Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-08-29
1856.

Ia The Yellow fever, we regret I'd state
is still raging, without abatement. in onr N
fated sister cities, Norfolk and Portsmouth
The Board of Health report 10 deaths il NJ
folk on the Goth, and two in the Hospital
Is on the 2lst, among whom we recocn;,o
the name of Miss Caroline Rufin, a native &c
this City. The Norfolk News says " the in.
terments are daily double the numbe:: Of NH
lished Deaths" and that /" the disease u
widely on the increase, and of a most malig-
nant type. The recoyelies are rare in CON-
parison to the Deaths" Other and later ar.
counts say the disease is less malignant than
at first and yields more readily to remedial
means but it still exists to an alarming ex-
tent.
A correspondent of the Baltimore Sun
states that Capt. R. w. Bowden of the Blues
has recovered from his sickness. He did
not have the fever. Mr.. B~roughton, son of
the editor Of the Herald. who has been down
with the fever, is now convalescent. The
correspondent of the Sun says:
To learn the distress now prevalent in
our city-the distress of poEerty, exclusive
Of that occasioned by sickness-one has only
to attend the rooms of the Howard Associa-
ton, feom time to time. TIL applicants for.
trelief are so numerous that the members of
the Association can hardly fill the numerous
orders. You have seen the crowds in and
about a large bakers shop of a Saturday
evening, and can form an idea what the AS
ISOLATION has to do. Thank God they are
able and willing to fulfill the duties they
have voluntarily assumed. Contributions
from all quarters of the country are pouring
in by every mail, and they have now, besides
provisions so generously forwarded from
your city, a large sum In ready cash-be-
. tween $4,000 and $4,000.
A SAD SPEcrAcLE.-The plague boat Ia
l barge which the authorities have fitted up to
3 convey the sick to the temporary hospital at
s the race course) lies in a slip close to our
vessel, and yesterday | crossed the deck to
take a look at the arrangements. Large mat
t~resses are spread on the bottom of the boat,
and an awning is spread over all. In the
K boat were two men, three boys between the
4 ages of eight and ten, a little girl about four
years old, and an empty coffin. Two of the
bows were orphans their father died the
: day before, and their mother that morning.
The little girl sat beside one of the men, who
re was probably her father. As he rolled and
tossed with the fever, his hat was displaced
she picked it up and endeavored to replace
IN it, but he seemed unconscious of her atten-
h tions. Once he opened his eyes and gazed
,e vacantly at me, then closed them as if the eff
- fort was painful. The little girl sat there so
- unconscious of danger and death that / felt
On as if she was safe. Her innocent, guileless
)? countenance seemed in pleasant contrast to
es the sad and anxious faces / meet at every
81 turn. l left, specializing on her probable
0O history. Doubtless her mother is dead, and
ne her father dying will she look back in after
j." years to wish that she had died in that hour,
,v or rather to bless the God of the fatherless I?
Letter from Norfolk.
The correspondent of the Sun gives the
ne. following truly distressing account of the
81 disease in Portsmouth
From all that I can learn there seems II
be no decrease of fever in portsmouth,
Many of the people have returned for the
want of means to support them abroad, anC
IN offer a tempting mark for yeUou Jack. | be
ted I1ieve that the average number of deaths there
.ad Including Gosport) has exceeded aarsidera
= bly, that in this city.
lad re- The following note presents q mos
70 distressing picture Of the condItion of Ports
:" mouth:
Supposed to be about 400 cases n tow,
OUT and on increase daily. Mortality. abor
act double what it was a week since, and steadil
ded increasing. Yesterday IL deaths ascertaine
no. up to night and from that time to 9 o'cloc
this morning 10 deaths. JIG. Holiday.
u Ports. Aug. %. 1855.
p. S. The within includes the sick an
k is the deaths at the Hospital and is believed
Inc be correct.
her A letter from Norfolk to Petersburg ha
400 the following
Z" Ahout f0ur.hfhs of our Ubita nouul
IN tion are scattered abroad in every direction
glad and those who remain are rapidly falling b
n of fore the fell destroyer. God only know
EN- what will be the end. Every relation | hav
and nearly all my friends, are gone. Gladl
most gladly, would / leave, but | cannot, al
ltest will not desert our people in their distress.
quiz "The destitute little children, (about 80
dis number who have lost their dear parents
the pestilence, are snugly quartered at t
ance academy building, being kindly nursed a
ever cared for"
lib Another letter, dated Portsmouth. AUG.
ltire says:
h to 1t is now nine O'Clock, p. m, and I ha
just got back 10 my office, after being ince
hao antly engaged since five O'Clock this morni
ctors | have seen and prescribed for over one hJ
drcd patients To-day, and every moment n
calls are made upou me, and the most urge
vol entreatles used 10 induce me to see a faith
motner Drotner, or other friend. But i {
'ury' 60 no futher. | am completely exhausted, a
copy must have a little rest 10 enable me to resu
man. the duties Of the morrow, if, perchance /
!, GA myself spared in health.
: "U / am no alarmist. and have no dis positi
le Ia to ~exaggerate, and certainly no wish to harr
good the feelings ofanY one 10y the recital of one
wise know what is now Transporting in our tow
Whole families are down, without the abil
s me in many cases to procure a drop of water
y en- cool their fevered lips.
? the The following is the latest information recei,
I the from those places. The epidemic has not al
king abated in its ravages either in Portsmouth or n
reto- folk-the deaths on Wednesday were reported
q are the Board of Health to have been I2-but a resi-
;onoI table resident Of Norfolk saws the deaths m \
- folk were at least % and in Portsmouth 30. v
'mf a population of only about 1900 or 1900. Tbi
d the a trightful mortality when we consider the Il
and ness to which the population has been reduced
hight. 1t is in fact fully equal to that of New
Y the leans IN Its worst seasons of visitation. Even
oroo ceremony of .interment has to be very imperfe
80 performed from the number Of bodies and the "
'iose- OF Iaborers to help dig the graves. This will ;,
J dls- 20 give some idea of the dreadful state of aft
court below, and the nature and extent ofthe panic WI
IT the Is daily hurrying off people by hundreds as far
n no. the p~eshlence as their facilities and means will
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