Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-09-05

Yellow Fever Norfolk and Portsmouth.
Referring to the arrival of physicians and nurses
from Savannah and New Orleans, and the additional
accommodations provided for the sick, the Herald
of Friday says:
"Our city has thus arrived at the point, at which,
if it had been possible have attained it a month
earlier than hundred lives mght-nay,
woud-have been saved. Let then look for
ward with hope that the epidemic will be stayed in
its destructive course and the mortality begin and
continue to decrease from this day. The disease
has evidently assumed a mildcr form and when
taken in hand Immediately. and the patient has
good nursing, it rarely proves fatal; for in most
cases when it has proved so, the cause has been
Justly attributablet default of these two highly i'm
portant requisites.
The deaths in Norfolk on Wednesday were fifteen,
on Thursday, the aOth, seventeen; and in Ports
mouth on Tuesday, eleven.
Among the sick Messrs Camp, Cashier of
the Exchange Bank; Hatton, Teller of The Farmers
Bank and Higgins Teller of the Virginia Bank
the two latter said to be very ill."-HerGid.
Among the deaths in Norfolk, we observe those
of Dr. Constable, DIR. Nash, Mrs. WhttIe, wife of
Commodore WAttle, Mrs. F. B. Todd, Mrs Jones,
widow of Walter F. Jones, Esq, and Mrs Elizabeth
Starke.
4 correspondent of the South-Side Democrat
gives the following gloomy view of the condition of
the two cities:
To one who has never witnessed city suffering
from pestilence, can convey no adequate idea of
the weary desoations of Portsmouth. 1t looks like
the fallen city of the Arabian Nights, in which every
thing suddenly petrifed and frozen into silence
and DEATH Closed stores, perfectly deserted streets,
window shutters everywhere fastened, and nothing
to relieve the frighttu and unnatural darkness Of
the scene, but hearses and collins and corpses!-
We are humbled, scourged, bowed in the dust be
fore power in whose hands the strength Of man is
weakness and his wisdom folly. DIR. s. of New
Orleans, who has himself lost three children be-
eve, by the fever, and whose experience of its raw
ages is second to that of few of his age in the
world, perhaps, informed me a day or two since,
that in his Judgment yellow fever bane for
which no antedote had yet been discovered, and
that human skill entirely inadequate to its man
agement
When tell you that such disease is Selling our
citizens at the rate of fifty day, in popuia
ton of certainly not than twenty five hundred,
you may have idea of the fearful nearness with
which death stares US all in the face There is no
civil government, no printing press going, scarcely
store open, no buying selling, save for the trade
in drugs, no banking, no legislation, visiting, save
Deaths visitngs, and, worse than all, no hope"
LATEST-THE FEVER ON THE INCREASE!
We received no Norfolk papers by the last mail,
but we learn from the Petersburg papers that the
fever is the increase in Norfolk and Portsmouth.
On Friday last there were forty burials in Nor
folk, and one hundred new cases of fever
The Rev. Mr.. Dibrell, of the Methodist Church,
died on Saturday. Rev. Mr.. OKeefe and Rev. Mr..
Ashwanden, of the Catholic Church. were very sick.
Capt. Selden Allen, conductor the Seaboard Road,
much worse and Mr.. James Ii. Finch foreman
of the Norfolk Argus, who has been publishing the
paper by his own labor alone for many weeks,
down with the black vomt and his life despair
ed Of
Contributions pouring in from all quarters
The Transcript contains nearly two columns of &C
acknowledgements of funds, medicines, assistance,
etc. Among other things, the citizens of Phladel-
pha have sent Bay Rum, Cologne Water, Aromatic
Vinegar, Quinine, Lemons Arrow Root, Tapoca, Sage
Pearl, Barley Oat Meal, and pure Ice Cream, (from
Delaware county,) for the convaescent. These ar
ticles are sent by Express to Baltimore, and from
thence by way of the Bay Line of steamers, go to
Portsmouth.