Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-09-11
The Epidemic in Norfolk and Portsmouth

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The accounts from those cities continue to
be of the most gloomy and heart-rending char.
| acter.
The Baltimore American, of this morning
says that DR.. VIM. Henry Freeman, of Phila.
delphia, who has rendered such noble service
in the afflicted city of Norfolk, and who passed
through that city on Friday morning last on
his way home for few days recreation, re-
turned to Norfolk yesterday afternoon, in the
steamer Georgia. During his absence from
home the highly honorable and responsible
position of Professor of Chemistry in the Wag-
ner Institute of Philadelphia was conferred
upon him. The doctor states that his heart
is wholly with the distressed and his hand
open to relieve them. May his valuable life
be long spared. DR.. F. E. B. Hintze and DIR.
Moore, of that city, also went down; the latter
to nurse DR.. Morris, should it be necessary
Dr. de Castro also returned yesterday after
noon.
We learn from DR.. Freeman that DR.. Hig.
gins, of Norfolk, who passed through Balti-
more last week, having just recovered from
an attack Of the fever, on his way to Phia.
delphia, had q relapse in that city, accompa.
MED by the black vomit, and expired on Sat-
urday last.
The Richmond Dispatch publishes the follow.
ing despatch from Weldon, which contains
later intelligence from Norfolk and Ports
mouth than was received by the boat on Sun
day:
SUNDAY, Sept. 9.-P. MI deeply regret
to inform you that DR.. Collins, President of
he Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad, and J.
w. Collins, of the Crawford House, Ports.
mouth, died yesterday.
DIR. Thomas Howle, of Richmond, died ear
y yesterday morning, at the Naval Hospital
George Chambers, jr., also died yesterday.
Whit. Ashton a Vprv estim hIe vo-,nu m m
Deputy Postmaster of Portsmouth, diedin the
United States Hospital, Friday. He was the
main reliance Of the Postmaster, Mr.. Cooke,
who is absent.
Yesterday there were fifty deaths in Norfolk
still frightful mortality. In Portsmouth
there were twenty three.
Bray b. Walters, of the National Hotel, is
certainly dead. He died Friday-and a most
estimable man he was
DIR. Wright, formerly of Edenton, North
Carolina, who has been rendering good service,
is sick with the fever
am glad to say that DIR. Gooch, who lies
sick in Norfolk, is certainly better-and I am
also gratfed to be able to say that DR.. Crow,
also of Richmond, who is sick at the United
States hospital, was much better yesterday.
DR.. n. G. Whitehead, of Norfolk, although
once reported dead, is much better, as also is
his daughter.
Holt Wilson, who has labored for some time,
the last notary and the last officer in the Bank
of Virginia at Portsmouth, has closed that in
stitution and left
A letter states that many of the deaths in
Norfolk, Friday, were of the oldest citizens
The inability to get the names must leave the
absentees in state of great anxiety.
We are enabled to correct the stateme MT
with regard to Robert Tatem, who has been
reported as dead. He is alive, and at Hamp-
ton, whore he is making arrangements to re-
move his mother and sisters.
We learn that the daughter Of Capt. Hard
ing, of the steamer Coffee, is down with the
fever.
dispatch from Weldon, in the Richmond
american, dated Sunday evening, says that
the residents of Norfolk and Portsmouth were
leaving On Sunday morning for % Camp Falls, +"
The encamPment established near Old Point
Comfort by the Mayor and Councils of Balti-
more, and would doubtless occupy the tents in
great numbers.
Gen. VIM. HI. Whitehead left Weldon on
Sunday morning with a carload Of provisions,
being his third trip with full freight for the
gfering cities.
The accounts of the fever spreading in the
interior are incorrect. The only cases that
have occurred are among the refugees who
had the seeds Of the disease in their system
and in no case has il been commune ted to
those nursing them.