Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-09-03

From the Baltimore Suns correspondence we
condense the following report:
regret TO report the death Of Ignatius Higgins,
teller Of the Bank Of Virginia Of Rev, Mr.. Di-
brelI. of the CRANKY street Methodist Church, and
of r. X. Dove, seaIer of weights and measures.
Mr. Ferret bools-keeper for the Exchange Bank !
VIM. Pannell, discount clerk for the Farmers
Bank; DR.. Hilson, o. w. Edwards, Hugh Rogers,
and many Others Of my friends and acquaintance
are down with the fever. The attack is 80 sudden
that no one can tell for moment whether he may
not be the next victim.
Ricardo, of New Orleans, and his gallant party
OF docttirs and nurses, are doing noble service.
They are an unique organization, and ] cannot
help telling you ofa popularity of Ricardo who,
as you know, is whole-souled Southerner. He
calls his nurses the French artillery" and has
them in as good discipline as you ever saw mill
tary company. They sit together at the hospital
ut the old City HOTEL and the instant he calls for
one, he or she rises and answers, and Immediately
bundles up and travels to the place designated. |
never saw such system. Pity that we had it not
before.
VIVA E. Cunningham, of the Beacon, will get
well, as well as all the rest of the boys and men
connected with that office. Mr.. Gatewood still
keeps up and is as busy as bee. Miss Helen
Wilson, sister, and little Helen, daughter of the
late Mrs. Capt Starke, are very sick Both have
had the black vomit Capt. Gsiy, of the city watch,
who is in the Julappi Hospital, will most probably
die. His disease has assumed the typhoid form.
The City Hotel Hospital is fast filing up. 1t
is the best place for the sick to 60 to, for few
families are left who in condition to take care
of themselves and the attendance there is excel
lent
We have now plenty Of nurses and doctors from
the South, and almost every vehicle in the city is
engaged to carry them about We shall have to
order more horses unless things grow better
The hopes that were cherished a few days since
by every one here that the fever was about to
abate have, am truly sorry to say, proved false
aud delusiye. New cases are occurring here every
moment in the day, and circles and neighborhoods
heretofore exempt from the destructive ravages of
the disease are now being invaded with fearful
violence. No one can accurately estimate or dis
cover, in the confusion Of affairs, the number of
deaths that really occur it is only from the state
ments of the undertakers and from tho imperfect
list kept at the Office of the Howard Association
that a calculation can at all be made; but these
alone furnish detail that must appal the stoutest
heart Three of ourundertakers, Messrs Salisbury,
O'Blian, and Quick, informed me this morning
that they buried forty yesterday; how many more
other persons may have attended to it is impossi-
BILE to say.
The weather appears to favor the progress of
the epidemic. During the night cold, sharp south
wind sweeps over the city; this is succeeded in
the morning by dense, dry, sultry atmosphere,
which is most oppressive to the feelings. The
sun too is very hot during the day, adding not a
little to the general naaiaise of which the citizens
complain. The showers which occasionally visit
us appear freighted with mischief as the disease
always assumes new violence after their occurrence.
Mr. b. Tanner writes to the publishers of the
Herald, that in ls45 he was in Bombay, East In
des-tbat while there the yellow fever ragged with
great violence-that it was proposed to fire off
(every day three times) heavy guns, loaded with
powder only-that the experiment was tried, and
the fever decreased rapidly from that time.
The Sun remarks, editorially
ave learn that Old Point Comfort and the
United States Notifications there have been boxed
to as the most convenient and available spot for
the removal Of the citizens Of Norfolk and Ports
mouth. 1t is reached by water in two or three
hours from Norfolk and Portsmouth, and is there
fore deemed the most accessible location for the
important purpose meditated, provided the sane
ton of the proper authorities could be obtained
One of our regular Washington correspondents, it
will be seen, refers to this subject in connexon
with which, it is suggested that the troops could
be removed to the military stations here and at
the seat of government.
Application, we learn, will probably be made to
the President Secretary Of War to-day in refer
ence to the matter, and in addition, we learn from
OlQ tOlub tOullOib tudt Iitc suluitTy uliu OtHeFS
there are now engaged in the preparation of camp
equipments for the purpose Of removing from
thence at a moment on the receipt Of any order
from Washington. They are getting their tents
in readiness with the view drgiving up the whole
fort enclosure and buildings to the afflicted people
in case they sholld then leave their homes. So
far as the ability to carry out this measure may be
dependent upon pecuniary means, or the want Of
the necessary subsistence and attendance there is
no doubt that they would be furnished in abun-
dance from distant quarters, under the same sys-
TEN Of relief measures which has so generously
and extensively prevailed in own, and in cities
and towns both north and south of US. The re-
moval of the poorer people from the afflicted cities,
(who generally, of course reside in those portions
where the disease Is most likely to abound,) it may
at least be desirable to undertake. If So it j.
hardly to be supposed that any obstacle would b
allowed TO remain in the way of its accomplish
ment"