The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-09-06

,o,. aha d,ed. Mrs Tas m. molhrr Of Robert To.
,... go sick. She Rad lost daughter and son
r,ehsrd Williams Is the thirteenth msmbsr OF bill
family Who II dead Of the fever
TIE following persons were also sick 10 Ports
u,r,h Al last dates: Richard end Sarah Eskridae
,;,dreu of Rev Vernon EsAridge. Chaplain 10 the
NAVY. who was very active In BIS exsrtions and
,n,nis,ratiops among the sick 10 the Naval Hes
r,.t Mr. WIN Collins wife and three children
vere all sick, and Mr. James w Ashton, clerk IN
the Post Office. This gentleman II the last bat enc
| Of the post office CLERKS left on duty.
| There we're seven deaths 10 Portsmouth yes!er-
dav morning before 7o'clock.
| We received no Norfolk papers OF y esterdsy,
b,, rot the Argus of Tuesday, from which We 81 Up
the following items:
Much sickness prevails amongst families reside
ing on Bermuda street. Ia the family Of Mr.. X
Il ,dces, his son Edward eyed 10. had entirely re.
| a ,vered Misses Sarah Ann and Emily Hodges
v,re both down with the fever. but, as we learn
rom private letter, were improving. Rest of tie
family we'll
| r Dreadful Condition.-We have now about 7 900
,ople left In the CRY, aad smonR these the mortal-
ity is positively a~iul-worse than anything yet
written of the vissatons of the plague. On Sunday
| there were upwards of fifty burials and what 10
,be most painful part of ihs matter IL that all the
bodies scere not buried that ought to have been
such 10 the demand OF dead mortality for Its final
| homs
Two doors from where are writing there lies
a fostering CORPSE which has been decompnsing
tor nearly forty eight hours The house Is empty,
With the exception of its dead occupsnt--the
fourth corpse In the house within week But one
or CHI dren of the sl c.ed family left, and they
10 the hospi'n sick
Public Dtspensary The Savannah Delegation
L..K h NJ Doho ~
scripioD store. under the auspices THE Howard
lAs.ociston-anda are now really ~ dispense pre-.
serlntioBs ct any hour of the day or night. DR. r.
J Nunn of Savannah, an eminent chemist, has
chief CHARGE He Is assisted by others of the dele
ga ion. noble uoder ak:ng.
Contribution "A contribution of $40 has been
| received from Gen Winfield Scott
| Deaths. Among the names Of the dead not be-.
fore reported by we find the following:
Ed. Daily and wife, corner Church and Main streets;
Jonn nyston Market tquae; Miss Psfka at the jail;
M. X -elmau, corner Church and Charlotte streets;
u The Hospital A Charlie ton ply sicau who visited
Norfoik. speaks of his arrival there, and says The
ho ptal wss entirely upreguated, and 200 patients
many of them negroes were crowded into it. An
! ago hecary shop however, had been opened in one
The buildings were divided into wards, each OF
watch was cor mtted to the charge OF the different
| deegstious Wards Nos and had been assigned
to the Charleston delesation under DR.. Whitman,
and he whole Establishment began to assume or.
der and efhcienc,, the effects of which were soon
exhibited On Thursday night seven died and Fri.
d.y and Saturday there was death. and severed
Want of Nusss-The same ph, s,cisn says 'srhs
great " ant Is Of nurses was sent the next morn.
ins after arrival to attend sick family. and
found the mother and three children all sick In
| bed; the husband had died during the afternoon;
Their was no one but a negro child, about three
ths D ctor had looked upon them for the % ace of
48 hours before. OF the desolation some idea may
TO
whose fateer. mother, and every relative had died;
TT took it by turns and washed and cared for it
The Dogs-Dogs deserted by their owners and
without 1ood were bowling through the streets. and
| made the place more dismal.
The Character of the Disease "A Charleston phy.-
clan thius.the disease the same as that which peri
odiaall' stfcts that city. though our Portsmouth
did-In auutou there has been S5G7 so raised -
! in ksleish, N c., Sunday, S3l5 were raised.
Rsmiting Taree We learn that 1t is conte plated
ospply to the next Legislature to remit the taxes
! of ,rfolk and Portsmouth.
Letters from Norfolk, In the Baltimore papers
"a meeing of the Board of Health, to which
all the physicians now In the city were invited,
was held yesterday afternoon for the purpose OF
devising plans for the government of the new city
hospital committee, consisting of Drs. Feuner
Beard and Campbell of New Orleans; Reed of
Savannah; Huger, of Charleston; Morris, Of Ball
tmore; Freeman of Philadelphia, and West, of
New York were appointed TO frame rules and reg
| ulstions for It's future management. Much good, it
Is believed, will resus from this meeting"
letter dated Monday morning. says that the
sister and brother of Mrs. Storrs are both down /:
that Mr.. Hendren is recovering that prisoner in
the jail, named Buttop, died on Sunday; that the
rest of the prisoners had revolted, but had been
secured by Capt Hcks and others and that the
family of Capt H are sick, and he himself very
feeble Mr.. Digss, who had just recovered from y
spell of sickness, wss engaged in ssssling In the
management of The prisoners in the jail
Mr. Garnet, City Surveyor, Is dead Rev Mr.
,ienal Hotel, is improving. He has lost no less
than twenty one servants by the epidemic.
DR. Smith, of COLUMBIA, Pa, and nurse who
came with him are both down at Norfolk. Mr.
| DIN, OF Ausust Ga on behalf of the Samaritan
Socisfy. of that place arrived Monday evening.
The Norfolk Hsra'd. of Monday evening, has
the following Items:
The Southern did The Mayor ard Board OF
H-.lth hsve adopted resolutions expressing their
thank . to the Virginaus 10 New Orleans Savaonsh
and Charleston, for sending on physicisns and
| nurses and rendering to the persons thus
cordial welcome.
Potanteers-Among the efficient nurses who
have lately arrived 10 ,ha city is Mr. Fl try Myers,
from Richmond, who IL doing good service
Deaths at the City Hospital w r Todd. %,
| Chapel Hill C; Sophia G Hu,chiugs, A, Wash
inston City, James + KiIgrove 10 Norfolk: Miss
| Della Erickson, -, Sweden; John Erickson, AZ,
Sweden; mr Saunders, 40, Norfolk-,osal 6.
In Portsmouth, Drs Crow, of Richmo d, and
Ringer, of Philadelphia were down with the fever.
| The latter made his will. DR.. Hodges, and a
brother OF DR.. Maupn were removed to the hos
ptal Monday.
Many persons who died of the fever on Monday
| In Norfolk and Portsmouth, were wrspped In can.
| vass aud buried, there being no cofins ready.
| The nurses who have been sent TO Norfolk and
| Portsmouth by the Can't Get Away Club, of Mo-
bills, all experienced; three of them having
| s-"n sUloog those who we're sent to Savannah last
| season.
40 order was received 10 Baltimore, Tuesday,
tor one hundred more collins.
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