Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-10-02
The Epidemic at Norfolk and Portsmouth.

Auo GCluemlc 81 NoIl0lk ana PORTSMOUTH.
The mail between this city and the infected
districts being tri weekly at presen, and yester-
day not being the day for its arrival, we are
without our usual advices; but we learn, by
the way of Richmond, that in Norfolk there
were seven deaths, by yellow fever, on Friday,
and three Oh Saturday In Portsmouth, on
Saturday, there were thirteen deaths. No
| new cases were reported in either city on Sat-
urday
letter from Portsmouth informs us of the
death of young Thaddeus Brownley, son of
James Brownley, and of tho serious illness of
several members Of the family. All the fever
| cases in Mr.. VIM. Pettit's family are conva.
| lescent. At the time of writing there was
every prospect of total disappearance of the
epidemic. Mr.. Robert Copeland, who left this
city some two months since to assist in nursing
the sick, we learn from the same source, is
down with the fever.
DR.. McFarlane, Of New Orleans, who has
| rendered such efficient and faithful service at
Norfolk, arrived in this city on Sunday morn
ing last. lie brings the gratifying intelligence
| that the yellow fever has ceased to exist as an
| epidemic in both Norfolk and Portsmouth, and
that the physicians from abroad who have rem
| dered such heroic service during the pestilence
| had been notified that their aid could happily
DO dispensed with after the LIST of October
| DIR. McFarane informs the editor of the Union
that more cases of black vomit fell under his
| observation at Norfolk than he witnessed du-
| ring the whole of his long practice in New Or
leans: Making the necessary allowance for
the difference in population, he is of the opin-
ion that the yellow fever deaths at Norfolk
were much larger than was ever known during
| the most fatal years in New Orleans The ma
| Lightly of its type is-without parallel in this
country.
The nurses were leaving Norfolk and Ports
mouth in large numbers, about forty having
gone South on Saturday
The Rev. VIM. NJ. Jackson, Of the Episco-
pal Church, Norfolk, who was reported dead
still survived at the last accounts, with some
hopes of his recovery. He had charge of the
| orphans in the lecture room of Christ church.
Three of the esteemed clergymen of Norfolk
have lost their wives-the Rev. Aristides
Smith, Rev. Lewis Wake, and the Rev. Geo.
| ID. Armstrong. Two, the Rev. Messrs. DID,
rell and Jones, of the N. E. Church, have fall
len with their harness on.
correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch,
| speaking of the wife of the Rev Mr.. Arm
| strong, Of the Presbyterian church in Norfolk,
says:
"The wife, the wife's sister. and the daugh-
ter of this esteemed divine and faithful pastor,
have in few short days, been torn from the
fArta Vlxr 10 Il
tary and alone in the deserted chambers of his
| home.'
DR.. Henry Seldcn, of Norfolk aud his two
children, after arriving at Hampton last week
were taken with the fever, but are recover
| ing. Miss Heath and Miss Briggs, before re-
ported sick, are now nearly we'll The child
of James b. Pollock is dead, and its mother
sick in Norfolk. DR.. Hargrove, of Richmond,
| is also said to be iii in Norfolk