Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1855-09-13
Progress of the Yellow Fever at Norfolk
and Portsmouth.


THE following letters are fearlully conGrmatory
oil the dispatch we published yesterday morning.
The Norfolk boat yesterday morning brugs us
the sad intelligence of the death OF our correSpon-
dent, Richard GatewOod, Esq, and also that
there is no abatement i'll the awful condition of at
fairs that has prevailed for SOME time past in the
cities of Norfolk aud Portsmouth.
The annexed memoranda is from DR.. ]. F.. Pow
ELL the intelligent and gentlemanIy surgeon OF the
steamer GeoTgIa, whose sources of information are
of the very best character.
No Abdtemeu! IN the FeUer or The PGRic-LGrge
Number Of DsaMs-LiSt Of the VicLms-!SmuH
PoT at NorfOLk-Dr. Morris Supposed Sick
The Panic al POrtsmOuth-1he SICK and the
DeGd-FeUer Spreading IN the Adjaeent COun-
ty-SiI Hundred Cases at Portsmouth, sc.
STEAMER GEORGIA, Sept. 9.
regret to inform you that there is no improve
ment 10 report you in the health Of the cities of
Norfolk Und Portsmouth. Disease and death are
everywhere, aud the panic is increasing.
Al Norfolk, on FrIdny, there is stated TO have
been about 40 deaths, aud number of new cases.
On Saturday, up to oclock, there were 20
deaths, q OF which were in the HOSPITALITY
Among the deaths at Norfolk Friday and
Saturday, b. B. Waters, ESQ.,, proprietor Of
the National Hotel; VIM. b. Roberts, Esq, Dele
gate elect TO the Legislature; Richard GatewoOd,
editor OF the Norfolk Beacon, and MlB. Wilson
aud Mr. Solomon, nurses rom Baltimore.
Mr. Jackson student from Washington, is very
Ill. LII. GOOCIiS Ol RlCUiIiOuuB WIS thought 10 DG
dying. Augustus Cook, ESD, the Assistant May
OF, was better.
1t was reported just before the departure Of the
Georgia, that a Baltimore physician at Norfolk
had been taken down with the lever, and as Dr..
John Alorus was the only Baltimore physician OH
duty in Norfolk, it was generally supposed TO be
HIM.
The small pox had also made its appearance in
Norfolk and had the electiol greatly increasing the
panic. There are reported 10 have occurred from
10 to I2cases on Friday and Saturday
At Portsmouth on FfIday and Saturday the pam
&c was greater than ut any time since the COM
Inencementof tile disease. The number of deaths
on Friday was 81, and there were about 50 new
cases reported
Among the deaths are William and Robert Bur
ton; George D. Chambers, sun of Captain Cham
beGs; ". Wallace; child OF ]. f. Hudgea. chiId
of K. T. Scott; Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson and child;
Lewis Crammer; Thomas NountjOy; two children
Of |. d. Cooper; son of Mr.. Pratt; Miss Reed;
Jacob Miller; child Of Mrs. Bohanon; Mrs. IIol-
land; Mrs. Vermhhon; Mr.. James Williams; ohm
LOvett; and Mrs. Morton.
William Collins, Esq, President Of The Sea-
board and Roanoke Railroad Company, and his
brother John Collins, Esq, 1t was thought would
both die on Saturday evening.
Dr. Howell Of Richmond. is dead; DR.. Marshall,
of Baltimore, and DR.. Bryant, of Philadelphia,
reported Saturday 10 be dying, though
second report stated DR.. Bryant to be better-
Henry FrIsby, Superintendent of the Fleury, is
dying; his assistant, William Birmingham, is dead.
Joseph Nlicry, engineer the SeabOuId aud
Roanoke Railroad, is i'll with the fever. Jesse
Lemon is better. There were deaths in Ports
mouth on Saturday TO noon, and in the Hospital.
The fever is lSO reported to be spreading III the
adjacent counties, with considerable fatality.
