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———————— I CUHONICLE. • MJOVftTA. TcrsniT Monmn, Orrosan 24, 1820 . _ . IT , ( Accounts from forty counties, give the _ following HMurn for member* of Con gm> at the late Election Ahhnlt, ....... 8516 Blair, l»9l Clark, 19-3 Cnhh, 7207 Cook, 2840 Cnthbcrt, 8729 Gilmer, ....... 7770 Itced, ........ 10187 Tntniill, 7659 Thompson, ...... 726.3 Walton 4913 SAVANNAH, Oct. 18. Police Office. The public must expect from me some spolngy for »ny apparent neglect of duty. Lust Tuesday, should have been a regular session of the Mnyo>'» Court, and which termi luted judicial functions of this de-' parimeut. But, so precarious is the ten urc iy which every individual now holds his life, such the sorrow and despondency winch pervade every breast, that, even (if the present number of irhabitants could liaVe. dtr.itted it,) I am convinced, not a suito . Witness, or juror would have at tended. Gther, and higher concerns oc cupy die minds and reflections of us all for my part, humbled and nfflict'ld as 1 am, by a dispensation of providence, which has deprived ime of my host, temlerest and bosom friend. Under this distressing and almost insupportable state of feeling, (had affairs been less dihaatcrous) I should have been unfit to discharge the duties of a Judge. My fellow citizens, and companions in affliction, will, I hope, pardon me in an official communication, allusions, which perhaps, can be only interesting to my self,- hut believing, tlmi I have done and suffered enough to entitle me to it, I so licit their indulgence. IHOS. U. P. CHARLTON. Mayor, SAVANNAH Oct. 19, Police Office. There is no diminution in our bill of mortality} but the present cool weather may he the herald of returning health, to th< few remaining inhabitants of this af flicted, desolated city. Our full popula lion, including all classes of people, may be estimated at 9000. This population is composed of permanent residents, non residents, those who remained here dur ing the winter and spring months, tran sient persons, and blacks, and the people of colour. if as conjectured, not more than 2000 or 2500 souls remain, the desertion, or emigration occasioned by the prevailing malady, and other causes, may be equal to 6000. Let the mortality be calculated upon the basis then of the population since August, and it is not to be paral leled in the melancholy annals of any Section of the world God grant that we are now in the last scene of this deep St. affecting tragedy. The Polite Guard is in its full strength, and with other meas ures adopted, my present and absent fel low citizens, may entertain few appre hensions as to the safety and protection of the city; TllO3. U. P. CHARLTON, Mayor, Number of death* 17th and 18th inst inclusive, 17 T eal number from Ist to 18th instant, -inclusive, 157. We hope we shall not be accused of prejudice when we declare we give a de tid'd preference to the writings of our ■countryman, Mr. Irving, over any others that have appeared for a long time. The Sketch Rook, No. 7, comes upon us with increased beauties, vnd the correctness of the paintings are not to be questioned. We gave our readers a specimen, the o (her day, in his Stratford-upon-Avon— here follows a description of Westmins ter Abbey. On reading it, we fancy our seWeA-wandering in that great charnel house, among the chambers of the dead; we paae on the tombs of the hero, the statesman, and cry alas! does all human giandeur eventuate in this ? nay, all those hallowed sensations which a sensitive mind would be presumed to feel in his meditations among the tombs of illustri ous ancestry, are engendered by reading this delightful tale. [Metropolitan. 