The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-01-06
Correspondence OF the Richmond Dispatch
The h.Gsmars " fAt Uairefssy-M C'"ef"'S"'eS
&as - and Coz, forts.

S@E III the OE1H0nt Oay. utb ' 80
&C.,. - IN ,rcv,.,nsnt In Southern fnanufac-
lures and institu tious for head OF hanu Work
possesses peculiar Interest, = bia! ho' oe uh-
Interesting Ia your readers ~ i'ash soiHeth'ns
~ : rev establishment at the University OF
vtr~snf~ rpcsnt Iv completed and fitted up for
The accommodation OF sick students. In con
sN,ccnce o. iie prevalence o. typhoid fever nj
fhss institution, some years stace. many per-
80. In orr own and other States have been
inclined 10 think ii an sbiectioD To sending
heir sons TO be educated there. The writer Is
disposed 10 believe that typhoid fever exists,
10 a greater or less extent, AT all seasons OF the
wear, throughout opr STATE, and Is not confin-
ed, as some suppose, 10 the hiiiy or mountain
Gus regious. Some months SINCE. 1 SAY" aio
examined a case OF this disease Ia Nansemond-
one of the lower counties OF Virginia and
was informed by the eldest physician IN tEe
county, Z" that typhoid lever had been increas-
ing in frequency Tor five or SIX years Withiu
the past tcw days, a gentleman from >Iott co,
Western Virginia, informed ME thatit prevail
ed more or less At all seasons IN his neigheor-
hood. On the next day, l met a gentleman on
the cars, from a different section OF HE west
of our STATE. and on asking tae question, as 10
the most prevalent disease OF ms nelgiibor-
hood, the reply was, typnoid lever. cn me
cars To the University, l met an Old college
acquaintance from Siaunton - west OF the
Blue Ridge-hareiy conyalescent from II Sc
we're attack Of this fever, which, though con-
trac ted a. heme, had seized him while on Il
pleasure excursion 1T the North. he had been
trea ted at the ST. Nicholas Hotel, II. i. Tie
writer has seen the disease, yearly, for The past
six years in Richmond and Its vicinity.
Much Inconvenience was felt in treating this
or any other disease requiring care ana aiten-
ton, arising from the size and situation ci the
rooms. and a very important and essential
item in the management OF me long pfotTacteu
fever-good nursing. The medical attendants
of the University have long felt their inability
TO do justice 10 very al students IN lo"-Iitch"d
dormitories, twelve by sixteen feet, crowded
with Two beds and other furniture; and the
writer himself has experienced the incJieni-
encc OF being sick in slch Il room. These
wants have been supplied by the erection OF a
brick building, containing fourteen chambers,
besides parior, bath, dispensary, and other ne
cessary rooms for culinary purposes, ana a.
tendants' lodgings. The walls are double, and
enclose n stratum of dry air, which must ne
Fcessariiy reudei the rooms warm, dry, COM
Portable, acting as "a ion-couductor. IN pre-
venting dampness, easily retaining the heat;
and YOU are struck with this immediately at
ter entering the front door, from which you
pass to the inner green bitlze door, ;he latter
closing without noise. The building Is heated
by the most approved iHade---the furnace,
and the registers we'll located in recesses near
the floor There are east-iron valves, in one
corner near the ceiling, to which are attached
two cords for opening or closing The same, for
the escape Of heated or impure air; while i'm
mrdiateiy beneath these are small openings
for the admission OF cool air. The windows
are large, numerous, ard well protected 10y
blinds The chamber are ~ feet pitch, fifteen
TO fee, square, varying slightly in size,
with walls smooth white, hard-filiSiled Win
plaster. One is struck with the small amount
OF wood seen in the finish OF the rooms. All
are neatly carpeted, and furnished with hand
solne iron beds leads OF light construction.
Each bedstead is supplied with under-bed.
hair mattress, $ ~eet, clean linen, aud inviting
ly con yenient 10 the head of each bed hams
a bell pull for the patients use. The wash
stands are also OF iron, with u dressing
glass attached. In fine, special attention
has beeu paid ia the arrangement Of the
whole to furnish the patient with fresh.
pure air, quiet. light or darkness, as The case
may require, temperature hot or cold, and al
ford no depot for the reception or retention OF
the eGluvia Of the sick-room. The presiding
genius of the estabiishmeut-the nurse-is one
admirably adapted, by previous training, TO
the responsible position which she holds and
the writer thought, when he looked on her
gooG-Eature red, pleasant face, that Ii he We're
sick away from the loved ones at horne. he
would very much like 10 be Ill just such IA
room as he was then looking at, with her for
his nurse. Each student, on matriculating.
