The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-08-31
POLITICAL.
CONNECTICUT POLITICS-DEMnCRATlC STATE co

DOUGLAS STATE COMMITTEE.
HARTFORD, Conn, Aug. 29.-The Democratic
State Electoral Convention met this morning. The
straight-out Douglas element is predominant A
motion to place on the ticket two Bell electors was
voted down by large majority. There is every
indication of a straight Douglas ticket being
formed.
The Democratic (Douglas) Convention NOM
mated clean Douglas electoral ticket
with Samuel Colt and John j.. Penrose cleo
tors at large. The Charleston and Baltimore plat
forms were endorsed. A resolution, instructing
the electors to vote for some other candidate than
Douglas i necessary to defeat the election of Lin
coin, rejected.
MASSACHUSETTS REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION.
WORCESTER, Aug. 29.-The Republican State
Convention met to-day, and was organized bv the
election OF George s. Boutwell, President. Hon.
Charles Sumner addressed the Convention on the
political issues of the day. John A. Andrews was
nominated for Governor, in place of Hon. N. p.
Banks, resigned; j. G. Goodrich for Lieutenant
Governors Oliver Warner, for Secretary of State;
and George Morey and Il. A. Chapman, electors at
large.
ANOTHER CANDIDATE FOR THE PREsDENCY-GERRrT
THE FIELD.
SYRACUSE, Aug. 29.-The Abolition National
Convention met here to-day and nominated the fol-
lowing ticket:
For President of the United States-Gerrit
Smith, of New Y York.
For Vice President-Samuel Mcfarland, of
Pennsylvania.
-, For Electors at Large--Frederck Douglass and
Charles Hammond
BREcKGNRIDGE STATE CONVENTION IN MICHIGAN
DETROIT, Aug. 29.-The Breckenridge State Con-
ventlon met IN this city to-day, and nominated
full electoral ticket. Resolutions were passed, re-
questlng the Breckinridge of each Congress
sonal district to make nominations and discounte-
| nancing any compromise with Douglas.
DECLINATION OF SAM HOUSTON,
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 2S.-Gen. Houston has de-
clined being candidate for the Presidency and
earnestly presses union of all conservative Union
men upon one ticket.
From The Mark Lane Express, Aug al
| THE FAILURE OF THE ENGLISH CROPS.
The bad weather of the last few DAYS has, we are
inclined to fear come only as the climax to all that
has anticipated it. In a word, the injury now
| looks irreparable. Harvest of course will be late
while, If we are to believe that we see it must be
| an unusually bad one. Nothing could be more de-
| plorable than the scene that everywhere met the
eye from our seat in the up train. In place of the
rich waving wheat ears standing well up from the
stem and gradually but quickly ripening to their
golden hue, what a cold chill blasted the view i
There, in place of the ready, bountiful CROP was
| dark, tangled mass of what might be coarse un-
cared for reeds herbage-laid everywhere so fiat,
| SO hopelessly beaten down by the wind and the
rain, that if it be in it must surely rot or
mildew as it lies, never to rise again to welcome
| the too tardy smile of the lorg-arrying sun And
still the rain comes mercessly down, only to fiat
ten it yet more closely into the much sodden earth;
| while your neighbor bids you mark the hay that
he knolos has been out for three weeks more and
be into the dung yard The short-horns turn their
backs moodily to the driving rain; and the farmer
on his shiyering pony, with his coatcOllar turned
up, holds an umbrella over his head with one hand
as he opens the gate with the other for a score or
two ofhapless looking lambs. What thorough air
OF despondency there is about the whole group and
how plainly the picture, in all its sad uniform asso-
citation, speaks to that "hope deferred which "ma-
keith the heart sick!"
The weather, in fact, in its influence on apricul-
ture is fast tending to the most calamitous conse
quences. The loss, Of course, will be a national
one; for such "bad times for farmers will be bad
times Tor everybody. At so trying period it may
be well to take the most encouraging view we can
OF our prospects, but it is yet greater duty not to
disguise to attempt to shirk the ills we have to
contend with. Every passing shower will tell more
| heavily against the harvest, come when this may
while one or two more such wet days as we have
experienced during the past week will go to make
some OF the wheat not worth cutting As it is there
Is deal of hay not worth CARRYING home; and many
farmers have already reckoned up their heavy losses
and future outlay in this wise So far the sad GER
tainty is but too palpably apparent. There is the
chance OF some other districts not being so seriously
affected as those we have recently passed through
Indeed on the borders of Scotland, only week
since, appearances were far better; but only
repeat that the mischief must be greater the closer
we approach to the in-gathering time 1t is the eff
feet of the past few days we have to look to. Our
own experience, and now decidedly unfavOrable in
ference, should be carefully collated with the adv
ces and opinions of various correspondents as
they will be found given in the Agricultural Pros
poets and County Reports. With the tone of all
these, as originally written, we especially
desrous not to interfere, SO that the reader may
draw his own conclusions from the intelligence he
| receives from the different districts. We hope
against hope that much thio nluy go to correct
impressions and experience. But it rains
even as we write. The sun has lot been seen the
whole day through; and while the harvest must be
backward, we lear 1T must also be in every way de-
hcfent-bad in the sample and short in the bulk.
Tu,V TI--
already reported personal renOonter between B.
c. Ynncey, Esq, son of the Hon. VIM. l.. Yancey,
and Col. J. j. Seibels, of The Montgomery CAla)
Confederation. The Aduertiqcr of that city thus re-
ports the affair
"The facts are briefly these: Young Mr.. Yancey
met Col. Seibes and said to him that he had gross
y slandered his father in The Confederation; that he
came to resent the insult offered to him, and that he
warned him to defend himself Mr.. Yancey then
struck at Col. Sebels repeatedly with an ordinary
sized cane, but the Colonel kept his large open um-
brella In front, so as to fend off and pushed him for
ward, evading any hard blows, until the covering
was Knocked from the umbrella, and at last used
the handle as quite efficient weapon. A few
blows and scutile ensued, and the parties were
separated by policeman. Both came off bruised
and Col. Seibels booded and worsted by severe
cut across the eye and temple. Our young friend
Iancey, although incomparably smaller than the
huge Belgian giant, was but slightly hurt and
bore himself gaantly in the fight
Col. Se6els maintains in his paper, that he wore
out the cover of the umbrella in beating Mr.. Yam
cey. The Hon. VIM. l.. Yancey publishes a card,
in which the nature of the insult is detaed-being
a charge by Col. Sebels that Mr.. Yancey sup
pressed portion of the Constitution of the South
ern League, representing the remainder to be an
exact copy. Mr.. Yancey defends himself against
the charge, and closes his card as follows:
"My son has this day caned the senior editor of
| The Confederation and now brand him as a con-
victed liar and slanderer, and turn him loose.
| "W. l.. YANCEY."