The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-09-06
prosress Of the Fever In Norfolk ana
Portsmouth.


Portsmouth.
se.e,.l Cone.posde.s. Of the Dispatsh.
s;ck,e.s IN Families-A6airs Worse-Bn-
rring in Pits-Actirity of our Doctors-
Northern Physicians keep up-Ihe sctiy
frrer-Disease more maitgndm-iHaess OF
Father OKesfe-W D Roberts doscn-
40 Deaths at the Hotel Hospital in one day!
Meeting in Hampton-Co6iHs ordered at
the Nary Yard
NORFOLK Sept. 4th, P. M.
There is scarcely family in the city
,h., Ia. mt one member or more sick with
the f.ver. This keeps those that are well at
home nursing the sick, and the streets IN
conseouence present even In the day time
completely desolAte ana oeserteo appear
onca Affairs, instead of getting better,
sasn, to grow worse, and If the work of
dsa.h continues as it did yesterday, very few
of the whites will be left in the course of
Ave or six weeks. As deaths in one dayis an
aw full mortality out of population OF some
ak Thousand, Ill told, and we believe is un-
uarralelled in the history of the ravages of
How fever even at New Orleans. 10 our
other distresses we have to add now that OF
being unable, from the scarcity OF w"rkmen,
of burying the dead as expediIiously as tney
shouId he: and numbers yesterday lay on
eheir beds purifying. and rendering the at
mosnhere deadly poisonous on that account.
Evan the commonest boxes cannot be pro-
cured enough to meet the fearful demand -
The crave diggers, not being able to dig sin
ole graves. have resorted to the expedient
used in time of war, and have dug large pits
or trenches, in which the collins are placed
in tiers one above the other. and the whole
covered with quick lime and dirt! This to
be- sure looks rather barbsrOus, but it Is per-
hans the best thing that can be done under
existing circumstances. Our doctors are
going night and day, visiting and relieving
the sick as far as possible, and their deeds OF
heroism flor it is heroasm of the highest
kind) deserves to be recorded in letters of
gold.
We have many physicians with US from
the North. and how they have escaped so
far is wonderful. While the natives are
falling hourly, they still keep up, active and
untiring 10 their exertions to restore the
health of their patients, and cheerful and
undismayed in the general havoc TRANSPORTING
around them. We sincerely hope that they
NAV pass through the deadly ordeal unscath-
ed. but greatly fear their philanthropical
endeavors will be arrested by the willy fever,
sooner or later.
The illness of the late VIM. e. Cunning
ham was very short, scarcely three days. 1t
was thought on Sunday night that he was
but the treacherous disease-as deceitful as
the serpent that beguiled Eve-held out
hopes only to blast them in the bud ,-and
while his friends cherished the Elusive hopes
of his rallying, the angel of death was al
ready lowering Der him with uplifted dart
He died the next morning at 10 O'Clock.
DR.. Moore informed US to-day that the
disease had assumed very malignant form,
and that many of the new cases were troub-
L N( xr,H, 1h
symptom highly dangerous, and formidable
to overcome. 1t was this affection that
hurried off Jno. G Hattop, Ignatius Higgins,
DR.. Constable, T. Farman, MIR. Hallett, Dr.
George Halson, Paxton Pollard, and many
more Others that are now down, are suffer
ing from this cause grievously Very little
hopes of recovery can be entertained for
persons thus affected.
We learn this morning that Mr.. O'Keefe
the Catholic minister, is very ill, and not ex-
pected TO recover. His loss would be deeply
regretted.
ILL old Mr.. Shuster is dying. We are glad
to state that DR.. VIM. Selden is getting we'll
rapidly; Jno Williams, Clerk of the Court,
| is also recovering. and Marshall OFT, one of
the officers of the Howard Association. W.
d. Roberts, Esq. our delegate elect to the
Legislature, We regret to learn, was taken
down with the fever last evening; also a
| young sister of John Lovett, the whole of
Mr. Bates family, and two children of Mil
| lars. MIR Peter MOore's wife and son left
town for the country last Thursday, were
| taken with the fever on Friday, and died
| yesterday. Thomas, Son of the late Rev.
Mr.. Dibrell, is dead Mr. Kirk patrick, stone
mason, is very i'll; also old Mr. jeremiah Hen
dren. Marsden Smith, Esq is up and doing
very well.
There were 40 burials to day. We note
below some of the latest deaths: Miss FL
Wilson; w Harwood; II Coneman; Mrs
Benton; Mrs Beveridge Miss S Parks; Miss
grove; Kulman; slave at Mr. Humphreys;
cplored woman, Cstharins st.; NJ Bennett,
&c, Shuster; colored man at Mr. Dixons; Lit
Whites eldest son. Mrs Chandler, boarding
house, Main ST. Mrs DR. Todd; Jos Rosson;
Jesse Dudley; Mrs Shuster; Thos Dihrell,
Anne Drayton; son of Edw' Delaney; Hugh
Rogers; daughter of Mr. Smiley, Church st;
wife of Mr. Capps Church street; Mr. Butler,
chief clerk of Bloodgood & Co.
At the City Hotel Hospital there have
been 80 deaths from yesterday up to this
morning. We regret to say that DR. Cray
croft of Philadelphia was taken sick with
the fever last night, and carried to the Ma
val Hospital this morning.
We think the idea of removal to Fort
Monroe, very humsne one, and hope that
it will be acted upon promptly and without
delay. The Commandant of the Navy Yard
to-day ordered all the carpenters in the yard
at work, to make boxes and rough ccffins
tor our numerous unburied dead. This will
be good news to our citizens, as numbers of
Inflated victims have been lying in their
houses two days. rotIing and putrafy,ng, for
the want of even common boxes to bury
them in VERDAD.
Correspondence of the Dispatch.
Oscillation Richmond Physicians Norfolk Doc.
tors Quarters.