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Show Ul at hiVTa A t'lrluc qtirtdree fur Our 1'eaal Da- 'tw Yuhic, Fvb. 4. Tbe WorU aayit Naval ttUoart on duly lu this city and IWooklvn declare It It tha lu. tontluu of the goveruuieut tn place the uavy on at romplvte at war touting tis piitvihle lu time of poao-t, blU demon hlratewhat the UM!e I hiatua t-an du lu ilit way of o uniiii"miw n firing iua irou for which the United Hi .U but no need at tins time, but uip mat Utittifite fieri t guard our shoies, bih (u tho Vv floaiulthe A Hani it. Cju,. medore Montgomery Hiuard oiiminsnJ. aut of the Jtnuklyu uvy yard, got order Jatt night to have tbt new muu- Itor Terror ready t- go In rommlsslnn March 11. The ahlp ha beeo under construction for years, and It will lai the capoi'y of lha yard to finish bar In lime. The orders are, ko waver, lm lratlve. Theeaast defenve ftfiuaJroo which the government Is about to plae In oommttnlnn will be coinoed of the new ram Katahdlu, now at Brooklyn nary yard; the double terreted monitor moni-tor Terror, a n at this station; the dmible'terreted monitor Mtaiitoiiomah, Which la to be pulled eul of the mud at League ttlaod navy yard l'niladel-plila l'niladel-plila and commlsslonad; tho new mnoitor Mnadnock, titter ahlp of Ihe Terror, nearlog oompleuon at the Mare Island navy yard near Han Francuoo. All the thlpeare to Input Inactive aervlceand furnished with onioera and crew wllino the ne&t three weeks. The other eritpe of this Iron-olal squroo airasdy lu onitmstlou are to be the ftrst-clasa battleship Indiana, the sto .n.i-rls"- nattleshlp Maine, n .w at lUmp'on Iliads, and tha double-terrtted double-terrtted muitur Auipbllrlte. now at Key Watt. |