Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-08-22
The Yellow Fever.

sick aud d1 ing.
The Yellow Fever.
The fever is increasing in Norfolk and
POI ssmouth, rather than abating, il the ac-
,uuts ssive can be relit on.
The following are the names of some of the
victims for the As hours endr, on Monday at
Up m, reported by the Norfolk board Of
health: q 50
Mrs. Murphy, Mrs. John G. H HIATT On, Miss
Ls Pc 90, Miss Oh, ian, VIM. Wallace, Mrs.
G. Fl sedman, D. T. Kc,;-g's child, Eliza
d. mond, Mrs. n Hr,.s, Ms Mshone,
Two ;rvant' {, ,lor:i,) at R,1e's hotel; Or.
want of 7. r. Lee, Mr. Gibbons child, Mrs.
south's child, M +. A'nsr G. &c Sum-
mers' child, Wsr.r Jor u. S. n. master)
die at he spita'; Thomas Jerp;res.
letter from the Preside 1t OF the Howard
Asst citation says that "what ismoss want I'D is
the common neee. III. of Ffe, and pme few
Httle ari ;cles for the sick. 0faRt, sand lemons
al much wau' 4; % well p candle and soap.
Prov: sions and & neral sapp'ies are mols
NJ ,ded than money"
The Howard As ,ciation has open. pro-
vision sore. All thcss who size in dissress al
request ! to make application at the Office of
the Howard As ella on. & soup hous has
9ko been establisht I.
A coria spondent of the Baltimore Sun, wri-
ng from Nol.olk on ~ goth inst, says:
"G!e onv ind, d is the apect of our city 1t
81 Ems IS ii very day wei Sunday, and, with
the exc option Of the ringing OF church bells
yesterday, We { op'd not have dis. nguished it
lsom any other day .or the past week.
''Thes II oud thu udei storm on Saturday after
noon was att ;ndt with foods of rain, which
II,
the night, sud, With a strong northerly wind,
the temperatdls wasi iucei to an average of
68 degrees. It is s.i'I u, unusually so for
the s,ason, and bids fair to continue so for
this dav at least. Last night a blanket was
decidedly comfortable. The eff 81 of such
weather upon the ever is thought TO be favor
able to it, abatement, while it acts injuriOusly
on the case under t. ~ aent.
"Drs. Stone and Per ton, Of New Orleans,
are constantly making the rounds with our
physicians, and have ,n.iibuted largely to
their late EXP ,iier ). DR.. Freeman, OF Phil
adelphia, is also eie.
"Nur. are daily Al ivirr, and much relief
has b' IN afforded the sex oy their employ
ment by the Howard As { ;iai ION. The Sist ers
of Chality attend to the hospital at Julapm.
while the me- e and ether fema'e nur. IS are
disa ibut about the city; and well it is for
many an urfortura', that they have come
Whole fami'i6 lsid up together; friends
have either q or have their own families to
nurse ., ana monev, po' mt IS it generally is,
dc not tempt attendant ="
The Rev. Messrs. Jackson, OF St. PauPs;
Wake, OF Chris. Church A 4nstrorg, of the
Pr ,sbyterian; Wills, of the Cumberland street
Methodist; Dibi ~, of the CRANKY street
Methodist; 0'K' ,fe, of st. Patrick's; McCleI-
land, Of the Metho list Prote ,tant; aud Jones
OF the lean Methodist, are the names Of
the pl sachers who have ,maiut | in Norfolk,
and a; among those busily and u. Gully en-
So: ed n their fol y: IL consola ION to the
sufferers. ,me OF them al, w Iegular at
tendant at the Ho- pital and none of those
mention, manic 81 de ire to fly from the
s:oure -prelel.ing to d in the faithful dis
charge OF their known duty to leaving the
suffering and SfHict | members of their fiocks
in the midst Of d ease and death, without
these words Of comfort and Christian consola-
ton which it be, omes them especially to i'm
part in the hou- Of extraordi mary calamity
and tiia'.
The mortality in Port mouth reported by
''eg tarh yo ,stday) is fear.O,; twenty four
haviryd' out of a population of but little
over thousand, in forty-e 'ght hours. Pri-
va, lie. Els repre- < ut the deaths as .om ten TO
twelve 7 n day, or one ont Of every hundred
inhabitants.
Mrs. johnson and Stephen James have
died. John n. Myers, Mary Grimes, and En-
ma Snead have lesovelei.
The following Letter from Col. Watts, the
President OF the Common Council of Port !.
mouth, has been received by Mayor Kinks Of
Baltimore, and submitted by him to the Board
of Health:
PORTSMOUTH, Va. August 20.
TO Has Honor the Mayor o baltimore
Dear Sir Several of our physicians are
SICK, and the others nearly broken down. Can
lief Of the sick? Write me on receipt of this.
If any of your surgeons win come, they will
| not only be Hospitality received but will be
amply remunerated. / do not wish, and shall
not conceal the fact from our citizens abroad,
that the fever is "a ing to an alarming extent
With sentiments Of the highest respect, 1
have the honor to be, yours truly.
w. WATTS,
President Common Council.
A letter from Portsmouth says:
"In relation D the condition of the iowa, il
is completely deserted. A gloom settled and
| thick hangs over the community that is left.
The adjacent country-all along the line of
| the road, is occupied by our people, many of
them at least, whose limit ed means You are
| well aware of; many Of these honest and
working people LETT, I'm sure, without the
| means of sustaining themselves, depending
| upon circumstances, and yielding to the en-
treaties of their wives aud childle en- t, fee
| from the pestilence. / anticipate a most try
! ing winter. There is no calculating what the
| suffering may be when the whole tide of popu-
latlon pours into town again-without funds,
and 1 fear reduced both in mind and body.
l send you herein a number of the Transcript.
which has not been issued for many days. I
| went MP in the office, and there found Fiske,
| our Mayor, alone at work at the press, and
| throwing the numbers off ss fast as he could.
All his hands are gone. Maupin's Bilisoly's,
and Neville's, are the only groceries OPEN
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