The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-08-25

ssa seno0 lu sucu cn9eo. ond bes p0ou 70
.hs West Iades snd to California, hiss The hospitsi
"a biz charge. and everything that skill and lode.
stfsrers.
The correspondent Of the Baltimore Sun writes
- follows, under date Of Norfolk, Wednesday;
The weather to-day 10 already damp and suItfy.
bank OF clouds while the face OF the n,id-heavsns
10 covered with thin stratum of dirty looking
mist. through which the sun shines with dim and
sickiy Hight II 10 calm wi,bal but the indications
are similar to those which precede our August or
September gales, I have often had occasion 70
notice. 10 times of pestileDce, thu peculiar appear.
ance OF the atmospaere. There 10 q murkv glime.
mer 10 the suns rays which 10 never seen Ia heals
thy seasons something fndescribable 10 the ap.
pearance OF familiar objects which impresses the
miod with presentment of danger lurking
arouod. IL Is remarkable, too, that our regular
cheerful summer visitors, the martins and swal-
lows, always disappear with the advent of pessi.
irnce and not one OF them, or even bird OF any
KIND has been seen flying about over our city
since the fever first broke out The cased mocking
and canary. however. seem Is CD serful 40 ever,
and awake the Sabbath stiffness with their never
ce,sing carols. = q
Of thu Navy Agent; VIM. c. Whitehead Pension
Ger. 10 the Navy AGENTS. off sc; Henry Lepsee,
Ssrs tor Jo;sh w. Mir CssoHs All
Cooprew; Mr. Bricthouse. Clerk for Herman z
Co. Most of these reside in portions of the city
where yellow fever was never before known to orai.
nat, Inreed there 10 sire ct free from IT, and II
finds its victims among the rich ~ well a. the poor
among whites a. yell ss blacks
Of population Of 200 whites we hsve only 800
remaining At 6rst the heknes was eoEfned sxeu.
SICK Nae, our be-: .e s..s. a.. s
H.ss.: silI:oi, sas Bro .aa 4 e S.s: NOR.
10 ios.!is. aoiss every shina that
m ccnid do to assist their fellow mon.
DIS Hodres and Trpgen have been particularly at.
ten,ive, and Or. 81. remarkably successful hsvine,I
updersanS lost only five case. during the epidemic
the visitors have contributed $500 for the rsef 81
the sufferers. In Wheeling, a Lodge of Odd Fellows
s - owhsh
pie zee gave $50. $4,000 will be collected in New
Mrs. 2. Jones. an estm.b!e, kind hearted wi.
dow lady of Washing ton city, volunteered her test
services, without recompsuae IN Norfolk, either In
the hospitals or f.miiis, IS desired by the Howsrd
tefnoon. - - ~
singular fact il noticed to have occurred In
portsmouth. piece object. suspended few inches
above the ground in the ah,p-yard at Portsmouth,,
|heie the Ben Franklin wss di.chsrsed, turned
black In few minutes. The Fianklin is the vessel
Drs John Morris, Charles H. Rose and Charles A.
Lea OF Baltimore, voiunte cred to 90 to the infected
Th 81 ssmoae
$1,000.
we learn by passengers on the "Curtis Peck"
yesterday afternoon, that the night before, Hun
ter Woods, the noble Mayor of Norfolk, was laid
Oh bis bed from an attack Of the fever. He wa,
beine kindly tended when our informant left
Gideon Strange, an estimable young man living
near the Academy, was down with the fever:
Our Informant says that the day before he left
he saw car. in which were five coffined bodies
on their way to the church yard
LATEST BY TELEGRAPH.
PETERSBURG, Aug. "a Intelligence received
here from Portsmouth states that COL WinchesttS
Watts is sick with the fever, as s Dr. Lovitt, WHO
Is very Ill.
There 10 no abatement In the disease.
B w Palmer Ia not dead.