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The Current Operations of the Treasury Department.-Onyesterday, the 16th August, here were of Treasury Warrants entered on the books of the Department$1.167 83 For the redemption of Stock 24,176 51 For the Treasury Department 441 398 30 For the Interior Department For the Custons 54,766 83 War Warrants received and ontered 67.559 00 Drawn on account of the Navy 403,831 53 Repay Warrants on account of the Navy 207,956 18 Covered in from Customs 10 00 The Yellow Fever. From Norfolk and Portsmouth we hear of the greatest distress consequent upon the ravages of the yellow fever. Such is the alarm existing that Portsmouth is nearly depopulated, and the citizens, as well as those from Norfolk, are encamping in the woods adjacent, not being able to get further away from the infected and distressed towns. Some idea may be formed of the condition of affairs there. when it is stated that previous to the fever there were in Portsmouth, Gosport, &c., about Tourteen thousand inhabitants, which number is now reduced to (as the telegraph asserts) not more than fifteen hundred; and in Norfolk to about one-half-upward of nine thousand having left. This exodus, we learn, was recommended by the physicians in view of the spread of the disease, their advice being to every healthy family, "Get away as fast as you can, and leave no material for the disease to work upon." Although this course was deemed unwise at the beginning, it is now believed to have been the very best, as in a short time the two places were hemmed in by the quarantine regulations of neighboring towns and hamlets, and there was imminent danger of death by starvation if one escaped the fever. The only counties which have extended the hand of friendship to those who fled from their homes are Accomac and Northampton, on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, and Gloucester and Matthews on the opposite side of Chesapeake bay. Letters from Portsmouth and Norfolk teem with praises of Hon. Henry A. Wise and other citizens of those counties, who have not only thrown open their houses to the distressed, but have erected temporary residences for their accommodation. In Norfolk and Portsmouth, the greatest difficulty was experienced in procuring nurses; the negroes refusing to act in that capacity at $10 per night. $5 per night had been paid for the service. There was but one member of the Norfolk City Council in the city. Several deaths have been published in the city papers which were entirely erroneous. Captain Bowden, cashier of the Virginia Bank, is quite sick, but not of fever. Every disease is styled the fever. The people are decidedly more cheerful since they have gotten rid of most of their fellow citizens. The post office in Norfolk has been removed to the grounds in the upper part of the city. The office of the collector of customs, and the wholesale merchants' offices have also been removed from the lower or infec ed district; and Cain's hotel has been closed. In Portsmouth, Dr. J. N. Schoolfield is doing well-out of danger. Mr. John Emmerson is at the Naval Hospital very sick; his brother Arthur, clerk of the Court, is attending on him; he is very well. The clerk's W. office in Portsmouth is closed. Mr is fard, Palmer, Purser's clerk in the Navy sick; he is reported as having the fever. Mr. George Chambers, reported as sick, is well. Mrs. George W. Chambers is fast recovering. Considering the few persons now there the mortality from the fever is alarming. The office of the Savings Bank has been removed to the residence of George M. Bain, Esq., Cashier. Every director of the Bank of Virginia is out of town except two, and therefore all banking business is suspended. The business of the navy yard is still continued, though over one thousand workmen have taken their discharges. Commodore McKeever, however, announces his intention to keep the yard open as long as there is a workman to strike a blow. The following deaths, among others, have recently occurred Lewis Roach, Susan Kemp, Mrs. Ripley, Mrs. Bowen, Jeffrey James, Mrs. Lauretta Potter, Mrs. Donohue, Miss Lattimer, and Thomas Herbert. The correspondent of the Petersburg Express says: There is much suffering among the poor sick, and we shall most gratefully appreciate the kind exertions being made in Petersburg for us. We are greatly in want of breadstuff, particularly of meal, and a supply would be very acceptable. Our town authorities are doing all they can; but the scourge is so wide spread that it is beyond their capacity to afford relief to all who are its subjects. We have to take care not only of the sick, but of the other members of their families, and many other individuals who are thrown out of employment by reason of its visitation. The Richmond Dispatch. in noticing the TA-
