The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-08-06

no longer necessary but the commissioa nnds Other
work in supplying the Southern people a their own
homes with many kinds Of articles OF which snsy Stand
in much need II is also engaged in promoting emisra
ton 70 that region from the North and in supplying she
Southern schools with teachers Tho Commission esi-
mates the total value Of rs receipts for the year ending
June Is, 1896 at over one hundred and nyfeur thou
sand dollars.
Avery interesting description is given by one Of our
correspondents in Augusta Georgia. Of that city and the
rich cotton region in the midst OF which II Is situated
the people SOIL appearance of the country and climate
together with important facts regarding the workings in
that latitude Of the free labor system and the Freed
mems Bureau General Carl schurx has been for some
time past engaged in inspection Of these matters in
Georgia and other Southern States.
jeff Davis health said to be still rapidly improving
in Of the daily open air walks In which he
now INDUCED.
The Post ONCE Department continues tho work Of OK
tending mail communication in the Southern States with
Of mail service on the Mobile and Ohio Raroad om No
bile to Columbia Kentucky, INCLUDING al important
points the line.
There are few additional retsns Of the late election for
members Of Congress in Tennessee What few there are
do materially alter the statements given yesterday
mornings HERALD.
THE CABLE.
Our advices from valenta, Ireland by tho steamship
Germania announce the successful splicing Of tho
shore end Of the Atlantic telegraphic cable at that
place with the ocean coil deposited board the
Great Eastern, and the departure thence Of the
monster vessel westward In the work Of "pay-
ing out" The Great Eastern was stopped ten
miles from Shore the oath ut in consequence Of in
suatory defects occurring but these rectihed
and she proceeded her voyage for Hearts Content
Newfoundland at which place her arrival is hourly
looked for
despatch from Aspy Bay Newfoundland, states that
the party which left this city on board the steam yacht
Clara uara for the purpose Of repairing the Geographic
cable across the Gulf of st. Lawrence 6nd after under
running for distance that there little hope Of
in their enterprise is therefore, probable
that new cable will have TO be laid.
EUROPEAN NEWS.
The steamship Germania, from Southampton on tho
2oth ut passed Cape Race on her way to this port
Wednesday last
Our telegraphic summary Of news gives nothing ad
ditonal of Importance regarding the English elections
had Cd
for the government
committee Of workingmen has been established in
Berlin for tho purpose Of organizing q series Of mass
meetings to assert the right Of their class to hold public
assembages. Meetings of the workingmen had boon
suppressed by the military in different German towns
The Italian government has received the ocial des.
patch containing it's recognition by that Of Spain
pressed in the most friendly terms III
further subsistence Of the cholera In the Levant Ia
reported
In the London market the 25th ult United States
nve-twenty years bonds quoted at 10 70K Con-
soils az ssX 90 for money. There was no change
consequence the cotton and other markets Of Liver
pool
MIsCELLANEoUs NEWS.
Lieutenant General Grant and party arrived in Quebec
last evening. The General met At the railroad sta
ton by aiddecamp Of the Governor General Of Can
ada, and escorted to his quarters.
Captain Peroval Drayton, of tho navy, Chief OF the
Bureau Of Navigation. diod in Washington on Friday
night, after an illness Of only two days Captain
Drayton was native Of South Carolina,
but throughout tho rebellion remained faithful
to the national government and did much valuable
vice. including his participation in the recapture Of Port
Royal and the adjacent points in his own State His
funeral will take place in Washington tomorrow.
In this mornings HERALD will DO found some add.
regions showing the wonderfully rapid style in which
sness is conducted there the progress and improve
ment within few months Of the towns and their nhab
taste; the celebrity with which oil flows and money is
made, and indications of another approaching crash Az
instance Of the mercantile operations Of the town of
Titusve is stated that house there makes cash
sales to the amount or thirty thousand dollars per week.
In addition TO an extensive credit trade.
An additional instamont Of entertaining reading from
the rural summer resorts is given In columns this
morning, including letters from the White Mountains
the Catskill Mountains and Rose Hill Connecticut de-
Of the attractions and enjoymens Of these diff
ferent localities.
The street cleaning contractors have at present
ployed in their work force of hundred men and
two hundred and eighty carts and the streets OF city
generally are in toleraby fair condition The violent
interference OF the strikers with the operations of the
laborers has ceased, at least for the present
Surrogate Tucker yesterday admitted to probate the
will Of the late Melvin s Whitney. This will, when
executed had named two persons executors and these
the esator had subsequently erased and inserted
two others in hrs own hadwriting but without repub
fishing the will before witnesses The Surrogate held
the first appointment to have bcen revoked and that
executors appointed by the WILL and granted letters
of administration, with the will annexed, to Peeg 7.
whitney the ostators brother the tcsa,ors wife hay
ing been divorced upon her complaint.
The work of putting the six immense steam boilers,
he largest constructed, in their proper places