Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1859 — A Queer Democrat. [ARTICLE]

A Queer Democrat.

The election of Gen. Houston as Governor of Texas is claimed by the organs as a triumph of the so-called National Democracy. Runnels was the regular notninee of. the Convention, as he was at the previous election, when he beat Houston some 10,600 votes. Runnel’s success then was a victory; Houston’s success now, is still a victory for the same party. The Chicago Time• ifr gratified at Mr. Houston’s success, because he is a better Democrat than, his opponent: As an evidence of the genuineness of old Sam Jacinto’s Democracy, the Times says he opposed the Nebraska-Kansas billfought General Pierce’s Administration—approved of faction in the Democratic party- —favored the Know Nothings,-and now, lias defeated the regular Democratic nominee! Singular claims to Democracy. —New Albany Tribune. Winter Davis, who is a candidate for re-election to Congress in one at the Baltimore districts, recently made a speech in that city in which he saidyin reply to the charge of sympathy with the Republicans: “Maryland is a free as well as a slave State, and hu- interests are more with the North than the South. OirDuring a trial at Stallbrd, Mr. Huddleston, while pleading, was suddeuly seised with a bleeding of the nose. Baron Alderson instaptly complimented the learned counsel’s client upon the fact, saying: “You are a lucky fellow; your advocate bleeds ln> your cause.”