The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-09-10
ATEsT MAIL NE WIS.
-, Norfolk and Portsmouth.

~ or Portsmouth. In Portsmouth We h@'
h.en unable to find any one to repol. -
- our accounts are therefore brle' anu a W
s.,;sf ,c,ory Our correspondent no" N0'
s'', ;, his letter of Friday night says;
foia III ms cNoRroLK, Sept. z, 50.
..,nce TO YOU that l was
regret ~ 9th fever last night, ana an
taken down En- INV bed. Ipassed avery oao
now c9h or. 81 better this morning, ana my
nIgu:, ~ thinks will be up in day or TWO
poy,..nL ia his opinion, being mid one
ny Selected a young man to continue my
n. a but he, poor fellow, is down
co,'' Yours truly.
''o S-Dr. HUGER, who ATTENDS me, say
o.. disease has abated considerably, AND
t 10" of new cases since yesterday Is very
smIl."
~ went ND to Baltimore, Saturday morn
Hn' renorted that there were not as many
Pc |so. as usual Friday, but that the disease
" more yirulent in his character and more
fatal in its effects, .-,.,;
81 from Baltimore to the Northern pa
PEI DO Norfolk boat brings tidings of de-
n ,be number of deaths, and also, that
cteH'e cases are easier managed than pre-
tn. same dispatch says;
M Wnrr;s writes that there are but two
.hv.;c;ans from the North now at Norfolk
p"; VIA, are down with the fever.
n. Marshall, of Baltimore, is dying.
W. race;ved the following Geographic dis
ns,ch last night, from Weldon
By Telegraph from Weldon.
SUNDAY, Sept. 9-P NJ.
5oanlv regret 10 inform you that DR..
c'Irns President of the Seaboard and
po .n Railroad and j. w. Collins, of the
rtawlord House, Portsmouth, died yester-
Dr. Thomas Howle, of Richmond, died
ssrIy Yesterday morning, at the Naval Hos
George Chambers, ,jr., died also yester-
Whit. Ashton, very estimable young
man. Deputy Postmaster of Portsmouth,
dIed in the United States Hospital, Friday
Hs was the main reliance of the Postmaster,
Mr. Cooke, who is absent.
Yesterday there were fifty deaths in Nor
fo,k-still frightful mortality. In Ports
H. uth there were twenty three.
Bray Walters, of the National Hotel,
is certainly dead. He died Friday-and a
mos. esmable man he was.
DR. Wright, formerly of Edenton, North
Carolina, who has been rendering good SER
vice is sick with the fever.
an glad to say that DR. Gooch, who lies
sick il Norfolk, is certainly better-and | am
also gratifed to be able to say that DR. Crow,
also Of Richmond who is sick at the q s hos
piis was much better yesterday.
DrN Whitehead, of Norfolk, although
once reported dead, is much better, as also
is his daughter.
Samuel Wilson, who has labored for some
time the last notary and the last officer in
the Bank of Virginia in Portsmouth, has
closed that institution and left. G..
A letter states that many of the deaths in
Norfolk, Friday, were of the Oldest citizens.
The inability to get the names must leave
the sbSentees in u state of great anxiety.
We are enabled to correct the statement
with regard to Robert Tatem, who has been
reported as dead. He is alive and at Hamp-
ton, where he IS making arrangements to re-
move his mother and sisters.
We learn that the daughter of Crpt. Hard
Dg OF the Coffee is down with the fever.
ms with the following very interesting
eeris all that we Can publish this morning
with regard to this affecting and intensely
| Interesting news:
Correspondence of the Dispatch.l
/ From Hampt0n-Return of the Committees
Plan for erecting Tents and Remoual Of
CaiseRS-Ertreme Illness Of Mr.. Fergus
soR Of tie Custom House. Mss JONES'
laughter Of the late Mrs. Waiter Jones,
nck-Sad Picture !-Noble Citizens of
Mobile come TO iSucc0r the afflicted.
HAMPTON, Sept 7. 1855.
The returning committee from Washing.
Ion arrived this morning. The result of
Their Interview with the President of the u.
SatSs and Secretary of the Navy, you have
Already chrcnicled. This committee report
ato the adjourned meeting of the citizens
~ ~ gay through ITS chairman, as did also the
hIchmond committee through Ro ii Vaughan,
L3q Rav DIR McCabe handed over the sum
VI 1928 received by him from the President
Ho lew members of the Cabinet, as do
nation to the Norfolk and Portsmouth suffer-
SSfs'tO Fsyette Jones, Esq, Chairman of the
corresponding Committee.
tomorrow morning there will be q depu.
@n'h down from Baltimore with tents. &c,
s aHu' Uoa willing, we go right to work 10 ma
AnS immediate shelters to which a portion
VI lhe sufferers can Hee 1t was decided at
meeting last night, lust before the 81, ami
HAha left Baltimore, to erect these tents on
Nahey Island, but, upon reflection. this 10.
g"!oh IS deemed too near TO Norf,Ik RI he
u7Slraole, and the water SURROUNDING II ia too
f faay 10 admit the ready landing either of
FAMILIES or supplies. 'N0' -
Joseph Segar Esq, has most noblv and
s q rendered the committee the nse
r " ns tahd Tor the purpose desired, and il ~
,s ooaliea the place will be ready in two or
~ ,~,o1 aays TOR occupancy. The comm;ttea
~ 10 the highest and warmest terms If
D, neeling they had with the Mayor and
AZ po I.n' oil The Board of Health of the citv
f,.- n'T uq on the evening of their return
mo, Msshlngt0n. These gentlemen aIso
Ri, WIN the refugees at the meering Of
eo,onsrosos Yesterday morning and offered to
money! q nc, snd furnish material aid" in
Tray' BB,TiSlslons' tents, or any thing else
Gayor sns ~ Is noble city, and the
Hsshb s ..nL,. inc members of the Board of
soon 90 ;:'efilhg and noble gentlemen Az
As prss;a @as known to NJ N. Falls. ESQ
Connsn"u ~ OF the Baltimore Steam Packet
Mission - . In"t one OF the objects of the
rsuoysI - ' n. committee was to procure the
Prtnor,b Tue good people of Norfolk and
Vfred ia ai. ue promptly and courteousIy
ss two ID pace at the service of the spfTsr.
teen viii; III MS large steamers TO transnor,
Gdsd nv ".'no0t fee or reward, to the nlaca Do
resps" ga Tor location. f"o0 N0
he efsn NJ. to say that Mr. Ferousor an. 90
very low :, VI Inc Norfolk Custom House. is
Hampton, win Tials "a at Burcher's Hotel, in