Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-08-24
The Epidemic at Norfolk and Port smouth

scourge either in Portsmouth or Norfolk, and
each additional mail brings news of increased
suffering in the two places.
The following deaths have occurred in Nor.
folk since our last report
Jerry Waugh, Miss Frazier, Miss Camp, w.
7. Tullock, Miss Etherage, John Parker, Mr..
Demot, Mrs. Stewart, George X. Lee, negro
Sam, Miss Barnes, Edmund A. James, Mrs
Bohn's child, Eliza Griffin and Mary Brady.
Among the $50 persons now down, are Miss
Lizzie Taylor, VIM. c. Whitehead, Henry A.
Lepage, Miss Caroline Almond, Thomas j.
CoOprew, George r. Drummond, Mr.. Brick
house, VIM. Insell, Miss Margaret Kennedy,
Mrs. Nimmo, Thos. Burgess, and VIM. Steel.
Capt. R. W. Bowden, W. II. Broughton, and
W. II. HARDWOOD are convalescent.
The Rev. T. G. Keen Ia Baptist preacher
who has so nobly volunteered, from Petersburg)
writes from Norfolk, on the 2lst, as follows:
Il learn from the physicians here that
nearly 80 per cent. recover-that is out of
every 80 or 20 cases, not more than Is or 20
die. This is certainly small mortality, and
DR.. Stone pronounces the fever comparatively
mild. There is surely every reason for en-
couragement. The physicians have evidently
now got the master of the disease, so far as we
can apply this to any human instrumentality.
l certainly anticipate an abatement of the
epidemic SOON"
A correspondent of the Baltimore American,
under date of August %, writes as follows:
"A Sabbath stiffness prevails, broken only
by the rattle of the doctors chaises, and the
rumbling of the hearse and sick wagon. Scarce
ly a store is open Oh Main street, Market
square, or Broad Water street, the business
portions of the city. The apothecaries have
xuit fbair ~lo
drugs, to their residences, and mtra5ile dictU,
so have the brokers. There is not a quorum
Of directors in either Of the banks; only two
or three of the city fathers are in the city;
preachers look around their churches in vain
for their Pensioners; newspapers daily accu-
mulate on door-steps and on porches for want
Of readers; gaunt poverty stalks abroad with
d)wncast look and fearful eye; the wall of the
widow and of the orphan startles the solitary
passenger, and all is gloom and grief, almost
without hope. Never has Norfolk received
such a visitation before.
The orders of the Howard Association to the
poor for the last two days have called for at
least 81. 200 worth of provisions. $500 worth
day, afOrding relief to thrice as many people.
There will be no falling of to-day either, If 1
may judge from the numbers who crowd the
rooms of the Association, waiting their turn to
be served. l think it will be fair to estimate
that with one half our white population abb
sent there are se least 900 families in the city
dependent on charity for their supports, 900
people.)
On the Portsmouth side of the river, there
were twenty three deaths for the "a hours end
ing at P. m.
Of the four hundred sick we have the names
of but few. Com. Barron, U. s. n, Captain
Simms, U s. M. c., Drs Schoolfeld, Parker,
nd
Chambers, John W. Collins, James G. Holla.
day, Rev. Thomas Hume, Rev. Mr.. Devlin,
Drs. Lovett and Spratley, are sick.
On Monday night, q woman, sick of the
fever, at the United States Hospital, was de-
livered of a child, the color of saffron. The
child lives, but the mother has died.
DR.. Trugien writes from Portsmouth to the
Petersburg Express, as follows:
PORTSMOUTH, August 81.
1t is now nine o'clock, p. m, and have
just got back to my office, after being inces-
sanity engaged since O'Clock this morning
have seen and prescribed for over 100 pa
tients to-day, and every moment new calls are
made upon me, and the most urgent entreaties
used to induce me to see a father mother,
brother, or other friend But I can 90 no
further. l am completely exhausted, and
must have little rest to enable me to resume
i
myself spared in health.
am no alarmist, and have no disposition to
exaggerate, and certainly no wish to harrow
| the feelings Of any one by the recital of scenes
of distress but it would sicken any one to
know what is now transpiring in our town.
Whole families are down, without the ability
| in many cases to procure a drop of water to
cool their fevered lips. Alas. alas for door
Portsmouth. Oh . God how long,
L wrote Won Yesterday n note desiopad Gov
publication, beseeching medical aid. know
it must require an amount of courage possessed
by few, to venture thus seemingly into the
jaws of death to rescue others But is there
no devoted man-no gallant soul-who will
say will go. Two or three physicians see
have volunteered for Norfolk, where the med.
ical corps is larger than in this place. Shall
poor stricken Portsmouth be left to her fate
Forbid it Heaven-forbid it humanity, IT'S
Macedonian cry, 'COme over and help us -
have several patients who will die to- night
they can't survive until morning. The ter
rible UOmito has presented itself in their cases
and they are doomed.
At the hospital there are near 200 sick, in.
Guiding about 80 persons belonging to the SER
vice.
Drs. John Morris, Chss. H. Rose, and Chas.
A. Leas left Baltimore, yesterday, for Norfolk,
having volunteered their services for the vel
low fever districts-making FIVE physicians
who have so nobly gone forward to assist
their WORKOUT medical brethren.
Cases of the yellow fever have appeared in
King and Queen, Gloucester and Matthews
counties, and on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
The persons attacked, however, were from
Norfolk or Portsmouth.
The citizens of Lynchburg, Va, in town
meeting assembled, have resolved to assist the
sufferers by the yellow fever in Norfolk and
Portsmouth; and express their willingness to
extend to them. without quarantine regula
SERIOUS CHARGE.-A dispatch from New
York, dated yesterday, says that Alexander
Il. Petrie has been arrested there, chafs,ed
with conspiring to run the steamer G.. W.P.
Gusts ashore, on her passage from Washington
to that city, with the intention of defranS;na
the insurance commands