The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-09-22

knows what We would have done without
| them. Your. V.
| September 81, 5 4. M-The deaths of last
hight are: Robert Graves. Richard Nash,
Peter Gslilee, Peter Kelly. and Miss Annie
Boswick. V.
Correspondence OF The Dispatch.
| List Of Deaths, &c.
PORTSMOUTH, Sept 20, 1855.
send you the following list of deaths for
| the "a hours ending this evening. OF course
mere are some have not heard of:
John ID Hodges child, Nelson Etheredge,
Sarah Manan, negro man of MIR Birmingham,
| Henry Barrett, Henry Browns son, Mrs Al
win; Robt Rodman, Sailmaker U s n; John
Reed, Peter Kelly at the Hospital.
Amos Edwards is not dead.
Yours FRIENDSHIP.
Correspondence of the Dispatch.
1he FeUer-Ihose that hare held out helping
hands nor Falling-Dr. Upshur-- REQ
Mr.. CAiSh0ln-Simo Chic Feve, at
Camp Falls The Storm there did fer
those seho hare gone there.
HAMPTON, Sept. 20.
The fever, it is said, is on the decline in
the two towns of Norfolk and Portsmouth
| but the noble spirits who have been engaged
| in ministering to thousands, are now falling
| themselves and going down to the grave
Many an eye will be wet with tears, when
the sad sentence passes from lip to lip, "Dr.
| George L. Upshur is no more p The writer
knew him well-intimately well, and was
always welcome guest at his board and
iiro-side. lie was one of the warmest, and
at the same time one of the blandest gentle
men to be found. Standing high in his pro-
fession, correspondent of foreign medical
journals, enjoying a large and lucrative
practice, (much OF which was given gratuit-
ousiy to the poor; though young in years, he
had already attained an enviable position in
his noble profession. Night and day, from
the commencement of the fever, did he toll
and toll in his arduous dnties happy if he
could relieve, and sad when he saw the stern
skeleton king strike down victim after vic
tim. He was very successful, and many
prayers were offered to Heaven that this no
BILE benefactor might be spared; but the hor-
rid disease he had SO long bsffled in other
! cases, seized upon him, and death has claim
ed noble specimen of a man in George L.
| Upshur.
With characteristic courtesy he sent mes
sage to his brother physicians, that if it
| would be convenient he would like them to
attend his funeral at two o'clock, but if not
| to suit their own convenience and appoint
| their own hour. DIR. Upshur was the Master
of Atlantic Lodge, (Masonic) in Norfolk, and
| am informed by Augustus Cook, Esq, who
has been noble co-worker with the Board
of Health, that poor Upshur desired his Ma
sonic brethren to be at his grave, if they
could, with the sprig of accasia, that type of
| the Immortality of heavenly bliss. He was
| a Christian gentleman, and was for some
| time the Lay reader at st. Paurs Church,
| Norfolk.
"Green be the turf above thee,
| Friend Of my early days
None knew thee but to love thee,
| None named thee but to praise.
| When hearts, whose truth was proven,
Like thine, are laid 10 earth,
| There should q wreath be woven,
To tell the world their WORTH"
| And who that knew the Rev. James CHS
holm, of Portsmouth, by sight, would have
| dreamed that that frail body of his held such
| lofty spirit Weak and delicate, with q
degree of modesty that almost amounted to
bashfulness, as shrinking and retiring as
young girl, thousands would have passed
him in the crowd, unconscious that they were
| ia the presence of ripe scholar and an able
divine. His look was personi6catiOn of
meekness, and to the superficial thinker he
would seem to have been one of those who
would quietly have retreated to his solitude,
far away from the noise and hustle of an ex-
cited community But the disease CAME
Chisholm's flock nearly all left,-and he too
was preparing to spend portion of his sum
ner in the mountains, but the disease came,
that this pale, delicate, frail, retiring man
came forth to the struggle, and the great and
noble soul, which was, after all, the statue of
the man. rose in its God given strength, and
he was here at the bedside of suffering, and
there by the fresh made grave here pointing
the sinner to the cross of Christ, and there
carrying food and drink to the suffering
now in the pulpit, Selling upon the circum-
stances of the visitation to warn men to pre-
pare for death, and then in the hospital,
whispering peace to the penitent and depart
ing soul. Death came to him, and he met
him as one who
-" Sustained and soothed
By an unfaltering trust approached the grave,
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant Dreams"
Among the deaths in Hampton was young
Simon Chic, of Portsmouth He was, for
one SO young, highly gifted, The was only 10
and choice library. He held clerkship at
the Portsmouth Railroad Office, his object
being to make money enough to finish his
education at the University of Virginia. He
came here with younger brother on Tues.
day week, was taken sick on the same night,
and died on Sunday. He was shrouded by
two brave and noble youths-Edward Banks,
BON VI tile proprietor OF chesapeake HAL,
and Julien Whiting-both as incapable Of
fear as they are of meanness. The younger
Chic is cOnyalescent, and will doubtless re-
cover
Mr. Timothy Green, of Norfolk, who came
here four weeks since, and who went about
until Monday evening last, died of the fever
on Tuesday. This is a singular fact, and
presents some new material for medical in
vestigation.
There have been four cases of the fever at
Camp Falls''-two are recovering, and the
other two, as am informed by the two med
ical gentlemen in attendance, are so far
rather unfsvOrable Drs. Semple and Hope
are in attendance at the Camps ever day,
and if the fever can be conquered, these are
the men to do it.
Speaking of the Camp-on Friday night
last we had severe blow of wind and a
neayy fall of rain. Some of the tents, which
we're not properly fastened. gave way, and
some SIX or seven were blown down. The
occupants Of the other tents have been re-
moved to Mr.. Mussys bowling saloon, and
others to Mr. Segars commodious and COM
Portable barn The refuge e. number about