Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-09-05

The Epidemic in Norfolk and Portsmouth.
Appalling, indeed, are the accounts from
the Inflated cities of Norfolk and Ports
mouth. A more gloomy picture has never
been presented to the eye nor contemplated
by the mind, than that caused by the scourse
among our countrymen at those places! Up
wards Of fifty deaths per diem at Norfolk, and
about thirty in Portsmouth-seventy human
beings swept from the stage of action every
twenty-four hours and that, too, out of so
small population as is now left 1t really
seems as if the entire depopulation of our sis.
ter cities is inevitable.
The following deaths have not been before
reported:
Mrs. Church, (died at Hampton,) Parker
Sharpley, James NJ. Brooks, DR.. G. j. Halson,
Miss Sarah Freeman, Master Lepage, Miss II.
Wilson, VIM. IL Garnett, VIM Sylvester, Ed
ward DAILY and wife, VIM. Balance, VIM.
Wright, j. w. Harwood, f. Fitzgerald, Mr.
korneman, Mrs Benson, Mr.. Ryston, Evelina
Fitzhugh, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. Beveridge, Miss
Parks, Mr. Keelman, Miss Partridge, Nancy,
at Mrs. Humphreys; John Delany, Eliza
Jackson, Mrs. Bennett, w. r. Todd, Sophia
Z. Hutchings, Washington city; James E.
Kilgrove. Miss Della Erickson, John Erickson,
Mrs. Saunders, VIM. X. Storrs.
DR.. Jones, of Baltimore, who has just re.
turned from Norfolk and Port mouth, reports
the distress in those places to be beyond all
DC ,ription. On Sunday, in MOI olk, there
we're forty dead bodies without cofins or any
one to bury them. The number of deaths in
Norfolk on Saturday, he states, was ffSy-five !;
on Sunday sixty, and on Monday ftty-four
and cases of the fever; and in Portsmouth
about four hundred. The doctor thinks the
disease will continue as long as there is an in
dividual in the place for it to attack.
Martial law is about 10 be established in
Norfolk, and the carriages and horses in the
city levied on, for the use Of the physicians
and sick, wherever foundry order of the
Acting Mayor. 1t is also proposed to force the
blacks who are able, but mnaoiLting, to acs as
purses to the sick. Something of this kind
must be done, or numbers of neglected and
forsaken fever struck patients must perish,
solely from want of common attention.
A letter from Portsmouth mentions, among
others down with the fever, Mrs. VIM. B. COL
Inns, five children, and three ssrvants-the
only we'll member Of the family is Mr.. Collins,
who had the disease several VIC cks since. One
Of the children "a young many has been sent
to the Hospital.
Correspondence Of the Evening Start
PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 3, 1855.
There is no abatement of the fever at this
place 1t seems to be on the iacreags, and IS
not confined to any particular locality, but has
spread over the whole town, taking dow Il all
classes and condition of peonIe
The weather for the last few days has been
extremely hot.
The following are the names of the dead, so
far ss can be ascertained, for the period ex-
extending from Saturday night to two o'clock
to-day: VIM. Fay, Mrs. n. Z. Cock, living at
Jas: Totterdell's; daughter of tho late Nor
ris b. Langhorn, Miss Sophia Bingey, daugh-
ter of VIM. B. Bingey; jesse Oakley, Patrick
O'Donnell, Mrs. Kelly, Mrs. Macklin, Miss
Finley, Miss Rosetta Tatem, Jas. Mullen, Mrs
Cherry, Mrs. DaIden, Misses Laura and Fam
ny Williams, (aId another daughter dying y
daughters Of the late Patrick Williams; VIM
Ford; son, aged l3, of DR.. Minor, surgeon
at the U. S. Naval Hospital, land daughters
ill., Mrs. Samuel Bains, Col Chas Cassell
Mrs, Charles Billisoly, Mrs John Lash, (Mr.
Lash is absent at the NoIsh y Miss Cecilia
Chic; daughter of Mrs Jas. L. Wilson VIM.
Weston, child Of George THOMPSON; Capt
Allen, Of the Seaboard Railroad, and Mrs.
John d. Cooper.
The following are down with the fever ::
Richard and Caroline Williams (dying,) chill
dren Of the late Patrick Williams; Mrs.
Haynes, sister of Col Cross young Mrs Co.
vert; John French, conductor on the railroad,
Yves taken with fever this morning whilst on
the train and was left at the water station four
miles from Suffolk, and was carried to the
hospital by the return train William Maui
pin, Robert Ballentine, Mrs. VIM. 3 Collins
and daughter, Mrs Emma Boutwell, Mayor
FlSke is very i'll; young Ashton, Of the Post
Office, was sent to the hospital this morning.
There has been forty nine deaths since sun
Gown on Saturday to II o'clock to day, and it
is feared that the mortality will be greater to-
day than on any previous one.
1t is with feelings of the deepest sorrow that
L have to announce the death of John Wood
Icy on Saturday evening last. He was twenty
three years Of age. His gentle, affectioDate
and Obliging disposition won the esteem of all.
lie has left many friends and relatives to
mourn bis sad fate.
Our talented and skillful young physician,
james G. Hodges, having been so completely
worn down by excess of labor, has been COM
PEELED to go in the country for the benefit of
las health. lie has nobly done his duty during
these fearful times. In a few days he will re-
turn to the scene of his former labor. He has
attended over three hundred and fifty patients
w. 3. G.
A correspondent of the Petersburg Express
writes as follows concerning the contributions
raised for the yellow fever sufferers at Norfolk
and Portsmouth. His letter is dated the LIST
instant, and written at Portsmouth:
SIN the way of contributions, though our
people are moro necessitous, and our suffering
more universal, am afraid that we have not
received the proportion of the money raised
for cur relief which the contributors intended
Our town is too much blended with Norfolk,
aud many suppose that when contributions are
ent to Norfolk, the people of Portsmouth are
heneited by them. Now, this is not the case,
ualess special instructions are given that we
are to have proportionate share.
''lt is desirable to have it understood that
Norfolk and Portsmouth are two separate and
distinct places; and that when subscriptions
for the relief of the yellow fever sufferers are
made, that the subscribers should designate
how much is to 60 to Norfolk, and how much
to Portsmouth and Gosport (the two latter are
under one and the same municipal govern
ment) We need all the help that will be sent
to us.