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Good Kigbf. Good night! labor now is through. E'en the day bows sileot down, tMN 'Quiet reigns throughout the town, Till the morrow breaks anew. Good night! Go to rest! Closed our weary eyelids all, Still is all within, without, Watchmen only are about; Darkness settles liko a pall; Go to rest! Slumber sweet Dream ye earth of Patndise ! i nose wiio've ten love's sorest wound, May Elysian scenes surtound, Fair as loved ones to tlieir eyes ; Slumber sweet! v Good night! Slumber till the dawn appears 1 Slumber till the new born morrow Comes again your cares to borrow ; God is watching ; cease your fears! Good night! ^TOmitg'ris ?o?." Sam Bates and Sally Jones. "(Nathan Jones, a small fanner in our vicinity, had a daughter, as pretty and buxom a lass 4?s ever thumped buttermilk in a churn; and whether jou saw her carrying eggs to market on a flea-bitten mttre, or helping to stir apple-butter at a boi'ing frolic, or malting a long reach at a quilting, or sitting demurely in the iwg meeiing^iiouse on a ?unuay?in short, wherever you 6a\v hor slie alfrays looked as pretty, if not prettier, th an she had ever done before. ".Notwithstanding her attractions, it will scarcely be credited thatSallv had reached the mature age of eighteen without au avowed suitor. Admirers, nay lovers, she had by the score; and whenever liquor was convenient, many a sober youtti got drunk because ot her,1 and many a sighing bachelor would I willingly have given, his riding-horse, or even his sha'-o in Dad's farm, for her. T! tere was, indeed, no lack of Will on their part; the dillicultv was in mustering up courage to mulce the proposal. Mankind seemed, for once, to be impressed with a proper sense of its own unworthiness Now, far be it from any one to infer from this that Sally was proudish or unapproachable. On the contrary, she was a goodhumored, as a comedy, and disposed to be loving as she was lovable. Poor j Sally 1 it is great misfortune for a girl V.f.. ^1 . rt . 1 . .. . .llttA.i ? . \aj uc iuu iiaiuouiuv; y uiiuudt tio cat uo to bo too ugly. Tiiere slic was, socia- j ble and warm-hearted as a pigeon, amiable ft9 a turtle-dove, looking soft! encouragement, as plainly as maiden ! modesty permitted, to her bashful company of admirers, who dawdled about her, twiddled their thumbs, bit-j ing the bark off their riding-switches,! and playing a number of oilier sheep- j ish tricks, but saying never a word to the purpose. "Either lie fears his fill too much, Or his desert is small. "Who dares not put it to the touch, i And win or lose it all.' "Sally was entering on her nine-' teenth year when she was one day heard to oljserve, that men were the 1 meanest, slowest, cowardlicst, or scariest creatures; in short, good for noth-1 ing but to lay under an apple-tree! with their mouths open, and wait until the apples dropped into them. "Tnis observation was circulated from month, to motuli, ami like the rid-: die of a Sphinx, was deeply pondered j by Sally's lovers. If any of them had | wit enough to solve its meaning, certainly no one had pluck enough to prove the answer. "Not of this poor-spirted crowd was Sam Bates, a stalwart youth, who stood, in winter, ?ix feet two inches in his stockings (in summer lie didn't wear any.) Sain was not handsome in the ordinary sense of the term.? He was freckled, had a big mouth, and carroty hair. His feet?but not matter, lie usually bought number fourteen r ' a half boots, because they fittetj him better than sovens or eights. Sam was a wagon-maker by protossion, owned a tlursliing shop and several hundred acre of unimproved land, which secured to him the reputation of independence. For the rest, he was a roystering blade, a good rider, a crack-shot with tSic rifle, and ail accomplished fiddler. Bold to tho confines of impudence, he was a favorite of tho fair ; with a heart as big as bis foot, and a fist like a sledge-hammer, lie was the acknowledged cock of the walk, and preux chtcalicr of the pine hill country. *Mr. Bates mot Bally Jones for the first time at a quilting, and in sixty seconds after sight ho hftd determined to court her. 1 ic sat beside her as she stiched, and oven had the audacity to squeeze her hand nnder the quilt.? Trntjl is Blighty, and mast be told.? ' Altlfl|g|gH Sally did resent the imj ertineoc? by a stick with her