The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-08-06
A PATHETIC TALE.

fOor Lucy Shrleked, no life to all, adleuI
And in the imagination of despair,
She tore the letter and her raven hair
She beat her bosom and the postboy too;
Then to an open window wildly flew,
And madly flung herself-into chair.
No two things differ more than hurry and
dispatch; hurry is the mark of a weak mind,
dispatch of strong one.
When man calls to see another during
the busiest portion of the day, it is not worth
while for him to stay more than an hour af-
ter he has told you all he knows.
An inquistive priest having asked young
female her name, whilst in the confessional"
she replied, with as much wit as modesty,
"Father, my name is not SIM"
Shocking to serenade second story win
dow for two hours, and then be told that the
young woman "what used to live here has re.
moved around the next corner"
There is an old maid in Babylon, R. l.,
who Is so accustomed to dating her age back
ward that when she speaks of the latter part
of December she calls it slate in the spring"
Why does the blacksmith seem the most
dissatisfied of all mechanics! Because he is
continually striking for wages.
Every noble building gives its influence to
a better taste.
One person having asked another if he be-
lieved in the appearance of spirits, "No," was
the reply; "but | believe in their disappear
ance, for have missed bottle of gin since
last night"
When a man wishes to salute another in
Thibet, he uncovers his head, puts out his
tongue and scratches his right ear.
An unknown poet, in writing a sonnet to
his mistress, thus describes the harmony of
voice:
"a sweet tornado swept along her tongue,
And meodious gales wher'er she sung"
Why is sermon like kiss! Because it
is composed of two heads and an application.
The Frenchman delicate defined white
lie to be walking round about de troot"
Capt Williamson, late postmaster at Lawn,
ILL.,, has been convicted of robbing the mail.
The Licking County (Ohio) Branch Bank
is said to have failed.
Congress has appropriated $4,000 for a
custom house at Cincinnati.
ScoTT, WEBSTER, AND NATIvEfsM. Here
is good shot from the "Scott Battery"
This distinguished and now ablest of Amer
lean statesmen, has been nominated by the
Native American convention lately assembled |
at Trenton, NJ LA candidate for President
This movement ought forever to silence the
clamor of those who have been charging
Gen. Scott with belonging to that party. If
he is good Native American, having been
nominated by the Wings, it is very apparent
that his chance of election is much better
than Webster's possibly can be, with Scott
in the field. We shall expect that portion of
the Locofocos who are not entirely destitute
of honesty to desist now from charging Gen.
Scott with holding Native American doctrines.
Those that have knowingly uttered the false
hood, we expect to stick to it-indeed for
them to recant would be but evidence that
some deeper scheme was being laid to injure
the fair fame of the honest old chieftain.
We warn those who have been so electri-
fed at the nomination of Mr.. Webster, and
who thereby hope to create divisions in the
Wing party, that their Joy will be of but short
duration. He will not consent, we conf
IDENTITY believe; to be candidate under the
and if he should, he will no
longer be known as Daniel Webster is now
known all over the world. To allow HIM
self to be candidate, in opposition to the
nominee of the convention to which he sub
mittcd his claims, would be to stamp the Hy-
pocrite upon character heretofore pure; and
drag himself down from the loftiest position
which an American name can fill, to a level
l. L.. L 4. l.
He will never do it.