The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-08-25
Correspondence Of the Dispatch.

NORFOLK August 23i. 5, Pm
The Weqther-P'ayr Meetings Of the Negroes Flying
totie Country Gathering at The Post Office Bury
fng Alive Fear Of NUrses-E o lar Business Con.
'tab's gro,rn MercifLi Neto Cases List of PIC
TINS = RemOring the Collectors Office - ShaHol1
This her still continues uufavorable hot and
suitrr, aud there 10 No apparent abatement in the
epidemic which msrches along like a des.royipg
hni hrcush. the heart OF our city. People tsks
leave OF each other in the evening seeming well
beth sfe dsSn with the fever.
Tho negroes having nothing else to do, (all work
being ruspepded,) hold religious meetings at their
spgs chauniiug. If the si oted sons and daughters
o. A'nca rescued constantly through the air with a
lisi.ncholy and solemn cadence.
As tbs number of cases Increases towards The
NoTthrra parts OF the city; large namber of families
ioFe before it iiae chat before tornado and carts
hlt every KIND OF vehicle are put in rsquisition to
"sar The iRhtsned fusitives to the country.
The Post Office ttemoved to the AesdeIay on Ca
thsrne street, has become the great ceutre of gath
erina and here the aope from various parts of TO
n.el 10 eompa'e notes, and to enquire after their
dh-ent ENDS is no unusual thin ON these &C.
e1on'. TO ar OF some one being dssd and buris
WHO We old not know had been even unwell. OF
ou 'e the rep rts at thsse meetings are sometms -
sSs. rated and unfounded but in the main are gen.
tTaiiy correct
] is the conceived opinion of mapv that; in grsst
tpdemics, amid the distress and dread OF the mo-
ine the sick are often buried sliva-and such be.
iiei has obtained some hold here, owins TO the fol
U"ihe incident. A geptieman left for dead revived
Whis his measure for a coffin was being taken. and
ior erink OF water; after which he rapidly
ssht ana shortly really expired and his measure
Iesa med and finished. The same thing happened 10
aco'ofeo woman, and was the subject of much CON.
""n at the time, striking terror to the hearts of
~ Sno TO the fears OF death had thus pre- sented
!" thsh Imagination the greater dread of being
H'sa dtite! One OF the most lamentabie features
nS the foolish fear that persons have
apPtoachin gttheir sck friends. They will stand
go 10 Tue SICK chamber, II they have the ha,dihood
tb1tl with bags Of csmphor and assafotida at
ust nsis affnid almost to 20 lear enough TO the
eE a of
,sn,., ohennY cho,s that the disc ,se 10 not
is,. oas they will not bsleve you, and 1t Is u.
% taik 10 them. On this account nurses al Q yery
wsaInt ~ Volsip aAd numbers perish merely for the
h.. attention Little no law business is done
And az ~ present; the Mayors Court il suspe nded
Tns r. executions are levied, or warrants issued
n,astables, like the rest of u.s. have become
tn an OIL meiancholy leisure, and softe ed by
deb:o, s mon around them, would scorn TO distress
T,ten ntthe prospect of large per centase.
seapT,n .ns ere some OF the late cases of fever
s.s citns ;-The wife Of Joseph II Robertson, Esq.
den, Wat .,a; Joha Cspehesrt and two chill.
Mia. G.t street.; jas. A. Quick, Csthsrine street;
UIss, ayes, removed to mr Dey's, Cumberland
the sic,atsaio becomes our painful duty to report
down OF Or Francis Higsins who wss taken
Dr.. u WIN the fever last nshi He il attended nv
Of s.rs.t and Penist n. N. C. Carrier, Iusp ector
.xife i. ,s,a ,stsn dGgn very bad this morning.
foIlovanaIaten Deputy ssrSesnt are do en-. Tn.
Ms. Eta.rSn sths ffom fever since my last
CommeIca .trss, oumbsrl nd street; WIN. Wilder,
Stewart GG . 2hr Parker Upper Union street: Mr.,
smana James Hs.has 5 GhiIs 81 .Tss,
ley SsIsts . 1fq h, Cumberland strest; Mo Bal.
foand ds.a 49, oaursh street: free eolored msn-
saas fsoa, III 'ae 10 bis house with black yomit it,
elsrt a. ~. ~ mouth aud nostrils; William as II
James obsonS National Hotsl, Ned Walker. eolored
shout fu, RESTAURANT keeper Union ,tr. ct snd
Al Ii, ha.n;'.Piea persons To;al le. Tas psts nts
ter thai ,.p.s al Jaispp are doing well-mucb BET.
ssrssd a. " 70 the city Only two deaths have oc.
% -I,s ,S.mesifs Point for coored persons attseS
sssss,.t lever The epidemic seems t. be No
k.eks ss sax or color and great nsmbsrs Of
Yss suing sstlms to III nyasss.
's'of OF Cnstoms' Once WIS reno W