Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-09-08

| supply the demand. lam informed that there was
a regular scramble for them. es BURMUDA.
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| The Blacklist day i'm the Fever Calender-7Rirty-
| taoo Deaths-List Of the Dcad-Persons Sick
Distressing Visitation to DR.. Minors Family. s
PORTSMOUTH, Sunday, Sept q 10 P. NJ.
the blacklist in our Foyer, .Calendar.-Since sunset
| last evening up to the same period to-day there
have been THIRTY-TWO GlD deaths in Ports
Mr.. Laurent, Jesse G: Oakley, Mrs. Samuel Bain'
VIM. Fay, Mrs. Corcoran, Mr. N F. Cooke, Pa
trick, O'Donnell, Wm Condry, Mrs. Kelly, Mrs.
Mackin, and her sister, Miss Livesay, James Mullin,
VIM. Murphy, Miss Rosaia Taten, child of Alex.
Etheridge, VIM. Ford, and nine others.
Miss Caroline Williams, Mrs. j. d. Cooper, and
Mr,~Jack's daughter, are still dangerously ill., %
DIR. Lewis Minor, the surgeon at the Naval Hos
pital, lost most Interesting little son, Jagged 10
years. to-day and has beautiful daughter, aged
years, now lying extremely ILL., He has the
NEST sympathies of our people in this calamtous
visitation.
John L. Porter, master ship Carpenter in the
Navy Yard, and brother of your esteemed towns
man. VIM. P. Porter is convalescent.
Yours GOSPORT.
Especial Correspondence of the Expressl
THE. VERY LATEST!li
Terrible RaUages Of Feoer an Portsmouth-List Of
SNoOcO OCLCeo-OHPC.
Buriaks IN Nortork one day-Ce65ms not to be
had-Bodies buried oOithout thene-Aore aid.
WELDON, Sept. 3, 1 P. NJ.
DEAR EXPRESS The Seaboard and Roanoke
Railroad train is in, and from the and at
tentive Conductor, w. Daughtrey, gather the fol-
lowing .E t--.... T.. ID,
The following persons died between sunset last
night and sunrise this morning:
A negro woman owned by Mr.. Gunter; William
Weston; child of George Thompson; Miss Cecilia
Ohio; negro owned by W. W. Davis; Col Chas.
90 81. Gil
the Gosport Navy Yard; Mrs. Charles Bilisolly;
Mrs John Lash. and some four or five not reported
Capt Selden w. P. Allen, of the Seaboard Road,
was at the Naval Hospital this morning sinking
rapidly 1t was expected that every moment would
be his last
In Portsmouth yesterday there were thirty-two
burials, besides eight collins ordered for the Naval
Hospital.
In Norfolk yesterday and last night the deaths
reached forty-fveD 1t is said that
buried without collins, it impossible to obtain
them.
Drs Miller and Balentine, with five female nurses
from Augusta Ca, now here route for Nor
folk.
Yours &C., CD.
--latest from Norfolk and Portsmouth.
We deeply regret to learn, from the Petersburg
papers of Wednesday, that there is abatement in
the terrible pestilence ravaging Norfolk and
Portsmouth.
I" From sunrise to midnight" writes correspond
ent of the Express under date Sept Sd, fifty poor
creatures were shoveled away under the cold sod"
The feeling awful among all classes. Many
making their escape. Whole families were
being swept off. Great distress prevailed, for the
want of physicians, nurses, nourishment, and pro-
visions.
The following are among the recent deaths: Rev.
d. P. Wills w. E. Cunningham, Editor of the Bea'
con, w. X. Stores, w. g. Dunbar, W. H. Hallett,
Paxton Pollard, j. W. HARDWOOD, Mrs. DR.. Chandler,
Mr.. Jenkins and Mr.. Wren, D. d. Fske, Mayor of
Portsmouth, and Capt. Selden P. Allen, of the Sea-
board Road R. Gatewood, Assistant Editor of the
Beacon Capt. Page, of the Navy, G. w. Camp, w.
NJ Pannell, Mr.. Ferguson of the Custom House, and
Rev. Mr. Jones of the African Church, among
the sick.
Mr.. Finch, of the Argus, is not dead, as reported
but still in good health and at his post; nor was Dr.
William Collins, of the Seaboard Road, SICK as
stated
A correspondent of the Express says:
"Forty persons dead with the fever awaiting
burial in town to-day. We can't pretend to find out
their names-they are scattered about SO In differ
ent lanes and alleyS-and only note prominent ones.
1t being found impossible to dig single graves,
large pit has been dug, and the collins placed in lay
above each other AM so filled up with lime and
dirt I"
A meeting has been held at Hampton, at which
committees were appointed IN ala OF NorIOlk anu
Portsmouth, Committees also requested to
wait upon the President and upon the Governor of
Virgnia-to ask of the latter all the assistance in
his power and of the former permission for the peo
pie of Norfolk and Portsmouth to remove to and &C.
cupy the grounds of Fortress Monroe
We shall keep paper open, so as to give the
latest intelligence from the two Cities.
Latest from Norfolk and Portsmouth.
The news is not full, and we ground for be-
lieving that there is any abatement in the fever in
the two places.
The Norfolk correspondent of the Express, under
date the 4th, says the number of new cases has
slightly diminished, but the deaths have increased
awfully. The disease considered on the increase
, also in Portsmouth.
The Rev. Father O'Keefe ana Mayor Fiske, it is
now stated, are not dead.
CORRESPONDENCE.
1t will be seen from the following correspondence
that Ch c. Raboteau, Esq, has consented to deliver
an address before the Raleigh Typographical Society,
at its first Anniversary to be held the 18th inst
RALEIGH, Sept, l, 1855
DEAR SIR: We, the undersigned, were appointed
committee to select speaker to deliver an address