needle, si e was not half so indignant ay ?ho oug't to iiave been. I dare not say she wtte Sleased, bnt perhaps I should not be jr from the truth if I did. It is undeniable that the more she admires courage and boldness in the other six? Sally blushed every time her eyes met those of hor new beau, and that was as often as she looked up. As for Sam, the loi ger he gazed the deeper he sunk in the mire of love, and by the end of the evening his heart ana his confidence were both completely overwhelmed. As he undertook to see Sally home, he felt a numbness in his joints that was entirely new to him and when he tried to make known his j sentiments as he had previously detenu iued, tie found his heart was so swelled up that it closed his throat, and he could not utter a word. "What a darned, cussed sneak I was P' groaned Sam, as he turned that night ou his sleepless pillow. 'What's come over me that I can't speak my | mind to a pretty gal without a-choken ?! O Lord ? but she is too pretty to live! on this airth. Well, Inn a-going to church with her to-morrow ; and if 11 i don't fix mattoi-s afore I get back, then [ drat mo." | "It is probable Sam Bates had nev-j l er hearkened to the story of Kasselas,! j "Prince of Abyssinia,' or lie would have j ,l>een loss credulous while thus listening j | to the whispers of fancy, and less, ' ready to take it for granted that the deficiencies of the day would be sup1 plied by the morrow. To-morrow : came, and in due time Mr. Bates, tricked off in a bran-new twelve dollar suit of Jew's clothes, was on liis wny to meeting besides the beatilul Sally.? ! Ilis horse, bedecked with a new leather bridle, and a new saddle with brass I stirrups, looked as gay as his master, j ; As they rode up to the meeting-house! ' door, Sam could not forbear casting a ( triumph nut ^rlauce at the crowd of Sally's adorers that stood around filled with mortification anil envy at his successful audacity. Sally's face was roseate with pleasure and bashfulncss. "Stop a minute, now, Miss Sally: I'll jist get down and lift ye off 1" "Sam essayed to dismount, but in so doing found that both feet were liopolessly fast in the stirrups. His face swelled and reddened like a turkey gobbler's. In vain be twisted and kicked ; the crowd was expectant;Sally was waiting. Gosh darn the stecrup ! exclaimed Sain, endeavoring to break the leathers with his desperate kicks. i A f tltio umi'Anfn/l Av/i1ni%?nf'An Qolltr j.a.u uuo uuitviivv;u ^aciaiiiub-vii kjcviij looked up, and saw her beau's predicament. The bystanders begun to snicker. Sally was grieved and indignantl. Bouncing out of her sadd e, in a twinkling she handed her entrapped escort a stono. 'Here Sammy, l chunk your loot out with this!" "Oh, Sally Jones, into what an error did your kind heart betray you, to ; offer this untimely civility in the presence of the assembled county?admirers, rivals and all! "Sam took the stone and struck a frantic blow at the pertinacious sturrup, but missing Ids aim, it fell with crushing force upon a solt corn that had come from his wearing tight boots. 'Whoa, darn ye!' cried he, losing all control of himself, and threatening to beat his horse's brains out with the stone. ' Don't strike the critter so, Sammy,, said old Jones; 'you'll gin him the poll I evil; but jist let me ongivth the saddle, and we'll get you loose in no time.' "In short, the saddle was unbuckled, and Sam dismounted with his feet still fost in the stirrups, looked like a criminal in foot-hobbles. Witli some labor lie pulled off his boots, squeezed them out the sturrups, and pulled them on again. The tender Sally stood by, all the while manifesting the kiuduest | concern : and when he was finally extricated, she took hi$ arm and walked I him into church. But this unlucky | adventure was too much for Sam ; he | sneaked out of the meeting during the first prayer, pulled off his boots, and rode homo in his stockings. From ; that time Sam Bates disappeared from | society. Literally and metaphorically i he shut up shop, and hung up bis fiddle. lie did not take to liquor like a fool, but took to his ax and cleared I ' don't know how many acres of rug' ged land, heavy timbered land, th<*rel>y increasing the value of his tract to the amount of several hundred dollars. Sally indirectly sent him divers civil messages, intimating that she took no account of that