Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-09-01
LATE NEWS BY THE MAILS.
From the Petersburg Express OF Friday
y.ilou Fc,cT al Norfolk 4 Portsmouth.
Ernnl Nnr6Ik.


We deeply regret TO state that the Fereris on
IT, ;ncrease at Norfolk. Our faithful and intel
liant correspondent spectator reports III his
-, below about 100 new casts rs having oc-
cured night before last.
qbn Revs Messts. Dbrp and Wills Of the
n +. Church, Hre better.
The sudden death of DR.. Thompson Of Balti-
,aaro is recorded. Bat one brief night >ulliccd
- hurry him from time to eternity. Surely the
row of death quickly sped in his case:
The Argus is now the only paper issued
Eom Yesterdays issue extract the following:
Renort of the Board of Health for the 81 hours
ending Wednesday, August %:
los ratem, 40, Chapel street Martha Lewis.
aud her Brother, Thos Lewis, 10, Main st; Capt
I,hn Fatherly. 45, Charlotte ST; Mrs lnge, Voss
~. Clement Hills child, Mrs Small IS, Mariner
.t. Andrew Scott,75, Briggs Point, Cold woman,
B5nshs lane; Thos Spratts ehd,Smth's Point;
Maria Becky. 30, Roanoke Avenue; Thos. IL.
Deyeridge,s AZ, do; Mary Eliza Stark l3, Main
-. nr Thompson, of Baltimore, at National Hoo
~ 81 Mr. Rhinot, Market Square, VIM Wells, Main
=. Miss Sprat, II, York st-Total 10.
.Did not die of the fever.
.rba Office of Mayor by the death OF the late
;.enmhent, Hunter Woods; Esq, having devolv
"9.,n DIR. n. G. Whtehead,as the oldest mags-
.rato at present in the city. that gentleman. we
49,. ratified t. learn. promptly accepted the trust
,nd Inns entered upon his official duties.
Meteor RICHARD BLOW offers his gratuitous
servioes TO the citizens of Norfolk.
NORFOLK, Aug. 29th 5, p. NJ.
n,,r rrnress = Our people are thinning off
ron;dlv. not day passes but large numbers leave
:, very possible conveyance. \ week snce,the
,.ast Office was the grand focus of gathering, and
no obont the hour of opening the northern mail,
.-.,.c,5s MIGHT be seen. grouped together, anxi-
,I, evnectinr news from friends abroad, and
making. and answering enquiries Of those at nome.
Now, a GREAT change has come over the scene
TN. continue, fitting away OF the population
i,as left a vacuum behind that Is nowhere more
,.,n,ht, di.paved than at the post ofhce.
fl,;. u,rnin. we took quiet (ah how quiet J
..up ttrough the cit y and felt as if fallen sud
d,Iy int, n CITY of tho dead" with every closed
and ebony house we passed tomb, enclosing
within the silent walls its buried nhaoltahts =
S.,,'>n streets were wholly deserted nothing
reoainipg behind few cats and dogs
and an old negro or two, and IN many
Instances not even these poor signs OF fe could
H.. seen from one end of the avenue to the other !!
AL all, inanmate and still.
We Give below the latest deaths from fever:
Mr.. PROXY, Commerce street; Negro Frank, own
cd Inv ". II. Haynes; Miss Lester,Church street;
Iasse Wics, Voss street; VIM Wells,house car
nentcr; DR.. Thompson, (of Baltmore;) Mrs. lnsell
Ennis Harrison, of he firm of Harrison Caps;
can't. Fatherly; Mrs Amy SMALL DIR. NJ. Nj. Can
NON child of Thomas Jakeman Mrs. lnge, Noss
81: Clement Hills child, Probys Lane; Mr.. Ry-
mott Market Snuare; Master T. Lewis and his
sister. Main street; JOS Tatem, Chapel St; Mr..
Scott Soap Maker; total 20.
DR.. Constable is sinking; Frank Jarrett Is
very sick: Capt Guy and his wife are better;Dr
HiGrins is better; W. S. 'Spratley. Rev Messrs
Dibrell and Wills are better; the illness OF Dr.
Thompson was very short he taken last eve
pinr, and died this morning. Swift as the arrow
Of dc5th! Deputy Sergeant Hendren Is very
,i,s.
iii, f,llowiug new cases Of fever occur
red in dis city last night Dir. Wan. Selden
Cbr~ Il Baale Esd late Editor OF the Ners
: Forrest. Reporter of the Argus; Mr. Barrow,
Keeper f City Hall; Ignatius Higgins; Mother
f T'hos Corprew: Oscar Warrington of the firm
# Waltlington & Bro. Henry Warrington; Z
eBhtimore: VIM Henry Garnet, one OF the Of
taersas tn Howard Association; Edward De-
larc1. Ga Mrs Mallory Todd; Mrs. Conway
White; . W Edwards; Mrs Skinner and her
three children, Duke Street; Miss Maria Sawyer;
Henry Jordan; Pox Pollard; Joseph Wilkinson
wife and child, Queen street; Henry NJ More and
two children; Misses Mary and Rebecca Gbis-
lin: Miss Evelina Fitzhugh: Thomas Foreman;
five cases at Police officer Cherry's, and num-
bers of negroes-a altogether about 100 new cases
since yesterday Is this not appalling! In
the way the epidemic is progressing few, II any
of us can hope to escape its insdious attacks
There are at least 600 down in this city, and the
number swelling feorfully every day ,a
SPECTATOR.
The augusta will ascend the River to day
with her flags at half mast, as tribute OF re-
spect to the memory of the late Capt. } Father
ly. late of the York River Route. who has just
fallen victim to the Fever.
John c. II. Hatton. Teller of the Farmers
Bank, and Paxton Pollard, long and faYorably
known as teacher in this community, are both
very ill., and will probably die to-day. Mr.. Hat