The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-09-18

scehioo coVeys oil sweet pretty quaker country girls
IN neat and simple snuff coored rigging, who were,
natheess, not TO be sneezed at In short have been
decidedly in clover, and have laid in stock of it
for future rumination. On my return was shock.
ed TO learn (what alas, now almost all know and la
ment) the death of Mrs. Tyler Twas sad and
heart rending berea VEN mt not only TO her noble,
prosecuted husband to her family, her friends, and
associates, but peculiarly to the host of INDECENT,
humble and broken spirited sufferers TO whom the
loss OF her sympathy and assistance is indeed ire
parable To guilt and crime death is truly the fell
destroyer-lhe King of Terrors"-and there are but
few OF us who can contemplate Individually the
currence OF his advent without shudder But TO
Mrs Tyler he came kind ard welcome friend !;
the messenger glad tidings and endless happiness
10 call her pure and gentle spirit TO its appropriate
home. Amid the deep sorrow of their aff1iciion,
fsllll must BE- consolation to her stricken family
TO feel assured that che is now and forever relieved
from the severe physical suf1erngs with which SHE
has been so long afflicted, and that her pure soul
and devoted feelings no more be distressed by
the bitter, reckless and malignant abuse which dis
appointed swlndlers and mercenary presses lavish
on her husband
The reorganization of the Navy Department, as
| stated In my last, has gone into operation The
Dill which authorised it passed on the last day of the
session; IN the hot haste Of the greedy expectanis OF
the Offices therein provided for several gross errors
were committed in It's engrossment. These were
not discovered till after the presiding officers of the
two Houses and the President had signed the bill,
reorganization bill passed by Congress is very diff
lerent affair from that under which the several Bu
re ix oil the Department are now in operation -
ms creates necessity of having the whole sub
!ect reconstructed at the next session, when trust
indeed know, that another sort of arrangement
VIII De provided Tor AS 1t is, the Department. to be-
sure, Is re organised, but not improved The same
od men the sea, as tenacious and pondrous as Sin
Udu famous accompaniment, still cling TO its shout
ders and paradise its energies The same stupid,rv
the same ignorance, the same obstinate adherence
to antiquated prejudces, long since discarded by all
other nations that pretend to the possession of Ma
wy ana oosolescent even IN our own CONNIE re- al
marine, have been merely transferred from the
late office OF Navy Commissioners to the super
vision and direction Of four of the new Blu.
reau. The main argument which induced Con-
2ress 10 ADOPT the measure, was the thorough
radiance OF the Navy Commissioners in every
shape, which 1t was believed the bill would
effect Their exIravagance, incompetence anc
commensurate selt.conceit, had Justly rendered
them odious to Congress and to the country. Any
eVi, any plan OF administration preferable to
the waste and arrangement caused by their presence
and control In the Department. With very few ex
ceptions, they have always been old uneducated
WORKOUT Captains brave, | admit, bulldogs,
but guitess OF Improvement and innocent of brains
Any suggested deviation from the beaten track, was
sure to be received by them as rank heresy and i'm
pertinent interference. The modern discoveries Of
science or developments of ingenuity applicable 10
various interests of the Navy were TO them sealed
mysteries. They did not listen nor believe in any
such nonsense. When the plan of reorganization
was first agitated during last session. every friend OF
the Navy advocated it, under the confident impress
sion that all tine different members of the Board OF
Navy commissioners, past and present, who had SC
lorg personated tin kettles tied to the tail of the Ne
Wy, would be cut adrift from their connection with
the Department The bill has passed. but the ket-
ties are still here, spced to the Department. sepa
rately and more injuriously than ever-Messicurs
TOnsons come again! One Of them has in tow
navy-yards and docks Conservatism is prominent
ly his forte, Like his colleagues he has oscillated
to and fro from the command efnavy yards to a seal
in the Board of Commissioners and is consequently
fully aware what the utility, arrangement and police
of navy yards should be, viz: what they were in
England and France quarter of century since
But as TO the construction OF docks, and the scien-
| ufc Information which superintendent of them
| mplies-e. g.: hydraulics, hydrostaics, archtec-
ture, &c. &c-very, Webb has just as distract and
correct an idea of honesty. There is, it will be
the bill, TO attend to this branch of its duties But
of what avail are his labors and plans, while they
| are controlled and thwarted by such superior
| There was eminent naval architect attached to
| the late Board of Commissioners Ask him why
e-fourfhs of national vessels for sailing DUAL.
ites little better than floating watts, TO the dis
grace of the nation and deep modification of our
officers and seamen :? Ask him, whose laundering
dogmatic interference ruined his draughts and mod
els and made our men of war what they are shame
fully surpassed in sailing by almost every packet
ship out of New York
have a great deal more TO say on this subject
which will defer to my next. The defects of this
bureau of yards and docks are perfection in com
parison to those OF the others.
Very truly, &C., J.V