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The United States Navy.

--The Naval Register for 1861, just published, gives the following list of naval vessels: 10 line-of-battle ships, 10 sailing frigates, 21 sailing sloops-of-war, 8 sailing brigs, 1 schooner, and 6 storeships — total, 51 sailing vessels, and 7 first-class steam propellers, 6 second-class steam propellers, 2 second-class (old and worn) steam propellers, 12 steam gunboats, 2 screw tenders, 3 first-class side-wheel steamers, 1 second-class steam propellers, 3 third-class steam propellers, 1 side wheel steam tender, and 2 steam storeships.--Total, 42 steamers--90 ships in all. About 20 of them are serviceable men-of-war of modern stamp.

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