The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-11-04 00:00:00

.4.VERIC.IN PAPERS.

Extract 01'4 letter from a gentleman in New Or-
leans. to his Friend in George Town, dated Septem-
ber 2 1 his week, I have to regr.t the loss of se-
veral of the most valuable friends I had in Orleans.
Dr. Burnet, your brother's medical attendant, caught
the yellow fever the day after I wrote you and died,
after three days Hines.; indeed, it seems to Ite that
the cases that have occurred, are mark more 'malig-
nant than last year, and teethed the egeirts ..eklbe fa.
rutty. There has hp,•!, 99 interments the lost five
days; a great tiumber. cow.hlering our thin popu-
lation.

Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Savannah, to
his friend in Newark, N. J. dated Sept. 19 :--" This
will inform you, that this city is In great cogovion,
terror and iIi•UIAW. The disease proves fatal ht all--
young and old, black and white, residents or non-resi-
dents. The physicians are candid enough to declare,
flo:.y tan render no assistance, if taken as they gene-
rally are. Several of the doctors are dead ; they say
coo may call the disease the plague, ur the yellow-
fever, which you please. Persons attacked sellout
live tore thous three days. The deaths are from 12.
to Id per day of whites--and it is considered that
there are not 10111) left Isere at this time. 1 think
there is as much diluter now from the negroes as from
the sickness : yesterday filter 1 had concerted matters
to break open one of the Ikailki in omen daylight, but
route person heard them consulting, and they were se-
carrel. If we hare nothing fr theist worse than
that it will be more than I expea."
[FROM TIM SAVANNA II IMPriILICAN.]
The present situati of out city is calculated to
excite the sympathy of the most hardened and um
principled, and yet an attempt has been made to add the
horrors of eonfiagration, to the miseries of our afflicted
people. A villain was detected last night, in the act
of preparing to fire the large wooden Hotel erec ing
by Colonel Shellman ; and, hut for the thoo-ly pro-
s idential interposit' of one or two vigilant citizens,
he might hare succeeded in his nefarious design.
1 beg leave t., inform my remaining fellow-citizens,
that I have invested the police with its full energy
and strength, and unaided as 1 am now, by the advice
of a Coumil, will endeavour to adopt such measures
as the public safety may require.
Wills the concurrence of two Aldermen, 1 hereby
offer a reward of MI/ dollars, for the arrest or designa-
tion of the person seen last night in the act of- pre-
paring to cosillagrate this city—or 'IOU dollars for
information that way lead to any certain u: useful
discovery.
Tuns. Cu IRLION, Mayor.
AMERICAN ANTIQCITIES.

• (From the Albany Repnblican, of October 7.)
We have b••en politely furnishes, with the following
description of some of tiie nauserons evidences this
state, in em eeeee with the whole western country, af-
fords of its having been formerly inhabited by a set
of people, unknown to historians.
On the quarter serti.,n of land which a Mr. Torrent
orrupies in Jones's Valley, (Alabama) is a regular cir-
cular ea•renckenent, enclosing about six acres of land;
on the margin of and within it are oak trees of as
large size as any on the surrounding field, some of
which are 30 to 33 inches diameter—the height of
the breast work from within is about a foot,
and from without shoot two feet high, there
being. around it a kind of ditch or excavation, made by
the earth being thrown up to form the breast work,
That this has been done, is very apparent from the
coloar of the earth au the lop of it being nearly tie
same we that every where amend it, after digging
belew.th;.anti. Within the circular the mills susayss-