The New York herald., 1862-04-26


ment, It appears that there are two Eagle
Providence, Rhode Island, and the other
Greeleys 0wn-at Mansfield, Connecticut The
latter company, Snow says, was revived, under
an old charter, for tho sole purpose Of fulfilling
this contract, which Wilkinson was 70 obtain.
Colonel Scott had somehow or other identified
tho two companies, however, and General Rip :
Icy made the Same mistake. Perceiving thisb
Snow sends back the acceptance of the con-
tract accompanied by note to Sam. (Wiihh
sony, as see page l66 Of Stantons letter.
MANSFIELD, Conn. Deo 2S 1851
6R-Your order for the manufacture or rs 600 mul.
kets OF the Springfield patsrn 10 accepted by this
pany according 70 the specifications Of your proposals oe
u,,,.,,.. Treasurer Eagle Manufacturing Company.
the foregoing acceptance was accompanied by the ls
SAsI enclose the acceptance Of the Eagle NanufAs.
turing Company Of the proposition 70 furnish -
Eun,. The document from Ripley was addressed e
within correotsds
mo signature.)
This closes tho record, and leaves Greeley
& Company with q fine contract, paying
them five hundred thousand dollars cash, and
about two hundred thousand dollars profit
for lot Of musksts, the first of which are u
be delivered in July next, when tho war will
doubtless be concluded, and the balance some
time next year, when all the government can
do with the muskets is to sell them again At
dead loss. This is Greeley's idea of public
economy The facts are official, and oan
neither be disputed nor denied. They provs
<kot thnoa 20 khA HI~sH~ -
the financial, business and editorial controllers
of the paper-are openly interested In pal
pablo job. They show that fat contract waa
the price paid by Cameron to secure tho cee.
sation Of tho Tribune's assaults upon him(
for Warren was removed about December
1861, the very time that this contract sohsms
was carried into effect They d6monstratG
that, In order to accept this contract, Gree
ley q Co. resurrected an DID, " existing,
charter for manufacturing company in Com
necticut; and, by Cameron's own endorse.
ment, it is evident that the Tribune Assoi
citation and the Eagle Manufacturing Com
pany are identical. For Greeley to sag
that he knows nothing Of these facts Il
simply ridiculous and absurd. He profits bE
them; he turned Dana out of tho Tribune on
account of his refusal to allow journal to ba
thus degraded, and he can escape neither tho
responsibility nor the disgrace Of q partici
pance in this job.
By the light Of this record how singulariy
clear are the motives which have led Fagin
| Greeley to defend the swindlers who sur
| rounded Fremont in Missouri. Poor Greeley
was afraid that if Fremont was investigated
his own jobbery would be discovered; and
| so it has proved. The same motives, and
others connected with another Tribune stoclc
holder and his real estate at Perth Amboy, in
duced Greeley to defend Secretary Welleg
| two-and-ahalf per cent Morgan and all. From
the Des Moines Improvement Company to the
Eagle Manufacturing Company. from . ont
thousand dollar draft to five hundred thous
sand dollar contract, Greeley has progressed
rapidly in jobbery. It is about time now thai
he should cease to add hypocrisy to his othes
transgressions. It will not do for tho president
| Of nest Of public jobbers to wear the whitG
coat and white choker Of reformsr, and pratG
about economy any longer. In one Of hif
hypocritical moods Fagin Greeley once advised
that all public jobbers should be hung. We
heartily approve the motion.
|
| Some HOPE YET OF SECRETARY WELLEsL
We have received the following agreeable note
| from Captain Ericsson:-
NEW YORK, April 2s, Ise1.
| To JAMES GORDON BENNETT, ESQ.,
SR--In your remarks on the administration Of thH
Navy Department in to.day's HyRALD you havs nadvsr
sny done the Secretary Of the Navy great njustioe
relative 20 the construction Of the Monitor. more
prompt and spirited action is probably not record il
similar than that OF the Navy Department a. ~
| gard the Monitor. The committee OF naval command
ders appointed by the Secretary to decide on the pana
OF gonboats laid before tho department, occupied
less than two hours in explaining my now System. N
cson After their favorable report had been made q
The Secretary was called into MS Office, whore was
detained than five minutes In order not TO lose any
tine the Secretary ordered to"go ahead at onos'
Consequently. while the clerks OF the department
which now forms the keel plate of the Monitor was
drawn through the rolling mill am, respectfully, yeur
| obedient servant, J. ERICSSON.
This s good, and we are glad. to know the
fact. N'r statcmen. was made on excellent
auth but Capt E.'s note settles the point.
| Now, If Mr. Welles has been so decided in the
case of the Monitor, is it not charitable to sup
| pose that he has been equally so in other
| matters connected with the navy, and that his
activity has been interfered with by slow SUBJ
ordinates? We should begin to have hopes Of
making something out of the Secretary if be
were only little younger.
| We are promised in one Of the papers an
expose from the Secretarys own pen in regard
to the management of the navy, and that he in
| tends to place himself rectus in caria in all
matters about which he has been so much
| abused. Well and good Let him come out
with the document? Meanwhile, for the sub
stantial vigor Of the venerable gentleman,
as testified to by Captain Ericsson in the case
of the little Monitor, we presume Honest Old
Abe will keep him in the Cabinet little
while longer.