11 At every turn 1 met with some illus trious name, or the cognizance of some powerful house renowned in history. As the eye darts into these dusky chambers of death, if catches glimpses of quaint effigies; some kneeling in niches, as if in devotion; others stretched upon the tombs, with hands piously pressed toge-, then warriors in armor, as if reposing after battle; prelates with crozien and mi tres; and nobles in robes and coronets, lying, as it were, in state. In glancing o ▼er this scene, so strangely populous yet where every form is so still and silent, it seems almost as if we were treading a mansion of that fabled city, where every being had been suddenly transformed in to stone, • • • • • ** In the opposite transept to Poet’s CiTtner, s'and* a monument which is a mnug the moat renowned achievements of modern ait; but which tome, appear ed horrible rather than sublime. It is the tomb of Mrs. Nightingale, by Hou- Dinar. Ihe bottom of the monument is represented as throwing open its marble doors, and a sheeted skeleton is starling forth The shroud is falling from his tleshhu Irani' as lie launches his dart at hia victim. Kite is sinking into her us frighted husband's arms, who strives, with vain and frantic effort, to avert ihe blow The whole executed with terrible truth tmUpl it; we almost fancy w< hear the gibbering yell of tri impli, bursting fi.,n; tin* distended jaws of the spectre p,.. why should we thus tevk to clothe lit dead wn|» unnecessary tem rs, and tu spread horrors tonnd the tomb of Urns* wy h.vef Ihe gran should he surround, sd by tier) thing that might umpire ten U. rn, « *ud vaneraiiou tor the J«s l| or that NM|hV wlu lltf lirii gts t Blue. *JR ;» , # tit (he pW, not ot disgust and dismay, but i of •arrow and meditation. i “ While wandering about these gloomy I Vaults and s tent aisles, studying the re- t curds of the deed, the sound of busy ex- < isici.ee from without occasionally reach- i et the car:—the rumbling of the passing i equippage; the muimnrsof the multitude; or perhspa the light laugh of pleasure— ( ■The contrast is striking with the death like repose around; arm it has a strange effect upon the feelings, thus to hear the surges of active life, hurrying along and beating against the very walla of the sep ulchre.” After describing the magnificence of the Chspel of Henry the Seventh, he ob serves . “ There is a sad dearness in this mag nificence—this strange mixture of tombs and trophies —these emblems of living and aspiring ambition, close beside me mentos which show the dust and oblivion in which all must sooner or later termin ate. Noihing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness, than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant On looking round on the vacant stalls of the knights and their esquires, and on the rows of dusty, but gorgeous banners that were once borne before them, mv imagination con jured up the scene when (his halt was bright with the valor and beauty of the land—glittering with the splendor of jew elled rank and military array—alive with the tread of many feet, and the hum of an admiring multitude. All had passed a way; the silence of death t ad settled up on the place, interrupted only by the ca sual chirping of birds, which had found their aay into the chapel, and built their nests among its friezes and pendants — sure signs of solitariness and desertion." “ The sound of casual footsteps had ceased from the Abbey. I could only hear now and then, ths distant voice at ■ the priest repeating the evening service,' and the faint responses of the choir; these ; l paused for a time, and all was hushed, whe stilness, the desertion and sbscurity that were gradually prevailing around, gave a deeper and more solemn interest to the place: For in the silent grave, no conversation, No joyful tread of friends, no voice of lovers, No careful father’s counsel—nothing’s heard. For nothing is, but all oblivion, Dust, and an endless darkness. “ Suddenly the notes of the deep’ la* boring organ burst upon the ear, falling with doubtful and redoubled intensity, and rolling, as it were, huge billows of sound.—How well do their volume and grandeur accord with the mighty build ing ! With what pomp do they swell thro’ its vast vaults, and breathe their aw ful harmony through these caves of death, and make the silent sepulchre vocal! And now they rise in triumphant acclamation, heaving higher and higher their accord ant notes, and piling sound on sound— And now they pause, and the soft voices as the choir break out into sweet gushes of melody; they soar aloft, and waible a long the roof, and seem to play about these lofty vaults like the pure airs of Heaven. Again the pealing organ heaves its thrilling thunders, compressing air into music, and rolling it forth upon —What long-drawn r.adanoes! What so lemn sweeping concords ! It grows more and more dense and powerful—it fills the vast pile, and seems to jar the very walls —the ear is stunned—the senses are o verwhelmed. And now it is winding up m full jubilee—it is rising from the earth to heaven—the very soul seems wrapt a way, and floated upwards on this swelling tide of harmony!’