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Show THE NEW SECRETARY OF THE NAVY. o ask our reader lo notlco that the new Secretary of tho Nn, Hon, William Wil-liam II Moody of Haverhill, Mass, baa tcpieaentid for aeveial jeara In Cougre Cou-gre iho dlatiict In vvhKh those two good old Matsaclnifitts towns of Olou-ccster Olou-ccster unci Miubleheud are situated (Iloueester, our Moment rlshlng clt, with lis hunUied of smacks going down to the bank of New l'oundland, regularly regu-larly coming back, some of them, getting lost In tho fog, others of tliein, nil their crews acquitting them-aelvea them-aelvea like captains courageous who know no danger and who care for nothing noth-ing mi much aa th women nnd the children who are liable any morning to know that they have been left widows and orphans. Murhlehead. now a manufacturing manu-facturing town, but formerly Itaelf n tlahtng town, fairly depopulating Itself to send many of Its men Into Die navy in the Civil war, nnd before that, in the w ir of 181.', when our dauntleaa American sailors were nearly everything every-thing to the patriot cause. It wa a company nf Marhleheadar who con-vejed con-vejed the l"alhr of hi Country acmes the Delaware They and the men of Gloucester have been allor- if there have ever been In the lu. ory of th world men who could b called sailor at nil. Nqw. It may 1m (aid that w of the Western country do not appreciate a full as v. might the need and the glory of our navy, but we do under-land under-land them, and we want them to lie appreciated throughout the land. We ay. too. that tha Navy department and tho Administration arc fortunate in having at the head of these affair a man of brain and vigor and courage, and of special value to the I'nited State as a naval power, bcaue of hi peraonal acqualntancoahlp with the men of f!loucter ami of Marhleheacl, than whom, for generations back, we have never produced finer atraln. |