Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-09-13
LATE NEWS By THE NAILS. -
-LErnm the Petersburg Express Of yesterlay !
Yellow Fever at Norfolk 4 Portsmouth.
FROM NORFOLK.

0ur accounts from Noriok luis
,aore fneagre than they have been for sumo time
mast. The papers having all suspended, we are
entirely dependent special correspondence.
and we regret to state that our faithful and intel
I;gent correspondent SPECTATOR, has been
.l,,yu with the fever since FRIDAY afternoon last
\ ,.nfIeman in Petersburg has received a p.i
yate letter giving information of the illness ..
Mrs Gait, The e.timable LADY of Mr.. Alexandra
t.alt Post Master of Norfolk.
Another letter announces the death OF MISS
sarah Catharine Manning, of Portsmouth also
her father, mother and aunt-aIrs. Potts
We learn from passenger by the dngnSta
that the deaths in Norfolk Monday amounted TO
about 40. In Portsmouth, we learn from the
same source, they reache twenty three.
Oar telegraphic despatch from Weldon gives
no particulars of the deaths IN NorfoiK' o"' says
there were seventeen in Portsmouth
A private letter received by gentleman since
the above was written, says there were one nun
Nod and thirty burals in Norfolk on Sunday,
nd confirms the statement given above OF forty
deotbs in the same place on Monday.
gentleman permits us to make few brief
axracts from a letter received by him yesterday
lated at Norfolk. The writer says:
III awful dear friend, to think OF the great
| hstress and suffering in the two communities OF
| Worfolk and Portsmouth. You have doubtless
| ,,d accounts in the papers of scenes enacted IN
| both places, but the papers fail to give an ade
,nate idea. The facts are really startling and
| Ieart rendng and many appalling scenes never
get into the papers. ,.e
Gcnty in obtaining grave diggers,) PIT apou,
"a TO 30 feet square in which was buried the dead
L,1ies of 81 victims, piled one upon another. and
ooyered over with dht and lime, forming one hugh
and monsirous moued.
Many have been inferred without boxes or
collins, or anything else save the blanket upon
which they died. Several of our welthiest clfi.
,ans have been buried in rough squares boxes,and
The graves dug by their friends.
In one instance. heard of father digging
H. Graves of his two only daughters: and as ma
~ ~ 10 TO 20 bodies have been lying on the
,ronnd at the Cemetery, waiting their turn ior
nterment, as soon as the holes were dug fof IN
many instances they were not more thah - ieet
pns;,ess is entirely suspended, and stores all
da'sJ You cannot obtain ponnd of sugar or
a;oca of SOAP The rich us well as the poor
y denendent upon the Howard Association who
,.o established a Provisions Store. and who
1soense food aud provisions to the needy with
bountiful hand
DR.. William Henry Freeman, OF Philadelphia
ho has rendered such noble service IN the atiiic-
ta5 ci,v # Norfolk AMI who passed through Bal
timo,e on Friday morning last on his way home
Era few DAYS re- creation, returned to Norfolk
Monday afternoon on the the steamer Georgla.-
F. 7. B. Hintze and Dr. Moore, OF Baltimore
,lso went down; the latter to nurse Dr. MOTIFS
sbonld it be neces ssary. DIR. de Castro also re-
,urneI Monday afternoon
The Baltimore American learns from DR. Free,
man that Dr. Higgins of Norfolk, who passed
tbronrh Baltimore last week, having just recover
Cd from an attack of the fever, on his way to
pblpdelpha, had relapse i'll that city accom-
n,ned bv the black vomit, and expired on Satur-
day last. ,,>n,.,,orrrr
The Rev Thomas Hume, of Portsmouth pass
i ed through this city YESTERDAY afternoon.
rtm him we learn that Mr.. John Puen' OF
j p,rtsm,nth, died Monday. Mr. p. lost his. w'ft
with the fevel few days ago.
Rehd Eskridge, young man OF rare prom S
ared about nineteen years, and son OF the keY
Vernon Eskridge Chaplain in the l Navy. dec
Monday. night ~, H.,
The Vernon Eskridge, was lying at the Hos
nil avcster lay morning, extremely low and 1
was thought he could not live through the
day.
The Rev. james Chisholm, of the Protestan
Episcopal Church, is also at the Naval Hospital
IA very precarious condition.
Geo f. Guy. Esq a most estinabie citizen
Z Portsmouth, and an exemplary Christian is dowt
Z with the Fever.