Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-08-11

| bPfHffl PfFHl. VIII NOT iiHt fiifIfHr VI T.
tersburg lend a helping handl A rmal sub
| scription from each individual among will
scarcely be felt, while the aggregate amount will
mitigate the suffrrings of many who are seorclled
with fever and rackcd with pnin. Nota line has
appeared in the Portsmouth naper, limiting Mt
help from abroad, bnta gentleman who knows
that large number of persons in ind g mt cir
cumstances have been sorey afflicted, has sug-
gested to rs that pecniliary aid would he aeeep-
table and we trust that our community will not
fail TO respond to tho suggestion.
TRAvEL-The amount Of travel now passing
through our city westward is enornou-.. Long
trains of four and five daily crowded al
mostto sulloeatipn and perfect mountains of
baggage are slowed away in every possible place.
The warm weather and the Yellow Fever are
causing the owlanders to flock to the mountains
almost en- mosse.
DISTRESSING BEREAVEMENT. The Dispatch
gives the following mournful account of the sad
bereavement sustained by one person by tho
yellow fever at Portsmouth, ..4
Our readers have doubtless watched with
painful anxiety, the progress of this fatal disease
III ''7p'iii / VI isHi'uti ahu ANpiipih, uhh many
of ihemh have had occasion to shed bitter, bitter
tears at the fatal inroads made in their circle of
friends and acquaintance; but we know of no
man whose Affections have been more severe, and
who has had greater cause to be vail the devasta
ting effects Of this bosom of destruction, than
Mr.. MILLS b. GoDwIN one of the compositors in
the Dispatch office. Two weeks since, the father
mother, aunt, sister, brother in law, nephew and
cousin of Mr.. Goodwin were all living in Gosport.
doing well, and enjoying good health When the
news reached this city that the yellow fever had
made its appearance in that town, he consolod
himself with the hope that the report was found
ed on an lsonted case, carried there by some YES
sci, and knowing that his friends were temperate,
prudent people felt but little easiness for their
safety. His feelings may be better imagined
than described, when, few days after, the tele-
graph brought the heart rending ne WIS that his
brother, Frederick A, Goodwin, in the bloom of
youth and with worldly prospects the most fat
| tering, had been seized by the scourgr. and
FASTENED from time into eternity. Bowed down
with grief at the loss of his brother, and
| having his anxetes aroused for the remainder of
| his family, Mr.. Goodwin impatiently awaited the
receipt Of the dispatch on the following day, on
the arrival of which he learned that his brother
| in-luw, Mr.. p. F.. eileen, bad also fallen prey
! to the fever and was more.
Narrowing as was this sad intelli gence. his cup
|
! he learned that his sister, Mrs. Elizabeth L.
| Glenn, and her infant child had been stricken
down by the same unrelenting enemy, and had
gone to join their husband and father in another
and happier world. Well might MIR. Goodwin ex
claim in the anguish Of his heart "my God, my
God, why hast thou forsaken me- for, swift as
| the lightnlng's flash, came pouring in the sud
news, that one after another was passing away
The thoughts of his aged mother and father
| seemed now to rend his very soul, and as mes
senger after messenger handed in their despatch
es, he devoured their contents with burning eyes
and aching heart to learn the worst. The fourth
victim his cousin Mrs Amelia Jones. Then
fell his aunt, Mrs. Mary b. Drewry--who, in
turn spe Oily followed by her son. Arthur
Drewry, lad about six years old. All all were
now gone his mother and father, and faint
! hope began to dawn on the minds horizon, that
Death had satated his appetite and would spare
them; but that hope was only momentary. for the
| next news that came informed Mr.. Goodwin that
| his father, Mr.. A. Ii. Goodwin, had fallen prey
10 the disease. and been ushered from time into
eternity.
Heart-rendering was the agony created by
this last message, he received il. another and
amore agpnizng one was outstrpping the wind
to tell him that his mother, Mrs. Eliza 5. X. +.
! X. Godwin--that mother around whose knees he
had spent so many happy hours in infaney-that
mother who had trained his mind to honesty and
truth-that mother whose advice had been his
| guiding star in manhood--that mother whose
| prayers to heaven for her son, had supported
and sustained him when bulleting the adverse
waves of life's ocean, was no more Mr.. Goodwin,
| by the help of Providence, might have given up
| father brother sister, aunt, cousin and nephew,
without repining, had his mother been spared HIM;
| but when she, too, was swept from earth to
heaven when the cold hand of death was laid
! heavily on her, and he not by her bed side to re-
celve her parting blessing, and close her glossy
| eyes--was it unnatural for him TO throw aside
| stern manhood, and weep like child, refusing 10
| be comforted Bereft of every relative save three
sisters, with heart bru sod and broken by repeat
ed afflitions. he can only hope for consolation
| from above.
BOARD OF PUBLIC WoRKs.-We learn from
the Enquirer that the first meeting of the new
Board of Public Words was held on Tuesday last.
Edward j. Armstrong. of the Third District, was
elected President. No business of any impor-
lance was transacted. At their next meeting. in
| September, they viii make tho annual appoint
ment of Proxies and Directors on behalf of the
State in the different joint stock companies
IIusnNGs CouRr.-Ths Court adjourned
| Thursday evening. Robustness of much mpor
lance transacted. One of the principal cases
tried was one in which the taking of sundry
Shangh1s involved, and resulted in commit
ting certain white female fellow citizen to the
care of Mr. Turpin, keeper of the Corporation
Hotel in rear of the Court House, for the space
of sixty days.
! SUPPOSED MURDER AT CHARLOTTE c. H.
We learn from the Farmyille journal that free
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