The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-09-05
Pa ogress Of the Fevcr In Norfolk and
Portsmouth.

Gpsaal Correspondsnee nf the Dnpsteh-
TIE Car of DEATH Forty fire Bnriais--
sThree in one Bor-Nesc Pdntc-Scene a,
Potters' Fteld-W e. Cunningham dead
City Tailor deadaDaiton nheefer rery
ior-A few Of the DedfAs-forfy oHr'ed
today.
NORFOLK, Sept SIS P. NJ
Until A late hour of the night the dismal
car of death was heard rafting DER the pave
men T. bearing It's unfortunate occupants to
PIT er's Field. The burisls yesterday, from
sunr Use to IL o'clock at night, at least As
and il was found impossible, with the limited
conv eyances at hand, to dispose of them be-
fore the hour above mentioned. As 1t was,
many poor victims had to 60 under the
groun bored but nncoffned, owing to the
scarcity of coffins, which, in many instances,
two and three were laid side by side together
in a coarse box hastily constructed for the
purpose, and so inferred, like common case
of merchandise! These sad scenes, ana the
large mortality, have struck new panic 10
the few people remaining, and tins morning
over one hundred persons left the city. 1t is
i. supposed that numbers OF others VIII foil0w,
and that by the close of the week our pres
ent small population will be diminished by
sc least five or six hundred. And, in fact,
ws cannot blame the people-those who are
not bound here by ties of duty and honor
from flying from this horrible depot OF dis
ease and death
Ii requires o greater amount OF moral courage 70
remain from day to day, and lace the Invisible DE.
stroyer wbe 40 acks 10 30 many insioious ana pro-
team forms than TO bear the shock OF twenty
pitched battles If any wishes to see the picture
OF s.desrruc,iorr and death" In It's most sorr0wfu
form, les him take a walk to our Posters neid any
morning before seven O'CLOCK rs VIII insn see
numbers of cszfins scattered promiscuously on the
ground emi,fins q most horrible ttt1ivium, ieif
there the previous night for interment the next
morning. Sometimes these shells OF mortality, TOR
the want of q sufficient number OF grave diggers,
are left rorng and sinking In the SUI curing tne
greater part of the day
Amour the deaths to-day we regret to announce
that of VIM E Cunningham Egg. editor of tue
Beacon and w X Stores, City Tailor. Dalton
Wheeler, q prominent officer of the Howard Asso.
cia,ion 10 very low; Rev Mr. Jones, OF the colored
African Church. was taken down last hight; w
3urnhsm and son are very sick f Summers nas
even sick In bis family, he Is the only one up;
'shree died at the jail yesterday.
We cote below a tew (not all by any means
of the latest deaths Lydia Morse; Miss Sarah
r eeman, daughter of c P. Freeman; mir White
harst Princess Apne road " Stores; two Sons
Richard Dove decd Mr. h.let,. of The firm OF
Dixoe & HsHett Mr. Bsgnails slave Eliza;
number of negroes, &C., altogether about forty,
sill be buried day. IL lie found almost impossi-
bic to ges ell their names. Richard Gatewooo,
iuoior editor of the Beacon, was attacked with The
lever this morning. The weather Is hot and op-
pressive. VERpAD.
Among the namek of the dead In orfolk fur.
nished through otLer sources than our correspon'
dents letter, are: George w. Jones, Of the firm
of Jones & Brother; DR.. Sylvester, Jr-this IL the
third member of that family who has fallen, drst,
Dr. Sylvester, ST., then DR.. Sylvester, Jr., and
lastly, VIM. Sylvester Joseph Rorson, member
of the City Council; John Delspy, brother of
ex Mayor Delany Mrs. DIR. Chandler; Paxt,n
Pollard, q prominent. citizen and well known
school teacher.
Among those Ill are the following: Geo w Camp,
Cashier Exchange Bank, very low. Miss Fanny
Camp, his daughter ill, and bis wife sick. Mr.
Pennill, of the Farmers Bank, ia a hopeless CON-
dtion. VIM Smith, II IN If Smith & Brother
Wm BurDhsm and wife; VIM Winalow and
Gustayus Wioslow; VIM Knight, Town Bridge /;
Bernard, Druggist, very Ill; DR.. Frank A
Walk, at United States Hospital, very I'D. George
s Ferguson, Custom House Officer, of Norfolk, IL
III at Hampton.
The Plague F1y-On Sunday morning, the fly
| nown as the ''plsgue fly appeared In Norfolk
| 1t 10 fiat insect, with black back and red belly
and has very large wings. In Portsmouth, they
were thick In the streets to annoy persons
walking, and Induced the m to place q covering
over their fases. The appearance of this fl 10 gen
orally considered good omen, as 1t Ia supposed
to devour the malaria
BuryinS the Dead.-The city council of Norfolk,
have appointed a committee to super Intend the
digging of trenches at "Potters Field" In which to
bury the dead, as the mortality 10 becoming too
great to admit OF burying them in the usual man.
ner.
Vehieles for Physieians-Dr. N. C. Whitehead, the
Mayor of Norfolk, has issued an order for the i'm
pressing Of all vehicles for the use of phyacisns.-
Several stables have been made of In sccordsr ce
with the proclamation.
Lack of Cofns.-We learn from a private letter
written by Ex.Mayor stubbs that on Monday there
were fifty eorpses lying without collins to bury them
with.
Mortality.-We learn from the best authority I'll at
Monday there were seventy deaths in Norfolk. The
teeeraphc account from Baltimore says th ere we re-
"a deaths
I4ninals .4ttacksd.-Ws learn that the endemic
has extended to anima and dogs and cats are foura
lying about dead, with uumistaksable evidences o.
the "plsgus'-such as bleeding from the nose and
mouth, DO.
The Southside Democrat of Yesterday reports
| the death of Mr. Allen the;conductor on the Sea-
board and Roanoke Railroad. 1t learns from the
same source that on Saturday there were dozen
or more shocking burials in Norfolk and Por,mouth
- the dead being inferred only six inches in the
ground without coflns
In Alexandria the subscription amounts TO $500.
| 10 Washington, Rev Mr. Pyne announced on Sun
| day to the congregation OF st. Johns EpiscopaD
| Church, that the collections taken I'D duriog the
| five Sabbsths Ia this month (Ssptember) would be
forwarded 10 Norfolk and Portsmouth, for the ben.
eht OF the sufferers by the yellow fever.
Rev r d Woodey, who recently went throu,b
| Richmond TO Norfolk, was formerly pastor of 81
Aoysius congregation In Leonardtown, Md. DR.
Alex McWiismson, of the same town has left q :
Norfolk and Drs R and L Sutton were prepar.
| Ing 10 start.
Miss Amelia J oa, of Norfolk, died In New York
| on Friday last
| LATEST FROM NORFOLK.
The following melancholy information We
have received by way of telegraph from
Peters burg:
Walter Scott, of Richmond, son of Robt
G. Scott, Esq, our Consul to Rio Janeiro
died in Norfolk, Monday. He went there in
the capacity of nurse.
ReU. ID. p. Wells, Pastor of the Cumber.
land Street Methodist Church, died on Moo.