The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-08-21
TIE reicrsturg Express Of yesterday morning.
TIE YELLOW FEVER AT PORTSMOUTH AND NOR
FOLK.


FROM NORFOLK
We regret to ae that ali the private letters received in
this city last represent the fever fesrfu
on tie Increase the city of Norfolk We make the fol-
lowing extract from one written Friday evening and
~ one Eorolks prominent and reliable citizens
The fever ID city is, doubt fearfully the in
crease Of have closed, and business il
almost entirely suspended Our streets present gloomy
and tesoaie appearance.
The board Of health report FOR the tweuy-four hours
ending Friday at 9 O'clock ?. ul- deaths.
Mr. William Broughion Of the Norfolk Herald who had
been Sick is now conyalescent.
Miss EIizabafh Barron, sged lg years, and second
daughter of Capt Samuel Barron, United States navy
died Friday afternoon al quarter past 4 O'Clock.
The Howard Association Of Norfolk acknowledge the
receipt Of large lot Of provisions and other necessares
from The citizens or Baltimore being portion Of The in
vestmeni Of $4,000 subscribed IN that city also check for
500, from Chubb Brothers, og Washington, with the
authority to draw for S200 more and the promise Of Lib
eral contributions from he czans From Joseph Sout-
ter $780, Blow March, 500; Brown DeRossett $50 !;
Benton 4 Bros Seo Nassie Walker $50; Truenan
& Co. Sloo--aA Of New York.
Or. Stone, Of New Orleans, Of The most eminent
physicians Of thar city arrived Norfolk Thursday
and took lodgings at Tie Na.iona Hotel On Friday be
visited The United States Naval Hospital and the City
Hospital, and saw many Of lie sick in Norfolk
We learn from fe beacon ihn DR. Etaae expresses the
esinion that the fever is not general epidemic in Mar
folk lie thinks that the patient should be covered with
sheet and thin blanket and that the treatment should
De too active.
Dr. Thos Ponston distinguished physician, also of
New Orleans arrived Friday ard rendered his services
to The Board or Health tie visited several in the city
during morning, and IN the afternoon went down to
the Hospital at Juiappi
The Herald has been requested to state that the stsarn
fer-oa Princess Anne viii leave the west end Of Wide
Water street every day twenty minutes before high
ter with tie tighter in tow, for the City Hospital 81 Lam
bers Point Ii is desired that the d persons be
removed 10 the City Hospital Eay he registered hour
before the time Of the steamers leaving.
correspondent of the Beacon makes the following up
peal for the INDECENT Of thai city:
aPernit me through your columns call the attention
Of the frends Of humanity to the suffering poor OF
citv ] saw poor few days since begging credit
Tor few groceries her story 81 woe siInpse and
affecting She stated thai she unable 10 get work 10
provide food for herself and little children On inquing
find there are many town IN like stEaiicu. Let
those who eomnIsersfe suffering humanity search
objects of charity and give them the ree that they
SO rlch stand in need Of and their efforts viii be attended
with blessings
FROM PORTSMOUTH
place too we deeply regret hear that the fever
certainly not abung On Friday there DEATHS
and many new eases 0ld Mr.. Newton Ashton and young
Dr. Cooke son Of John Cooke taken TO the Naval Hos
ptal sick with tie fever Captain George Chambers is
down with the disease, also
we find tie following elegraphic despatch from Balt-
more
BAIrrMonE Aug. I9--p Mn addition to the deaths
and new cases in Norfolk, add
DEArHs-T Keeling, clerk 70 Mickey Griffith Mrs.
William " Tavicr wife Of the cashier Of the Savings
Bank r Nehegnn and Cnpt Wood.
aKEw cAsEs--Josiah Ship ana r. G. Barclay both
having the black vomitl oonsasrcd hopeless The
wife and severA children Of s Stubts (ate mayor who
i also down. Or Manning, Charles Constable, John
HayrnaH lprinIer,l Mrs. Dr. BasanA and George Cham
bers.
ahe fever 10 Portsmouth continues unabated fast End
ing victims in the few persons who remain Aour-
ishrnent and very much needed
violent thunderstorm passed Norfolk on Friday
night The alushouee struck by lightning bat not
destroyed. Two buildings belonging respectively 70 >
March and Borun MCLEAN in the fair grounds,
struck by lightning and burnt