Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-09-04

Il am deeply palneu 10 uuu 70 the nst OF new
cases the name OF our mutual friend, Mr.. James
H. Finch, Of the Norfolk Argus He has labosed
night and day for several days past, in order that
one paper nc least should be published In the city
But alas! he has been compelled 10 yield to the
memorable demand Of the fell destroyer. He has
the fearful voD,iio.
In Portsmouth the fever still RACES fearfully, and
the mortality seems to be increasing During Sat
urday there were eighteen deaths, and flom sunset
Saturday evening TO sunrise yesterday morning
there was an order for fifteen cofins-thus MAX
ing thirty-three deaths in about twenty-four hours
Captain Selden w. p. Allen, reported better on
Saturday morning, is decidedly worse, the fearful
"vonlito" having made its appearance during Sat
urday night.
Young John Woodley, clerk at the depot in
Portsmouth, and nephew of DR.. VIM. Collins,
President of the Seaboard Road, died Saturday.
John Andrews, member of the Norfolk Blues,
also died on Saturday.
The gallant Daniel j. Ricardo, now at Norfolk,
has telegraphed to New Orleans for twenty more
nurses. Fever in Norfolk beggars all description.
despatch dated Richmond on Saturday says :
"Wm. @. Shields, Esq, founder and for many
years editor and proprietor of the Norfolk Courier,
and VIM. b. Cain, Esq, proprietor Of Gains Hotel,
Union street, Norfolk, both died here last night of
yellow fever. The disease was undoubtedly con-
tracted in Norfolk, although both Of deceased had
been here for several days."
The Richmond Dispatch says OF Mr.. Shields
" The greater portion of his life he was con-
nected with the press. With the late Leroy An
derson, he founded the old Richmond Compiler
in 1906. When it passed into other hands he re-
moved to Norfolk, and established the Beacon Of
that place, which he, with others, conducted for
many years. He was webred and intelligent
gentleman, of exceedingly sociable, kind, and be-
neyolent ispostion-aways enjoying the respect
and cordial good will of all who knew him."
Norfolk letter in the Express says orders have
been sent to both Baltimore and Richmond for
large number Of collins. The same letter, in men
tioning the deaths of Miss Laura Mallory and her
sister, two accomplished young ladies' says they
died within five minutes of each other, and adds:
They were in Hampton when the fever first
broke out, on visit to relative and enjoying
every comfort and blessing which this world can
afford and gentleman of this city informs us
that as soon as the tidiDgs reached them that the
fever had made its appearance in Norfolk, and
they reflected that fond father and mother were
there, they Immediately decided that under the
paternal roof was their place when danger threat
ened, and the next morning they embarked on the
steamer for home The result of their return is
that both are dead"
Another Norfolk letter in the Express, speaking
of the death of Mrs. Walter F. Jones, says:
"She was the widow of Walter f. Jones, de-
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ther Of Passed Mdshipman Walter f. Jones, Jr.,
who died at the Naval Hospital few days since.
She had seen her son, in the very bloom of man
hood and with bright hopes before him, suddenly
stricken down with the fever and aftera desperate
struggle of but few days DURATION laid low in the
cold embrace of death. Next she was called to the
bedside of her sister, Mrs. Joseph H. Robertson,
who was the wife of Joseph H. Robertson, ESQ.,,
one of our most prominent and justly distinguished
n siaf 70 Ioua and
ton she stood at the bedside of her relative and
minstered to her wants through several long days
and tedious nights
"Death at last came to the relief of the fever
scorched patient, and Mrs. Jones was called upon
to mourn the loss of sister well as son. With
heart well-nigh crushed out with grief, at the
earnest entreaties of friends, she made prepaia-
tons for a Northern tour, and was on her way TO
the steamers wharf, when the unmistakable chill
made It's appearance, and the fever claimed her as
its victim. She returned to her home, and was
stretched upon a couch of pain, from which she
never moved until her lifeless form was placed in
the narrow coffin, and carried to the now rapidly
filling cemetery. There at one fell swoop, de-
voted son, affectionate mother and beloved sister,
all swallowed up in DEATH"
The Richmond Dispatch of yesterday says:
The Augusta on Saturday evening brought up
several persons who had gone down TO tend the
sick, some of them having yielded to the earnest
advice of physicians, who assured them that to
remain was almost certain death.
Our informant, who left Norfolk Saturday, says
that the state of things there Is truly appalling.
While walking one Of tie principal streets, he
saw man lying on cellar cap, in almost the
agony Of death, with no one in sight Of him. A
little further on he saw young child rush scream
ing from house, and upon going in, found that
one of her parents had just died, and the other
was lying on a bed Of death.
Mr. John Brooks, grocer, was down with the
fever. On Beaver street there are a great many
cases, among them VIM. Britzel and his wife.
Four Of Lieutenant Whites children are down
with the epidemic.
DR.. Hardgrove, DR.. Crow, and Walter Scott, Of
Richmond, all down, and the latter is very i'll.
Two Philadelphia physicians are reported TO
have died.
Among the nurses sick are one Of the Sisters Of
Charity, (Sister Mary Ann,) who was taken sick at
Julappi hospital DR.. Quigenfusse, Of Philadelphia,
DR.. Baerd, of New Orleans, Mr. Jordan (confec.
TONER and his mother, on Main street
Rev. Joseph Ashwanden, Catholic minister, from
Georgetown College, has been carried to the hos
pitAl.
DR.. Leon Gelhardt, Of Richmond, arrived in Pc
tersburg yesterday evening from Portsmouth, COM
pletely exhausted. He says he has not now and
has not had the fever. He was Stunned at the de-
put as " nc nhu DetH " VIII Deatt. ne tOOk iOuB-
ings in the town, and was Hospitality cared for.
Yesterday afternoon as we learn, n schooner
rived at the quarantine ground below Rockets,
having on board the body Of yellow fever VIC
tim, the captain wishing 70 get coffin and have
the body buried. The health officer very promptly
ordered the vessel OF, and did not allow the body
TO be landed.
We have received from Mr.. Samuel Carusi, Of
this city, bottle Of Doctor AWAITS Italian Pana-
cea, cure for cholera morbus, infantum, bilious
fever, jsundice, and so forth. Price, so cents per
bottle. Not being able to induce any Of our com
postors to taste Of this medicine, we have oursef
tried il, and are sstonshed to find that its propr-
etor has omitted one Of It's manifold virtues, and
the strongest one at that. We mean its emetic
power; but, batting the fact that cannot retain
Il more than three minutes Il is an excellent med
icine
KILLED AND WoUSDEp-The following table
exhibits the loss 10 killed and wounded by the late