The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-08-30
THE YELLOW FEVER AT NORFOLK AND PORTS

The Norfolk correspondent Of the Petersburg Express
under date Of the 25th, writes as follows:
rejoice to know there are some kindred spirits abroad
who can send wish and thought after those left Ia the
desert We are stricken people Almighty God, IN his
wisdom, has ht 70 ehasen for our niques, and
though they be mountains high pray His mercy viii stay
the fell destroyer, and more may We flourish and
blossom the rose
" The pesenec is everywhere, and has respect TO
persons place The high and the low have the swim
of death darting all around them and at moment
is the nobest and farest Of Gods creation free from its
blasting influence. You have idea my dear sir OF the
distress by which surrounded. Death is every
where and j would take sber pen than mine to Por
tray faint picture Of melancholy situation We
rejoice know however that the Lord has sofened the
hearts OF those that closed the door Of mercy and refuge
against us and that they sending medicines
nurses provisions and physicians
To record all the sick dying, and dead throughout the
city were simply matter OF impossibilty. The deaths
not all reported by the board Of health and number
at least % daily About GOO persons sick Of the fever
1t is uncommon thing 10 two and three collins In
hearse and not soul but the driver accompanying
regret to state that the Rev Anthony Dibrell (we
known in Petersburg and indeed throughout Virginia.
the devoted pastor OF the Granbystreet T. Church, Is
i'll with the fever He has been uneeasing in his at
tentions TO the deceased and suffering"
The Portsmouth correspondent of the paper writes
follows
"PoRrsaouTu, August 81.
q DEAR ExpnEss: am too much occupied to say much
but send you line or two az am writing TO a friend
Drs Tgien and Mauphin have been very sick, but
thought to be doing better AT this time.
John l.. Porter, assistant constructor in the Gospor
has been carried the Naval Hospital sick Of
the fever.
AThe scourge is said have broken out board the
United States figae St Lawrence, lying al the naval
anchorage II is reported that some forty cases have oe-
Cured
For the "a hours ending Yesterday the deaths
numbered IL Up 10 sunset to-day there were only l.
This is very decided decrease the mortality hope it
but the beginning continued decrease for they have
new been on the increase long time
The Petersburg Express of yesterday morning under a
postscript head, has the ollowng
gentleman of this city received letter last evening"
written Yesterday morning, which communicates the mel
anchoy intelligence that d. d. Fiske, esq mayor of Ports
mouth and editor OF the Transcript newspaper is down
with the fever His aud wife have just passed through
the terrible ordeal We sincerely hope that the husband
and father may " spared.
The same letter states that Mr. John Woodley, most
estimabe Young man, and nephew of DIR. Vim. Collins,
president Of the Seaboard and Roanoke railroad is down
with the fever.
The family of Mrs Robert II. Tatnm is also afflicted
with the prevailing epidemic and two of the children Of
Mr.. Jones Totterdell.p
The suhjoned Geographic dispatches contain the latest
intelligence from the ill-fated cities;
PORTSMOUTH, Tuesdays o'clock p m.--The whole num-
Der of deaths is 300 including l07 at the Naval Hospital
Si1tywo have been reported since Saturday.
Deaths for the week ending Tuesday lls.
Dr. Mauphn is recovering. DR.. Trugen is in danger
condition.
Four physicians and ten nurses have arrived from
Charleston
Mayor Fske is sick but not Of the fever There were
deaths during the last eight hours and twelve yes
terday
Howard Association has the fever Dr. Higgins is still in
a dangerous condition.
The Norfolk papers oil suspended The number of
deaths in the last twenty-our hours was fifteen.