New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-09-05
THE YELLOW FEVER.
rrRruER ACCOUNTS.

loving:
am deeply pained 70 aid to the IL, OF re-. e.,.,
TIE name Of our mutual friend Mr. Jane. II. F,.Ses
The Norfolk Argus. Tie has la,ored night and Ga,
for several day. post IN order tina, paper e.,
,bonld be published In the city. ia. ala, bs -.
b.ep coropeled 10 yield 10 the inexorable den.,S ~
the fc destroyer. He has tne fearful ooaito
In Portsmouth the fever still RACES fearfny All H.
mortality seems 10 be Increasing. Duias S.,u-i,,
,t.te we're IL deaths, and from sdnse. SATURDAY. .'
inc TO sunrise Yesterday morning there WA A O.
iof fifteen cohinsthns making SO deaths ia abos, "a
hours
dsy morning il decidedly worse. the eafal "yotno,
having made ITS appearance during Saturday ni,b.
Youi John W ooo lev, 81 ark a. the depo. q PR.
mouth aud nephew Of Dr.. Wn. Collins, Presiieu, A.
the Seatosr d Road, died on saturday
John Andrews, memoer OF the Norfolk Blues. "a,
died on Saturday.
TIE gallant Daniel J. Ricardo, nov a, No-fo!k. IA.
telegrsphed 10 New-OrssDs for twenty more uune.
Fever IN Norfolk bsggars all description.
A dppaich dated Richmond on.Ss,u DAY SAYS:
"Wm. &. Shields, Esq. founder and for many yea,
editor and rroprie or OF The Norfolk Coaricr. sps
VIM b. Cain, Esq proprietor OF Gains Hotel, Union
AZ Norfolk boh died here lsst nj Int OF yelos fever
The dsesse was undoubtedly contra ted in Norfolk
although both of dece lsed had been here Tor seyer.
days.
The Richmond Dispatch says of Mr.. Shields:
"Tle greater portion of bis life he was connected
with tie pres. With the lse Leroy An.lersoa he
founded tie old Richmond Compiler in 1900. Whec
il passed into other hands he removed 20 Norfolk ara
established 7 he Beacon III that place which ne, with
others conducted for many years. He a well.
hr, d and intel gent gentleman, OF exceedingly sscs
bic kind ard h, nevoeDt dspositon-always epioyiny
the refpect and coriial goodwill OF all who knew
him
A Norfolk letter in the The Express says that orders
have been sent TO both Baltimore and R'chDood for
lsr.e Luu Der Of coin-. The same letter IN mention
no The teath of Miss Laura Mallory aud her sister
two accomplished Young ladies' says they died wi,hu
five mn ut.s OF each other, and adds;
"1bey were in Hampton when the fever first broke
ont on visit TO a relative and enjoying every con-
fort and blessing wbch this worG can afford; and
Cci lie Of this city intoms tbas as soon the
tiiines reached them that the fever hal maze it's ap-
peerauce in Norfolk, and they reelected that a hni
father ard mother we've there they Immediately de-
cided that uDCer the Vaternal roof was their pacs
when danger threatened, and the next morning they
embarked on tie steamer for homo. The insult Of
their returp il that both sre dead"
Another Norfolk letter in The Express, speaking OF
the death of Mrs Wal.er r. Jones, SAYS
"Sbe was the widow Walter +. Jouee, decessei,
former Postmaster OF this city, and the mother OF
Passed MidsbiOman Walter +. Jones, Jr., who died
st the Naval Hospital 'eg days since. She bad seen
her son in the very bloom of manhood, md ~th bright
hopes before him, sudd, My stricken down with .
fever, and after cooperate struggle OF bu' q few
days Duration laid low In the cold embrace OF DEATH
Next she was called to he bedside of her sister Mrs.
Joseph H. Robertson, who was the wife OF Joseph H.
