Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-09-11
--latest from norfolk and Portsmouth,.

Latest from Norfolk and Portsmouth,.
There was no boat due from Norfolk yesterday,
and consequently we are without letters from our
correspondents The Petersburg Express also
failed TO come to hand last night The Richmond
Dispatch has brief letter from its Norfolk CORE
spondent, who has been taken down with the fe-
yer, as has also substitute he procured. The
Dispatch has the following by telegraph from
Weldon:
SUNDAY, September 0, p. N.
deeply regret to inform you that DIR. Collins
President of the Seab0ard and Roanoke Railroad,
and j. w. Collins, of the Crawford House, Ports
mouth, died yesterday. DIR. Thomas Howle, OF
Richmond died early yesterday morning at the
Naval hospital George Chambers, Jr., died also
yesterday. Whit. Ashton, a very estiIAable young
man, deputy postmaster of Portsmouth, died in
the United States hospital on Friday. He was the
main reliance of the postmaster, Mr. Cooke, who
is absent.
Yesterday there were fifty deaths in Norfolk
still frightfu mortality
In Portsmouth there were %.
DR.. Wright, formerly Of EdeKton, N. O., who
has been rendering good service is sick with the
fever am glad to say that DR.. Gooch. who lies
sick in Norfolk is certainly bet.er--and am also
gratifed to be able to say that Dr. Grow, also of
Richmond, who is sick at the United States Hos
pita was much better yesterday. DR.. N Q. White
head, of Norfolk, although once reported dead, is
much better, as also is his daughter.
Samuel Wilson, who has labored for some time,
the last notary and the last officer in the Bank of
Virginia, in Portsmouth, has closed that institution
and left.
We learn that the daughter Of Capt. Harding
Of the Coffee is down with the fever.
The Richmond American has also the following
despatch
WELDON, Sept. 9.--The cars are just in. There
is no abatement of the fever DR.. Collins died last
evening. He leaves wife and two children, who
are i'll with the fever
The boat from Baltimore yesterday morning
brought down number of tents, and about one
hundred have been pitched between Hampton and
Old Point the site being generously rendered for
the purpose by Joseph Segar, esq
The residents of the infected cities are leaving
in great numbers to occupy the tents thus erected
for their accommodation. General William III.
Whitehead left this place to-day for the distressed
cities with provisions. This makes the third con-
tribution carried down by General Whitehead.
We have no intelligence as to the number of deaths
yesterday.
The following postscript to business letter
from highly respectable merchant Of Norfolk,
written on Saturday afternoon to large mercan-
tile house, of this city, contains CLEAN of bet
ter tdings 1t does not agree with our informa-
ton by way of Weldon, but we copy t in the hope
eoisSAoeS SSssSA
ter says:
"There ia some reduction in the mortality of
our city, and the number of new cases have much
diminished"
We extract the following from letter in the
Dspatch dated Hampton, as follows:
HAMPTON, Va, Sept. Z.
The committee that visited Washington speak
in the highest and warmest terms OF the meeting
they had with the Mayor and President of the
IT i AZ 81. or ~. A.,
evening of their return from Washington
regret to say that Mr. Ferguson, one of the Of
ficers Of the Norfolk customhouse, is very low to-
night at Burcher's Hotel, in Hampton, with the
fever lie will, probably be dead before this reach
es you.
Miss Mary Jones, sister of the late Passed Mid
shipman Jones, and daughter Of Mrs. w. Jones, OF
Norfolk (both latter deceased with the feyer,) is
also lying i'll at the same hotel with the disease.
Should this young and beautiful lady fall victim,
she will make the fifth member of this interesting
family who have gone to the grave within less than
fortnight.
P. S.-SEpr. S.-Miss Mary Jones is much bet.
ter this morning, but poor Ferguson cannot last
more than two or three hours. Mr.. w. 7. Wal
thall formerly editor of the Mobile Advertiser, has
gone to Norfolk on behalf of the Church Brother
hood of the Protestant Episcopal Church Of Mo-
bile, to assist in nursing the sick. MIR. William
Miner, OF tne same Guy, Is mere hssistiig III the
noble task. This gentleman and his brother, DR..
Robinson Miller, are sons ofthe Rev. B. NJ. Miller,
the former Rector Of st. Paups, Norfolk. Waltha
ana the two Milers are Virginians.
The Richmond American. states that sufficiency
Of lumber has been procured and forwarded to
"Sharp's Farm" about twelve miles below Rich
mond on James river, where workmen have been
engaged putting up comfortable cabins for the nc
commodation of those citizens OF Norfolk and Ports.
mouth who can make it convenient to leave those
plague-smitten cities
The Richmond Wing states that few wealthy
gentlemen of that city have rendered the committee
there 10000, and pledged themselves for as much
more as can be possibly employed. Halifax has
contributed $1,000, and Rockbridge nearly as
much more.
Att recent meeting Of the citizens of Hampton,
suggestion was offered TO erect shaft to the
memory Of Hunter Woods, late Mayor of Nor
folk The South Side Democrat is in favor Of the
project, and hopes the monument viii be erected
by the State of Virginia.
Mr. VIM. b. Collins left Washington yesterday
afternoon, for Portsmouth, for the purpose OF ten
dering his service to the sick.