The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-08-24

Chubb brothers, Of Wellington, Of $3.50 Of which
amount S25 were deposited by Kunke's opera troupe
49, 80 by The Comptrollers once and si2s so by the
Navy Department, CLERKS aud beads Of bureaux From
RarEum & Co., OF baltimore 5000
such practical and substantial sympathy and Renerosi
ty delightful to contemplate and 1t cheers like
beautiful star OF hope and brightness beaming down
through the sobre cloud OF gloom that angry lowers
over our recently active, healthy and happy but now
There win be want of money and provisions though
there is deporabe deficiency OF and attendants
which money cannot always procure Of sickness
s sometimes left unattended to in due tme for the want
Of messenger to go for physician or procure medicine
hence It il liable to be neglected till II is too late
Our townsman, Mr.. George Staylor, in Baltimore,
hearing Of lamentabe situation writes to friend OF
his in this city: BE kind enough to subscribe SIS for the
benefit Of the suffering poor OF our city, which will pay
you my arrival"
THE BAirMoRE STEAM PACKET CoxPASy.-It will be graft
flying to citizens to know that the Baltimore Steam
boat Company promise TO their boats regularly TO
bring provisions and such merchandise merchants
require They will bring all goods for the Howard Asso
ciaon free of Their donation to the association
was $780, and the individual members Of the company
contributed $500 Such hberality is truly adnira-
BILE
The PANIC AND FIIcHr.-Thc appearance of our city is
really gloomy Most of the stores closed and the
streets almost deserted Nearly half the white popu-
folk has passed through from 1893 TO the time
have nothing to equal it, The writer Of this re-
years ,es go 1900 and 1901 when Norfolk always had
transient population of 500 900 composed ofemgrant
ships and strangers connected with the connerce
Of the port, and when it was no unusual thng 10 see
thirty to forty buried in day There was not store
closed on account of the fever in either OF those years.
The merchants did not halt moment IN the regular rou
tine of their business and the citizens never thought for
a Of moving out OF town or out oil the injected
district 1he old residents had their bilious and inter-
mttent vers from which they seldom failed to recover,
and the mortality chiefly among strangers and those
not accnnaed These were really goa-head times and
men did not allow yellow Jack TO interfere with their
business pleasures. How things have changed Now,
with mortality the highest range of which has not OK
e,eed twelve deaths in Day in population opaaaon ao md ing
alarm is great that half OF the white Inhabitants have
left the town.
night the lighter used for the purpose of transporting
the sick from the city TO the hospital at amberts Point
broke from the wharf and drifted down the river
The accident discovered by persons the United
States ship st. Lawrence, and boat was Immediately
manned and put Of to the rescue, under the command
OF Lieutenant Maury, by which means the lighter
recovered and securely fastened and the city saved
good deal OF inconvenience.
SAD srEcrAeLE.-The plague boat "a barge which the
authorities have fitted to convey the sick to the tenn
poray hospital at the course lies in slip close to
our vessel and yesterday crossed the dock to take
on the bottom Of the boat and awning is spread
all in the boat were two men, three boys between the
ages Of eight and ten, little girl about four years Old,
and empty coffin. Two OF the boys were orphans;
their father died the day before and their mother that
morning The little girl sat beside one OF the men, who
probably her father. As he rollsd and tossed with
the fever his hat was displaced she picked it up and
endcayorcd to replace it, but he seemed Of
her attentions Once he opened his eyes and gazed
Clny az me, urn coSeu heh as II the eHorJ was pam
full The little girl sat there unconscious of danger
and death that felt il she SAFE Her innocent
guieless counenance seemed in pleasant contrast the
sad md anxious faces meet AT every turn loft specu-
ating on her probable history Doubtless her mother is
dead and her father dying; will she look back in after
years to wish that she had died in that hour rather to
bless the God of the Enthusiastically from Norfolk.
letter from Portsmouth speaking Of visit to the
Transcript printing Office, says
81 went up in the office, and there found Fiskc
Mayor, alone at work at the press, and throwing the
numbers of as fast as he could All his hands gone
Maupins, Blsos and Neville's the only groceries
open. We advise you, BY all means, not to return
hereo
The Richmond Dispatch learns that Mr. stephen James,
old citizen OF Portsmouth, buried Saturday
Two OF his daughters were i'll with the fever.
Among the dead at Norfolk said to be Miss Chris
tian, u. f. keclng's child George Summers child and
two coorcd servants at kane's Hotel.
AT fredericksburg 5000 have been contributed for
the sufferers; $50 at the Red Sweet Springs and $40
by few citizens Of Petersburg at the Allegheny (va
Springs