Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-10-10
The Epidemic at Norfolk and Portsmouth

The Epidemic at Norfolk and Portsmouth.
The yellow fever has nearly disappeared
from Norfolk and Portsmouth; and if new ma
terial be not supplied BY those now away,
but short time will elapse before the last
vestige of the disease will have been bIotted
out.
The following are among the victims in Nor.
folk since our last report:
Mr.. Brownley, Mrs. James Carrick. Mira.
George Bunting, JAS White, Michael Cullen,
Thomas Gilbert. ---
DR.. Powell writes from Norfolk, on Monday,
as follows: 80
81 have just returned from the city and am
happy to inform you that q great improvelnen mt
has taken place In the appearance of affairs
since my last visit. Many of the stores are
now open and some transacting business The
dwellings are now being pretty generally ven
tilated. Those whom You meet no longer wear
doleful countenances. But what arrested INV
attention particularly was the appearance Of
about twenty neatly dressed ladies on Main
street. have frequently visited Norfolk when
not one was 10 be seen. The universal opinion
now entertained is that the epidemic is past,
provided those who are absent will remain
from the city few weeks longer. Mr.. Hosier
returned to Norfolk with his family about ten
days since. He and two of his children have
since died and others of his family are sick
II Is still exceedingly unsafe for any one to re-
turn. They had quite severe frost both in
Norfolk and Portsmouth last night, from which
favorable results are anticipated. There
were deaths yesterday and new cases.
Much suffering and distress has existed in
Norfolk and Portsmouth during this epidemic.
but the end is not yet. The excitement and
absolute necessity for constant activity has
afforded but little time for reflection.
have seen husbands consigning their wives
to the tomb-wives their acknowledgements
their children-and children their parents
with an apparent callousness that to me was
truly painful. In fact, they appeared, in
many instances, entirely incapable of appre.
ciating their loss, and even now they do not
realize it. TO this, it is true there have been
exceptions. have witnessed some outbursts
OF emotions which irresistibly excited the sym.
pathy of the spectators.
But when those who are absent raturn nj.
tired in the habiliments Of mourning. when
the social circle is reformed and the surviving
members of the respective families surround
the domestic hearth-then will the truth with
all its horrors become apparent. Then will
the eye In vain search for the absent wife or
husband, father or mother, SON or daughter,
brother or sister. The scenes of intense men
"nOu WI tneh transpire no pom
can depict NOR pencil portray.
Correspondence Of the Evening Star, n
PoRrsxourH, Va, Oct. 8.
last night we had frost, and early this morn.
ing the air felt quite braeing. We have no
new cases Of fever to-day, and I think that
the disease has worked itself ont. II the
people that are away do not rsturn too soon. we
shall not have return Of the terrible disease.
We Ind but one death ON Saturday, the
9th, Wig: daughter of Joseph Foils, aged 10.
Mrs Michael Kslly, child Of Edvsnd a. win.
ters. and ahild Of John CroshH " =.