The Cholera — Harpers Ferry, Martinsburg, &c.

THE CHOLERA– Harper’s Ferry, Martinsburg, &c. — There is much less alarm now in Jefferson county, Va., in regard to the cholera, it having greatly subsided, and the Charlestown Free Press of yesterday, says:

The health of Harper’s Ferry, where the ravages of the disease have been most lamentable, is so much improved during the last few days as to warrant the hope that it has certainly abated. No new cases have been reported since Friday, and business in the public works and other places, which had been temporarily suspended has been resumed, and the citizens who fled upon its approach, have generally returned to their homes. The traveling public now have no alarm in passing to and fro.

The same paper gives the following among the names of the victims at Harper’s Ferry, since Tuesday week.

Rev. John Filton, Mr. Wm. Simpson and daughter, Mr. Thomas Griggs, and a free colored woman. Since Monday three weeks, there have been at Harper’s Ferry some 60 deaths, about 50 of which have been by cholera. The Spirit adds:

In this town there has been but one death, a colored woman, the property of Mrs. Willis.

There have been three deaths on the farm of Mr. John J. H. Gunnell, near Charlestown, from cholera, one an aged white lady, and the others, two negroes, belonging to Mr. G.

In Smithfield, in this county, Mr. Isaac Stine died of cholera, on Thursday last.

At Gerardstown, Berkeley county, Mr. Michael Crowl and wife, from Harper’s Ferry, died on Wednesday last, and at Martinsburg, on Saturday last, Mr. Jacob Crowl, also of Harper’s Ferry.

In Loudon county, Mr. Jonathan Conrad, wife and son, died from cholera during the last week. Other cases reported, we learn, are not considered fatal.

The Martinsburg Gazette, of yesterday, says:
This town and neighborhood is still very healthy, and none have taken or died with the cholera but those brought into the county from a distance.