Health of Harpers Ferry

HEALTH OF HARPER’S FERRY.– The following note, from a correspondent at Harper’s Ferry, gives the latest intelligence of the health of that place, and we are gratified to learn that no new cases of cholera have occurred, even at South Bolivar, during the past week:

Harper’s Ferry, Sept. 13, 1850.
There have been no new cases of cholera here since Thursday night week, although we had some two or three deaths at South Bolivar on Friday, and one on Saturday of last week, but they had been taken sick before Thursday. Mr. Mitchell who died on Saturday last, had been sick for a week. There were three deaths in one family, that of Mr. Allison, a tavern-keeper, in South Bolivar, on Thursday and Friday last, though the sickness in that part of the town is not to be wondered at, owing to the horrible, filthy condition of the place, and to some dozen hog pens in its immediate vicinity.

This part of the town is very healthy; we have had no cholera here for three weeks. The last outbreak has been confined entirely to a very limited space in South Bolivar, and which, as stated above, is not to be wondered at. Business in this part of the town is beginning to improve, and were it not for the exaggerated accounts, would soon resume its former cheerfulness.