Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-08-29
LATE NEWS BY THE MAILS.
From the Petersburg Express Of Tue sday.
YeIIog Fever at Norfolk 4 Portsmouth.
krnnl NorGIk..

Especial Corres ponlence of the Express
Three Ce6inS in one Hearse-effctiag diSpenSa.
tioa-the Hospital al Jutsppi-waato Of room
Captain Guy and his Famiiy--oh Cases rs.
nttc -Nortaiiy IN Portsmouth-list Of
Dsaths-Ns,c Cases-Dr. Constable
NORFOLK, Aug. 2jth, ) p. NJ.
This morning witnessed a sight that gave
rs IA cold SILVER, and made us feel as if Yellow
Jack was down upon at last, 1t was two hear
ses rapidly moving towards potter's Field, each
loaded with three collins, piled one upon the other
thus making short work of hurrying away six
poor wretches at one drive. The spectacle excl.
ted anything but pleasant emotions
Among the list of deaths, we reported yester-
day without comment, will be found those of the
wife and child of Mr.. Thomas Martin
Fourteen fever patients were taken TO the Hos
pital at Julappi yesterday, and II to-day. Three
died last night, and four to-day. Several others
are in a dying condition.
The number of sick increases SO fas. that great
Inconvenience is beginning to DO felt account
of the want of room to accommodate them. New
quarters will have to be put up speedily. Cap
tain Guy and his family removed to Julappi
Yesterday from the city. Mrs. Hall, his daugh
teri died there last night. DR.. Higgins is slowly
improving, though not out of danger; VIM. c.
Whitehead Esq, has passed the crisis, and all
that he wants is good nursing (Which he will GER
tainly get) to put him on his feet again.
While tho old cases die off, the new ones
TO be more manageable and yield more readily to
medicine. Nearly all the recent new cases
petting along IA we'll as could be expected.
1t seems to make difference, however, about
the locality where the person contracts the dis
ease. Although the epidemic is general and wide
snread it is more malignant in some places than
in others, and those who take fever down town,
ON Main or Water streets, are attacked much
more vioelently than those in the northern por
tons of the city.
The mortality in Portsmouth is represented
being awful. There is no abatement in the dis
ease. and from twenty to thirty are dying day.
This with the diminished population Of that UNI
unhappy town is truly appalling.
The following is the latest list OF deaths IN
this city up to date. Mrs McLane, (of Balti-
more) Commerce ST.; George Higgins. Main It;
Miss Y Stangs. Guys Jail; Mark Mattocks;
Mary Welsh, Dod's Lane; Mary HAYWOOD, Wa
ter street; Geo North, Main st; Samuel Cook,
Church ST. Slave Susan, Church st; Mrs John A
Hall, daughter of Capt Guy Julann;. Hospital;
Bill. free cold) Hawk st; Mr. Jacob, (Carpenter)
Brewer st; Miss Harriet Fulgham,of Brewer st;
Mr. Ranbury painter; Mr. Lehman, tailor, Church
ST: Mrs Brooks, wife of Mr. Brooks, journeyman
painter; Frederick Roberts, of the firm of w ID
Roberts & Bro; Chas De Boyen. book binder,
Ia lbott street, Mrs Friedman Mrs Alphonzo:
Mr. White; Mrs Wilder; Lady of JOS Robertson,
Esq.-total %.
The following new cases occurred since last
night: Miss Hawking, and Young Dunbar,
Church st; street; Miss Walker at b. Gatchs;
Miss White. Rrewer st; Mr.. Brooks, grocer,
Cranky st; Mrs Rogers, wife of Mr.. Rogers of
the firm of Briggs Il Rogers; Miss Rogers, his
Mother; John Rogers, her son; the eldest daugh-
Ter OF W II Smith of the firm of Smith u Bro.
VERY iill Mrs Small, mother of j L Small-yery
sick.
|, is with sincere regret also that have to
announce the illness of Dr. Thomas c. Consta-
bic. who was violently attacked last night DIR.
Constable was away before the fever commenced,
bnt nobly returned as soon asst broke out, and
has after great exerton succumbed in the line of
his dlty. We trust that he may recover, but
hi, case is considered a very bad one.
Captain Bunting, Inspector Of Grain, is dead
on the Eastern shore; also the daughter-in law of
Mr. Pitcher dealer in Shoes, who is himself very
sick also Jno Branham, and mother; Mrs
Graves, and Mr. Wren of the firm of jenkins q
Wren; DIR De Bee. son of Purscr De Bee, U 5 n,
is lying very i'll in Baltimore; his brothers death
we reported Yesterday.
The weather is oppressively hot and sultry,
which it is feared will greatly increase the raw
ages of the fever
Later from Norfolk.
Especial Correspondence of the Express.)
DEATH OF MAYOR WOODS!
NDKtOlk' SuuudV, aug -otllt - ~
We note fewer deaths to day than usual, but
cannot say that the epidemic is abating; tue num-
Der of new cases is the criterion to Judge the
progress of the disease by, and they have large
" increased since last night, confined, however.
principally to blacks and the lower orders.
DR.. Stone, of New Orleans, says that the yell
low fever is generally sixty days in reaching its
highest mortality land that after that time it grad
ually and sometimes suddenly disappears. In
"a, - boS nd In nd
we are looking anxiously to the first of Septem-
Der, which terminates tho sixty days since its
commencement there, to see if the rest of the
Doctors saying will be fulfilled. God grant it
may be so for that Inflated town is suffering aw
fully The disease has to run here until the
10th of next month before it reaches sixty days,
and in that time what an amount of desolation
! and death may be sown broadcast through our
city.
1t is supposed that twelve thousand of our
people have led, and it is worthy of note that
nearly all our church going population-those
especially who were ioudest in their professions
! Of christianity gone, and were universally
among The first that stampeded Those that re-
manned behind are chiefly what they would call
sinners, and on them has devolved the duty OF
snursing the sick and relieving the wants of the
&distressed. And nobly have they generally per-
#tormed their mission
j To-day is the Sabbath; but with the exception
of the Church going bell" there is no difference
in the aspect the city from other days. Every
#dly now is like Sunday, far as quietness and a
xtoal su spcnson of bushes l. concerned. Jno.
slappin, Warren Wing, and w, Baguall's eldest
SON were taken last night-Wing and Lappin are
&deiirious-Dr. Thomas Nash was attacked very
4badly last night, and his son DR. Herbert Nash is
#Veryill Richard Bagnalrs wife and Miss Mar
8garet Kennedy are better DR.. Higgins is worse
Dr. Constable very sick Deputy Sergeant Hen
lren do; NJ. c. Cannon, Apothecary, was getting
i better, but imprudently exposed himself and /,
Mdongeronsy i'll. Mrs. AIeNina Page. wife Oh