Robertson, Esq, ore of our most orominent and
Justly disDg lawyers. With SISTER love aud
n
relative and mnistered to her wants through several
long days and iediJut nights.
ode ath at last came to the relief of he fever
scorched patio Mt and Mrs Jones was called upon 10
mourn the loss of a sir tier as we'll as son. With
heart well-ngh crushed with grief at the earnest
entrea les of ends she made preparations for north
ern tour, and was on her way TO the steamers whsn
when the ubmstakabe chill made ts appearance, and
the fever caimed her ito victim. She returned tn
her home ard was stretched on a couch Of pain, from
which she never moved until her ifeIess form was
placed in the barrow pn and led 20 he rap
idly filing cemetery. There at one fell ssoop, do
voted son. aieconate mother, and beloved sister III
swallowed up In death
The Richmond Despatch OF Monday, says
The Augusta on saturday evening brought mp sew
era peIsons who had gone down 10 tend The sok soma
of EN- having yielded TO the earnest advice OF physi
clans, who assured them tina, 10 remain was almost
oar informant. who left Norfolk Saturday, says
that the state vi things there IA truly appalling
While waking one OF the principal streets nc saw
man lying a cellar-cap N almost the agony. OF
death with no one Ia sight Of him. iit,,c her
on he saw a young child rush screaming ron
houee and upon going in found that one OF hT
parents had just died, and the other was lying on
bed Of death.
Mr. John Brooks, grocer, was down with the fever.
On Beaver-st. thee are great many cases, among
them William BIitzel and his wife. -Four OF Lieut.
Whiules children are down with the epidemic.
DR.. Hardgrove DIR. Crow, and Walter Scot Of
Richmond. are all down, and the latter lie very i'll.
Two Philadelphia physicians reported TO have
died.
Among the nurses sick are one of the Sisters of
Charity Sister Mary Anp who was taken sick atJulap
pi Hospital; DIR. Qugehiusse, Philadelphia DIR. Bseri
Of New Orleans, Mr.. Jordan lcOnfectioner ana bis
mother, on Nainst.
The Rev Joseph Ashwanden, Catholic minister,
from Ge town Cole.c has been carried the hos
pitaI.
DIR. Leon Gehardt OF Richmond, arrived in Peters
burg yesterday evening, from portsmouth, complete
10 xh ted he q IA
the fever He was Stunned at the depot es if be had
bee C. wild beast. He took lodgings in the town and
was bospiahly cared Tor.
Yesterday afternoon, as we learn, schooner arrived
ct he quarantine grouod belos Rockets having on
board the body of yellow fever victim, the cap n
wishing 10 get a coffin and have the body buried. Ihe
health officer very promptly ordered the vessel OIL and
old not allow the body TO b. landed.
tn, Richmond american of Monday morning SAYS
From Mr. Henry Myers who returned from Norfolk
Oh Saturday, where he has been engaged as a nurse,
We lesin TIE following facts:
In Norfolk on Friday here were sixty deaths and
scre y new cases. s. Brewer is amoog The dead.
In Portsmouth, same day, nine deaths aud MY new
cases
Father O'Keefe the Catholic priest, is very low.
TIE Rev Ixr. Will, Ipastor of the Cumberland
A. Methodist Church, II much better.
Mia, Whrtle Interesting young lazy wbose
mother died last Thursday, and two brothers are DOW
sok ,nd no hopes are en- ertaiDed OF their recovery
II is said that the people are brought into the hosp-
tolls n or, dead n al alive.
The authorities of Norfolk understand sent to
this city for ar many collins could nossiby be pro-
cured and We learn that number will be sent by ths
boat this morning.
NORFOLK AID PoRrsAouTH.-A highly respectable
comm eIcisl house in Richmond, Va, wri'es 10
friend in Newly York unoer date of Sept. as follows
'Your people have done molly in ahOrdiDg 90 mucif
aid 10 our Norfolk and Portsmouth neighbors. IL
seems ow they are DO mach IN need Of money az
various articles of food Ac, which cannot a. prsseht