The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-08-30

r1ogIe q of the Fever in Norfolk and
Portsmouth.
co,repoodense Of the Dispatch.

DtSt,nrses-lusserable Sceae-Appeat for IA
-ORr,en s. Qaick's Hearse Drtrer-
y,s Actirtv ana Faitkfulness-H Free
Iom to be Bought Deaths - Rec; NJ
uJNs Donn-Another Physician SacE-
Iafarordblc Weather. a.,
NORFOLK, Aug. 2s-5 T. M.
No one who is rot on the spot can litiag, .,,
the suffering, chiefly from the want OF col,
mon attention. now existing among Ia
number of our population. GOOD nursing a;
is more essential in Yellow Fever .nan IT, ns,an
cine and nurses are so scarce ma ~ 20 tha
imnossible to obtain tnem' onc a ~
greatest favors that eouid DC coni s - va
kn,caik 81 present would be to SEND there
iarae corns of attentive nurses. Ihey are
more needed than physicians. and their ad-
.,ant in our CITY would be joyfully hailed by
nr,r .fIicted people. To show the desolate
condition prevailing among the lower class
a. Mr. ]. p. Anderson informs us that two
NJ three days since, while going around on
his missions of mercy, seeking out the SICK
and needy, he came across man who had
heen down with the fever two days, entirely
alone and forsaken, lying in his bed unable
IN move and actually wall0wing IN his own
eXcrement The stencil of the room was so
abominable that Mr.. Anderson had to copi
ously scatter about it chloride of lime, before
he could venture to remain few minutes in
the Doxious atmosphere. The man was
promptly cared for, but OF course relief
came q day too late, and he shortly after
died
This is but one of many cases, we may say,
Of daily occurrence, and loudly appeals to
the charity and sympathies of nurses abroad.
Irde pendent, also, of doing good action by
coming among US, they will be literally, aye,
largely compensated for their valuable ser
vices. Among those who have rendered
themselves conspicuous for faithful services
in these trying times, we have to notice John
Jones, mulatto slave, employed by Messrs
o Brien and Quick who in his humble, but
now highly important capacity of hearse
driver, has by the unwearied and faithful
performance of bis really labories duties,
won for himself, the esteem and regard of
the enire community. From the commence
meet of the disease, Jones has been active
" employed night and day, in driving the i'll
fated fever victims to the Cemetery. In ma
py instances having to shoulder the collins
in which were the bodies of the dead, and
place them in his hearse without any assis-
lance whatever. All of the friends of the
deceased having fled panic struck from the
corpse.
Night and day the rafting of the dismal
"csr Of death could be heard rapidly driven
by Jones, who sat in his seat SOLITARY and
alone" except the silent passenger within,)
putiog away at long nine, and looking as
cool and unconcerned as if hs was driving
gay party to a festive pic nic So he has
continued up TO this hour-sLd it is fearful
to contemplate how many poor wretches he
has driven to their last homes since the six
teenth of July. Probably not less than five
hundred And with the prospects ahead, if
he survives the epidemic, he bids fair to
"ChsriOteer" 500 more before the close of the
awful drama! The people intend, by public
subscription, to purchase the freedom of
Jones, should he be so fortunate as to pass
safely through the fever, as reward of his
courageous, cheerful and faithful conduct in
his particular line, throughout the epide-
mic.
The following are the latest deaths: John
Freeman tcolored); Mrs Siunott, Talbot st;
MIR Curtin, Union st; r HOLMAN, Water ST; Mr.
Noonan, Commerce st; Eliza Godfrey. Wood
sides Lane, negro man at Mrs Jones board |
ing house; child of Mrs Bixby, Fen Church
It; Mr. Etheredge, Union st; Mary Garrett,
Water st; negro of G Bailey's, Main ST; ne
gro man, Church at; james House. over Tow |
d Kings; Thomas Lewis, Main st; Edwd |
Seymour, formerly of Columbia, s G; neice
OF Mrs VIM Graves; daughter of jeremiah
Hendren; young lady at Insell's, pilot on
the Point; free negro, in the fields; Miss Eliza
Todd, daughter of the late Mallory Todd,
Esq-total 90 Capt Henry Decker and Jno
Winter died at the Hospital yesterday
We regret to state that the Rev Mr. Wills,
Methodist pastor, was taken with the fever
last night, also DIR Halson--his mother and
sister are very sick; John G FL Hatton, ESQ.
bis daughter is ILL., VIM Southgate, Esq
4 RrIn : ~ D. ~ l.
Balls, and a large number of negroes. Miss
Anna Camm had the fever, which terminated
III typhoid. She is not expected to live; Rev
hlr. Dibrell is very sick; DR. Constable is
worse; Miss Sally Walker, of Manchester, is
better; three of Mr.. Bsrry's fami-
y are down, and all OF his servants; Miss Sa-
rah Pitcher, reported dead at Eastville, is re-
covering; DIR De Castro, recently arrived
from Cuba, has the fever; DR. Higgins is
much better; MIR VIM b Pitcher died of the
lever, at Esstville, on Saturday. The weathsr
has changed from excessive heat to cold
ismperature, with disagreeable drizzling
ram. 1t i8 very unfavorable for the sick, and
will probably prove fatal to many.
VERDAD.
DR.. Crsycfoft, of Philadelphia, now at Norfolk
writes;
THE disease Is Of a most malignant type, and
las notyet reached Its cu'ming.iog point. Ills
no doubt, on liz Northern tour, and next year you
nay expect visit from this terrible destroyer in
Baltimore aud Phiadelph lathe year following
L will decinate New YoAk, and will continue 70
travel Norm, aud only stop when the warm tenn.
,eraiure comes below 70 deg. Fahrenheit
There are great many families here who are
Fery well on 10 this worlds goods, who are en-
ireiy dependent on the Howard Association fer
heir bread and meat The physicians horses
are very much faded, ami have rot a bale o I hay
n the city. No mattresses, MIR Ferguson has had
to seize cotton bales on the wharf, and use them
as mattresses
Gen. VIM. Ii Whitehead left Weldon. N. c.. ON
Sunday for Norfolk with about $500 worth of pro-
Visions, collected by his indefatig 4ble zeal, along
lne i'ne OF tue Seab0srd and Roanoke railroad
from the farmers. Messrs. Whitehead
d Gary, OF Weldon, contributed themselves two
nnodrsd bushels Of corn and seventy We cords OF
wood
r, Dr' De Castro, young Cuban physician from
! i.nhadelphia, is down with The fever. DR., Alex.
iOong is not dead reported.
The President OF the Howard Association sent