little incident at the ineeiing-honse, and at length ventured on a direct present of a pair of gray yarn stockings, knit with her own hands. But while every effort to win him back to ttie world was unsuccessful, the yarn stockings were a great comfort in his self-uuposed exile.? Sam wore them cotinuaJly, not on his feet, as some matter-of-fact boob}' might suppose, but in his bosom, and often, during the intervals oi his work in the lonely clearing, would he draw them out and ponder on them until a big tear gatlicred in his eye. *Oh, Sally Jones, Wally Jones! if I had only had the sptrnk to have courted ye Satnrdav night, instead of waiting till Sunday morning, things might hare been different 1* and then he would " i pick up his *x, and whack into: the next tree with the eftergy of despair. -. "At length the whole country was J electrified by the announcement thai 'Farmer Jones had concluded to sell out and go West,' On thedav appointed for the sale there couldn't have been less than a hundred horses tethered in bis barn-yard. Sam Bates was there, looking as uneasy as a pig in a strange ? corn-field. Sally might liavo been a little thinner than usual, lust enough to heighten rather than diminish her charms- It was generally known that she was averso to moving West. In fact she took no pains to conceal her ( sentiments on the subject, and her pretty eyes were evidently red with , recent .weeping. She looked mourn- fully around at each familiar object. Tho old homestead, with its chunked i" and daubed walls; the cherry-trees tifi-1 der which she had played in childhood; the llowors she hau planted; and then j to see the dear old furniture auctioned oft'?the. churn, tho apple-butter pot, j tho venerable quilting frame, the occa- i sinn ftf art mnnv cnr?inl rrnfliftrln<ra I But harder than all it was when her own white cow was put up; her pet I that, when a calf, she had saved fromI the outcher?it was too much, and the!, tears trickled afresh down Sally's | I blooming'cheeks. 'Ten dollars, ten j dollars for the cow!' 'Fifty dollars!' ' shouted Bates. "What Sammv,' whisrercd a pru- ( dont neighbor, 'she hain't worth twenty at the outside.' "I'll gin fifty for her,' replied Sam, <i doggedly. "Now when Sully heard of this piece of gallantry, she must needs thank the p-re baser for the compliment, and j commend Suky to his especial kind- ^ nose. Then she extendea her plump hand, which Bam seized with sncli a devouring grip tliAt ti*? iitiJo ummIoti ' could scarcely suppress a scroam.? ? She did suppress it, however, that she <> might hear whetttbr he had anything J further to say; but she was disappoint- j ed. lie turned away dumb, swallow- j ing, as it were, great hunks of grief as ? big as dumplings. When everything) was sold oft, anil dinner was over, the " company disposed itself about the yard | in groups, reclining on the grass or: seated on benches and dismantled fur- s niturc. The conversation naturally j turned on the events of the day and 1 the prospects of Jones family, and it: was unanimously voted a cussed pity ; r that so fiuo a girl as Bally should be I permitted to leave the country so cvi- u cleutly against her will. ' 'Hain't none of you sneaking whelps the spirit to stop her?' asked the white-headed miller, addressincr a / # o "" j pjoui) ofyoung batchelors lying near.! The louts snickered, turned over, wliis- ( pored to each other, but no one show- " ed any disposition to try the experi- incut. "The sun was declining in the west, j r Some of those who lived at a distance : were already gone to harness up their horses. To-morrow the Hello of Caen-' non Valley would be on licr way to Missouri. Just then Sally rushed from , the house, with a face all excitement, | a step all determination. Arrived at; the middle ot the yard, she mounted the rev crf*d apple-butt r kettle : 4I don't want to go West?I don't?I don't want to leave old Virginia; and 1 won't leave, if there's a man among ye that has spunk enough to ask me to stay.' "But where is Southern Chivalry ?. ?withered beneath the sneers of co\d blooded malignity??choked by the maxims of dollar-Jingling prudence ??v distanced on the circular race-course of progress??bankrupt through the tricks of counterfeiting politicians!? Deluded querist, no! Like a strong and generous lion it sleeps?sleeps so soundly that even apes may grimace