Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-08-29
The Epidemic at Norfolk and Portsmouth

The Epidemic at Norfolk and Portsmouth
The accounts from the Inflated cities Of Nor.
folk and Portsmouth are Of the most distress
Ing character. In either place but little il
heard, save the groans Of the sick and dying
and the rumblipg sound Of the heavily lad ened
hearse on its mournful journey to the "a city Of
the dead" Truly it is sad picture; appall.
ing to the stoutest heart. If this state Of
things continue for q much longer time there
will not be one left who can say that he " has
not lost friend
The following are the names of those who
have died since our last report:
Capt. Henry Dickerson, Sylvester C Lewis,
Thomas Nunan, Mr.. Gattiker, coIored WON an
at K. c. Barclays, child of Mr.. Harris, slave
of Mrs. Bell, Miss NJ. E. Graves, slave of Mr..
Tyler, Hunter Woods, VIM Smith John Free.
man, free colored,) slave of P. W. Hinton,
Mrs. Sinnott Edward Curtain, John HOLMAN.
- Nunan, John Chushan, Charles A Camp,
Eliza Godfrey slave at Jones' boarding
house, MIR. Bixby's child, q white woman on
Pepper Lane, Mary Garrett, slave of John
Biddle, slave of G. Bagley, slave of William
Wake, John Winter, Mrs. F. Watt.
The latest accounts from Julappi represent
the health of Capt. Guy and his family as i'm
proving.
Hunter Woods, Esq, the Mayor of Norfolk,
(as stated in our Geographic column yester-
day. died on Sunday morning about IL
o'clock. Of his last hours and funeral, the
correspondent of the Baltimore American
writes:
81 nobler spirit never winged its way to
the presence of the Great Author of US ALL
ne breathed his last without struggle, with
out pang. A deep sleep had fallen upon
him, and in that condition the Angel of Death
claimed him for bis prey. His funeral was
attended by the largest number of citizens
that have been assembled together since the
fever broke out. Drs Moore, Pension, Gray
croft and DeCastro, were his medical attend
ants, the two last acting as nurses, with Capt
Nathan Thompson, Of n. G. Never was
patient better attended to-never died there
a man in this city whose death will be SO
deeply mourned. He was but "a years of age
He leaves wife and two children. whom he
sent to Georgetown no later than Wednesday
last. His death was fastened by his labors il
the cause Of his suffering fellow citizens whose
distresses were the whole objects of his
thoughts"
In an article on the death of the Mayor the
Norfolk Argus, of Tuesday, says:
"Our heart is full. Poor No,folk-discon-
Solate and stricken city-where will thy mis-
I riunes end? Will not the fall of this shi-
hing mark satisfy the wolfish appetite Of the
monster
Tie nerves of strong men quivered, tears
cropped from the eyes, and sObs burst from
he breasts of sturdy men, when tho affecting
tidings were told and with white lips and in
whispered accents they spoke among them
selves
"For the deceased was noble specimen of
humanity. With a heart open to the appeals
o: distress, ever ready to sympathise with af-
fiction ard imbued with the purest sentiments
OF honor, friendship and virtue, none knew
him but to esteem and love.
I'VE will nOt-we cannot saw n word 10
mitigate the distress of the bereayed and sor
low laden family of our friend, whose virtues
we kneW-whose person we loved. Their pre-
sent sorrow Is too deep for consolation-but we
can weep with them"
A letter from Portsmouth, dated the 9th.
mentions the death of ex-Msyor Stubs, of
Norfolk. This rumor, however is not con.
frmed by the latest news from that point.
DR.. Stone, of New Orleans, says that the yell
low fever is generally sixty days in reaching
its highest mortality, and that after that time
1t gradually and sometimes suddenly disap-
pears. In Portsm nth they are looking an1-
lousiy 10 the first OF September, which termi-
mates the sixty days since its commencement
there, to sec if the Doctor saying will be full
flied. The disease has to run at Norfolk until
the 10th of next month before it reaches sixty
days.
The Norfolk Beacon was compelled to sus-
pend en- Monday, two little boys being all that
are left of the whole force of the Office. All
the papers will he compelled to adopt the same
| course, If the fever continue much longer.
Dr. CraycrOft, of Philadelphia, writes from
Norfolk as follows:
The disease is of . most malignant type,
and has not yet reached its eliminating point
1t is, no doubt on its Northern tour, and ne 1t
year you may expect visit from this terrible
destroyer in Baltimore and Philadelphia-the
year following it will decimate New York, and
Will continue to travel North, and only stop
when the warm temperature comes below 20
deg. Fahrenheit.
g There are great many families here who
arc very well eff in this worlds goods, who
are entirely dependent on the Howard Asso-
citation for their bread and meat The ply
! sicians' horses are very much jaded, and have
not bale OF hay In the city. No mattresses.
Mr.. Ferguson has had to seize cotton bales on
! the wharf, and use them as mattresses"
Norfolk is now without city government
The Mayor being deed, and a majority of the
Court and Councils absent, the collection OF
the revenue is suspended, aud the city treas
| ury locked up.
The accounts from Portsmouth are terrible.
There were "a deaths there on Saturday, about
80 ON Sunday, and "a during the last FIVE days
| Since the 9Th instant 2l2 have died. Among
| the deaths are Mrs. Frances Gates, wife Of
| Thomas Gates.
Correspondence Of the Starl
PORTSMOUTH, August u.
The fever is just as bad now as it ever has
been. Yesterday there were IL deaths, and
on Saturday % Among the victims is Hun
ter Woodis, who died this morning. Joseph
| Robertson ) wife died yesterday Chas Myers,
Of Portsmouth, is dead. DR.. Maupin is better;
also DE-. Trugien and Col. Watts. Miss Mar
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