The national Republican., 1861-09-11
SOUTHERN INTELLIGENCE.
SICKNESS OF THE TROOPS.

Corresponding. Of the Memphis Appeal
RICHMOND, August 23.--I regret TO be com.
PEELED to give you most unfirorable account
OF the health Of our troops now In the field.
The inaction of the several large bodies OF
men In different portions OF the Common
wealth, for three weeks past, must be attribu-
ted chiefly to the crowded state of their hospi-
tails. Ia the peninsula the typhoid fever has
been prevalent, though happily not in moig
nant form. At Manassas and Aqua Creek also,
this malady has prostrated q considerable
number. 10 Richmond, or rather in the camps
around 1t, fifty per cent. of the troops at least,
have been stricken down with measles. Private
hospitals for the reception and better treat.
ment OF the invalids have been opened from
day TO day, until every street, almost every
square Of the city, has its long sick list, and
the ladies ore worn out In their attentions to
the sufferers. They do not weary In the spirit
Of their good work; bus excessive watching
will exhaust the physical powers As yet
there has been no great fatality among the
thousands of cases, but just as soon as a dozen
have been discharged as we'll from an hospital,
their beds have been filed, and there is no
diminution In the number of new cases. Pos
sibly tho change of temperature of the fall
months may check the spread OF the disease,
and but few weeks remain to us now before
the frost.
THE HOSPITALS AT FREDERICKSBURG.
The hospitals here are crowded with sick
from the Carolina, Arkansas, and Tennessee
r, giments. The ladies here are occupied all
their time 10 attending the sick and In working
on the necessary clothing for their comfort.
Every thing else is neglected to provide for the
soldiers. N. o. Detd.
SICKNESS IN JoHNsoN's DIVISION.
Another correspondent Of the appeal, II. S.
Abernathy, captain OF company G, nineteenth
Mississippi regiment says, under date of Au.
gust "a:
Since we pi,chd d our camp here, gloom and
sorrow have saddened the couutenances Of all,
owing to the distressing fact that disease and
death have prevailed among US. Our expose
condition during our camp on Bull RuD, and
the want Of proper iocd and water, was se-
rious blow to this regiment and to all-the
troops that were likewise unfortunate.
In proof of this, I will mention that out of
forty y-seven hundred in the brigade, only TWEEN.
ty.thrce hundred reported for duty on the goth
instant, aud companies that before ordinarily
turned out on drill and parade from sixty five
to ninety men, do not now turn out more than
eight and ten files per day. The hardships and
suffering consequent upon the movement of
Gen. Johnson's division OF the army, which re-
suited III such glorious success to our cause at
Manassas, has, dare say, prostratsd fully one
third OF his force Nearly every day the sound
OF niusketry proclaims the death of some
Southern hero, who has fallen victim to dis
ease in camp, and over whose grave blank car.
tridges are fired, as tho last military honor paid
to the dead.
The Richmond and Memphis papers Of the
9th, and Charleston and New Orleans of the
4tl, and Nashville Of the 9th instant, have been
received at Louisville, and furnish the sub
joined intelligence:
Sickness still ieariuly prevails in the rebel
army in Virginia. At Lynchburg, Richmond,
Frederi cksburg, and Leesburg, over five thou.
sand men are in the hospitals. The small pox
is raging violently. The medical authorities
publish urgent appeals to physicians through
out the rebel States to forward Immediately all
dispenseble vaccine matter to Richmond.
The soldiers from the Gulf States suffer
greatly from the cold nights in Northern vir-
ginia. Appeals for contributions of warm cloth.
ing appear iu all the leading papers.
The New Orleans fnarciers show consider
able unwillingness to receive Confederate treas.
ury notes at par. The Mobile banks resolved
to receive them in payment OF Indebtedness.