and chatter insults in his face, and pull hairs from its tail with impunity ; but frivo it a omod Imrd i>ok<? And tnn will^iear a roar that will make thei crowd tremble and the brave prudent, j ' Jlearken to the sequul of Sally Jones: "Scarcely had she finished her patriotic address when there was a general rush. The less active were trampled over like puffed goat-skins at a bacchanalian festival: "Miss Sally, I axes you'Miss Sally, I spoke first'I bespeaks her for my own son Bill/ squeaks an octogenarian, struggling forward to seize her arm. To uide hor confusion, Sally covered her face with her apron, when she felt a strong arm thrown around her, and heard a stentorian voice shout, 'She's mine, by Gauley.' "Sam Bates cleared a swath as if he had been in a grain-field, bore his unresisting prize into the house, and slammed the door on the cheering i crowd. . I LLf1H -1-1* . A* i.1 i. ? * .1 A- ' -juie weuuinir came on nm*. nigui, ( and on tho following morning 8am ] rodo homo, driving his white cow bo- 1 fore nnd carrying his wife behind ' him." As a pretty targe number of culprits were | going to be hung, the wife of one of thorn i pressed through the crowd, and told the 1 shoritl she had ooine to see her poor hue- ! band executed, and begged and plead that J be might be hanged first in the morning as < she had a great way to go home ? ( ^LtY'LUG"A V1KE'Sli% WB ARB FBEPABfiD TO DO WOB* . IRCULAR8, CATALOGUES^ HAND-BILLS, WAYBILLS, BALL TICKTES, PROGRAMMES, &C. PRINTED WITH DESPATCH. !M5A, SATIN ENAMEL, SATIN SURFACE ANl> PLAIN AND COLORED CARDS, Upon fbe Dffost ffjborsble (suwm TffS A\ OgAMLJIi,, Advertisement for March. THE LADIE'S STORE IS NOW OFFEKIXG Ind other Worsted Fabrics, AT-REQIUCEDJ PRICED THIS MONTH. T1IE USUAL STOCK. OF aOWSBKSSIPSTO ???M,i DRESS AND WHITE GOODS, EhiOioiJeiieg, Ji iinlniiiga, &e.,' &c. )S TIIK FIRST MONPAY IN APRIL WILI. BE OPENED IN B1MKN8B STOCK. of New and Fashionable SUMMER DRESS GOODS, AT Wv 33, TOTiry'3. tf Stoves! Stoves!! JABE SlIllftCltnjKKS olftya Lethe yubliu a X large variety of Stove*, vix: Tlic (Tialiciige, ml Leviathua Cooking Store*, sad Tnrioa* fliers. !Lir Tight Cooking Stoves, UF VARIOUS KIN 1>S. PREMIUM COOKING STOVES, Targe and innull Ovens, AIR TIGHT PREMIUM Cooking Stoves. PARLOR COOKING STOVES. Parlor*, Box Stove*, Hall Stores, for Cliitrcli ea, infPA .l*n (itivotlior tvitli n full na?Aidn.<.n? ,.f lain and Japanned Tin Ware, IX, GOl'PKK, LEAD A SHEET IRON WARE, MATALLIC ROOFING tone iu the most npprovcJ manner, with disuitrh. J.ST" The Trade supplied with TIN WARE, t wholesale, upon the lowest terms. 1). O. WESTEIEl.l), AOO. Grecnvitlrx 8. C. Apr 6, 4V tf xx om>i\A:\< i; "orthe government of Slave* and Free Per/ton* of eo*or in the Totrn of Greenville. BEIT ORDAINED, That the market hell shnll be runjy every ui^ht from the vernal to the lutmnnal equinox nt a quarter before ten o'clook, ?. in., and at a quarter before nine o'clock, p. m., or the remainder ofthevonr. which shall be n iirnal for nil slaves to rcuair to their homes: and niv slave foiiml outside of liis or liur owner or nnployer's enclosure after the hour of ten o'clock, >. in., from the vcrpnl to the autumnal cmiiiiex, >r after the hour of nine o'clock, p. in., during the cuiaiuder of the year, shall ho carried to the )uard House, and detained until the next mornug, when ho shall be whipped not exceeding wciity lashes, or the owner bliall pay a tine of mo dollar, at the discretion of the presiding ofioer. Sec. 2. lit it further erdainrtl, That hereafter 10 slave or slaves shall occupy or reside in any loaso or other building or enclosure within the own of Greenville^ ofucr than his or her ownir's, without the written consent of such owner, vherein shall be expressly described the place vliere such slave or slaves are allowed to reside, aid specifying the time for which such permission * intended to be given, which shall not exceed me month at any one time without renewal; and iny slave offending herein shut! be whipped not sxceeding twenty lashes, unless the owner or emituiw ol such sliivo sliall pay a tine of five dolars for each slave so offending, together will all lost and charges. Skc. 8. lie it further ordained, That no person hall let or hire to any slave any lot, house, room >r building within the town of Greenville; and my person offending herein, shell bo subject to n