Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-09-20
LATE NEWS BY TIE MAILS.
! rrnln tho Petershurg Express Of yesterday. ]
Yellow Fever Mt Norfolk L Portsmouth
FRNN NORFOLK.

ERCM NDkf DIN.
We exceedingly regret that we are unable TO
present our usual letter from Norfolk this morning
fvbcn our late correspondent. Mr.. K. ;. ilol-
s,ea1. was swept off by the terrible scourge now
el;eting Norfolk, engaged tho services
,f most reliable and intelligent gentleman a. MS
successor. who had bat recently recovered from
The Fever aud thought should be enabled TO
nroceed uninterrupted with oar Norfolk letters
mill the endemic had subsidized. But SO nncer-
t,in and in sidousis the fever that one scarcely
knows when he i entirely cearof its efects.even
ufter being pronou need welioy physicians Last
evening a brief note from ri, nd OF our late cor
respondent "Nornlk" announces that he has SUI
fered RELAPSE and will not be enabled to con-
,inne his letters To the Express for the present
The number OF deaths 10 Norfolk on Monday
wa heor were about thirty five, aud some reports
say that the Fever is on the increase or Thought
Among the recent deaths we hear of the fol.
lowing: Ex-Mayor Delaney; also Dr. Geo. Il.
Upsh1r. These gentlemen breathed their last
on Monday night :,
Dir. ITpshur was truly of natures noble
mon. hut we have not time to speak OF his many
| excellencies and must defer an appropriate TIL
4 bate to his memory until morrow
In addition to the above we hear OF the 1olo"-
ing: ,,;.u uor,or, &c
Tn. at Rev Arstdes Smiths Institutes she is
4 Niece of Peter McEnry, Esq, of this city, VIM
a r peed, bricklayer; Mrs j W Beote; John
81 crann. shin carpenter Mrs Hammers child; Mr.
81 CASEY shomaker; man at Marine Hospital;
a Nicheal Gennan negro woman' uhkhowh' ooy
4 ut Rev Mr. O'Keeies Franklin Daily, years
4 old. Jacob Garrison, cold man; Peter Gray,
I French teacher Mrs A Perrier; Elenora
IA White. Jones Cherry, constable; Alex Watts.
nartner of G w Ferrant & Co, Henry Waiting
u ian, brieklayer; Julius Paschel Schisano; slave
III Of ] B Dixon; Mrs Gwinner; slave OF Judge IL
Il Of Il
81 II Baker; negro man Abram save OF ID " h''e'
lnn1. Mrs Watts Lucan Paschal Sohlsano
negro of VIM Wells; Mrs Quick, wife OF the I'M
/ leTtakcr of that name; Rev Mr. BagnaI' OF the
ID Bantist church. a very promising young minister;
I T5var1 Watson. shoemaker; Miss Alexina Gun
nington and many others.
N The expenses of the Howard Assoc'a'ioh a''
I said +, be over $500 per day.
We are pleased to near tiai "o''
Esq Is and Robert II Gordon were said
!, be in a DYING condition on Monday ias''
tsaoo;o, Correspondence Of the Express.
Irld Weotber Urropitious -EieUan Deaths Mon
knr,-List of Names CtdsSes-iieiP Needed
4N1mes Of sick-4dditionm Deaths ,,-
= PORTSMOUTH, Sep. II, 1850.
Deor Ernress--rhe damp and cloudy weather
5fthe last three days, has produced quite
v@nmber of new cases and fear an increase mum
R,ar of deaths towards of the week
oar heaviest IN ,rtality has always been pro-
lcaoaed some five or seven days by just snch
il spell of weather as we now have.
The number of deuths to day amounted to eiev-
en. Mrs George T Guy, Mr. 1hos stewart MIS-
lingo, ST.; Mrs William K Singleton ,I,. Negro u
;. uHCpnpcp Marshall, decd; child OF WIN am Ieo
a i Ayort6 decd; Mr.. Sweeney; John Fry; Mrs.
a ETdynrd Morris; Darien p. Daughrey.
Ac The destitution in our town Is beyond caieula
f. non. and not onyis it so in Town, but the fefu-
fs raos in the woods and the residents IN the sur
m Astounding country are sadly IN want OF provisions
Ia we arescompeed every day TO send carts loads OF
a. anassaries of life for distribution to save them
~ str1m starvation.
al This state of thinks is particularly the case in
~ In n,ighbnrhood where the oystermen reside
ii, Ctbcir business being entirely cut Of and as
in Eibey produce no articles of provision. unless ald
te a. extended them, they must die OF famine.
a. Immense numbers of families are beng daily
b hmplied at oar Relief Store; numbers go away
ar tmntv. because it is impossible to wait on the
P AUwds that throng the store. Thanks be to our
c 2ndfrcnds in Virginia and The Union for the
f. tnerous sympathy they have displayed IN our
Ii, Behalf; nobly have they responded 10 our apPe"s
REL vfraid and through their kindness we have been
t enabled to feed the hungry and clothe the haSeo'
@ The demands upon us for relief are now such as
Z Hto call for additional contributions from our sym
1p lathsng friends far and wide.
'a Besides the provisions that are turnished at
rp Ap Relief Store there are daily large number
nm ~ physicians orders 1or cilche".'
wa Arrow Root &C., which required TOR the sex
3I' ll those who are convalescing. Each oroer
' i snt to the store calls for articles worth from
vii trce TO FIVE dollars Among those who are very
aso ick are VIM r Singleton; DR. Rizer DR. Berry
mali D Kennedy; George pendeton (who will p , ,
A.. mas die to night,) Bartholomew Brady John a
reman; David OVERLY; engineer OF the Sea
MOI ard and Roanoke Railroad,his wife and mother
0ne - -. r, ri, ~, b,s Ind a relnDsp
GOsPORT.
!, Sept. l5.-The following have died--Jas
Dresser: bartholomew Brady Robt Murden' Jas
YlE ider; Mr. Aex'r Saunders son, Levi Lane 10
teE ph Manning.
1' There are now but about $50 men at work II
Navy Yard; when the fever begun there were