Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-08-20

The yellow fever RACES with uuabated violence
at Norfolk aud Portsmouth The Suns correspond
ent writes:
Since my last Miss Lizzie Barron, daughter of
Com. Samuel Barron, U. S. n, has died Of the
fever Poor child, the hardest heart would be
filed with grief at her sad fate Living at the Navy
Yard, of which her father was second In command,
Just in the verge of the infected district OF Gosport
her mother caught the infection, and in spite oil the
best attendance and nursing, fell victim TO
the disease. She and her father were ever by her
side until he fell i'll and removed to the Naval
Hospital and the physicians finding the mother
must die, and the daughter worn out with watch
ing, had her removed to the house OF Lieut.. Sim
clair, in this city. II was hoped that sleep would
prove the panacea in her case, but she had con-
tracted the disease which, after few days, devel
oped itself in it's most serious form. Last night
she died.
II is with deep regret that also have to inform
you Of the death, this morning. by apopexy, OF
Captain W. Il. Starke, United States Marine corps.
lie served with distinction in the Florida war, and
has since filed important posts both afioat and on
shore. His loss win be mourned by large circle
of relatives and friends, to whom he was enieared
by his many amiable qualities. The service could
have better spared many NOR, inefficient officer.
The Norfolk Argus, of Saturday, says there
seemsto be no abatement Of the ravages of the
fever in the city, and that in Portsmouth the fear
full disease is still doing its work of death without
any apparent decrease in the number Of victims.
The Argus comments with severity upon the pre-
cipitate fight Of the citizens. It says:
OF the four or FIVE members Of the clergy who
have hurried of, 1t may not become US to speak
now. They know their duty. Perhaps this is
not the time to indulge in evaporation for al
though the disease is not as bad as reported, Gods
Christening hand is upon ne. Our stores are near
ly all closed Our streets are deserted. The dead
and the dying are around US. Excepting the rat
tie of the physicians coach, hearses, and hospital
wagons, the silence in our streets Is often abs0-
lutely oppressive The frantic wall of the widow
falls doefully on the ear. The piteous cry of the
orphan rings out shrily, and dies away upon the
night wind. Friends are parting, per chance until
the Judgment and the lamentation of the mother
is heard, like Rachel, weeping for her children,
and refusing to be comforted because they are
not"
II is indeed, sad and gloomy time in our loved
and devoted city; and how much the calamitous
visitation ia increased in its intensity by the incon
sidera,e fight and absence of religious friends, and
the deprivation Of their cOnso.atory instructions
and prayers In the room where death claims and
seizes his victims, we leave to the imagination Of
the panic-stricken Christian professors who have
sought more salubrious climate and less dam
gerous location.
We heard one Of our ministers say, who has not
proved recreant to the high and holy duties Of his
wo' and death, that he found a woman whose
husband had just died of the fever. She too was
attacked, and no one was there to nurse and COM
fort her. He looked out, and the neighbors had
all gone-their doors and windows were closed.
'sHere," said she, 81 must lie, and die alone"
And there was a boy with the black vomit, and no
one but young sister to attend him during the
slow and sad hours of long night of pain and
sorrow.
But come noble souls and great hearts are left,
and their recompense will be great. They shrink
not from their duty. They breathe still the dead
y breath Of the pestience; they pray for the sick
and the dying and whisper sweet words OF faith
and consolation in the of the sufferers whose
thanks and prayers and blessings will be remem-
bered in time and eternity and If the faithful SOL
der Of the cross falls while doing his duty when
most needed, he falls gloriopsly, and his reward
win be unspeakable and eternal.
DR.. Stone, the Beacon says, expresses the opin-
ion, that the fever is not general epidemic in
Norfolk. He thinks that the patient should be
covered with sheet and thin blanket, and that
the treatment shoul not be too active.
The same paper says TINT Mr. VIM. Broughton,
the son of the editor of the Herald who has been
unwell, is convalescent, and that Com. Barron Is
out Of danger.
Com Armstrong, United States Navy, writes
from Richmond to Norfolk as follows:
81 have broken the blockade at City Point and
Petersburg, and have shamed them into something
like humanity, the order Is revoked against our
people landing at City Point.
81 am authorized to state by the presiding ply
sician that no further obstacles will be placed in
you way and that you will be free TO come and 60.
In truth the people here are ashamed Of the action
Of the authorities at least all those who have any
souls, and am assured that the nterdct lin Rich.
mond) win soon be taken of. trust So as, other
wise, a lasting, damning disgrace would be fixed
on the fair capital Of Virginia"
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