penalty of tive dollars per month during the into such slave shall occupy nny such lot, room, louse or building so rented as aforesaid. Sec. 4. Be it further ordained, That slaves or >tl?er pel-sons of color, more than five in number, hull not be permitted (except at funerals, and ot> >ther occasions hereinafter provided for) to n?lemble or meet together within the limits of the own of Greenville, unless it be for the purpose >f labor, under tlio charge and supervision of .ome white person, being the owner, employer >r overseer of such slaves or free persons of col jt; and it shall bo lawful for aay officer of the own, or any white person, to apprehend any jegroes or free persons of color, so assembled vithont the presence of soma white person as iltoTe provided; and for that purpose, authority s hereby given to enter into any lot, house, or jtlier building or enclosure within the town of irceuvitle, wherein any negroes c? other per ions of color may he asscniblsd contrary to the worieion* of this ordinance; and every negro or person of color *o apprehended in the day time, ihsll immediately he curried before the Iutendunt tr any one of the wardens, who is horeby authorzed and required to order each corporal punishneat, not exceeding ono hundred Indus, as inch Iutendnnt or wardens may in his dis wetlon deem proper; and if such negro or other >crson of color he Apprehended at night, he or ihe shall he confined in the (Juard House until Jhe next morning, and thou carried before the ntendant or auy one of tlie wardens, and dealt sith sS above provided. flar. n. He ff furl her ortlrtieM, Tiist so aasem>ly of negroes or other persons of color, for the mrpos* of daneing or other foerriiueut, shall be lermittcd within nis limits of the town of Orcenrilie, without the written permission of the In*ndant, or in his absence of one of the warden*; ind no such assembly shall be allowed to enntini<> later than ono o'clock at night, under a penalty >f twenty dollars for each ana every offence, pay* thle by the owner or oooupant of the premises where *uch offence is committed. And the In iidnr.t or any on* of the warden* or marshals^ >r other officer of the town, or any other white frorsow finding negro** or other persona of -color k> aaeoinblcd witLont permission from the listenlant or one of tlse. warden* a?afu|-?*aid, or alter Lhe hour abore spaeffled, I* hereby authorized llio first section of this ordinance. And any owner or occupant o^any house or enclosure within tho town, who shall deny admittance or make resistance to any of the aforesaid persona coming npon ' I or into their premises for tho purpose of arresting I negroes or other persons of color, so unlawfully I assembled ns aforesaid,shall, for eoch and every of- \ fence, forfeit ami pa v a fine of not lees than twen , ty nor more than fifty dollars. "* | ' Skt- 6. Be if further ordained,, That no owner or other persou having thcehargo and government . of any slave, shall permit snoh slave to caixy vu any mechanic or handicraft trade, in any shop ( or other place witliin tho town, in the name or on the account of aneh slave, under a penalty of | i five dollars for every day suoh slave shull carry I on such trade as aforesaid Hko. 7. Be it further ordained. That no slave or j free person of color shall be permitted to keep n shop or staod within tho limits of the town of Greenville, except at the market, for tiio sale of any articles or commodities whatsoever, cither on* his or her own account, or on account of his or her owner or guardian, or any other person, with- ( out n written license or permission froin the Council, under n penalty or fifty lashes for each 1 and every offence; nor shall nny sncli slave or i 1 free person of color bo allowedjto sell, within the I ciin>oi'iit? limits of the town of Greenville, nnv article or commodity whatever, without the written permission of lus or her owner, employer or guardian, except garden vegetables, fruits, milk, ! ice cream, fish and oysters; aud any slnve or freo ) person of color offending heroin, eh til be punish- | ed not exceeding fiftr lashes, as the Council may direct. Skc. 8. Be it further or Joined, That it shall not bo lnwful for any si are or freo person of color, within the corporate limits of the town of Greenville, to purchase any poultry, buttor, eggs, venison, wild fowl, or any other