New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-17


MilsOn and three or four Others, ali of VII en-
arrived AZ City Point on Sunday afternoon with the'
femiits, in good health They took the CARS Of the
SouLside Railroad yesterday morning for the moun-
tsus
"Mr Samuel Il. Borum, large dealer in agricul-
tural Implements is i'll with the fever. DR.. Henry
Stlden Of Norfolk is also reported sck Of the fever
"Tbe Richmond DisDa;ck says that T. Il. Brough-
ton son Of the editor OF The Norfolk Herald, l. also
down with the fever.
The Norfolk H-rad r,ys: "The new cases are
reay reduced in number, and are confined exclusive
H. We under-'and to pOsit ,ey manifest cases OF gel
low fever Oher Of fever exist, bot they were
not within that categoy and we're not reported. We
undfrsferd il Is The intention - the BOer5 Of HEALTH
after today 10 report but deaths, which l. ths
ory eeIin uesns by which the progress OF the DIS
ease can be city ascertaned The night aDPears
az usual 10 be greater Tran there = any necessity for
correct list Of deaths BY yellow fever from rs CON-
mel cement, on the l6'b Of July, hes been kept BY
pf scian and ~ 10 Saturday the number was frea'
u OF abOut sixty cases snO Sing the Hsoaiy 10 ssye
beer only ore il thee
The PetersJurg Democrat referring te'ths csusf 6
The epidemic in Norfolk snd Portsmouth, seys:
"ln Norfolk a, d Portsmouth they have bad scarce
any rain for two months past and the boiling heat "
vena sun has prepared these cities for the disease,
making it literally hOtbsd for the pesulence. In
both tese places, out especially IN the former, there
is O large quantity Of ma-e ground-that IL gr0and
refcued from the sea. This ground is formed by
throwing logs of wood into the mud at low TIDE, aud
covering them with earth till elevation IS etained
HfQlfT
tfn shanies are erected which the necessities Of poor
people compel them to occupy. In the course Of time
the SEQ, which confines 10 soak through the logs
Which fon the basis of this made ground" gradu-
all, ros the wood, aud reduces the whole mass into
state of IurefactiOn. This, with the want of cieanli
ness which IT, alas too often the attendant of extreme
peuury render these localities perfect plague spots,
fitted for the reception and propagation OF any disease,
more especially one Of the nature Of yellow tever.'
The ftkrAJurg EzDress, 10 shOE that yellow fever
is not contagious sta es that among the first victims
at Portsmouth wac young maried man, ana 'hat
tree Of bis yOuDg friends volunteered 10 auenl on
him il company with his wife They were with him
dsy ana nebt for week az also the Rev. Thomas
Hume. The EIprcss adds:
During the last stages of the dsease and after that
unerriDg precursor of the grim monster had maze lis
aptenfance the black vomitl the patient was fire.
aaently seized with spas during which the nau seous
dis, haTge would flow spontaneously from the mouth
completely covering those who waited at hls bedside
Tie minister OF God 10 hear toe responses to questions
uloI ounded was compelled TO place his ear in close
PROXIMITY 70 the patients mouth his voice having be-
come 60 feeble tbat he could not ariculate above
whisper Tie distressed and heartstrlcken wife en-
braced the deceased body OF her husband kissed again
sud again bis burning cheek, and bathed bis swarthy
brow with scaldng tears. On the 9th ult. the man
died. and not OF the five persons who attended on
him las taken the fever or experienced the slightest
ndisposition.
AT PORTSMOUTH.
In Portsmouth the disease is said to be not at oil
abating. Dr. j. W. Ii. IrugieD, one OF the most
eminent IhASlCldlb III 1OflruOulu, anu tuyvsht5 %
very extensive PRACTICE, had six cases on Sunday five
Of which he sent to the hospital
Mr. James f. Wilson, retired merchant died OF
the fever Saturday morning last lie leaves
large family.
DR. Jos, ph n. scoofeld at O'Clock on Sunday
evening continued to improve, and his friends thought
there was even hope OF hs recovery.
Tile Washington Star says: BY letteHrom
Portsmouth GATED the 18th inst, received this morn
ing We learn that the rum0red sickness and death By
yellow fever of Mr. William b. Collins 10 unfounded'
The Star continues:
"Our readers all know that the yellow fever is
raging there at this time never before in tins cOun-
Inv go far NORTH or least within the last thirty years.
More than halt The population of the town have He'd
really every man, woman and child thus flying from
the peetlence who had the means of going away. !
Those left there are for the most part the poor, the
AGED AID the feeble. While the disease Is striking |
down members Of their families nearly all intercourse
with the town from land or water mas ceased. Inc
newspaper of Portsmouth has ceased to appear ana
even no one is TO be found who Will operate the tee-
Graph there Tabooed the town is the world knows
little of he awful suffering beng endured ~ o rne
have hocked to their relief from various quarters OF
country aud are doing oil that nursng-eyen such
heavenly nursing as thei~s-can do for the SICK but
they cannot put FOOD in the mouths of the panc-srcken
sufferers with and withOuf the fever. No provisions
90 10 them by water because 1t is almost as ncn rs me
Is worth 10 have intercourse with Them Wnhe INC
country peope prefer that their prodnce shall rot 70
II, king connect with any they know to be from
Portsmouth recently. Out of fifteen thousand souls
but seven or eight thousand remain there, aud many
of these who have so far escaped the fever are al
most on the point of starvation. We hear dslly that
the fever is on the decrease there, and have every
reason 10 believe that The fact Is the result OF the SUI
ferng of 80 many of the people for want OF the bare
nocessares of hie
At NEw-oRLEANs.
The Mar Orleans Bulletin Of August holds the
following gloomy language respecting the yellow lever
in thai city:
"1be fever the present year is full one month carrier
than il was in 1854 and also earlier than 1t wHs IN 1871
but later than in 1853 The deaths for the week end
inc August g. Is.7 were l23 fraction over IL per
day; week ending August s. 1883, 1885, or las per
dny; week ending Augus' 6, 1881, %, or 4 per day;
and the week ending August G. 1859 222, or 81 per
dav From these data our readers will be able 10
draw their own conclusions and form conjectures IN
regard 10 s duraten which may be Just accurate as
those ciphered out by editor doctors II the charac-
.er of the pre- sent fever does not differ materially rOm
those which preceded it, have every reason to ex-
pect an perhaps for some three or four weeks
This increase in all probability, will be very gradual,
and the aggregate of the mortality at that termination
we hore and believe will be less than in former cpl
def wears and for the very satisfactory reasons that
there is deficiency of material and besides, as We
aretold by those who are competent TO judge, the e
yer producer is less powerful. We are panied to say
thet the weather at the present time is most unpro-
pi,ious we have daily succession OF showers and the
NIGHTS are as cool as In the month of Ocober.'
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