* From the JVev/.York American. Sir — You will oblige a subscriber by giving an insertion to the following in teresting report on the contagion of yel low, lever.made to the National Institute by Portal, Fine I, and Uumeril : " We have been charged to give an ac count of a memoir on the following ques tion : “ Is the Yellow Fever contagious ?” which Dr. Deveze presented at the last sitting. We proceeded to discharge the duty imposed upon us. “U is contended by some physicians that the jellow fever is always contagious by others, that it is so only under parti cular circumstances ; a third class deny its contagiousness under any circumstan ces whatever. “ This last opinion was embraced b Dr. Deveze, in 1783. It was founded up on his observations in an extensive prac tice during fifteen years at St. Domingo, where it almost constantly prevailed spo radically, that is, it appeared to attack in sulated individuals. The seventy of the epidemic which then ravaged in Philadel. phia, gave further opportunities to Dr Deve/e to observe this disease, and his ad ditional experience during the years 1794- 95, 96, and especially in 1797, removed every shadow of doubt upon the subject. Since 1797 Dr Deveze has had no expe rience in the yellow fever, but he has col • lected, and attentively examined all that has been written upon the subject, m which he finds nothing to shake his opm ion that the disease is not propagated by contagion, but by infection. “ Infection he defines to be “ a morbid condition by which a mass of putrefac tion creates in an individual submitted to its influence a predisposition to contract a disease of u particular kind, or which occasions this disease in an individual al ready predisposed.” “ Infectious diseases arise in all places under the influence of acou.se of putre. faction, and never b-yond those places attack a great number of persons at the same time who have not had communica tion with each other, or with others ill of the same disease. Lastly, they really change their chsrscters, and are under the immediate influence of atmospheric heat, and the relative action of the winds and tides. “ Contagion, on the other hand, is a morbid condition by which an iiidi'idua' aliened with disease eonimunicatea it ti another, by mean* of a virus orpois-n si larlted to aoliu bodies er floating in the ■‘t"|ll«jl|lere• "If consider that the yellow fever otiau only in hut clinudea, or during (In hot season# uflemperutr countries, thai K appears most commonly in low damp siu-siient, and in places where time i« » great cuttvrUun of men, and of animal matttsr in a state ot dr enmposlUunt Ihm d ci.uiOHiu.ya its ,(Stages ill ills U/wet I and most unhealthy .(pvl of cities; that bt moreover, there is hot a single well an w thenticated case in which the production ol of fever has been proved to be the result fa of contagion, it cannot be questioned, >•’ say a the author, that the yellow fever is y. an infectious disease. tl If to this it be added, that the yellow b fever has been known to originate in air particular spot, remain there some time, ami to extend successively over the most unhealthy parts of a city, stop at public squares and open spaces, and teach the 0 opposite by a circuitous path—that it is | ( varied by the state of the atmosphere, Q comrnencin •. with the most intense heat, v and disappearing with it—that it abandons last the must damp situations—and lastly, that it differs in nothing but its violence 4 from other infections diseases; if we con aider all this, the opinion acquires great certainty. “W'e will sum up the principal facts which the author cites to prove that the yellow fever can never become contagi ous. y “1. In all countries where the yellow s fever habitually prevails, there are places t in which it never appears, excoot among persons who have been expose! in the unhealthy situation. “2. In temperate climates ,tlv, disease hoes not extend to the country; the high parts of cities are exempt, while this pestilence ravages the low aid damp streets. “3. In well situated hospitals ihe yel- , low fever never, appears, except among - individuals sick of it- when brought there. ( “4 Eighteen persons died of ihe yel- ( .ow fevor at A!cala, having contracted the ■ disease at Seville. None of the ihhabi , tants of Alcala were attacked wiw it.