The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-08-22

THE YELLOW FEVER AT NORFOLK AND PORTS
MOUTH.
We copy the following from the Petersburg Express OF
yesterday mornings Issue;
IRON NORFOLK.
our accounts from this place represent the still
on the increase IL is said the nerments are daily double
the published number Of deaths The Norfolk News init
mates that hereafter il will endeavor 10 obtain correct
list Of the burals in the different cemeteries for puoe-
lion The paper says the fever Is widely on the in-
crease and of malignant type. The reeoyeries are
rare ia comparison to the deaths.
Saturday morning, says The Norfolk Argus Inc meai-
choy auieiude OF harbor relieved by the Georgia.
he Baltimore boat daShng into lis almost deserted wa
ters at full speed with her bell ringing lively pealal-
most joyous one. She came, 4 seems heighea with
PROVISIONS and other suitable supplies Tor the SICK and de-
ne sent by the charitable people Of Baltimore to the
charge Of the Howard Association
The same paper thus speaks OF the services rendered by
the clergy of Norfolk;
aThe ministers Of Norfolk It seems doing their duty
nobly Their digent unceasng efiectual pastoral vista
lions well deserve notice and commentator Revs Messrs
Jackson of ST Pauls Wake of Christ Church, the reg
uar pastor having left for Europe several months ago
Armstrong OF the Presbyterian " Ills of the Cumber-
iand Street Methodist Okeee of St patrcks; McCel-
land Of the Methodist Protestant; and Jones, of the Ar
can Methodist among those who are busiy and use
y engaged in their efforts 10 give consolation to the
sufferers Some of them in regular attendance at the
hospital aud of those mentioned manifest desire TO
fly IRON the sconrge preerrng to die IN the faithful ds
sicted members of their ocs in the midst OF disease and
a.th without those words of comfort and Christian
ISOLATION which becomes them especially TO impart in the
hour Of extraordinary calamity and trial.
The Norfolk Herald Of last Mondays issue draws the
following gloomy picture;
aThe appearance of city really gloomy Most Of
the stores are closed and the streets almost deserted
Nearly half the white population have gone Off In all the
epdemes which Norfolk has passed through, from 1898 10
the present time have nothing to equal it. The
writer OF this remembers well the ravages Of the yellow
fever in the years 1898, l199 $780, and 1901 when Nor
folk always had transient population of 1900 1000
composed egrant ships and strangers connect
ed with the Of the port and when it
unusual thing thirty forty buried in day There
was not closed account of the fever in either Of
those years The merchants did not halt moment in the
regular routine OF their business and the citizens
thought moment OF moving out OF town out OF the
infected district The old residents had their bilious and
Intermittent cvers from which they seldom failed TO
cover and the mortality chiefly among strangers and
those acclimaied Those really gorahead times,
and men did allow yellow Jack to interfere either
changed Now, with mortality the highest range OF
which has not exceeded twelve deaths in day. in pop-
iaon doubling what it then was all business is suspend
3D. and the alarm is great that half OF the white nhabi
lans have left the town y
The latest news from Norfolk and Portsmouth is con-
tanned in the following telegraphic despatch
BALTInoRK Aug. 2l.--The latest advices from Norfolk
report Twenty-Five deaths from O'Clock Saturday TO
Two o'clock Monday and in Portsmouth twenty-iour
ieahs for the period.
The Howard Association have cent an order TO Baltimore
or large amount of provisions mattresses &c which
10 90 down by the boat this evening.
The collections in Baltimore amount to upwards OF
slo,5oo.