The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-10-17
From Norfolk and Portsmouth -The Epidemic
n Nearly Over

From Norfolk and Portsmouth---The Epidemic
4 Nearly Over
The Norfolk correspondent ofthe Baltimore
Sun confirms the intelligence that the pestl-
lence is leaving the infected cities He writes
as follows: HSs 4s heFE s4@s 1e
The great conflict with the monster malady
is nearly over, and those who retreated may
soon return, as they are anxious to do, TO the
battlefield; but the dead are removed andi
buried and the wounded are recovering. The
proud and powerful monarch, death, who held
sway here so long; asynearly finished his fear
full work upon friends and foes, good and bad,
great and SMALL treadihg down all alike, res
CARELESS of station or influence The dim
lights that burned in five hundred infected
chambers, no longer give forth through the
halfclosed. windows, their sckly, melancholy
/ glare upon the few. that yentured out upon the
deserted streets by night fs1
i The people now seem relieved; their counte-
nances give evidence that great burden has
been measurably removed; that the good angel
of hope has taken the place Of the dread angel
of death, and gives joy to the hearts thatshave
, known only sadness and sorrow for dreary
months that have passed. s- -
The fight Of souls immortal, at the rate OF
five hundred per week from the afflicted cities
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and the deserted streets, stores dwellings and
public buildings will, ere long, present scenes
of life and animation, social greetings and ac-
tive business. The proud and noble ocean
: ships that have left our deep waters will come
Z into our capacious harbor again; the gay
steamers that are gone will return and appear
r with their human freight, all anxious and ac-
4 tive with life and hope; and merchant vessels
> will crowd our docks and wharyes, now rem
: dered silent and vacant by the fearful work OF
death that has oppressed and afflicted u.s.
But the recolleetions of the scenes of suffer
ings and woe that have been witnessed here
will remain for months and years, and deep
grief will sadden and weigh down many a
heart, for many of the loved and the loving,
the undetermined, the beautiful that were here
are. gone, to return no more. A long night OF
sorrow viii be the portion of manya true
i soul. But Father Time will work mighty
change and azure in many a bleeding heart.
- There have been but three or four burials
to-day. No prominent citizen has died since
Wednesday, and / hope to be able to inform
/, lyou in a few days that the fearful scourge has
q passed by and gone entirely from among use
: and may it never return hither again-neyerl
or The following card explains the reason
why the Canada's market news was Withheld.
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We re-publish it as the Withholding of these
dispatches occasioned serious charge against
2 the whole conduct of the Eastern Telegraph
: lines:
s5sf Ls CINo1NNATI, Oct. L. /,
n To THE EDrroR OF THE DAILY TIMES: am
{. lust advised by Mr.. Craig the agent of the as
ISOLATED press in New York city, that it-was
s no part of his intention to suppress the publ
o cation of the Canada's news in this city, the
d morning of the 10th inst, and that the error
larose from addressing amessage to myself, and
:, the agent in Louisville intended for the re-
: lporters on the Lake Shore only.
III The following are the facts in the case
A About nine O'Clock, P NJ, on the evening o
At the 9th inst, I received brief dispatch from
cc56pIeuH Iaefk ratl6 hv the Canada which
Ct the same evening, received its duplicate by
al the Union Line, with strict Injunction not t.
% allow syllable to transpire till the next day
land notice that further news would be sent
d s The additional dispatch not coming, / con.
lcluded that the Halifax line was interrupted
L and that second dispatch was wanted to cor
IS roborate the first: therefore, requested thu
10 suppression of what had been received, no
Is being willing to- publish anything not per
= fectly authentic. Il
T. Itnow appears that some of the reporter.
sr between Buffalo and Chicago have been in The
er habit of making the news public, by posting
n on,a bulletin board, and otherwise prior t.
i publications; and the strong phrase that s'tht
: news must be kept strictly private until thu
u next day,"4was intended only for those per
!, sons. s, So ~ SIS
II The sending it here, where it was inapplica
oil Bile, and could only be construed to mean, tc
. repress the news for reasons not given, was al
- inadvertance of the Eastern Reporters.
lg l have the best assurances that nothing O.
of the kind shall occur again, and hope you are
convinced that there was not, anywhere any
intentional wrong. GEO. B.. HICKS,
:, Agent of New York Associated Press