— i Similar facts are adduced. “ 5. Lastly, no one has ever been able to produce the yellow fever by inocula tion or voluntarily. “ Your committee have been struck ■ with the tone of frankness and convic tion with which Dr poveze has written. Without agreeing to the definition he gives ofinfectiofl, which wants precision, it appears that the yellcw fever is not at all contagious. PORTAL, PINAL, DUMEKIL. “The Academy approves the Report, and adopts the conclusions. [ V true copy.] “CUVIER, Perpetual Sec’ry &c. Charleston, Oct. 18. MEMBERS OF CONGRESS Certain information received from St- John’s (Berkley) in this District, gives Mr- Geddes 7i> votes, and Mr. Poinsett 27 Making Mr. Poinsett’s total majority in the District, 99. A letter received yesterday from Georgetown, states that Thomas H. Mitch all Esq. is elected to Congress from that Distract, by a majority of five hundred votes. By the Shin Hunter, Capt. Davis, which arrived at Philadelphia, in 26 days from Bordeaux, accounts thence to Sth of Sep tember, have been received. Nothing new. Capt Davis is the bearer of dis pa: ches for government frpm. the Amer ican Minister at Madrid. The harvest in France, is stated to have been very abun dant. an-* •'intajfe more productive nan usual.—-S. Pat NEW SYSTEM OF B ANKING. From an advertisement, signed “Lerot Popb, President, of the Planters and Mer chants Bank of Huntsville,” we learn that the said Bank will receive cotton on con signment; and ship the same on account and risque of the owners to any port in the United States, and will advance on delivery of the cotton in Huntsville, ten. cents per pound, and will pay the balance of the net proceeds at the Huntsville Bank as soon as the cotton is sold and the money received.” This is the only in stance in the United States where :» BANK has become a Commission Merchant ! »<» <> Cah awba, (Alabama,) October 6. Melancholy Occurrence. —lt becomes our duty to record the particulars, as far as they have came to our knowledge, rel ative to the following tragical event;— On the 30th ult. a young man by the name of George Grover, took with him a bottle of whiskey and went to the house of Mr. Charles Carrol, an old man of about 75 years of age. He found Mr. and Mrs Carrol and two Or three joung ladies of the neighborhood quietly and peaceably spending the day. Grover, after pa. ta king ra'her freely of the “delicious sip” gave the ladies, Mrs Carrol in particular, very abusive and insolent language, Mr Carrol remonstrated against his conduct; told him it was true he was old and weak, but that he could not suffer such indignity and contempt cast upon his family; and concluded by ordering him to quit the house. Grover redoubled his impreca tions on Mr. Carrol and his wife with re peated threats of violence He was at length persuaded to leave the house, and started to go away, but shortly returned, found Mr. Carrol in his yard, and re-com menced his abusive language and threats Mr. C. forbid his coming inside of his lot; hut Grover, regardless o f his orders followed him to the house, continuing his opprobriums, particularly against Mrs Carrol. Mr. Carrol went into the house, took down his gun, which was bailed with a ball and twelve or fourteen buck diot, returned to the door, presented it towards Grover in a position which indica ted his fatal determination Grover saw his apparent danger, and sat down in a chair which stood near him; in the act of taking Ids seat Mr. Carrol discharged hi. gun, the contents of which lodged in Gro ver’s breast. lie expired a few moments after. Mr. Carrol gave himself up to the mercy of the