New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-30
THE YELLOW PEypp



AT meeting of the General Corr-,..
bef OF the sufferers by yellow ssys, :. ~ % IA 4
Portsmouth, w., held on weans,a.- "0"a u
No. u Insurance Building the faro~is, ss. =
tons wore received, viz: from Or. Dsas..' una
City; DR.. Chapman, Dr. hsrinus Br,ss;,'" 'er's,}
Petit Jesn, offering their services az pbv,;., Ad d
Messrs. Charles Robinson, Albert Lomb,,s -, al
Morenus and w. II. Msgee, Offering thss, ., "n.
nurses 10 attend the sick ct Norfolk ana pv c0 =
Va. Wherenpon IT was resolved that TIE Consssss:s
do not consider themselves authorized b r..n1'as
engagements of the kind embraced in The sooSs. ~
and therefore tie same are respectfully decrsS
On motion Of GEORGE DOUGLASS, ESQ, ,ss
three thousand dollars was ordered TO be rm;,,asn
day, TO be equally divided between Norfolk ara D.
mouth-ffietn hundred dollars for each, and ca'
TO share with Portsmouth.
On motion OF joys d. JosEs, Esq. II WA r.,. /
that this meeting adjourn to Wednesday, SEQ, ~
that in the mean time donations be received h. ~
Treasurer, VIM. H. Macy, Esq al the Leather n. =
facturers Bank, No. Is WilIiam-st.
Remsrking on the conduct of Miss Andrew. !.
also on that of Richmond Petersburg, &c, TL III
Louis Erening Netes Of Thursday has these A.
pirate comments:
at was left for the cold strange North to shos ~
sympathy which generous, chivalrous Virginia has
fused to her own citizens. frai fragile femse J
fers her poney and services, and begs 10 be alorl
the privilege Of doing good in field of labor ~
which others have fed sffrighted away. She COO,
too, from Syracuse-aye, from Syracuse, the hot \.
of Abohionism, and Other isms so disgusting to n
South. Nor ia this all; sooner did the wall Of J
Fiction from Norfolk swell over the North, than 81
erous purses were opened for the relief of the unO
late. The citizens of New-York, Philadelphia Boss
and other Northern cities held meetings 20 express u
sympathy and pour their gold into charity boxes y
the benefit of the poor aud SICK OF Norfolk aud 20
mouth. The storm of sectional strife was hushed, ii
the feelings Of humanity brought into play. m
sands and tens of thousands OF dollars were cons
uted BY the men of the North TO alleviate the Il
trees of their brethren in the South. How plessS
the picturel Is the bond between the two sections
the Union merely an a'tenua ted abstraction as so
imagine. to be snapped asunder by the stroke Of 4
bold cemagogue. or IL Il mighty boLd, woven q
the strings of twenty-five million hearts Does !
The history of the yellow fever at Norfolk, NexIl
lesrs and Savannah, prove that the North has b
generous heart, that never fails 10 respond to the q
rows Of the South p
RELIEF OF The SUFYERERs.-Yosterday aflernos
the Committee appointed to relieve the sufferers J
yellow fever in Virginia, dispatched the foilosin
named physicians, nurses and apothecariee, with :
tiers 10 the Howard Associations of Portsmouth 4
Norfolk Doctors-G = Hamill, j. ID. Bryant, h
man Kierson. Nursss-James A. Boon, John Hos
Edward Lehmanowsky, Francis 4. A. Lundiu joe
|. Fell, Miss Margaret G. MeCredy, Miss o Nell, n
Josephine Carroll, German lady, Miss Paters'
Apotbec aries-A. Judson Gibbs, +. Perry Miller \.
Thomas W. Handy. Phila. Ledger, 2sth
adepbia, who has had considerable experience in N
low fever in Cuba, volunteered to 90 10 Norfolk
nurse and started for that place yesterday morning
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