Cholera among Laborers in Washington Co., MD.

From the Hagerstown Free Press, Sept. 11.

In Washington county the Cholera has been fatal in a great many cases– in the lower part of the county, the canal laborers are sickening and dying daily. In Hagerstown there has been but one case, and that did not prove fatal. He was a laborer from the canal. In Boonsboro there has been two cass, one of which, a resident of the town, has terminated fatally. His name was Cleland, and his death is attributed to eating one or two peaches. He was taken sick at ten o’clock at night, and was a corpse before day light. Sharpsburg being immediately in the vicinity of the canal, has felt the effects of the disease more severely than any place in the county– report stating that as many as six and seven were dead at one time, tho’ we believe none of them were citizens.– In Williamsport there has been one suspicious case on which the doctors could not agree. The citizens of the county enjoy uninterrupted good health.