law, and is iuw in the cus tody of the Sheriffawaiting the decision of the court. The Hon Judge Saffold has grunted a Special Court for Instria', to he held in this town on Monday, the 3'Jth ult. There are different reports in circulu- i (ion relative to the above circumstance, •nd different oplnisni existing in regard 1 to the probable u suit, should judgment ’• P»«*vd against him, ami he lie execu ted, the law a ill rob him of but • few mo lten ts existence. A Peer, oncoming .ml of the house of laicjls, is as assaile d l*y (),«, mob w i t |, I mil demands of a shout f, r the i|ueen. le endeavored forsuiin lane to p u »h his way through a*] to trade compliance. m ut at last, surrounded end threatened dth violence, he stopped short and took \ iff his hat. “And must I cry the Queen arever?” said he to Jiis persecutors.— •Yes, yes. off with your hat.” You must •ou shall!” exclaimed the mob. “Well f hen;” said he, “if 1 must, here goes, my »oys —Huzza! the Queen for ever! and c nay all your wives be like her.” a The Huntsville paper announces that \ .lie clerk of “ The Planters & Merchants c as Huntsville,” has arrived from Ncw.Or- ’ leans, with §50,000 in Rpecic, for the use t as that Bank. We understand its arrival I was announced with a “ flourish of Trum- < pets,” wind loud huzzas of the multitude-” i POSTSCRIPT. 1 By Last Night's Mail. We have received information via Ha vanna.that the Cortes of Spain have ab solutely refused to cede the Floridas in li ny form to the United States. Sav, itep. SAVANNAH, Oct 21 \~ Saturday Evening. T 6\\cc Office. I have neither heard oft or had any new cases of malignant fever reported to me within the last two days. The? continu ance of cool weather, lias probably con tributed to check the march of the pre vailing malady. It will be perceived, how ever, that there is little or no diminution in the number of deaths, (considering the present population,) for the last 48 hours. A frorft, which ihe appearance of the weather indicates, may soon enable me to announce the annihilation of pesti lence. THOS U. P. CHARLTON. Mayor, s Number of deaths 19th and 20lh inst inclusive, 19 Total number, from Ist to 20th inst. in clusive, (exclusive of blacks and people of colour.) 173 Died, in Warren county, on Wednesday the 18th inst. William G. Andi\ ivs, aged eighteen years. *** The brethren of Webb’s Lodge are hereby notified that an extra meeting will be held this evening and that a punctual attendance is requir ed. By order of the Worshipful master. Robert .Dillon, i Secretary _ Oct 24 removal. TP HE subscriber respectfully informs his customers and the public, that he has tak en the brick store directly opposite his former residence, where he offers for sale A General Assortment of HATS And Military Goods , On the lowest ems, for Cash, or town acceptances. J. Barry. October 24 6t Copartnership. J. HE Subscribers respectfully inform their friends and the public, that they have connected themselves for the pur pose of transacting a Commission Grocery Business , under the firm of Dewab & Fotherino ham. They have taken a commodious stand at the upper end of Broad-Street which is well calculated for the purchas mg of produce; and as their attention will be principally devoted to the Commission Business, they beg leave to offer their services in that line. WILLIAM S. DEWAR ROB'T. fotheringham October. 24.——w3t. Notice. Zn answer to a piece in the Augusta Ohronide, dated the 21 st September. 1820-.—application was wanted of about 1000 acres, in the up country; for which cash would be paid,—The subscriber has tor sale, a Plantation in the upper part of Abbeville District -South Carolina, and on Hockey River, that answers the descrip ■ion, as well (perhaps) as any other in the District, a very Elevated, fertile, health ful, and well improved plantation ofa >out 800 acres, which he will sell a hur jram, for cash paid down.—There is a onsiderable plantation, excellent repairs, and now in cultivation, and if more Land is wanting; there is another tract adjoining the above, and lying on the op oosife side of the river of 400 acres, and an excellent quality, unimproved, known by the name of fort Independence tract, now for sale.