-
sion, distraction, and dissolution is just moth
INC at ALL and should not be regarded -
What was the use, then, of breaking up the
Charleston and Baltimore Democratic Con
yantions, and dissolyinr the "Nationai Dem
3cra.ic partv?"
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