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Show - '- i ' ABOUT TIIE NAVY. Facts fathered from the Register Recently Made Public. ' Washington, Feb. 16. The new Navy Register says : In taking account of stock of what is left of the navy; it is found that there are just thirty-eight serviceable vessels, ves-sels, and twenty-six of these are classed either as third-rate or fourth-rate. There is but one first-rate, the Tennessee, and among" the serviceable vessels are four paddle-wheel steamers. Only half a dozen of the smaller vessels are iron, all being of less than 1,400 tons displacement. displace-ment. Besides these serviceable vessels there are three receiving ships, not recommended recom-mended for further sea service ; the New York, . not completed ; fourteen small monitors, whose day is past, and the five large ones, familiarly known as fraud-dads, fraud-dads, whose day has never come. A dozen sailing vessels, like the Constellation Constella-tion and Constitution, remain as relics of a bygone age, and a baker's dozen of steam tugs, such as the Nellie and Nina, complete the list. As there has been some talk in regard to naval pay of late, a few" citations from the pay table in this register may illustrate illus-trate how the schedule of the "special class," under the head of ''petty officers, seaman," etc., is arranged. A master-at-arms gets $G0 a month ; an apothecary, $60 ; a paymaster's yeoman, $60 ; a ship's writer, $45 ; a ship's corporal, $28 ; a captain cap-tain of hold, $30; a lamplighter, $25; a jack-of-the-dust,- $22 ; a bugler, $33 ; a barber, bar-ber, $33; a bayman, $18. In the "seaman," "sea-man," a seaman of the first-class erets $24 : of the second-class, 19 ; of the third-class, called "landsmen," $16. |