Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1855-09-01

is not quorum OF directors in either of Ii
the banks /; only two or three Of the city Il
fathers are in the city; preachers look
around their churches in vain for their par
ishioners; newspapers daily accumulate on
lOorsteps.ard on porches for want oil read
,ers; ga Serty stalks abroad with
down 5and fearful eye; the wall Of
the u n of the orphan startles the
solit fsenger, and all is gloom and
griaE most without hope. Never has
M{bE received such visitation before.
Ii 4 nd yet the mortality has not been as
I1eat as IN 1921 and '26, when the yellow
lfI5er was here; noras in 1882, when the
I chelera prevailed among us. Twelve deaths
Sdav are not more than the average now;
twenty-five or thirty were the average were
: the average then. Yet the people then
? pursued their usual avocationS as if there
was no peStilence, and poverty and distress
were relieved by private charity. Now,
: all business is suspended, and but for the
e Howard Association people would starve
h in the streets. Is life more precious now
than formerly, or are men more timid ?
But for the fearless few remaining, whose
hearts are alive to sympathy, and whose
ears are open to the tales OF distress, God
only knows what would become OF the
o poor Among these few, our gallant May
: or occupies the first place. He has been
# here, there, everywhere, busy in the cause
, of suffering humanity. He is heartily and
y most ably assisted by \. Cook and W. H.
Is Garnett. Esq, (the former in the employ
y of the city, the latter OF the Howard AS
sociation, and has the prompt co-opera-
ton of the Association, whose daily in
crease Of funds enables them to afford re-
N left thousands Their orders to the poor
=. for the last two days have called for at
W least $1,000 worth of provisions; $500 a
M day a1ording reieft to thrice as many peo-
t. pie. There will be no falling off to-day,
es either, if may judge from the number
=, who crowd the rooms of the Association,
~ waiting their turn to be saved. l think it
lS will be fair to estimate, that with one halt
or of our white population absent, there are
at least 600 families dependent on charity
rs for their suppoat-(3, 600 people
But you must not suppose they all oh.
OF tain relief without Quid pro qao Fa,
from it. Those who are well and willing
towork are taken by the Association anc
Ter sent out to nurse the sick and assist in car
IN rying outits objHcts in various other ways
<l- the well and unwilling are sent about thei
ILL., business. The consequence is that tn
"a number of nurses is daily increasing, ant
'f' many anunfoltunate has not only been re
W licved by food and ink, butby careful at
fe, tendance. Oar late Mayor Stubs and hi
ho family, all of whom are sick, has bee
a. supplied by the Association with both NAL
lp- and female nurse; and Capt. Guy. Of tn
e. city watoh) and family have the benefit c
ate the attendance of Miss Annie Andrews
'au the yonng lady from Syracuse, n. Y, VIII
0' 50 nobly came to our assistance last weel
NJ and who has been detailed from the hosp
ton pal for that purpose. Many other familit
!, at have been similarly provided for.
to The Potersburgh Erpress on Thursds
and morning publishes letter from a Reve
led. end gentleman of that city:
"I regret to learn that the fever is {
!. the increase among the better class of po
8th ulation. The number Of deaths nor Il
rom number of cases are not so great as ha'
in before seen in proportion to the popul
was ton; but the gloomincss is much more
lgi. The desolation exceeds all | had been i
was to expect even from the melancholy a
counts in the papers. | can only accou
the for it in this way: The yellow fever he
ver- is not an acclimating disease, and the
fore every one is afraid of it. In such
. city as Mobile, there are always a lar
tbs number of persons who had the disea
;va5 and do not fear recErrence-hence, tn
aal is degeee of confidence ard cheerfuln
~ ,n1 felt and ditfused. There, too, they are
Cnl ways supplied with an adequate NUM-
,1or. of nurses who fully understood their
~, siness, while here there is not CoulC
onI few dozen nurses be obtained from Mol
j Of or New Orleans, they would be Of inc
ev- culable service"
,uip- The following letter is from aphysic
at Portsmouth, and represents the con
ty oil ton of affairs there in most appa
love-
.opez manner
ban Portsmouth, Aug. 21.-It is nov
ade a o'clock, P. NJ, and | have just got b
aqua, to my Office, after being incessantly
ment gag ed since 5 o'clock this morning.
have seen and prescribed for one hunt
lavoc patients to day, and every moment
lcara- calls are made upon me, and the most
. rev. gent entreaties used to induce me to ST
from father, MOTHER brother, or other frient
But can go no further | am compile
that exhausted, and must have little res
arice- resume the duties of the morrow, it
;pedi- chance, [ am myself spared in health
y shot am no alarmist, and have no disr
ton to exaggerate, and certainly no '
at the to harrow the feelings of any one by
espe- recital of scenes Of distress; but it w
sicken any one to know what is
transpiring in our town. Whole fam
and'ng are down, without The ability in the II
=, AZ psai hal cases to procure drop of water to
y" Of te ,he their fevcred lips. Alas alas for
us than Portsmouth! Oh! God, how long
soon as | wrote you yesterday a note desi
sicians, for publication, beseeching medical
anu anu ov ] know 1t must require an amount Of
~ JUIl N.Y. y ago possessed by few. to venture
butbe- seemingly into the jaws Of death to
one he cue Others. But is there no devoted
chill or no gallant soul who will say l vii