The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-07-22
.PETERsBURc, July I'll, 1865. !.

PETERSBURG, July 81, 1858. !,
Owing TO unavoidable circumstances, the
Index will not be reissued till Thursday
morning.
The agents of the insurance companies
have been industriously engaged in effect
ing q settlement. with the proprietors OF the
I,,der for losses occasioned by the late IRE !;
and AS the criticism passed upon them q
dav or two ago was deemed unwarranted, 1t
afords me pleasure to state that the matter
has been satisfactorily adjusted. In strict
ness of law, as against the assured, the IN
surance companies have settled on liberal
terms. The salvage which the assured re-
tain, together with the amount Of damages
agreed on, will enable the proprietors OF
the paper to resume operations with easy
prospects.
The disinterment and removal of the
Confederate dead, under the auspices OF
the Memorial Association, is progressing as
fast az the means at command will justify.
Within two or three weeks there have been
about four hundred removals from bury
inp-ground near Ellerslie, on Swift creek,
nearly exhausting the number at that par
ticular locality. This, however, is but o
small fraction compared with all the dead
living along the lines on the north side OF
the Appomattox and still every year, and
indeedteyery month, the work Of obiitera-
ton progresses on the hastily-formedg graves
and perishable head-boards. 1t may be
doubted whether. with the limited amount
OF funds at the disposal of the Society, II Is
hest to continue the removals ut this SLOW
mace. even at the low charge of three dol
Iors per head, all expenses included. 1t
would cost comparatively very small sum
to search out all the graves while they may
vet be found, and remound and number
them. preserving such names as are yet
lenible. In few years, unless something
of this kind is done, oil traces Of hundreds
if not thousands Of graves will be forever
lost. This suggestion is respectfully sub
mitted to the patriotic ladies composing the
Memorial Society of Petersburg, and indeed
TO all other societies laboring under similar
disadvantages. ...
At the time of closing my letter yester-
day afternoon, owing to the prevalence OF
the storm, had not heard Of the death OF
our late townsman, William S. Simpson, Sr.
He was among our Oldest inhabitants-by
birth an Englishman, but resident of this
city for nearly fifty years. Mr.. Simpson
was one of the best read men in all polite
literature in Virginia. He had by far the
choicest private library in the city, and
nearly every work in it had its value en-
HANGED by copious notes and annOtatlons.
For several years his health has been in
firm, preventing him from mingling much
in society but in the prime of life he was
distinguished for his companionable quail
ties. All his tastes were those OF the re-
fined and accomplished gentleman. Having
outlived most Of his former associates-such
rs the Lees, the Nelson's, and others-hls
countenance of late years wore hnge OF
sadness rather painful to those who had
known him in earlier life. May he rest in
peace
As far as we have been able to hear, the
rains yesterday afternoon were pretty gene
raj. In some places in the neighborhood
of the city the thunder and lightning were
terrific. At Mr.. Edwin Friends, for in
stance, tree in the yard was struck three
times in quick succession; but no person
received any injury.
Petersburg beats all the world in the
number of babies this is a fact admitted
by every visitor interested in such mat
tiers. We were not aware, however, that
our children surpassed others no less in re-
gard to size until we heard this morning OF
newborn infant weighing twenty-one
pounds. lady residing on Bollingbrook
street is the enviablc mother Of this re-
nurkoble nrod;py 5.