Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-08-30

lne dccoune iTOm tne inIecteQ yenoW leNer
districts continue to be Of an alarming char
actsr, threatening tho entire depopulation of
the two towns.
The following are to be added to the list Of
deaths, occurring since our last report: -
Edward Seymour, VIM B. Pitcher, (died at
Eastville,) Mr.. PROXY, James Treanor, Frank.
slave of W. II. Haynes, Miss Eliza Todd, DR.
Cannon, Miss Lester, Miss Hendren, Jesse
Wiles.
The latest information from Norfolk repre-
sents no increase of the fever, and that the
eases continued to become more easily man
aged than at any previous time.
Miss Lucy Andrews (who, by the by, is a
Louisianian, and but . sojourner in Syracuse,
New York; has been slightly indisposed, but
not from the epidemic. Her contributions to
the Howard fund are said to amount to 81, 900.
Drs. Huger, whitman, Covert and Rich left
Charleston on Monday for Norfolk, accompa.
nied~by eight nurses
To record all the sick, dying, and dead,
throughout the city, (says letter from Nor
folk,) would be q matter of impossibility. The
deaths are not all reported by the Board of
Health, and number Is daily. About 600
persons are sick Of the fever. It is no uncom-
mon thing to see two or three collins in one
hearse, and not q soul but the driver accom-
panying.
The Howard Association continue to relieve
the sick and needy with liberal hand.
Crowds of applicants for the society's bounty,
Of all colors and sexes, throng the doors con-
tinually, and their conversation frequently
leads to painful recitals of sickness destitu-
ton, and death. The Irish appear to be the
greatest sufferers.
In Portsmouth, we learn, there is some
abatement in the ravages of the fever-the
number of deaths daily having considerably
decreased. A correspondent writes as follows:
PORTSMOUTH, Va, August g.
This is one of those cold, northeasterly rainy
spells of weather, which are 50 common to
this section Of country, and must prove disad-
vsntageous to our present suffering sick, and
will no doubt increase the disease SO soon as
the hot sun beams upon the wet earth.
At this time there cannot be less than one
hundred patients at the United States Naval
Hospital, some of whom are doing we'll, whilst
others will not live through the day. The dis
lance to the U. S. Hospital is so great that but
little communication is had from it, We there
fore have but little means of ascertaining the
condition of the sick at that place.
The surgeon and his assistants deserve the
very highest praise for their noble and self.
sacrificing conduct In behalf of the suffering
sick committed to their charge. At all hours
of the day and night they are at the bedside
of the convalescent, sick and dying. When
and how they sleep, no one can tell, for they
are always at their posts. Their names are
Minor, James, +. Harrison, and Steel;
names to be remembered as long as the present
generation lasts.
These gentlemen having been so long ad-
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necessarily be worn down by the constant dis
charge of the duty imposed upon them, and
would it not be well for the Navy Department
II detail some experienced surgeon with assis-
tants to relieve these gentlemen.
No surgeon in the Navy, or private individ-
ual need have any fears in administering to
the sick at the Naval Hospital, for l can as
sure them that no surgeon or attendant has
ever taken the disease at the Hospital or ever
been sick DR.. Minor and his assistants,
have not the slightest fear of contracting the
fever from a patient carried from any infected
into such healthy place as the Naval Hcspi-
tai. DR. Minor has been through two yellow
fever epidemics in the West India Islands,
and ought to be well conversant upon the sub
ject.
At present there are but three stores open.
The market consists Of three carts with a few
chickens, and five wheelbarrows with vegeta-
bles. The people live entirely on salt provi-
sious. Today the railroad brought from Bal
timOre via Bay Line to Suffolk, some lemons
and oranges for the sick.
John Woodley, agent of the Seaboard and
Roanoke Railroad, and nephew of DR.. VIM.
Collins, was taken sick yesterday be is COM
Portable to-day. Ned Curtain, boss at the
railroad depot, died yesterday.
81 O'Clock p. m.-John D. Cooper, acting as
member of the Sanitary Committee, was
taken down to-day. About twelve new cases
to-day, DIR. Trugien is very ill. Winchester
Watts is thought to be better, but is quite sick
Nathaniel Birmingham has inst died he was
the mail carrier.
has just had two of his family taken down
Thomas Wren is dead. Sam Yeats negro
child died last night, and a number more
whose names do not know. Up to 5 O'clock
there has been eight deaths Mayor D. D.
Fisk is thought to be better to-day. The
family of Mrs. Robert II. Tatum is also sick,
and two children of Mr.. James Totterdell.
In Norfolk, James Ii. Saunders, secretary
of the Howard Association, was taken down
this morning. DR.. Higgins is better. Sixty
three new cases yesterday, and three Ihysi-
clans did not report.
DR.. Trugens's TEMPORAL veins have been
opened.
Portsmouth is in want of meal, butter, -four,
&c. There is no abatement of the fever
Some OF the imported nurses have been dis
charged from Norfolk. WB.C.
The Portsmouth Transcript gives the follow
ing list Of deaths in that city since the 22d
instant:
August 23.-Peter Galilee, Mrs. Gaines,
Mary A. Beasly, Joseph Dunton, Elijah Jar
Wis, Lucy Y. Pace Joe Young, colored, and 4
at hospital-total IL.
August A.-Mrs. VIM Moore, Dr. Lovett,
negro Of D. Scott, negro of F. Herbert, Miss
Z. Boutwell,, Mrs, Anderton, Susan Ross,
colored man of w. Bohaunon, Mrs c. j. Rey-
nolds, Peter Galben, Mrs Avery Williams,
colored woman of Mrs. Riddick, Mrs. Whiten
Hutchins, Mr.. W. Hudsons wife and child,
and at hospital-total 81.
August 25.-Mrs. Gates, Mrs. Matthias,
Lane, colored, Fops, colored. Hushen,
colored, Caroline Baker, Mrs Heatley, Viii.
son Williams, Mr.. Smith, Miss L. C. Herbert
Mr.. Brener's child, Herbert Grimes, Mr.
Grimes, and Is at hospital-total 26.
August 26 Charles Myers, John Myers
Miss Margaret Manning, Mrs Tatem, Miss
Williams, child of W. Dobbs, negro man at
James Whites, negro woman at Avery Will
liams' Dick Gordon, colored, Morning Larence,