Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-09-15


heart to enquire the sad particulars.
=. Nothing is obtained from Norfolk, except that
SIX physicians from the North have died. Their
names could not be ascertained.
In Portsmouth yesterday, the deaths numbered
seventeen.
Robert T. Scott, Esq, a member of the Council,
and Keeper of the public Provision Store, died on
Sunday night last.
Avery W. Williams, the nineteenth member of
the Williams family that has fallen in the prevail
ing epidemic, died last night.
The Rev. Vernon Eskridge Chaplain in the Ma
w, and formerly member of the Virginia Metho-
dist Conference, is extremely i'll.
No new in Suffolk
Especial DESPATCH
zAirty-secen deaths in Norfolk on Monaay-Names
Of the Dead.
RICHMOND, Sept. II. 1O4 M.
From the most reliable sources and not without
some difficulty, have obtained the following list
OF deaths, that occurred in Norfolk on yesterday:
Theodore Cunningham, Clerk in the Farmers
Bank
VIM. Moore, son of Horatio Moore Esq.
Ambrose Dorney, Esq, member of the Howard
Association
At the City Cor Woods) Hospital the following
persons died yesterday:
E j. Mallory, John Cranberry. Mrs. Alice Nor
ris, John Keys, Joseph White Thomas Briggs and
Mary Little
The number of deaths amounted to 81 on yester-
day, but the above all the names could obtain
Henry Myers, of Richmond, is down with the Fe-
yer at the City Hospital in Norfolk.
The Rev. Thomas Hume, of the Baptist Church
at Portsmouth, is here, endeavoring to effect some
arrangement by which the poor little orphan chill
dren in Portsmouth be transferred to this city
until after the epidemic shall have ceased which is
now raging.
The Weldoa correspondent of the Petersburg
Democrat under date Sept. II, says:
'The peculiar fly that has infested the infected
cities curing the prevalence of the fever, and of
which have made arrangements to send you spe-
cimens Tomorrow is said to be yng off rapidly in
Norfolk. They have got high up the road as
Boykn's Depot, AMI it is said appear in large num-
bers in Suffolk.
Whether their death in Norfolk may be regarded
favorable omen or not, cannot determine, but
it is hoped that the fever has we'll nigh spent itself,
though there no signs of abatement yet, on the
contrary, according to the population, it is raging
with more violence than ever. Where, when, and
how it will stop, the future only show. No
believes that one frost will aay it-a dozen, and
they be heavy too, will be necessary and from
present indications, many weeks will eapse before
they appear.
In the meantime who estimate the amount of
suffering that will be experienced in Norfolk and
Portsmouth? The cry now is not God help the
poor" but God help all, and especially the widows
and orphans.
The family of the lanented DIR. Collins pa ssed
through this place going South to-day.-They will
return soon, and pass through your city route
for Baltimore. They are deeply distressed and
much sympathy is felt for them.
Rev. Thomas Hume goes to-day by the ? o'clock
train to Richmond on behalf of the sufferers. He
has had the fever and recovered.
You will hardly receive letters from Portsmouth,
and fear too, will be disappointed in getting them
from Norfolk as Capt. Corbett Informs there is
no one at Portsmouth to receive and attend to the
mails, and it is quite possible the. mail train will
stop running for while.
P. S.-Sincc writing the foregoing have learn
ed there We're 25 deaths in Portsmouth during the
twenty four hours ending sunrise this morning, and
great many new cases.-Thirty deaths We're re-
ported in Norfolk for the same time, and the fever
on the increase.
Among the deaths were Mrs B. B. Walters (whose
husband died lately0 Rev. Vernon Eskrdge, Mr..
Velmlion, heretofore reported sick, and Mr.. II.
Ferebe the superintendent of the county ferry.
The disease is becoming more and more fatal, and
still spreading. Where will it spread to? Soon
every person living staying in Norfolk Ports
mouth Will have had it. We must wait and