The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-09-18


expenses each day amount to the large sum of $500
do not include in this the burying Of the dead
this viii have to be paid hereafter.
A letter to the Petersburg Express gives the
following description of disappearance OF Nor
folk and its inhabitants:
NORFOLK, Sept. 4, s P. NJ.
Dear Erpress:-A melancholy interest is attach
ed to the early fate OF the two Misses Laura and
Martha Mallory, whose deaths were reported yes
terday. Both were taken down at the same time,
both died within few minutes Of each other, and
both were buried together in the same rude box,
"a poor apology of a cofn) hastily constructed for
the purpose, out of rough common pine They
we're oil highly respectable family, two amable
young ladies', sisters, and members OF Christs
Church. "lhey were lovely in life, and In their
deaths they were not divided"
The hearses not being sufficient TO carry out the
collins for interment, recourse is had TO carts and
wagons, and in several instances we have seen the
dismal shells OF mortality, protrudng far out from
the front of cart while the driver sitting beside
it with perfect nonchalance cracking his WHIP ana
pulling away at an abominable cherooti no"
use doth breed habit in man."
The negroes hold Divine Service in their dIherent
Churches every day, and an incessant praying anu
singing may be heard from morning TIL night
The whole week seems one continued sunday
and ones brain is crazed by the upsettlag OF the
regular routine of the former every day lie. we
seem to be in different world, with nothing to do
but to walk about with ones hands in ones pockets
and see burias hurials II
A remarkable circumstance connected with the
epidemic is, that not BIRD is to be seen within the
limits of the city, and has not since the fever be-
came general. Wether this is owing TO the poison
Gus density of the atmosphere that keeps them
away, or from what other causes we are not able to
say being philosophers or ornithologsts hgnoen
to solve the phenomenon.
The moor pi2 cons have ceased their "soaring
hight,n and perch themselves on their houses with
dropping head and wing, the very picture OF des-
pair, and as Alexander Selkirk would say, 'shock-
ingly tame"
The cows, in despite of the city ordinance, wan
der about the city seemingly in search OF lost Mates
making the weIkin echo with their melancholy
lowing; while gangs of hslf-starved dogs take pos
session of the streets after nightall, and render
"night hideons," by their incessant yeping and
howlngi Truly, the very acme of distress and
desolation has fallen upon poor Norfolk
The Commandant of the Navy Yard has ordered
all the carpenters in the yard to work. making boxes
and coffins for our numerous unburied dead. Many
have been laying in their houses two days, rottng
and purifying, for the want Of even common boxes
to bury them inl Applications for collins at the
Howard Association are numerous and pressing as
applicants for Office at Washington. Truly, sad
state of affairs
a correspondent of the Baltimore american
writes from Norfolk under date of the 9th
The demand for cofins at the depot of the How
ard Association is the best criterion Of the extent
of the mortality. and two or three may be seen
there at all hours of the day, measuring and pick
ing out such will suit the tenants they have ready
to occupy them. Large as the supply Of collins
has been from Baltimore and Richmond, it has
scarcely equalei the demand, which is ineessant at
all times frequently exhausting the supply.
We are still ia want of collins and the very ne
cessaries of life. Our negroes spend their time in
the churches, the bakers have all run away, or are
dead, and there is great difficulty, even with those
who have the money 70 pay for it, to obtain bread
The physicians are by no means able to protect
themselves from the fever. Almost every hour we
hear of some of those here being attacked with it,
and already goodly number of them are among
Cdr citizens in the graveyard.
saw a start off for Baltimore on Monday
evening, carrying in his arms little girl about two
years of age, being all that left him out OF a
family consisting of wife, mother, sister and five
children.
One letter states that sowing TO the imposs
Utility of obtaining collins and having graves
dug, it is contemplated to dig large trenches in
which to bury the bodies. This is the only
alternative left, as the infection must spread
to much more fearful extent, if they are suf-
fered to remain in our midst"
Orders have been received from the Cover
nor to dismiss from the Jail all committed for
minor offences, including a party of sailors
charged with mutiny, who are now rendering
efficient service at the hospital.
The project of removing the entire popula-
ton is seriously entertained and discussed. The
Norfolk Argus of the 9th, says:
It will be seen by several communications which
publish TO day, that there is intense desire on
the part of benevolent friends abroad to remove US
bodily from tits dire home of pestilence Would
that it could be done with convenience But we
fear that there too many sick among US, aud too
many difficulties in the way, for the scheme to be
practicable.