Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-08-25
L,Tr VIEWS gY THE NAILS.
Correspondence of the Dispateh.l
,,-a,ress of the Feper in Norfolk and Ports
10 mouth.
NoRFOI.k. Aug. - 500.

thirds OF lilt Niiite IuP1'atioh iitso "'
| all the stores are closed, aud the si'lai'HS oil
nth rest over the heretofore cheerful streets.
The physician the druggist and the nndertGNer'
are The only professional persons now Kept pU>l'
" employed; and the plentiful harvest they are
reaping seems II increase rather than diminish.
fhfoug hout the day the solitary hearers
nnlollowed by mourners or minister, may be seen
driving at a rapid rate to the various cemeteries,
l.positing their loads of mortality and returning
a. rapidly, to carry out others. 1t is evident to
every one that the disease is fearfuy on the in
crease until lately il was hoped that 1t would
| eonfine its rayages to Water and Main streets,
and not extend north of the latter, but the last
few days has dispelled this illusion, and the at
mosphere, no doubt, is impregnatedin a greater
or less degree, with the subtle and fatal masma
throughout the entire city
The following were iaken sick with fever yes
terday; Miss. Margaret Kennedy, daughter of
tho late Commodore Kennedy, Cumberland ST. X
Dove Sealer of Weights and Measures; John
Badry, plasterer; VIM Whitehead, President OF
the Democratic Association; Miss Falgham,
Brewer st; Mrs. Mitchell, Butte st; John Is.
Rulder, samaker, and one OF his apprentice
boys: Mrs James G. White, Church st. There
are a great many others, but these are the only
nrominent ones we now know of. Altogether
4 there are $50 cases IN the city.
The following are the names OF the victims tor
the last AZ hours: Mr. O'Bourk Allyn Town;
3 Iohn Christian. Allyn Town; Molett, Met
{ IFS Lane; Miss. Adele P9ge, Main st; Miss.
3 Rufin, Main ST. Mrs Copes' water stee' Nr'
Greenwood Reds Lane; Geo. Lee, Queen
rect son of w. Barnes, James street; W.
j .foole Bute street; colored boy OF Il. L.
] s,,nmprs: do of J. G iIatton negro man Jack,
i I'D nv Mrs Good: negro man at DR.. Corke's;
] ,..Jro man at John Gibbs; Mr.. Dumottand En-
! IN gardener, found in dying state on some
dlo. ,f fodder in an clubhouse on Butte St,
Il NJ T,,Ili sbi fr II w
] -. Mas Trainer, Water St; Jerry Naugn' Com
narca St. Miss Camp, daughter of the late John
I = comn Esd. +. Main ST.; Capt. Job iialsey,
/ p.aro, et This makes n total of %; but there
are altogether, including those who have been
intarred in Potter's FIELD, 3O-up to : O'Clock to-
day. c.o,1. H.. ,r1tru
and showery, ana Calculated 10 'ho'e"so WV mum
] her of new cases.
I will keep you advised of our unhappy state
# affairs from day to day, as long as am able
to keep up. f''oND'
Tho visitors at the Red Sweet Springs held a
meeting on Saturday, the 18th inst Tor the Purc
pose of raising money to assist the at1iieteu OF
Portsmouth and Norfolk.
In accordance with the first resolution the char
d man appointed the following committee Miss
! poreber of South Carolina Mrs. McGalloch' DR..
rhos. Withers, of Petersburg DR.. j l. Cabell'
University Of Va, & Geo. + Watson, OF Ala
] who in a short time collected the sum OF three
] hundred and twenty dollars which with the sum
previously forwarded by the citizens OF Peters
Il 5urr amounted to the sum of five hundred dol
lars sent from the Red Sweet Springs.
The amount was enclosed to Hunter Woods,
3 Eco, Mayor of Norfolk.
We extract the following from the correspon-
& Gelco Of the Baltimore sun
4. r rtlat.. n
3 to-day is over one hundred and will no doubt eX-
eeed that of Yesterday. 1t is therefore fair to
i >ly that in two days there will have been upwards
IL 900 persons relieved by the association
4 Think God the means are in hand and are daily
increasing
The distress among no class OF our population
i is greater than among the free negroes OF whom
Il we have large number in the city, whose usual
occupations, as draymen or washerwomen and
seamstrcsses have been broken up by the gener-
! al desertion and suspension OF business. The
] fever too contrary to experience, prevails among
the oolored people, though not to so great an eX-
] tent as among the whites | know OF great
1 many sick with it. and of several deaths. 1hcTe
are four in nv own family ,one conYalescent whose
case was so singular that DR.. Stone, of New Or
leans was induced to visit him. lie lay for four
DAYS like man beastly drunk, unable to articu-
i late moro than few words and perfectly mpen-
& ehnbe to either persuasion or command, before
yellow Jack showed his colors. After this 1t was
s thirty hours before he became conscous.-
4 When DIR. Stone saw him, he prescribed brandy
4 teddy, which acted like a charm,and he has been
i doing well ever since"
4 subscription list II Charlottesville has been
opened for the reliefof the sufferers in Norfolk
and Portsmouth, and SOL has been raised a
public meeting of the citizens is called Tor Satur-
F day to further the same benevolent object.
Eight or nine nurses from Philadelphi have
,,f, 10 of
for the sufferers, in that city has reached $1,000.
Dr. Henry w. Webster and DR.. c. Y. Walters
Of Baltimore, have volunteered to go to the infec-
s ted cities. The subscription of Baltimore amounts
& To $l0.030.
We have been furnished with the following
extract of private letter to gentleman of this
city from very intelligent and reliable young
gentleman dated
SUFFOLK, Va, Aug2lst,
This village is filled to the overfo wing with
refugees from Norfolk and Portsmouth. As bad
MS the news is which you daily see in the Norfolk
and other papers, one half has not been told. The
4 fever is largely on the increase in both Norfolk
I and Portsmouth, have Just had conversation
with Mr.. S, an undertaken of Portsmouth. He
j informed me, hat on Sunday last he buried 8
bodies, and other undertakers buried in proper
ton. lie represents that there were serenity new
cases in those places ON Sunday.
The Norfoll, Board of Health reports the fol-
A lowing deaths for the "a hours. ending Wednes-
day at2 p. NJ.
VIM Stede, % years, Butte ST., moved from in
ieeted district Jere Vaughan. 30, Rothery's
lane; Miss Ireanor, w. Water St; Miss Camp,
Nam ST; Miss Etheredge, %, Cumberland St;
em Wilder, 15 Commerce ST.: Colored boy, 81,
at Mrs Palmer's Main ST.; John Parker, upper
81 ST y Hrt Main II.