The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-09-05
VIRGINIA.

Saso Vi smhi pox on q Doat there, ana tne ois
ease hss not spread. Itthinks there IL now no dan
ger OF its doing 90. .
TOBACCO INSPECTIONS The Inspections of to.
bacco In Lynchburg from October Let, 1854, to Sep
tember Isl, 1855, amounted to 8 637 hhds.
INCREASED SuBscRIPrToN.-The subscription of
etersburg, for the fever sufferers, already liberal
has been increased by the addition of 1927. Ap-
pomattox Lodge Odd Fellows also sent 500 down
DR. LEON GELBARDr The rumor of this gen.
tleman's death, published In the National American
OF yesterday, was incorrect. He WAS rapidly re-
gaining his strength, according to the Petersburg
Express, and on Tuesday became the guest of
Chas. Campbell, Esq, OF that city.
ODD FELLOWS SICK The Petersburg Express
learns that large number of Odd Fellows are III
of the fever In Nosfok. One lodge alone has thirty
members down with Ii.
MARTIAL Law -" Spect ator," of the Express,
vii ing from Norfolk, Sunday evening, says:-Msr.
tia law about to be established and the carriages
physicians and sick, wherever found-by order of
the acting Mayor Ii is also proposed to force the
blacks who are able, but unDiilag to act nurses
for the sick. Something OF this Kind must be done
or numbers OF neglected and forsaken fever struck
patients must perish solely from the want Of COM
mon attention.
THE FEyER.-It Ia sscertained BY experience
that person once having had the yellow fever
cannot take 1t again In the place where be first
had II; but msy, on going to another place where
1t Ia prevailing.
A V1nG,N1AN Hon Leo Shaver, one of the ter.
ritoral Judges of Utah, who was found dead on the
29lh July. was Virsinian and son of Michael
Shaver, Esq, of Abingdon.
THE FEVER IN NORFOLK AND PoRrsMourH.-
We fad the following list of deaths In Portsmouth,
furnished by the active correspondent OF the Pc.
tershurg Express:
Mrs George Davidson; Mr. Laurent; Jesse G
Oakley; Mrs Samuel Baip; VIM Fay; Mrs Corco-
ran; Dir F Cooke; Patrick O'Donnell; VIM Con-
dry; Mrs Kelly; Mrs Macklin and her sister; Miss
LiVssay; James Mulin; VIM Murphy; Miss Rosa
la Ta.em; child OF Alexander Etheridse; VIM
Ford and nine others; George Hope; Miss Sophia
Biugey, child of NJ B Langhorne, deceased; Mlss
Fanny Williams; negro Esther, at Capt Bentbalrs,
and Mrs Peterson; Luther Barrett; John nfess
pilot3 Michael Nee; Mrs Foster Newton; Joseph
Williams, (son of Wilson Williams, deceased3
VIM Bowen; Samuel Brewer; John D Cowper:
VIM Owings; Thomas Rudd, Or; John Woodley
and Miss Land, daughter of Mrs E Wilson.
Among those sick are Richard Williams (master
Mason navy yard) and daughter; Miss 81 Man.
nlng; Mrs John Foreman; Mr. Robert Tatem,
Miss Ann Fl Williams; James l. Williams. Two
children OF w Willisms; Henry Lindsey; Chas
Burgess George Hope; Thomas Green; Miss So.
phis Bingley; Mrs D Cowper; Philip Fauth,
Apohecary at Bluffs Drug stores (who has labored
day and night In compouuding prescriptions and
his assistant Mr. Pault the eight las. named are all
Ill. There are many others whose namesI can-
not now furnish
The name of Mr.. Dauehtery, through an un.
avoidabe mistake was yesterday mixed I'D with
the names of the dead He is not dead but is still
the Same obliging conductor on the Weldon Rail-
road he ever was
Miss Caroline Williams, Mrs y D Cooper, and
Mr. Jacks daughter, are still dangerously III.
MRS wilson's family are peculiarly fficted;
her husband has died of the fever and she has lost
her cook
This afternoon the physicians in visiting her
house, found Mrs Wilson Ill In one room; two
daughters sick In smother and one about fourteen
years old dying In another room, and her servants
Two In number, sick In the kitchen, with no one on
the lot to hand them a glass of water more
heart-rending scene has never been witnessed.
young man was Immediately procured to re-
main with them temporarily, until q suitable nurse
e cousd 0e mad. In short time one was found who
for $l2 per week consented to attend upon the
deeply at1icted family. This 10 specimen of
:cenes transpiring in our unfortunate city every
day.
really think that there have been near four hun
dred deaths in Portsmouth up to this time. Consider
the number of widows and orphans to be cared for
There are now three or four hundred sick in to wn,
to say nothing of the convalescent cases And be-
sides with the exception of few noble spirits who
have remained to look after this interests OF the
mEnityl all the rich and we'll to do have fed and the
population we now have all poor and necesstous
In many cases we have to pay az high as three dollars
a day for nurses and the regular price is $40 per
some idea of our expenditures. My own opinion i.
that the ordinary expenses each day amounts the
large sum Of $500 do not include In this the bury.
ing OF the dead; this will have to be paid hereafter
The papers state that $50 eco have been raised
IoI the relief of the Fever District Of this amount
The Petersburg Intelligencer of Yesterday learns
that In Norfolk many bodies were buried without
eofhns only two feet below the surface of the earth
it also says that Dr.. Collins President of the Sea
board Road, was taken down with the fever on Sur.
day night. Mr. Allen, conductor on the same road
was stu alive, but net expected to live half he ur
when the cars left Portsmouth MONDAY morning.
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