article or eomiuoJity, whatever, with n view to send the Bamo to any other market or place to be sold on nrofitor expectation of profit; nnd nnv slave or Tree person of color who shnll offend herein, sliull forfeit all the articles or commodities so purchased, nnd ahull also bo whipped not exceeding tifty lashes ox the hare back. Skc. 9. Be it further ordained, That no merchant or shop keeper within the town of Greenville, shall permit any slave or free pereoo ?f color to act as his or heY clerk or agent in the sale of nny goods, wares or merchuudizc, under a penalty of twenty dollars for each and every offence, Skc. 10. Be it further ordained, That any slave or free person of color who shall be found drunk, ur aUll otlotviM uiidwIuu-A, by acting in a noisy or boisterous manner, or bv singing an indecent song or hallooing within sho limits of the said town, shall for each and every otfenee receive not exceeding one hundred lashes; nnd any slnve or free person of color who shall smoke a segnr in any street or in any open and public place m the town, or shall walk with a cane, club or stick, (except the lame, infirm, or blind,) shall for each and evcryoffenco receive,not exceeding twenty lashes. Sec. 11. Be-U further ordained. That nnv person who shall hire or loan to any slave or slaves nnv horse or horses, or any earrnge, buggy, sulky or oilier vehicle, without the written consent of j the owner, employer or other person having the j charge nnd government of sneh slave or slaves, , shnll be subject to a penalty not exceeding tea dollnis for each and every otfencc. Skc. 12. Br it further ordaiuett, Hint any person who shall hire uny slave from any Uou-re?ideiit owner, tobceninloycd within the corporate limits of the town of Greenville, and who shnll not duly rej ort sncli slave to the Town Clerk to be taxed, shall be subject to a penalty of ten dollurs for encli mid every slnve so hired by him,which liesliall fall or negli et to return as aforesaid, one hulfof wlihli said | eunity shnll be paid to the infoimer. hi.e. 13. Be it further orhtineJ, That it shall not he law fid for any smve to keep n boarding notiM* in nit? vowii 01 unffiiviucjor uonru or joagts any while person. slave or five person of color,nor shall it to lawful for any wliitc person, slave or free person of color to !>onr?l or lodge w ith any slave, nor shall any slave be allowed to hoard or lodge in any part of a house occupied by nnv w hite person or free negro, unices bona fide hired or bound to Isueh white person or free negro, or unless such house he ' upon the premises of the owner, or other person having tin- charge and government of such slave, and with the consent ofsueli owner or other person having charge of such slave; and any white person who shall violate this section of the ordinance, shall he lined not exceeding twenty dollars and any .slave or free person of color for a like i odV iiccslull receive not exceeding fifty lashes foi caeli and every offence. Sec. 14. Be it further otihiined, That slaves and free persona of color shall he allowed to assemble ut any of the Churches of the town fort he purpose of religious worship three times in cuch week ami not elsewhere or oftener: Provided, That at nil such meetings some respectable white citizen of the town be and remaiu prcseut during said meetings. Sec. 15. lie it further ordained, That every ticket, giving permission to any person or persons of color, to he absent from the premises of liis or her owner or" employer, or from his, lier or their premises, shall designate and express, by the name of the owner or occupants of the premises, the place from which such person or persons of color has or have permimion to go, and also express and designate, in the same manner, the i junvr ui jtii^co iv ?iii\.u, ii?, one ui uiojr #a vx~ hi v J going. liouc and ratified under the torjtarate teal of the r taid To ten of Grteneille, on the teeeiiftenth l * -! day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eiaht hundred and fifty-tix. II. LgE THUUSTON, Inttu'daut. W. P. Price, Clark of Council. A GEORGIA BOOK. The Three Owlden Link?, oh Tides of Odd Fcttwoship. my miss c. w oaubeh. Link tub First.?Friendship, or the Mysterious Oovrrne8s. Link thy Kkcon*?.?Love,or the Adventures of an Atncrican Student. Link tub Third.? 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