Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-09-24

W
plications for bounty lands under the law of
1855, up to Saturday night last, the I'D inst,
was 215, 800.
The Epidemic in Norfolk and Portsmouth !:
The latest news from Norfolk and Ports
mouth is appalling, the mortality being greater
than at any previous tino. In Norfolk, there
were 40 interments on Thursday, q on Friday,
and thirty orders for collins up to ten o'clock
on Saturday morning. This mortality is fright
fal, when it is considered that the population
is less than five thousand souls.
Tie following are among the dead:
A. Jakeman. George Custis, Miss L. Carter,
VIM. b. Ferguson, w. Reed, BENZ Quick, Dr..
Alex. Gault, Mrs Z. III. Delk, Mr.. Heaney,
Mrs. Matthews Thos. Gilbert, sor of Mr. Hill,
Miss G. A. Crosbie, VIM. Wood, daughter Of
Mrs. Mary j Murray, Martin Kelly, Francis
Winter, Rachel Parker, VIM. Taylor, VIM.
Bagley, Thos. Downes, Harrison Butt, Samuel
Smith, c. Woodwork, A. Winslow's child,
Mr.. Lee, Miss Lawrence, DIR. Roses child,
Miss Q. A. Roole, Mrs. Pow, Francis Goodwin,
Miss Murden, Mrs. Cesphas, Mr. Parr, A Bell,
Edward James, Mrs. McKeen, child of L. B.
Gibson, Catharine Taylor, child of S. Veal,
Mrs. Delshae, daughter of L. Delany, Polly
Washington, DR.. Richard Blow, Mr.. Bellman,
Calvert Chambers, Mrs. Seaman, M. Kelly,
Samuel Smith, Capt John Hicks, Dr. SeIden's
child, and Miss Thoroughbred.
Caleb Bronsal, Samuel Lightfoot, Richard
Searls, Mrs. Chamberlin, mother of Richard
Chamberlin; SON and daughter of VIM. Reed,
DR.. Dodd, James Gray, James Wilkinson,
daughter of Lieut.. Henderson, d. DeCapre, of
New York, are all very ill. Mr.. Dalton
Wheeler has had relapse and is very i'll.
DIR. Steel, Of the Navy Hospital, is down. Miss
Wallis, nurse from New York, is doing well.
DR.. Tunstall is out of danger, and his brother
Richard is improving. VIM. S. Nimmo and
DIR. Robert IL. Gordon, are out. Rev Louis
Wake, of the Episcopal Church, is improving,
taken sick yesterday; his indisposition it is
hoped is only result of fatigue. Cicero Her
ringtOn was attacked in Richmond, on Friday.
DR.. Powell writes from Norfolk on Saturday
at noon, as follows:
a more appalling state Of affairs could
scarcely exist than that which now presents
itself in this devoted city. All is gloom and
CONSERVATION. During the last few DAYS the
weather has been exceedingly unfavorable for
those suffering with the fever, consequently
most Of the cases which occurred on Monday
have terminated fatally. l regret that the
energetic President Of the Howard Association
has fallen victim to the cause Of humanity
He breathed his last about o'clock this morn.
ing. His death has cast a deeper shade over
the previously saddle ned countenances of those
who remain. 1t would be impossible to give
any approximation to the actual picture of
distress now presented in Norfolk. Those
abroad have no conception Of how bad il really
is. Physicians regard the disease as having
lost none of its malignancy. On the contrary,
the poison appears to have acquired augmented
power"
There are forty-fTe children in the Conva.
lescent Asylum, lecture-room OF Christ church,
Free Mason street; twenty-one in the Episco-
pal Asylum, Holt street, and twenty in the
Roman Catholic Asylum.
Sister Catharine, from the Baltimore In
Urinary, is very sick. Sister Urbaryis recoy-
ering.
Robert w Bowden, Esq, is acting Presi-
dent of the Howard Association, in place Of
the lamented Furguson. Messrs. Corprew and
Langley will attend to the outdoor business.
These gentlemen have all been actively en-.
gagged during the epidemic.
PORTSMOUTH.
In this Inflated town there are not more
than twenty-five hundred inhabitants, about
tuo thousand of whom are either down with,
or convalescent from an attack of the fever.
Out of this reduced population there we're q
deaths on Thursday, Is on Friday, and 80 up
8 o'clock, p. m, ON Saturday. Frightful NOR
tally ..-...s r.
Among the deaths are the following:
Alexander Ethridge, Miss Ann Boswick,
Richard Nash: Robert Graves, Peter Galilee,
Joseph Thomas, Mrs. Benjamin Parnell, DR..
Berry, Henry Jones, Peter Kirby, Mrs. Jor-
dan Curling, child of George Barber, John
Webster, Samuel Richardson, Jr, Peter Hy-
son, boy of Thomas Pennington, Mrs. Mary Ste
phens, Mrs. William Il. Guy, child of John
w. Guy, Richard Jones, Edward Manning,
Charles Seabury (died in Matthew's county, J
j. w. L. Hodges child, Nelson Ethridge, child
of Joseph Manning, child of Mrs. Sweeney,
Henry Parrott, Levi L. Brown, Mrs. NJ. W.
Alwyne, r. G. Rodman, U. S. Navy, Mrs. W.
l.. Johnson
The Richmond Dispatch records the death
of Sister Mary Susannah Richard, who died
on Friday. She arrived in Richmond on Fri
day, 14th inst, in charge of the Portsmouth
orphans, and was taken sick on the next day,
Saturday, Her attack was violent, and from,
the beginning foreboded fatal termination.
Drs Haskins and CS;r,stian, the physicians Of
the College, were unremitting l.: their atten.
dance, and did all in their power to check ..hhe
disease She had also the constant attention
Of Sister Ursula, and the Sisters Of st, Joseph's
Asylum She bore her sufferings with ex-
traordinary patience and resignation. She
was from Philadelphia, had been fourteen
years Sister Of Charity, and was in her forty
second year. Some six weeks since she went
to Norfolk, and devoted herself heroiaally to
the nursing of the sick. With four other Sis
Il. etofsn - L. Tai,
where she had a general superintendent, and
was untiring in her exertions to alleviate the