Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-08-30
The Epidemic at Norfolk and Portsmouth.

The Epidemic at Norfolk and Portsmouth.
Although our latest accounts from Norfolk an
nounce no abatement in the ravages of the cpl.
demic we are rejoced to learn that in Portsmouth,
on Monday, there was considerable decrease both
in number of new cases and deaths.
Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun.
NORFOLK, August 2s.
| write in great haste. Ny time has been SO oc-
cupied to-day and am now so far from the rooms
OF the Howard Association that | could not pos
slbly get there and report the deaths in time for
| the mail.
There is no abatement of the pestilence The
weather however, is turning cooler every moment,
and the indications are Of gale of wind such as
we generally have at this season. God grant it
may prove the means of putting stop to the pes
| thence.
Among the deaths to-day have to announce
that Of Edward Seymour, ESQ.,, distinguished
lawyer of Columbia, South Carolina. He has been
on a visit to his family here for the last two
months, and has fallen victim TO the fever. The
widow and two little daughters of the late Captain
w. L. Stark are very low, and are not expected to
survive through the day. J. II. Rogers is also
very low w. Walters, son of the proprietor OF
the National Hotel, was taken down this morning.
| Elk Mayor Stubs and family are out of danger,
are so are many of those whose names have SO
frequently mentioned in my former letters.
am sorry / cannot give you more particulars
to-day, but if you knew what the few OF US who
are able to work have to do, you would readily ex-
cuse me. Tomorrow / will endeavor to make
amends. X.
Rev. Mr.. Dibbre, the devoted pastor Of the
CRANKY street NJ. Il Church, in Norfolk, is III with
| the fever. He was unccasing in his attentions to
the diseased and suffering.
The Howard Association of Charleston are col
Letting funds for the relief of the Norfolk sufferers.
Drs Huger Whitman, Covert, and Rich having
rendered their services, left Charleston on Monday
for Norfolk, accompanied by eight nurses.
A letter from Norfolk, in the Petersburg Ex-
press, dated the 9th, says.
To record all the sick, dying, and dead through
out the city, were simply matter of impossibilty.
The deaths are not all reported by the Board of
Health, and number at least 20 daily. About 600
persons are sick of the fever. 1t is no uncommon
thing to see two three collins in one hearse, and
not soul but the driver accompanying.
A Portsmouth letter in the Petersburg Express,
written on Monday says:
John L. Porter, assistant constructor in the Cos
port navy yard has been carried to the Naval
Hospital sick of the fever.
| The scourge is said to have broken out on board
the United States frigate St. Lawrence, now
lying at the Naval Anchorage. 1t is reported that
some forty cases have occurred.
AnOtner letter, UdLeu lueSiay, ConurlnS tIic
nouncement that Mayor Fske is down with the
fever. His son and wife have just passed through
the terrible ordeal. The same tier states tat
Mr. John Woodley, a most inestimable young man,
| and nephew of DR.. WIN. Collins, president of the
Seaboard and Roanoke railroad, is down with the
fever. The family of Mrs Robert II. Tatum is also
afflicted with the prevailing epidemic, and two
children of Mr.. Jones Tottendell.
FROM PORTSMOUTH.
n r I,,,, af
Sunday, there were over twenty deaths in Ports
mouth, and for the twenty-four hours ending at
sunset on Monday, only twelve-a very decided
decrease in the mortality. There was a pro-
portionate decrease, it is said, in the number of
new cases. The Portsmouth Transcript, of Tues
day. after referring to the death of l.. w. Bout
well, clerk in the Navy Yard, and nephew of the
late Commodore Warrington, says:
There were eighty cases under treatment at the
Naval Hospital on Monday. The surgeon there
with Drs. Harrison and Steele most attentive
and kind, and have been very successful in the
treatment of those cases which reached them in
time. Many were sent there in dying state, and
past all hope.
Drs Maupn and Trugien are doing well. We
do not know what would have been the extent Of
the mortality and misery had not the council sue
ceeded in obtaining the use of the Hospital in the
present emergency. To the President Of the Uni
ted States, as well as to the able and humane re-
port of Surgeon Whcan, chief of the Medical Blu
reau we are mainly indebted. The commodore of
the yard here, too, has afforded every facility in
supplying the demand for collins, which Mr.
Stoakes could not wholly meet.
Death-death-aud red collins are the sole sub
jects of contemplation and objects of sight at pres
ent in our community.
Our council is without a quorum, and those of
them who remained, co-operated with by few
citizens have undertaken the management of af-
fairs The wants of the needy are supplied and
the sick and dying attended 10 as well as our dis
tressng position and circumstances allow.
Our Mayor is now confined to his bed with the
prevailing epidemic.