—The subscriber would also sell the greater part of his crop of ern and fodder, with the grea ter pin of his stock of every kind—and endeavor to give possession by the Ist of January next—The premises ma> be seen by applying to the Subscriber on them. Stephen Crenshaw. October 21— ts For Rule, & T (lie North end oft he B ridge, sfe# I Likely Young Negroes. oa. 34.—41 1 GEORGIA, i 1 W arren County. \ ■ Superior Court, OctoW I Term, isse. I THe undersigned, Grand Jurors f , 1 coiiiwy of aforesaid, derive nee..'? f<J!> th ® I ficatmn from the circumstance s n Smi * E any thingdemanding, their public „T ,lot ■ way of presentments has cim t u 'u 'f J - v I cognizance during their pres,... r I They feel it however their S ’ rv '*- ft to call the attention of th e jalti£rf d, " J I Interior Court, and also that of ,? ls I citizens at large to the state an ,il oT oor public boildm,., SSLCS? I Court-House, and earnestly recommit I our Senator and Representatives , U| ° V suing General Assembly, to Use I exertions to have an act passa i t ‘ r “ e « ■ 5/.e our inferior conn t 0 Fevy an e “‘" or - I for county purposes. ut « B We also as a body, invested with K authority of examining into the I »n nds, do recommend that John Tor J, I Solomon Lockett and Jack S. DwSS I be a committee, appointed fop I pose, notwithstanding that the clerk f I the Inferior court is ready and wiIW I ay a statement of the same before tM* I body. , “ s I As the organ of onr fellow citizens «. I feel a conhdence that we do but cxn,e« I their sentiments, when we tender his H„ I nor J edge Dooly, our unfeigned appr„b».‘ B tion of, the ability, impartiality, prlmmii I ttide and dispatch winch characterizes hi, I judirial proceedings. I We request t!»at the foregoing he pub- I lished in the Georgia Journal and Augusta I Chronicle. “ I Jeremiah Butt, Foreman. I Ai thin .tenkins, Hubert Bonner, I James Gray, jun’r. Randal'Johnson I Thomas Maddux, Lewis Parham, * I James H McFarlin, Samuel Torrence I James Face, Joseph Ansley, I Joshua Draper, Samuel Barron, I Archelaus Butt, Vincent Johnson, I Henry Brown, John Fontaine, A I Benjamin Carr, Thomas Lockett. I A true extract from the Minutes. I Thomas Gibson, d’k. I Oct. 23 It I To Rent. j T WO Tenement, on the KoHli side I and upper end of Broad-streel gmd st uds I for business, and’calculated for comfortable I family residences, at present occupied by I J. C. Morgan & Giles Griswold—for terms apply to Oliver Reed, or James Myers September 26 w4t Lost or Stolen. A COMMON PLACE BOOK, (Lockie’s coniaining memorandums of a tour through South Carolina, &c. Any per son into whose hands this may have fallen will be rewarded by returning it to the subscriber. Luke Clint. Theatre, Augusta. Oct 17 1 ft WOOD / W0Ol)n~ i Al CONSTANT supply of good Season able Oak Wood for sale at the River. Apply to John or Herijamin Hall. October 21 3t Notice. A vw /VgUEEARLE to an order ofthe Honor able Court of Ordinary of Warren county, WILL BE SOLI), On the first Tuesday in November next at the Court-House in ll'arrerton, One House and Lot, In said place, it being the real estate of George H. Davidson, deceased, sold for the benefit of the Heirs—Terms made known on the day of Sale. A. Muncrief, ad mV. August 17——tds W O O i) For Sale. subscriber has for sale from one to five hundred Cords; which he ' , 'N '* e ‘ liver to purchasers, in any part of Augus ta, at five dollars per cord. Geo. W. Erans. Sept. 2G w6t removal. SWIFT RiESPECTPULLY inform their cup lomers and the Public that they have re moved their Clothing Store, To the house formerly occupied by Mr- Mrs. Ilird, situated between Dr. White Wm White Esq. brick building, ultere they offer for sale a General assortmert us Ready Made Clothing , Consisting of gentlemens and youths clo thing of every description, Ladies Shaw s Scarfs and Felices, with Hosiery »' Gloves, llt-urlh rugs of a Superior q |i* 1 J’ ■Superfine Clothes and Cat si me res, L-*‘ ■* do for Felices, Uc Me. Wliich they sell on the very lowest terms for cW Oct 10 " Slit A W HON NETS FIV y \ Straw Jfonucts and Os the NeW*«' I’asLioni- JUST SMW 1 “i J.VO FO/l A.U.K l‘r Pratt & Mutcuir. ft until InU HrwuUhM'. the Plantin' I fold. October 14