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Show UNCLE Lecivlti DIG l-LCET. It It Sentlorcil Alt Over tlio lliirtli l'ro-tertlntr l'ro-tertlntr Aim-rlciiii lnlerei. At no tlmo within recent years has the United Stntes government been so well represented In foreign wuters by an nrineil ttnvnl force, nor so poorly provided for In ships at home, as tit present. Three big cruisers nro nt Itio Janeiro, two more uro on their way there, nml this number will be Increased In-creased to six-by the monitor Mlnti-tonomoli. Mlnti-tonomoli. Tho gunboat Yorklown Is nt Cnllao, Tern, and tho corvplto Alliance Al-liance has sailed to Join her, from Lit Mbet tad. Tho old Yiinllo Is stationed permanently nt the mouth of tho llio do la I'lntn, charged with the duty of attending to American Interests in adjacent territory. Tho Hanger, which sailed from T.a Llbcrtatl recently for Corltito, Nicaragua, Nicara-gua, Is assigned to tho west coast of Central Amerlcu, where revolutionary outbreaks are bo frequent, whllo. tho corvotto Kearsargo, now en route from New York to San Domingo to afford protection to American life and property prop-erty la tho threatened uprising there, will cruise about thu West Indies, und, until relieved by tho cruiser San I'ran-olsco, I'ran-olsco, along tho caBt coast of Central America. Tho Thlladelphla and lite Adams nro at Honolulu. The Asiatic or China station, which bus becoutu so important through the hostile feeling of tho I'hlnoso toward Americans over the exclusion law, has bIx vessels attached at-tached to Jt, und It Is expected thnt tho Machlus, now at Hrooklyn, will sail soon to join them. Tho North Atlantic or home station has nominally llvo, but nctually only ono vessel in commission to its credit, for tho San p'rnnclsoo in on her vvny to Hlo, tho Kearsargo is bound for San Domingo (which can hardly bo called n "homo" ttort, although within tho Hues of tho slu lion), nud tho Mnelil.v; Is destined for China. Tho dynamite ei niter Vesuvius la therefore likely to bo tho sole war vessel left for service on the eastern coast of tho United Htntec, nud thu practicability of tlio Vesuvius us nn uffoctivo battleship Is In serious doubt. At tho nuvyyard nt Mara Island, Cal., tho old Mohican is lit ting for sea service, presumably In tho South Tactile. Tho coast tlofcnso vessel Monterey Is also nt Mare Island, i |