The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-10-05
A Good Burlesuue.

A correspondent of the Milwaukee
(Whig) News, indulges in the following
badinage of tho Republican accounts of
their meetings. He gives statement Of
a Lincoln meeting thus:
"The procession, which was over O
thousand miles long, who will vote this
year for Lincoln. Last year they voted
for Douglas. Upwards OF twenty mil.
lions OF people are now in the garden
listening to the talking. Nine hundred
guns were fired for Lincoln, and they in.
tend to fire another one next week.
Randall is speaking in ten different LAM
guages, while Washburne is taking it all
down in back-hand! Booth is telling the
particulars OF his rescue, and Lincoln is
adding up the number of rails he split!
delegations from the country are
coming in! One delegation from Bangor
had a pole i'll wagon seven hundred
feet high, on which was likeness of old
Abe embroidered in sheepskin. Over
nineteen thousand voters came from BAN
gor, drawn by twenty wagons attached to
each horse. Fifty bands are in attend
ancc from each town, and from Neshon-
oc, there are sixty mothers, with children
ut the bosom, each one crying for old
Abe! Over four thousand towns in this
county are now represented, and two
more towns will be i'll tomorrow, if the
weather don't rain, The procession
commenced moving last week, and the
tail OF IL has just passed the southwest
corner OF the Augusta House. 1t will be
around by potatoe time. One wagon has
a platform on it three-quarters of mile
long, with a rail erect in the front end,
and yellow dog couchant in the lear.
ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC VETERAN FOR BELL.
The jackson West Tennessee Wing tells
of an old man who resides ir an adjoining
county, and whose trembling limbs have
borne him through th?ee-fourths of a GEN.
tury, and who says he has voted the regu-
lar Democratic ticket for fifty-three years,
is now out for Bell and Everett, as the on
ly National candidates in the present cam
vass. 1t is by such means the good cause
gathers volume as it rolls on.
LIABILITIES OF EXPRESS CoNpANiEs.-On
Wednesday last, the 10Th inst, at Hart
ford, Connecticut, before the Circuit
Court of the United States, Judges Mel
son and Shipman, in the case of Bank
of Norwalk VS., Adams Express Compa-
ny, the jury found a verdict for the de-
PENDANTS. The action was to recover
S2,07l claimed by the Bank of the Ex-
press Company, the discount of n forged
note sent to the Banll through the Ex-
press.
The Court held that an Express Com
pany is an insurer, or guarantee, of the
genuineness of paper sent through it, and
has the right to deliver the avails of a
note to the party from whom it receives
the note, even though the Bank sending
the ayails suppose it is sending them to
some one else.
Btly" The New Albany Ledger, a well
known Democratic organ, says that ''if
Floyd county is fair criterion of the
strength of Bell and Breckenridge in South
ern Indiana, Bell will beat Breckenridge
considerably more than ten to one"
gay" Hon. W. r. Cunningham, of Ala
bama, whom the "Brecks" published as
one of their faction, in recent letter de-
nies it, and says he will support Bell and
Everett, the only available candidates
now before the people.
washington, Sept. p, lS60.-The organ
of the Administration openly advocates in
this mornings issue the secession of the
| Southern States in the event of Mr.. Lin
| coins election.-Neo York Tribune.
Coon BYE Our Washington corres-
pondent telegraphs that the Neapolitan
Minister has taken leave of our Govern
ment. The flight of the King has left
him nothing to do. His occupation, like
that OF the Moor of Venice, is emphati.
| cally gone.