New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-09-19
Progress Of the Fever in Norfolk and Portsmouth

We extract the following from letter in the Peters
burg Express Of the 18TH dated at Suffolk Va on the
| previous day. .@@ 5. --
Two or three nights during the past week. was up
nursing Of yellow fever we had in this town. Young
MIR. Rddek, who unfortunately died on Monday morn
| ing.
plague hy FThs fly was infinitely described by our
Norfolk correspondents last week They appear to be
srt of cros' between the musquto and common house,
fly and have very broad and large wings projecting up
wards instead of lying hat,-Eps. ExrREssl
The tidings from Portsmouth to-day is very heart
rendins feel SO sad melancholy that can scarcely
find courage to write Toe number of deaths for the
eight hours ending yesterday evening" said to be
Monday several very oopious showers Of rain
fell and all day yesterday the shone with apowsr
intensity which is as having been absolutely
eriDg 10 this cause is attributed the heavy
/ mentation OF mortality. =,
/ There were not many new cases report yesterday
Indesd such fearful sweep has hs terrible scourge made
| there cannot possibly be many now to have ii.
nr. William White, Of Deep Creek, Norfolk county,
about eight mes from Portsmouth, says he has fifteen
Of fever there every one of which are from either
Norfolk or Portsmouth.
From Norfolk tho news received here is most heart
rending Accounts recently arrived they cannot get
force sufficient TO inter the dead although persons
constantly Streets and peng the negroes by
forceto carry the bodies out Of the city also
/ On sunday there were twenty dead bodies piled in
heap the dead roon at the City Hospital They were
not able to cofin then,fast enough 5z.4.s-.s5
How long, long oh God, shall this state Of things
continue? Was there two communities scouged
beoreg Certainly no such have ever been wit
messed In New Orleans any portion OF Mexico.
The following extracted from Norfolk letter in the
Richmond Dispatch
0ffourteen physicians who went from Philadelphia to
assist the sick attacked by the fever
three have died
spectacle In the streets ia cart laden with
ceus which deposited at some street
and removed thence by the undertakers occasion
Demands Three four OF these eofhns often stand to-
gether The dead are Immediately taken Of the house
and placed upon the saewalks strip OF parchment in
scbed with the name age and date of deceass OF the VIC
tim; being nailed upon the lid of each coffin duplicate
o. TINS parchment record B preserved Inc bodies OF the
dead are conveyed away by carts which traverse the
streets at stated intervals There are three places Of
burial
The houses of the citizens who have fled are, it Is
believed, pretty generally respected. Few of
theft reported and bnrgulares are not common.
considerable amount valuable property is frequently in
the hands Of the physicians This is atwas conded to the
care OF the Sanitary Committee .S
On last Sunday six physicians breatned their last.
The Express has the following telegraphio dispatches
BALTraoRE Sept 10 1856 The Norfolk boat that left
yesterday aud arrived this morning reports that
the twenty -four hours previous to p. Nj, Monday
there we're 36 deaths in Norfolk! .-.z.
There was no report for Tuesday.
The Howard Association Of norfolk have declined
sending the orphans of that city to Baltimore.
Several families have removed to Clamp Falls"
Hampton.
In Portsmouth the panic 10 increasing there four
team deaths previous three o'clock p NJ yesterday
TUESDAY
Rey Vernon Eskridge of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and his son Richard and Rev. James Chisholm,
OF the Episcopal Church. are dead Ee' ~
Rev Francis Dsyljn OF the Catholic Church has suf
live.
RlcHsesp, Sept. u, 0 p M-Intelligencs received
ths afternoon by the Curtis Peck represent forty
deathsin Norfolk yesterday and twenty-ons in Ports
mouth