Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-09-26
WEyTS nY FEE BAY.

From NORFOLK AND PORTSMOUTH. We
make the following extracts from the Cores
pondence of the Petersburg Intelligencer.
1t is with a heavy heart that 1 again take
my seat to pen you a few lines. In my let
tiers of Saturday and yesterday I informed
you that there was a large decrease in the
mortality, but to-day the mortality is largely
on the increase. Although we have a most
beautiful day with a fine cool breeze from
the North, still it has no favorable effect on
the disease. | cannot account for it, but
such is the case that the mortality was g ea-
ter on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
than any other days of the week.
The. Rev. Mr.. Hume, writing from Ports
mouth on the 18th says:
Last night and to-day the proportion of
deaths and new cases compared with the
3 or A previous days. among US has been
sadly increased. This is, I learn, the fact
also in Norfolk.
ngr The Petersburg Intelligencer of last
Saturday, says:
The terrible pestilence continues to spread
among the few persons remaining in Norfolk
with a virulence which indicates no abate-
ment in the disease.
" OdA CHou WOAV 1t AO6b1O All
Portsmouth on Thursday, and the fever vas
still on the increase
A great as the distress has been and still
continues to exist in our unfortunate city,
we fear that still more will be experienced
when the absentees shall have returned to
their houses. Many of those, when they
left, did not anticipate the horrors that have
been acted in their absence, or the length of
time the pestilence would continue. Their
means will be exhausted before they. can
safely return, and they will come home for
lorn, friendless and penniless. Numbers are
now, we hear, already destitute and subsist-
l ing on credit or charity. In view of such
anticipations, which are certain to be reali-
zed, we trust that the Howard Association,
l which has alleady done an incalculable
amount of good, will make preparations to
prolong their ministering care over the city
during the approaching fall and winter, and
l that our generous brethren abroad will con-
tinue their Samaritan offerings. But for
them poor Norfolk would have had gaunt
famine to finish the work begun by the spec
trail pestiience. Our wisest citizens antici-
: pate the evils alluded to above, but most of
! them are still too feeble to confer together
: and adopt plans to mitigate them.
:" There is still another cause for apprehen-
= sion. Nearly all of our merchants and re-
: tail store-keepers have left the city, and in
: their absence the notes and acceptances have
eendlshonoreda and protested. The protests
) have often amounted to forty daily. How
y are these to be met? The banks have been
: most accommodating and would willingly
renew all accommodation and business paper,
y y when it is possible. But in numerous in
! stances, the maker or endorser, and in many,
both are dead. In these cases, payment will
i have to be enforced, real estate disposed of
u = nnnu.o Av,C - - - j IL
tress follow. 1t will take ten years for Nor
- - folk to recover this overwhelming blow.
ot RAYAGEs OF FEvER.-In the town Of Can
IN ton, Miss, with a population of only 100
es souls, there have been 60 cases of Yellow
" Fever, and ten deaths.
The PRINCE GEORGE TRAGEDY.-We mar
oo+ rated in yesterdays Express the strange
death of Mrs. VIM. Gill and infant, and the
al sickness. OF anothe r child, all under very sus-
. plclous circumstances, on account ofthe sud-
ra den disappearance of the husband William
Till. All created much excitement in the
ar above vicinity and many suspected that Mrs.
GiH had died from violence. Search was
ma lie for Gill, and on Sunday last, his body
i was discovered in the woods about three
it quarters of mile from his residence. II
was very much dlsfgured, as the eyes and
0f ~ u NY GNO "
es and 1T would not have been recognized only
or for the clothing. No marks of violence were
nd perceptlble on the body, but from the strangt
is tact OF the deaths taking place almost sim
mr. ultaneousiy, 1t IS supposed that the husband
lis administered poison to his family and fnally
n. himself. The little son of Gill is in a dying
ba condition also.
An inquest was held and the body of Gil
90 was burned in the woods where found. Thu
- who ~ = h0- 49, -
DO ment IN the neighborhoed, and all are of O
'as pinion.that it was he who was the aut' lor o
to so terrible a tragedy.
Gill was about thirty years of age, had
ar few acres of land In cultivation, but for som
On time back had become half crazy from inor
cir dlnate indulgence in intoxicating drinks
to This ends the career of his family. Mrs. 6
some time ago drew a trife of money by
RI. lottery ticket which was now nearly if nc
he all spent, and on account of the husband
drunken habits they were fast becoming th
,an prey of wretchedness and vice.
ar ASYLUM For The INsANE.-The Commi,
- sioners for the North Carolina ASYLUM fc
the insane held a meeting in this CITY las
IN week-present, Messrs. John NJ. MoreheaC
teo Calvin Graves, George W. Mordecai. G.
*. Hinton, and Thos. D. Hogg.
81 We learn that DIR. E. G. Fisher was re.ar
hey DR.. Fisher viii raDova to tha = 9A'ooe
led reside there narm,nantIr - an
al attention to the affairs Of the institutio,
70 Mrs. w. J. Alexander, of Lincolnton. wa
appointed Matron of the institution. at
salary of $500; and Mr.. Rufus K. Ferril
ne, of Wake, was appointed Steward. at a salar
low 4 OF $500. These are all good appointment
u We entertain no doubt that the institutio
'me with such officers, and under the care of wi,
and humane Legislatures, will fully reali,
neu the expectations of the benevolent and phi
ms anthropic.
not Melted. furnished and rosdr III y =
ton of this afflicted class by the first OF ne
a january. The painting and plastering ha
ro. been completed, and the stuccoing is near
NOT done. The institution is designed to accol