New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-09-13
DAILY CRESCE Mt.
The Fever at No.folk and por,. mouth.

The Contributions from Philadelphia M to the
Sch had reached $l4 COO, and many pbysiciaps
and nurses had arrived from Mobile and New
. Orleans The Argus says, in regard to the pro-
posed removal OF The popuiation
. It will be seen by sever4l communications
which we publish to day, that there is an in-
tense desire ON abe part of benevolent friends
abroad 10 remove us bodily from shir dire home
Of pestlience. Would that il eould be done with
Convenience, But we FEAR that there are TOO
many sick amorg us, and too many difficulties
IN the way, for the scheme to he practicable
The Washington Evening News of the 9th
| states that information had teen received that
the relief committee would renew the arpiica-
tion to the Presdelt for the use of Old Point
| Comfort, IS a refuge fer the people in Nor
folk and Portsmouth Mr. Falls, the Presiden b
! If Bay Steamboat Line, having offered to fur
nish, at twelve hours notice, the transportation
that may be necessary for the removal OF The
entire population now at the Point, some fifteen
hundred souls.
4 The President presented the committee on
theif departure with a second cou n batiou from
himself and Cabinet Of 1926 for the sufferers
/ From the latest correspondence of the hich-
mohd' 'Charieston and Petersburg psptrs, We clip
/ the folioaing paragraphs -
Mr.. Frauklin H. Clack, of New Orleans, has
been appointed Chief of Police II Norfolk. with
4 pretty strong au hority: TLfs is done TO tro-
| mote order and secure The pronpr burial OF The
dead. The Mayor deiegates 10 him the "a nls
power that he himself has over the police separt-
meDt.
ltis unfortunate that the Board of Health se-
fected the City Hotel as a hospital 1t is Ia. one
| Of the most infected districts in town Thirty
have died there within twenty fur hours and
none that we Rnow al have been al all benefited
| by the change to their new quarters
Nothing whatever can be said arainst the
treatment Of the sick or of their attentive uurs-
ing; all that can be done in this reApeet,s ~ kindly
| and faithfully performed by the Ihyri ians and
nurses in attendance--but all appears 10 be Of
iiule avail.
The gathering at the Post. flee (the great
point OF attraction) has dsindled dow a to a mere
handful
The whole of the Ericsson family, five in num-
fer, residing on Talbot street, have died with
the fever.
Christ Church Lecture Room has been se-
lecled as house Of refuge for children, made
orphans by the prevailing epidenrc. We
stepped in there this morning, and found about
dozen of the little bereaved innocenfs com
iortaby provided for, and well attended to-
y. D. Marks. Of New Orleans, lately appoint
ed Superintendent of the City Hotel Hospital,
was arrested last night and lodged in Jail,
unfortunate Miss Lewis. dsoghter of Thomas
Lewis, deceased, of about 5000 worth of Jew
elry, while the poor young lady lay dying with
fever!
We notice with some interest the arrival last
evening OF loo c. fins from Richmond, Is from
Petersburg. and AZ from HAMPTON About $50
more from Bahimore expected to day.
One day last week there fifty eight
deaths the next tOri y nine -and that is AWFUL
out Of 1000. Ii the mortality was as great
IN charleston IN proportion 70 Population, it
would he about 400 q y. What do lou link
OF that! We are now putting two hod,es in ore
box-cofins not 10 be had. An old man 1old
NE he had turied his last ehila in a SOAP 6or,
ss be could not get q fiji. One body VAS
lying in house eight days tefore II wss bnritd
store was smell ug very badly and they broke
it open, aud found dead body. You eaBnor
walk the streets without smelling tie dtcolupo-
sing bodies. Persons have shut themselves up,
and are taken sick and die without any one
Knowing it, until they smell SO bad as o cause
the house to be broken open. We have been
burning tar in the hospital yard The negtoe6
are not exempt from it here at all We havs
over ~ cases-there are between 50 nud SO
cases IN the house now. We lose from 10 To 10
a day. Such sights j saw tefure now
there is a body lying in the yard sll night in
The rain, and they are about bringing Two
more 10 put there with the Others We have
nolaatern TO take cut 10 the yard, so we will be
have just tied down man, and they are
It, ing down another. The screams here are per-
fectiy awful.
The hearses not being sufficient to carry out
the esihns FOR interment, recourse is had TO
carts and wagons, and in several instances We
have seen the uismai shells OF mortality pro-
truding far out from the front OF a cart, with
the driver sitting besides it with perfect nom
ehaance, cracking his whip and pulling away
at an ahounabie cheroot "How use doth
breed a ha bit in man .
The negroes bold divine service in their dif-
ferent churches every DAY, and ineessant pray
ing and singing may be heard from morning TN
night.
The whole week seems one continued Sunday
and ones brain is crazed by The upsetting of
the regular routine of former every day lite We
seem to be in different world, with nothing
do but to walk about with ones hands iii ones
pockets and see bur,als hurialsi
A remarkable circumstance connected with
the epidemic is, that not bird Is TO he
within the limits of the city, and has not siiee
the fever became general. Whether this is
owing to the poisonous density of the mos
phere that keeps them away, or from what
dther cause, we are not abe to say, not being
philosophers or ornithologists enough to solve
the phenomenon.
The poor pigeons have ceased their s soaring
flight" and perch themselves on their houses
with dropping head and wing, the very picture
Of despair, and, as Alexander Selkirk would
say, ''shockingly tame"
The cows, IN despite of The city ordinance,
wander about the city seemingly in search of
lost mates, making the welkln echo win their
melancholy lowing; while gangs of half fam
isheu dogs take possession OF the streets after
nightfa,l and render night hldeous " by their
incessant yelping and howlipg! Truly, the
very acme of distress and desolation has fallen
upon poor Norfolk
The Dumber of new oases has slightly dimin-
ished, but the deaths have iner ased aHtuiiy!
In the City Hotel Hospital, FROM yesterday
deaths! .45s5-5l-:-5s
The FEVER IN MsssslprE--we copy the fol-
lowing from the Jackson Mississippian, Of Fri
day, the 7th instant:
Health of Jackson -Up to The present writ