Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-09-10

Portsmouth-2e deaths up to O'Clock yester-
day, and so new cases; 8 deaths in the city and 4
in the Naval Hospital up TO noon to-day; ex-Mayor
Stokes informed me this morning that the panic is
greater than any previous stage Of the epidemic
The disease is spreading TO the surrounding coun-
try.
A member of the Sanitary Committee assures
me there are 500 cases of fever in Portsmouth and
the Naval Hospital at this time, and that scarce
family has entirely escaped the rayages of the dis
ease. At the Academy, which is used as an or
pban asylum there 100 children.
PS There is another report that DR.. Bryant
of Philadelphia, is not 50 i'll AS is represented in
the above. j. +. p.
ENcAMPMEET FOR THE REFUGEES.
| We are indebted to DR.. Powell for the following
account of the erection of tents 10 which it is pro-
posed TO move the citizens of Norfolk and Ports
mouth
| The steamer Georgia arrived off Craney Island
about 8 A. M. yesterday, when she was boarded
by committee from Hampton, DR.. McCabe chair
man, who informed us that upon mature reflection
| it had been deemed expedient to locate the en-
campment ON Mr.. Lejors land, between Hampton
and Old Point We accordingly proceeded to the
place designated, and commenced landing men,
tents, and equipments.
The men, assisted by the citizens of Hampton
and the steamers hands, worked hard, and by
o'clock tifty-one tents, including the large tent of
Caroline street, (Methodist Episcopal,) station,
were erected. Much valuable assistance was rem
dered by Captains Pierson and Travers, Lieut..
Lloyd Parks and Major G. w. Allen OF the Geor-
gia.
The camp presented beautiful appearance from
the steamer. The American ensign trans
ferred to the camp and given to the breeze, which
was responded to with hearty cheers. Those
| siding in the vicinity contributed their utmost to
promote our comfort and convenience.
There have been in all about 900 yellow fever
deaths in Norfolk. One undertaken buried 1876
last week. A correspondent Of the Richmond Dis
patch states that a lady who was deserted by her
relatives, and subsequently died, left all her money
(S2, lO0) to her two nurses. JAS IL. Finch, foreman
OF the Norfolk Argus was taken with the fever
soon after reaching Petersburg.
To give an idea of the extraordinary expense
now being incurred by the remaining citizens of
Norfolk, a correspondent mentions that gentle
man was compelled to pay one hundred and fifty
dollars for a metallic coffin for. his deceased
daughter!
The Norfolk correspondent of the Petersburg
Express, speaking Of the plague fly" says;
Its body is about the size of our common fly,
OF yellowish color, with long, delicate, porous
wings, of texture as fine the softest silk They
fly together in swarms, and may be seen in large
numbers on the fig trees; but their great point Of
attraction seems to be the collins, in which repose
the Inflated victims Of yellow jack We took
stroll out to that Golgotha Of burial grounds Pot
ters Field, yesterday, and were intensely Mortified
at seeing many of the collins that lay on the ground
scattered around awaiting interment, literally black
with these loathsome little insects that squirmed
themselves upon one another so thick as to exclude
the coffin entirely from sight. 1t was the most
disgusting spectacle we ever beheld, having an
oily, wormy significance of the last poor mortality
about that it was absolutely sckening !"