The Port Gibson Herald, And Correspondent

Cholera.
Latest dates from New Orleans show that the Cholera is rapidly diminishing, and with a continuance of the present favorable weather, will soon become extinct. The cases which occurred at Grand Gulf, are all convalescent. Those attacked were such as are peculiarly liable to contract the disease, and the ease with which they were cured proves that persons in good health, and with moderate caution, are entirely safe. Several cases have occurred in our town, in which Cholera symptoms developed themselves, but we believe the patients are all well at present, and all fear of the disease has subsided. In our opinion, however, we may anticipate a visit from the epidemic next spring, when fatal results can only be avoided by strict attention to the cleanliness of the streets and dwellings of the town. We hope that the Selectmen will remember, before the warm weather approaches, to provide a proper drainage for the pestilent little stream on the Southwestern side of our town, whose stagnant and putrid waters, dammed up as they have been by accumulations of filth, have given birth to myriads of those vile and venomous insects called "day mosquitoes," which, though previously unknown here, have during the past two summers, proved so annoying to our citizens. While on this subject, we will express a hope that the worshipful body above alluded to, will no longer permit the valley through which this stream runs, to remain the disgusting repository where putrid carcasses of dead pigs, cows, cats and dogs, are left to decay, by which the southern breezes of summer eve, whose proverbial sweetness Shakspeare has sung, are impregnated with the odor of any thing else but "violets."