Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-08-23
LATE NEWS BY THE MAILS.
from the Petersburg Express.
Yellow Fever al Norfolk d Portsmouth.
From Norfolk.

those Inflated cities Us truly Distressing In.
stpnd of an abatement Of the disease it i alarm.
ins,lv ON the increase. We received but one
Norfolk PAPER (the Beacon and while II does not
s.ly the Fever Is OIL the increase or Of more
malignant type, the long array of deaths under
its obituary head, aud the large increase report
ed by the Board ofIIealth. tell too plainly that
the Fell Destroyer Is spreading desolation in all
directions.
One of our Core spondents writes under date of
Monday Aug. 20. that 1.-THE deaths and new cases
to-day, number more than they have done since
the Fever first nude its appearance. lighter
load was taken from the wharf to day by the
steam ferry boat Princess Anne, to Juappi Hos
pital, at Lambert's Point. Provisions of all kinds
have gone up to an almost incredible Ggure-ba
con is 20 cents per pound, and meal $ - 81
per bushel."
The Board of Health report for the forty eight
hours ending Monday, August 20, O'Clock L.
NJ. the following deaths:
Mrs. Murphey, Charlotte street; VIM. Wallace
aged 40, Selden's Point Mrs. Friedman, aged
90, residence Gains Hotel. Union Street; Mrs
Eliza Sutton's child, Rhea's Lane; r. {. Barclay
aged 45, residence Main street. opposite Market.
extensive book merchant; Mrs. samuel Drum
Inond, residence Bank street, Miss Maria Hughes
residence Church Street, servant at Cams Hotel
Union Street, aged 80 servant owned by Ihos.
L. Lee residence Bermuda street; Mr.. Gibsons
u.
mand; aged %; residence Duke street; Negro
hoy Aleck aged 81, owned by b. b. Walters,
residence, Lane back of Church street; Richard
Galtrcss, residence III, Water St, Mrs j. G.
Hntton. (wjfe Of Teller of Farmers Bank,) aged
}5, residence Fen Church street; Miss Eugenia
lie Page, aged -, residence % Main street; L.
7. Jennings aged -. residence Charlotte street,
of the house of Faant : Co.: and Il white man
need about 3G name unknown. Total IL.
There were two deaths in the Hospital Sunday
"A child and mai.
A private letter, written Monday, Aug. 81,
Z. NJ, SAYS, Mrs. W. H. Murphy, a well known
niliner of this city, has just died
Dr. Wm. H. Freeman, Demonstration oi Apat-
ooy. in the Philadelphia College of Medicine,
arrived at Norfolk on Saturday, and offered his
professional services to the Mayor and Howard
Association Dir. L. had much experience IN ep-
,demics. having practsed extensively III Barba-
does, and the French and Spanish West India Is
lands In the most philan,hropic spirlt,Dr Free
,nan offers his professional skill and experience
as long as may be desired. He has been assign
ed to the CITY for duty with DIR. Moore.
Speaking of Dr. Stone and other physicians
who have recently arrived in Norfolk the Beacon
of Yesterday says
We regret that Dr. Stone was compelled to
leave in the cars at 3 CLOCK yesterday afternoon
totake passage in the boat for Baltimore. Ever
since his arrival on Thursday he has been enga-
city, & at the City Hospital. lie promptly went
wherever he was invited. lie has given all our
,hvsiciaus the benefit of his professional expert
rnce and observation in yellow fever cases IN New
Orleans. His visit and that of Drs. Permission
and Freeman has had IA most happy elect on our
afflicted community, giving more confidence ana
allayinp apprehension. The disease was pronoun-
ced to he Of less malignant type than yesterday
and the cases TO yield more readily to treatment.
Ybe weather has been cooler for two days, the
thermometer having fallen "a degrees DR.. Pen
niston will remain some days longer.
We regret that under present circumstances
the citizens of Norfolk were unable to tender to
these gentlemen some appreciation OF their phi
lanthropic visit. 49,
The following list of deaths appear in the obitu-
airy department of yesterdays Beacon
"Fsiendafer fiend.epars-
Who has not lost a triendF
Mrs. Sarah Eliza. the wife of Jno. 5. Hatton,
died at 8 o'clock Monday morning of the prevail
ing epidemic. -,
endemic, Mrs Sarah Frances Taylor, wife of
VIM. V. Taylor, Esq, and daughter OF Mr.: Hen
ry Moore, aged2l years.
Providence, r. l., and Worchester Mass,
papers copy.
In the sd year of her age, on the l4th inst
at the residence of her daughter,in Norfolk, Va
Mrs Otelia Butler, consort of DIR. Robert Butler
decd.
Richmond papers are requested TO copy.
On Tuesday morning at s o'clock, after live
DAYS illness Of fever in the brain, Thos Peasants,
son of Augustus Jordan, ESQ., aged years and
six months.
In Norfolk county, on Saturday morning, at 5
O'Clock Raphael eldest daughter of David f.
and Sarah Keeling, of this city, aged years
and 90 days.
This beautiful child resided in the effected dis
trict, and was taken with the fever after her re-
moval to the country Pity.that SO sweet flow
er should be nipped its first bloom >.
On Tuesday evening last Mrs. Mary NJ, wife
of John James, Esq, aged IL years
She was a MOTT estmable lady, and in all the
relations of wife, mother and friend, was beyond
reproach. Her loss will be felt by the poor
whose wants she supplied with liberal hand,
and bv n large circle of friends and relatives.
Yesterday morning, of Yellow Fever, Miss
Eugenia, youngest daughter of Levi lie Page,
aged %,
She bore her fate with christian fortitude and
perfect resignation to the Divine will.
Died of the fever, at the Neval Hospital, on
Sunday, Passed Midshipman Walter Jones, L.
Navy. .-..,,,,,,,,
As from Norfolk the tidings that reach us from
Portsmouth are ola most distressing eharac-
ter.
The following letter from one ofthe most UNI
firing, devoted and self-sacrihcing young physl-
cians of that place, appeals trumpet-tongued to
the Faculty of Petersburg. Will it not be heed
ed' Have we none in our city who Will 60 to
the help of their distressed fellow creatures in
neghborng town. We publish the letter entire
and leave the matter with them.
1t is dated Portsmouth, Monday, Aug. 20, 6
o'clock. p. NJ.
Dear Sir The condition of things in our
town at the present is most serious and alarm