Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-08-28
LATE NEWS By THE MilAS.
II From the Petersburg Express of Saturday. J
Yellow Fever ut Norfolk i Portsmouth.
From, Norfolk.

well as The WEAK, throwing out the taifest and
the strongest of the remaining families this
Affected city. 1t i really heart renling Ia
contemplate There were ut least twenty bu-
RAILS Friday.
We are truly rejoieed to learn that help i
about to reach the deeply afflicted place from
New Orleans. where both physicians and nurses
are familiar with the diseese, and it is presumed
at least can do much to relieve the suierngs of
the deeply distressed people
despatch reached here from New Orleans
Saturday, and was Immediately mailed to Mayor
Woods of Norfolk. 1t is from the Mayor of
New Orleans, and dated at that city on Friday,
Aug. 9th. The dispatch says our citizens sym
pnhze deeply with the people of Norfolk This
morning they contributed about three thousand
dollars, and will despatch to morrow Saturday
morning, ten experienced nurses, under chargeof
Drs. Richard. Ivy and Clarke.
We invite attention to the following letter from
our special correspondent:
Special Correspondent of the Express.
The Weather-Buridis-- p(oanded Report
Mayor Uoodis Nth the Ferer = Recorering-
Sickness IN the Country Hospital az Jnfdppi
Dr.. Lorerett Dead-450 Gases in Ports
moath-IGtest List Of FeUer pictms-dtro
cious Murder.
NORFOLK, Aug. D. ) p. NJ.
Dear Express We are sorry 10 say that the
present continued hot and sultry weather has
greatly increased thefatal ravages of the epidemic
and large number of burials has taken place to-
day of victims Of fever who died principally last
night. Day before yesterday 30 buried
Yesterday some %, and to-day mp to this hour
about 30. The disease increases daily in the
number Of new cases, great majority of whom
arc blacks and obscure white persons. Their
names it is often almost impossible to obtain,
they frequently die without Il physician being call
ed IN, and are hustled off, and shovelled away as
soon as the breath is out of their bodies.
Il. Il.
persons sometimes are taken suddenly in our
streets with the romito preto, or black vomit, and
in short time expire, if not quickly relieved, is
untrue The disease is certainly bad enough
without being made worse by exaggerated
ports, and not a of the kind has occurred.
The epidemic is the real New Orleans type of
Yellow Fever with the usual symptoms, and the
patients recover die within from three to six
DAYS after they are taken.
Among the cases last reported, it is with
the deepest feelings of regret that we have TO
announce the name of HUNTER WOODS, Esq,
our worthy and whole souled Mayor, who after
undergoing immense fatigue Of mind and body.
was compelled last evening to take to his bed,
fever stricken, and worn out. This will be sad
intelligence to Norfok's people abroad, and will
he read with universal sympathy and sorrow
Mr. Woods loss in our present disastrous cir
cumstanees. would be public calamity, and it
would be difficult to find one to fill his pace.wih
the same unwearied devotion to the welfare of the
community, both in his public capacity AS a Mag
istrate and his private one of charitable hui
name ann kind citizen We trust that his attack
may be mild one, and that he will soon recover,
and be able to be at his post again.
w. Bains, E. Seymour, Childs Thomas, and
large number of negroes, were taken down last
night. DR.. Higgins. we are gratifed to state is
much better, also, WIN. c. Whitehead, Esq, Ex-
Mayor Stubbs, lady, son and two daugters, w.
Dunbar, the lady of Jos. III. Robertson, Miss
Caroline Allmand, and Lewis Iepage, Frederick
Roberts d Bro, are dying. also Mr.. jacobs,
house carpenter, Brewer ST., n. C. Currier, and
K. Dove are very sick.
Purser De Breo's son, clerk of E. p. Tabb Il
Co., seized with the fever, while passing
through Baltimore, and is since dead.
Many Of our citizens who have fled to the coun-
Try are sick, and some have died. Griffin Barnes
is said to be dead, and in Princess Anne county,
Enoch Capps, Ryland Capps and child, David
Whitehurst, and Enoch Dawley are sick with
the fever.
The sick at the ,Julappi hospital are doing bet
ter thon those in the city; two deaths only have
occurred since Yesterday, and four are dying
There are 100 cases Mt the hospital under treat
ment 80 of which are considered eonvaescent
No prominent citizens have been attacked to-
day, the night is the time when the invisible des-
troyer first makes his approaches, the majority
of cases commencing after night fall.
The disease in Portsmouth is worse than ev-
er. The cases have increased to $50. DR..
Lovett is dead several other Physicians are
sick.
The following is the list of fever victims up to
) p NJ. to .day:-Wm. South, Reds Lane;Miss
Indiana Scott Church ST. W Stone, corner OF
Fen Church and Holt SITS; Caroline Huddlestone,
Brewer st; Child of John Visher; Bartly Watts,
(colored,) Miss Mary Archer, Duke ST; Edmund
(coored) at Parkefs Livery stable; Henry (col-
ored) Gains hotel; VIM Christian. Marsh st; j
Jones' free muatto, Kings Lane; Miss Lucy
Smith, Addington's Lane; negro man John, SER
want of Mr.. Taylor VIM Conrad. ] Michigan,
Church 81, wife and child of Thomas Martin, Bank
st; Geo Hudgins, Miss Stafford Martha Maddox,
Mary Hammer Richard S Cook. Boy in Summers
Row; child owned by Capt Watts; negro man
belonging to Richard Gatewood. Total 25
A man by the name of Peter Clinton was muir
dered in Norfolk county last night, by aperson
named Sykes. We learn that Sykes has been
arrested; we have not heard the particulars.
SPECTATOR.
The Board of Health report the following
deaths from Yellow Fever, for the "a hours end-
ing Friday at 4 o'clock Z. NJ:
child Of VIM G Barnes, aged years, resi-
dence James street, job lIalsey aged 80, resi-
dence Charlotte st: John Martin, aged IL, resi-
dence Bank st; Mrs Thos NJ Martin, aged35. res
idence Bank st; Mr.. McIane Of Baltimore. eyed
II years, residence Commerce street; George
4 Higgins, aged %, residence Main ST; John Con
lade aged 35, residence Allyn Town Jno Meha-
gan, aged 10 residence Church ST. Miss V Stall
Inns. aged 33, residence Guys jail; Mark Mat
tocks, aged 25, residence Ferry Point; John,
slave of VIM Taylor, aged 90, residence Main
street, Mary Welsh, aged years, Dodds Lane;
Il 1iaIy Haywood, aged7 years, residence WIDE
water st; Samuel Cooke, aged "A years, resi-
dence North Church street; George North, aged