Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1859 — Singular Revelations. [ARTICLE]

Singular Revelations.

[From the Sew York Evening P<wt

Washington, Jpn. 28, 1859. It. also came out in evidence yesterday, t hat at the time of the election in New York last Fall,there were packed in the Brooklyn Navy Yard 2,300 mechanics and laborers; that about 1.200 of them were discharged shortly afterward; that at present there an* about 1,100 in the yard,and with that number they are now doing more work, and doing it better, than when the. yard was crowded ■ with an unwieldy crew who were riot there as mechanics and laborers, but as_ hireling i politicians! , The evidence in regard to the Philadelphia Yard will show a stil more glaring recj ; i I It is a matter of frequent copiment, that when an Administration member of .Congress offers a resolution calling upon either !of the Secretaries for information, the an- | swer is promptly mad *. Not so vYhen the > inquiry is made from the Republican side. ■ The resolution of Senator Wilson, offered ! nearly two weeks since, calling for informa- ! tion. concerningcei tain “live-oak” contracts, ! has not been responded to yet. The cele- ! brated “Massachusetts man,” who has so ! richly feathered his nest out of the Treasury ! by thesg. contracts, has figured considerably in the Navy Department since the resolution wa’s introduced by Senator Wilson. It is a question with some whether his services have been enlisted either of the officers of the department in preparing the answer to the resolution; Yesterday he was closeted for two hours with Mr. Toucey. The*answerto Mr. Kunkel’s resolution relative to contracts for coal is not forthcoming yet. This is a subject which will be investigated by the Select Committee now sitting. I had occasion to state a few days since that Tyler, Stone&.Co. of Philadelphia supply the Government with all the coal shipped from that port, and that Mr. Taucey’s nephew (Mr. Beach) was one of that company. I also learn that the senior member of that firm is also a nephew to the Secretary, of the Navy, by marriage. It appears by this and other facts, that Secretary Toucey, in. conducting the. naval affairs of i the United States, gives as little out of his own familj’ circle as possible. In this connection, I am refninded of the fact that Secretary Taucey has given the contract for building the marine engine for the large sloop-of-war at the Portsmouth (N. ,H.) yard, to Woodruff &. Beach of Hartford, Conn., for the sum of $125,000 —just $27,000 more than the Novel Iron Works bid for constructing the same engine, and $15,000 above the bid of the Allaire Works. Now, one remarkable fact about this contract is, that Woodruff & Beach have never built a marine engine, while the Novelty Allaire Workshave great experience in the construction of such engines. As it cannot be., possible that Mr. Toucey disregarded the lowest bidders, in the present state of the Treasury, for the sake of giving the contract, with the additional sum 0f527,000,t0 Woodruff & Beach simply because the junior memb<‘r of that firm happens to be another nephew of his, it nuist be—and, in charity, I will so consider it—-that, in the kindness of hie heart, he desired the Hertford firfri an

opportunity to test their skill, and compete r with the older and more experienced estab-j lishments!