Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-08-27
The Epidemic at Norfolk and Portsmouth

The Epidemic at Norfolk and Portsmouth.
The accounts of the progress of the yellow
fever in Norfolk and Portsmouth are of the
mott gloomy character; threatening the de-
population of the two towns. The number of
deaths each day is very large; and the num-
Der of cases rapidly increasing.
The following are the names of some of the
dead:
Child Of VIM. G. Barnes, Job Halsey, John
Martin, Mrs. Thomas M. Martin, Mr.. McLane,
George Higgins, John Conrade John Meme
gan, Miss Y. Stallins, Mark Mattocks, John,
slave Of William Taylor, Mary Welsh, Mary
Haywood, Samuel Cooke, George North, Su-
| SAN slave of r. Lakewood; Mrs John A. Hall
daughter of Capt. Elias Guy; Lucy Foreman,
John II. Hall, Gideon A. Strange, Mrs Jane
Brooks, Miss Wieland, Capt. Bunting, Mr.
hanberry, Miss Harriet Fullghain, Mrs. DIR.
Friendeman, W. II. Lohman, George Jacobs
c. De Boer, Mrs. VIM. White, Mr.. Alphonso
Frederick &. Roberts, MIR. Henby, F. Roach,
Mrs. Virginia Robertson.
The Rev. Mr.. feeling. who has visited
much in the two places, estimates that there
are between seven and eight hundred cases in
Norfolk, and about FIVE hundred in Ports
mouth.
In answer to letters from this point, asking
for the details of the ravages of the yellow
fever, the number of cases, deaths, &C., the
following letters have been received
A member Of the Common Council of Ports
mouth, writes as follows, on the Oath
| L have just this moment received your let
ter, and am sorry to inform you that in many
cases your Information is too correct. In the
first place, b. W. Palmer has been little sick,
| but is better. HoratiO Moore, R. &. Barclay
Capt. Chambers, Patrick Williams, Dr. Lovett,
young James Williams, wife, child, and SER
want, Nathaniel Manning, Colin Reynolds
wife, and Mrs. Potts are dead. Avery VIII
liams' wife will die before night. 1 have not
time to write more, but will merely say that
am in the public store doing all L can for the
public good, and that, thank God my family
| are yet all we'll. Send US, to my order as
store-keeper, anything like goods that you can
collect, and the sympathies Of this distressed
people will follow you to your last resting place
r. T. S.
| p. S.-Colonel Watts and J. Gustavus Hol-
| llday have been sent TO the hospital We have
four or five medical gentlemen among US who
| have just arrived, and we hope things NAV
prove better, as God knows it is bad enough
| now.
Mr.. Thomas Briggs. who left this city some
time since to assist the physicians of Norfolk
in nursing the sick, is nobly performing his
arduous duty, receiving on every hard the
praises Of the sick and well. He writes US On
the 23d from Norfolk, as follows:
q buried young James last evening; and
went out to the Cemetery for the first time
The undertaken that went with Us, told me it
! made eleven he had buried yesterday andith IL
| ne had four more to take out before he went
| to bed. Recollect this is but one firm but
| the principal one this does not include tie
hospitals. L am at Prof. Strange's opposite
| the Academy waiting On young Strange a.
cousin of the Professor, who was left here, and
has been neglected until it is too late. He
was left three days without taking medicine
the family are up at CharlottesvilIe-and
when he is gone, 1 am to go to Mr.. LePage's
near the National HOTEL where there are two
sick. Mr.. Guys family are all down.
nave no time to hunt up names, but they
| reckon at the office that there is between three
end four hundred cases in Norfolk, and a little
| over that In Portsmouth, although in Ports
| mouth there are not more than 2,C00 people
from census taken last week. Yeste rdey was
by far the worst day of the panic. Every
body looks wild at you, if they find you are
nursing the sick. Rev. DR.. Armstrong goes
every where; he visited Jennings family yes
terday, and told Inc they were very much dis
tressed at their loss. l have not been to see
Mr.. w. since Saturday, as no one wants vis-
| tiers at this time, but the sick. A woman die 4
last night next door to Strange's and another.
Miss kennedy, sick on the other side this
morning. So you perceive it is all over the
city; yet you hear people going about saving,
oh! don't go in the infected district 1 -
everywhere myself, but don't 60 out at night
unless l am obliged. 1 never saw such hide
Gus looking corpses as they are. This young
man is looking at me while am writing and
his eyes look as though he was dead It is a
common thing to see them carried along the
! street In blankets, taking them to the hospi-
| tai Stevens hat store was opened until yes
terday, but that frightened them off. There
Is man dying next door now, hear him
| groanlng-the same place they took the woman
from last night. Times are very squally"s
A gentleman "a clerk in one of the Depart
ments) who left this city, last week, to aid in
nursing the sick, writes US from Portsmouth
on the oath, as follows
~ cannot give: you the state of disease at
TINS place. One hears so many reports and
does not know what to believe. Jno w. Col
Inns is doing well to-day; Colonel Winchester
Watts is sick at the hospital; Miss Emma
| Boutwell, and DIR. LOvett died this morninr /.
Avery Williams's wife is very sick. Three doc.
tors came down with me from Baltimore. DIR.
Irugien Is sick, and has gone to The hospital.
You can form no conception of the looks Of the
place. Should the disease hold out much
longer, there will scarcely be n white man left
to tell the tale of wo Many of the negroes
have it. Yours, &C. WIG
A telegraphic dispatch from Petersburg this
morning confirms the report of the death OF
the daughter of Captain Elias Guy Mrs. John
A. Hall,) and states that the rest of the family
are improving at the hospital, whittier they
had been removed.
The Norfolk Beacon states that the Collector
of the Port had disappeared, and that the
Deputy Collector has removed the archives to
Hampton, town out of the district.
The citizens of Portsmouth have organised
a Howard Association, and David D. Fiske,
0he energetic mayor, who has lebored man.
fully throughout the existence of the epidemic,
doing all that man could do to arrest the bro.
gress of the disease, and ministeIing to the
sick and dying,) has been elected President.
At Nav ORLEANS 81 Ann bova haan ro;..J r.