Dr. Webster, Of Baltimore, IS still working hard
but is nearly hloken down. Dr.. Hodges has lett
Portsmouth for u few days TO recruit. DR.. Pete,
of Portsmouth, is down with the fever.
nf "a SAM oe
mouth informed me that at this time there are 600
cases of fever in the town and at the Naval Hos
pa; and that scarcely family had escaped
without the loss of at least one member. In many
instances entire families had been swept OF, lew
ing none but helpless children, of whom there are
one hundred in the Academy, which is now
being Temporarily used as asylum for the
phanS. Yours, &C., j. +. +.
1t has been stated that several deaths by fever
have occurred in the vicinity of Norfolk. We
have, owever, the best authority for saying that
Tie lever does not st as all epedemc in those
localities, but that the PERSONS who died there colt
lracted the disease at Norfolk and Portsmouth
Our informant believes that the report in relation
10 the existence OF small pox in Norfolk is moor
recti and his beliefs not by any means bas ed up
on mere SuppOSition. We sincerely hope that
our unfortunate neighbors will spared the prev
aIence of this second scourge.-Ep. PATRIOT.
The following letter in relation to the encamp-
ment will be read with interest:
HAMpToN, Sept. S, 1855.
NJ. N. FALLs, Esq.-DEAR SIR.-'lhe tents tor
wsrded from BALTIMORE have arrived, and, under
the superintendent of W. E. Bartlett, J1., Esqr,
ofy0ur CITY Council, assisted by Mrs. Talbot oil the
Baltimore Clipper, Mr., Parks. ofthe Georgia, and
the efficient corps that accompanied these gentle
men, together with our own feeble and, are already
beginning to lift their spires (hope-like) towards
Heaven. We can find no terms in our vucabu-
larry, and no sentiment in our minds sufficiently
expressive. and pToiund, with which 10 mark our
appreciation of what baltimore has done, and is
still DOING III this, the cause Of humanity and of
God. Inspiration itself alone can give utterance
TO that we all feel when we declare of Baltimore,
''AIany daughters have done virtuously, but thou
eTcelleSt them aH.' We would respectfully Sug-
gest that perharS it would be well to send two
hundred single mattresses, to be paid for if used
the portion that may be used-the rest to he re-
turned. We would suggest, respectfully, that a
portion of the provisions which ii may be the pleas
ure of the noble people Of Baltimore TO send down
for the sufferers, be placed Under the control and
direction of this Committee,
You will learn from gentlemen connected with
the boat, that finding Graney Island ineligible IN
consequence Of the shoals which surround it, and
It's nea'ness to Norfolk aud Portsmouth, the Com
mittee have accepted the offer so kindly rendered
by Jos. Segar, Esq, and engaged in lay
ing of the ground, and erecting the tents.
JNo. G. MCCABE.
Ch'mn. Hampton. Norfolk and Portsmouth Com.
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatchl
NORVoLK, Sept. 6.
Eight Hundred Deaths to h4te-One Hundred and
Ihirty FiOe buried By o. Briert s. Quick IN sir
days-Lsttsrs from AJsentees to be opposed.
There have been up 10 this date, from the COM
mencement Of the epidemic, 500 deaths. Obi
en- q Quick buried within the last six days 1885,
Other undertakes have had their share, and the
greatest proportion of deaths have occurred with
IN the past three weeks. Two or three days this
week run up the list fearfully-45 and so burials
in ope day, does not take long 10 amount to hum
dreds.
The Howard Association is constantlyreceiyiug
letters from absentees abroad, requesting the Off
GERS to look after their servants, (the lazy blacks
whom they lett behind,) and see that they do not
suffer for want os provisions, medical attendance,
NC, but not dime do these abSenteeS-many oil
them rich IN this worlds geOds--Send, as ccntri-
button to our afflicted and destitute poor and not
even to pay for the aid they expect from the ASso-
ciatlon, for their negroes, whom they lett at home
h. u