Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-08-29

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The Yellow Fever in Norfolk and Portsmouth.
We regret to learn that the disease is still on the
increase in these devoted Cities The last Peters
burg Express says:
.An accounts received here last evening from
Norfolk agree that the Fever is on the Increase
New cases are occurring hourly, and those already
sick are rapidly failing before the Fell Destroyer
\ ruu,or was current on our streets yesterday af-
ternoon that Hunter Woods, Esq, the worthy and
ndefatgable Mayor of Norfolk had been taken
down with the Fever. We trust 1t may prove In
correct
The number of deaths reported by the Board of
Health for the "a hours ending Thursday, at two
o'clock p NJ, is sixteen.
The intelligence from Portsmouth continues of
the same :aeanchoiy character as heretofore.
That some idea may be formed of the extent of
the disease, append note from John u. Hoila-
day Esq, a member of the Sanitary Committee
He says, under date OF w ednesday, August ~, as
follows:
Supposed to be about 400 cases in town and on the
increase daily. Mortality about double what it
a week since and steadily increasing Yesterday
Il deaths ascertaned up to night, and from that
time to 8 o'clock this morning 10 deaths.
The above includes the sick and the deaths at the
Hospital and is believed to be correct.
On Tuesday last, at the Naval Hospital one of
the women sick of the Fever delivered of child,
as yellow as saffron. The mother died. but the
child is living.
The Richmond Enquirer of Saturday says:
LATEST FROM NORFOLK AND PoRTsMoUTH.-One of
our physicians returned from Norfolk and Ports
mouth last evening He represents the condition
of things in those places truly appalling. He
visited all the Hospitals and numbers of sick with
the physicians. The Howard Association estimate
500 cases of Yellow Fever in Norfolk. The
disease is confined to any locality. The author
tiles have sent the Corporations of Charleston and
Savannah for and regular physicians The
ds:ase is not mongrel, but pure malignant Yellow
Fever Mayor Woods taken down on Thurs
dav night for the first time. He has been the sole
embodiment of the Corporation of Norfolk up to this
time and much depends upon the preservation of
his life.
Miss Andrews "a noble Louisiana lady, though
hai.ng from Syracuse, n W broke down Thurs
dsv, from want of rcpose. She has not the fever.
In PORTSMOUTH only three regular Physicians
main able to do duty. In that town, nurses and
help of every description is needed. Mayor Fish
appeals to all for aSsstance-not so much in money
as tor the necesares of life and individuals help.
The disease is rather OH the increase than other
WISE and considering the small remnant of popula-
ton is terrific in its ravages. One an eUery ten
in Portsmouth is in bed, and large proportion of
the renuining nine convaleScing, worn down,
decrepid women or children who left alone in
the trouble. The panic is subsiding in Portsmouth,
and the noble and devoted souls who bearing
all the labor arc buoyed up with hopes of aid
the subsistence of the epidemic. No one believes
now in the contagiOn of the disease, and volunteers
are coming in slowly but not more than fttieth
OF Suticirncy.
The United States Hospital is full of patients and
is almost a salvation to Portsmouth. The tenn
poray Hospital at Juappi (the Race Course) is full,
and being enlarged daily. The Sisters of Charity
there are always on duty, and the place is deemed
very healthy.
The Curtis Peck, which arrived in Richmond last
evening" brought only 10 OF y passengers from
Norfolk. The Captain of the Peck will be glad to
take free of charge, anything sent to the sufferers.
Articles intended for Portsmouth, should be direct
ed to Mayor Fiske."
DEPARTURE OF PHYSICIANS FOR NoRFoLK.-We
learn that Drs Jas. H. L. Mcdowell, and T. Parke
Howie will leave Richmond to-day for Norfolk and
Portsmouth. These physicians have generously
solved offer their aid to the sufferers of sister
cities during the prevalence of the epidemic. We
wish them God speed in their mission of mercy.
Both we'll skilled in their arduous profession, be-
ing graduates of the University of Pennsylvania
TIE Fund FOR THE YELLow FEVER SUFFERERS.
The contributions in aid of the sufferers at Nor
folk and Portsmouth being sweled to con-
siderab2 amount, but it will all be required, and
rrobab great deal more. The following are the
amounts contributed, near as can be ascertained:
baltimore S1O,278I Norfolk $4,000
New York 5000 Washington 1000
Philadelphia 1000 Lynchburg 1000
Richmond 1000 Pha Navy Yard 200
Petersburg 5000 Charlestown do. 1900
fredericksburg 700 Other sources 1000
Savannah 2,OOOl
Total $48,s78
DEATH is QUIEr.-The Norfolk Argus of Wednes-
day says: yesterday the slow and regular strokes
OF the old clock far up Freemason street, were
distinctly heard at Office not far from the,rver,
and in the very heart of the business part of the city
Inc measured notes sounded strangely and sadly,
and fell upon the like the melancholy toll of
funeral knell. This was well calculated to force
deep sigh from the heart for it was but another
evidence of the work of death that is Going on in
our midst The song of the stevedore is hushed
he hammer of the artisan lies useless upon the
workbench; the and cank of the machinery
arr not heard: the engine fires extinguished;
.e noise and hustle of business have given place
Almost death-like silence in many parts of the city,
hATEsT.-The latest intelligence by the newspa-
pers is up to the night of the 25th. There is no
statement of the fever. Sad to say, the work Of
ueath goes fearfully and increasingly. There
were 900 persons down in Norfolk, and 400 in Ports
mouth Inland the deaths not less than forty per
Jay In the two places.
IL Is reported that Hunter oodis, Esq, Mayor of
Norfolk, is among the dead.