Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-09-15
From the Baltimore Sun.
From Norfolk and portsm mt


The mortality in Norfolk is still very heavy. but
the new cases appear to be on the decrease. Mr..
=. p. George, the mail agent, reports AZ deaths
and only new cases in that city for the "a hours
ending at 10 A. M. OF Thursday. The news from
portsmouth is more encouraging. For the "a hours
ending at 10 on Thursday morning there were only
IL deashs and four new cases in that town.
Dr. webster, OF this city, ne regret to learn,
has been taken down with the fever in Portsmouth,
o. put on Thursday morning was thought to be in a
fair way TO recover in lew days. Dr.. Morris. al
though much FRUSTRATED hopes to be able to return
to his home here tomorrow.
One OF our correspondents states the whole num-
Der Oh deaths in Norfolk since the disease broke
out at l,O97, exclusive Of colored persons Includ
ing the latter, and many children and persons
buried IN haste, OF whom there are no accounts,
ne puts down the mortality at fully 1900.
The correspondent of the Sun writes:
report short List this morning, both of deaths
ana cases, Dnt It Is only because the subjects are
nearly exhausted, and there il not food for the
plague. TO feed upon. Indeed, so far from any
abatement in the malignancy Of the scouree the
doctors say the cases occurring now develop the
symptoms In shorter time, and terminate with
more yirulence than before The weather contiU-
ung extremely hot and sultry, nothing, except
FROST is more earnestly prayed for than copous
tain and good northwest wind to succeed il. Mr..
hudson, engineer, died at the hospital last night.
Mr.. James johnson, jeweller, Mr.. VIM Simington.
Mr.. Bayley, and Mr.. Daniel Grymes, (colored and
several negroes, also died within the last twenty
four hours. Mr.. Ferguson, of the custom.house
died in in Hampton.
Mr. Thomas Hardy (of Hardy & Brothers: \ DR..
Hardy, homeopathic physician; Mrs. VIM. Doyle;
two sons OF MIR. Chsana, French consul,) and
Dr. friedman, are reported among the bad cases
to-day.
Drs Funstall and Upshur are doing well for
third day attack. But no physician now speaks
Win CONFIDENCE in less than six days Richard
WOODWARD Is also Ill. We have sustained great
loss by the death OF Mr.. W. II. Taylor, in your city,
on Tuesday. No man was more prominent on ali
charitable occasions; no citizen more exemnlary
IN the performance of every Christian virtue His
memory will be aficctionately cherished by our
people.
we daily acknowledge our gratitude to Balti-
more, for her unbounded lberality in this our day
OF distress. We are happy to say that our indie
fatigable President of the Howard Association Mr..
Ferguson, is alive, well, and without a symptom Of
the prevailing malady; nor he have one, If the
grateful affections of the people and their fervent
prayers can plead in his behalf also correct an
error In report / see of the death of Dalton
Wheeler, of the Howard Association. He Is alive
AMI hopeful Willy Starke, second son Of the late
Captain s., died on Tuesday. / just learn that
Mrs. Robert Bernard is very i'll.
The following is just brought in as an authentic
account OF burials, exclusive Of the negroes In
Cedar Grove and Elmwood grave-yards, 500; in
the Catholic, Ill in the Jewish, Z; in the Oak
Grove grounds, where the sick from Barys row
we're carried, Al ,057 besides these, the burials
at Julappi hospital are reported at 40-total,
l,O97. Add to this many funerals by night Of un-
known persons, negroes and children, buried in
hnf hnG Ia III -
number at not less than l,200--awfull
letter In the Petersburg Express states that
in Portsmouth, between Court street and the river,
there have been no new cases. The fever has near
ly disappeared in that part Of the town. Persons
living in the upper part are moving there.