The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1855-09-21
The PeStilence.
YeIIow Feuer at Norfolk and Portsmouth.

fellow has been arrested in Baltimore, whc
under guse of collecting funds for the relief O.
the sufferers bv yellow fever, had raised consi-
derable money in that city. He passed him.
self off as 'Dr. Nevin' A letter in the Baltimore
American states that the deaths in Norfolk or
Sunday week numbered over sixty, and on Sat
urday forty. New cases were multiplying
with frightfuI rapidity, and the supply of cof
fins had run short. There was also difficult
ty in getting graves dug. Among the deaths
reported were the President of the Common
Council, the teller Of the Virginia Bank, the
chief book-keeper of the Exchange Bank. and
w. H. Garrett, devoted and efficient member
Of the Association. The correspondent of the
Baltimore American, from whose letter we
quote the above facts, SAYS:
s"fhere has not been bale of hay here for
several DAYS: and the Doctors horses have near
ly given out. Send US some oats and hav for
the horses, and blacksmith or two TO shoe
them, as there is nothing Of the sort here
When vehicle loses lnchpin it becomes use
less, as there is no one hear to replace II.
"Therp is now believed to be 1000 cases in
in this city, but the disease has somewhat abated
in Portsmouth, probability for want of material
to act upon. There IS said to be not more than
800 cases in Portsmouth, and the deaths there
are not SO numerous. Mayor Fisk is still dan
gerousIy ILL.,"
DR.. Rizer, of Philadelphia, was taken with
the fever yesterday, and is being most faithful
" nursed by Dir. Webster. DR.. Rzer is quite
i'll, and made bis will this morning, anticipating
speedy death, though his friends have hopes
that be may recover.
"a peculiar kind Of fly, never seen in this
vicinity before, has made IFS appearance since
Saturday, both here and al Portsmouth, and has
destroyed nearly all the fruit. Among the 9TH
er trials we are called upon to suffer are clouds
of most voracious mosquitoes, which swarm a.
round you both in and out OF doors, and sting
you almost with the smart Of bee."
1t will be perceived that the number OF cases
of fever now in the city is stated at 1000. A
letter to The Richmond Despatch says that the
Rev. Mr. Armstrong, who has been constantly
zr1rong the sick in all parts of the city sets
down the number at from 1000 TO 1900, and
the writer believes the statement TO be correct.
The large increase OF cases and deaths is attri-
buted 1.-THE recent change in the weather, from
a clear atmosphere to a damp and disagreeable
one. One OF the letters in the Richmond Dis
patch SAYS:
"Mr Z. Sykes. the assistant Inspector of
streets, gives us a gloomy picture of the melan-
choly scenes be is doomed 10 witness in his
daily rounds. The other day be had occasion
be informs US to inspect lot on Charlotte street.
He found in the yard three curly headed little
children romping about, rolling on the ground.
with unkept hair, and dirty, tattered garments.
He inquired for their father-'Pa-Pa is dead
Then, where is your mother 2 'Ma-Ma
is dead too Yes added the youngest, and a
big ugly black man came and carried them a
way directly they were dead = Good God y
continued Mr. Sykes, shocked at the scene
'and who have you to take care of your no
body sir.' who gives you anything to eat?
MARY the colored woman next door, gives US
some bread every morning Never, said MIR.
Sykes, have my feelings been so pained-the
iorlorn condition of the little orphans-their
tender wears, and childish insensbility of their
great loss, made me sick at heart, and | could
not restrain my tears We need not add that
the bereaved inuocents were taken in charge by
the Howard Association, and will be duly pro-
vided for"
The Herald informs us that in consequence
Of experience having demonstrated the too great
liability of northern physicians to contract the
fever, il is strongly recommended BY the health
and othey authorities of the city that their servi
ces shall Tor the present be dispensed with, and
those only employed who are accustomed TO a
Southern climate, and to yellow fever practice.
This, we suppose, will receive attention in
aud other northern cities. From
sunset on Saturday, week TO sun set on Sunday,
there were four hundred new cases in that city,
and the expenditure for the relief OF the suffer
ing averages $500 daily. An appeal to the
counties of Virginia for aid is contemplated
The collections in Philadelphia have now reach
I'd an aggregate of sixteen thousand and ninety
eight dollars. The nearest approach 10 this is
the amount raised in Baltimore, which exceeds
eleven thousand dollars. The Richmond Dis
patch estimates the total number of deaths by
fever since the commencement at about six
hundred. DR.. Smith, Of Columbia, Pa. who
arrived on Thursday week, and the nurse who
accompanied him Mr.. CravenE is the hospital
sick with the fever.
CAMBRIA CoUNTY.-A boy named Banks,
eleven ortwelve years of age, son Of Mr.. Banks,
who keeps the lock at the one mile dam, was
killed on Friday last, in the following painful
manner He was standing by the windlass
which opens the upper gates, when boat
which was entering the lock was permitted,
through gross carelessness, to run with such
velocity against the gates, as to suddenly force
them open, causing the windless Instantly TO
revolve, spoke or arm of which struck the
boy on the back OF the head, and crushed it so
horribly as 10 cause death in a short time
JoAnstoWa Echo.
DDATH or THE RIcnE,r Mas ~ CALiFoR-