Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1855-09-19
FRoN TIE INFECTED DISTRICT.

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FRox TIE INFECTED D1srR1cr.
...-.- WELDON, Sept. II.
The Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad train has
rived I can gather but few items. Scarcely any
passengers come up now from either Norfolk or
Portsmouth, and the officers of the train have no
heart to enquire the sad particulars.
Nothing is obtained from Norfolk, except that
six physicians from the North have died. Their
names could not be ascertaned
In Portsmouth yesterday, the deaths numbered
seventeen.
Robert T. Scott, Esq, member of the Council,
and Keeper Of the public Provision Store, died on
Sunday night last
Avery W. Williams the nineteenth member of
the Williams family that has fallen in the prevail
ing epidemic, died last night.
The Rev. Vernon Eskridge, Chaplain in the Ma
Wy, and formerly member of the Virginia Metho-
dist Conference, is extremely i'll.
No new cases in Suffolk. .,..
ESPECIAL DEsPATcn.]
Airty-sesen deaths in Norfolk on Aonday-Names
RICHMOND, Sept. II. 1oa PM
From the most reliable sources. and not without
some difficulty, have obtained the following list
of deaths that occurred in Norfolk on yesterday:
Theodore Cunningham, Clerk in the Farmers
Bank.
VIM. Moore, son of Horatio Moore, Esq.
Ambrose Dorney, Esq, member of the Howard
Association.
At the City (or Woodis) Hospital, the following
persons died yesterday:
E j. Mallory, John Cranberry. Mrs. Alice Nor
rs, John Keys, Joseph White, Thomas Briggs and
Mary Little
The number Of deaths amounted to 81 on yester.
day, but the above are all the names could obtain
Henry Myers of Richmond, is down with the Fe.
yer at the City Hospital in Norfolk
The Rsv. Thomas Hume, Of the Baptist Church
at Portsmouth, is here, endeavoring to effect some
arrangement by which the poor little orphan chill
dren in Portsmouth be transferred to this city
until after the epidemic shall have ceased which is
now raging.
The Weldon correspondent of the Petersburg
Democrat under date Sept II, says:
"The peculiar fly that has infested the infected
cities curing the prevalence of the fever, and of
which have made arrangements to send you spe-
cmens tomorrow, is said to be dying off rapidly in
Norfolk. They have got high up the road as
Boykins Depot, AMI it is said appear in large num-
bers in Suffolk.
Whether their death in Norfolk may be regarded
as favorable omen or not, cannot determine, but
it is hoped that the fever has we'll nigh spent itself,
though there no signs of abatement yet, on the
contrary, according to the population, it is raging
with more violence than ever. Where, when, and
how it will stop, the future only show. No one
believes that one frost will allay it-a dozen, and
they must be heavy too will be necessary. and from
present indications, many weeks will elapse before
tuey aPPear.
| In the meantime who can estimate the amount Of
suffering that will be experienced in Norfolk and
Portsmouth? The cry now is not " God help the
poor" but God help all, and especially the widows
| and orphans.
| The family of the lamented DR.. Collins passed
through this place going South to-day.-They will
return soon, and pass through your city en- route
for Baltimore. They are deeply distressed, and
much sympathy is felt for them.
Rev. Thomas Hume goes to-day by the o'clock
train to Richmond. on behalf of the sufferers. He
has had the fever and recovered
You will hardly receive letters from Portsmouth,
and fear too, will he dsappointedin in getting them
from Norfolk as Capt. Corbett informs me there is
no one at Portsmouth to receive and attend to the
mails, and it is quite possible the mail train will
stop running for a while.
P. .S.-Since writing the foregoing have learn.
| ed there were 25 deaths in Portsmouth during the
twenty -four hours ending sunrise this morning. and
| great many new cases-Thirty deaths were re-.
ported in Norfolk for the same time and the fever
on the increase.
Among the deaths were Mrs B. B. Walters (whose
husband died lately,) Rev. Vernon Eskridge, Mr..
Vermlion, heretofore reported sick, and Mr.. H
Fcrebe, the superintendent Of the county ferry
The disease is becoming more and more fatal, and
| still spreading. Where will it spread to? Soon
every person living staying in Norfolk or Ports
mouth will have had it. We must wait and see