. pays n hospital fee OF five dollars, and when
sick At the hospital. the nurse prepares his
diet and attends him constantly. The writer,
having mt sundry times been a patient, once a
pupil, then as himself Il physician meeting ~
consultation the medical attendants, Drs.
Cabrll amd Davis, is so well assured OF their
tact and skill in the treatment OF disease, that
he would be satisfied under any circumstances,
under any diseases incident TO tiiat section ol
country. to eutrust himself 10 their care
Lastly, while rapid progress has been made IN
the erection of many new buildings for iodg-
llKS, ant tIr tllDktf u IN Iitputt-
niences, giant strides have also been made in
moral progress. In every room IN the hos
pilal there was n Bible, and i'll the parior q
small case of good books, with handles attach
cd, 50 as to be easily carried from the room OF
one conyalescent to that OF another. How pc
~cnliarly appropriate is this library, with the
Bible as its leading book, to the patient, whose
body has been shocked by physical pain and
suffering, and whose mind Is eXquisitely sem
siuye 10 religious truth. The general health
at the University has been good during the
present session, and the hospital contained
only one patieut. This patient had beeu eX-
ceedingiy i'll, and one of tie medical attend
ants had occupied the ad jolning room for sew
eral nights during his extreme illness-an at
tention not often rendered IN general Practice.
l.. N. =.
- CELyBAcY OF WAsHINGToNIEYING.-Iustead
OF being "a defect the celibacy OF Irving was
his crown OF glory. Those who have studied
his writings must have been struck with tn.
remarkable transition from humor to patlios,
from the broadest fun To the most meditatiye
sentiment, which occurs between the facetious
history of New York and the Sketch Book
Many, perhaps, imagine that this Is accounted
for by his loss OF fortune. But the feeling is too
soulful tor such an Interpretation. 1t had its
origin in one of those disappointnlents Of tie
heart which color all the subsequent life OF q
true man. We trust chat nov there is no want
of delicacy In aliuding 10 the fact that the sub
ject of lrNingis love died during their hetrotil-
III. We have heard the last interview Ce-
scribed by Il member of her family and 10 the
sacred sorrow thus engendered is 10 be aScrlbed
much that is touching and true in the senti-
ment OF lrving's writings; to his fealty TO this
alice ton, IN NO small degree, Is owing the con-
tinued sens:bility which kept his heart fresh
to the last and, above all, that respect Tor and
sympathy with the innate and holy sentiments
OF humanity which he So uEifortnly cherished
and manifested in letters and in life.
Nor is this all. Time may have healed the
wound and reconciled the berett TO another re-
lation; but there interviewed IA period Il of dis
oct tor xvyt,t atk ID rNNfn ht- 1<sn - ~tt, 10 InAix
ruptcy. For iis sake and that Of his family
of daughters, Washington Irving continued
single, took them all home, and became ii
father 10 The children. Beautiful was their
mutual devotion, happy their consenialtouse-
hold, and Sunnyside is now beQIeathed 10
them.
s. No one familiar with Mr.. Irving associated
the idea OF ceiibaey with him he was ALWAYS |
In q domestic aimosphere; his nieces We're like |
daughters his fair neighbors his tayorite com |
pAniVns; children the delight OF his heart
with such free and fond affections he could,
under no circumstances, lead the lite OF a SIM
gle man, as the phrase Is usually understood.
He was domesticated in families abroad he
WAS the enGeared centre OF one at home; and
one OF the most beautiful aspects OF his life, as
well as one Of the most honorable, is that Sc
Ice led rs exceptional, after the fippant habit
Of those who ignorantiy condeIRa what they
have neither the justice TO examine nor the re-
acme Of soul TO conjecture mag be an evil
dence Of the highest love aud the most heroic
Transcript.
ADVICE PROM A SLAvE.-A slave named
Green was hung IN ST. Joseph, Mo, on The I'd
inst, Tor the murder OF his master. f. nj
Wright. He was a fellow prisoner with the
notorious boy, and the day before the execu-
tlon ne made a confession of his crime. He
said his mas ter treated him kindly, aud never
spoke y cross word To him, and the only rea-
son hecouid give tor shooting his master was.
that he was told to do 50 bv white peopIe
He also said III l had never listened 10 the
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