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largest merchant ship in the world. She is 230 feet 

 in length, 42 breadth of beam, 25 1-2 depth of hold, 

 and clipper built ; she will be 25 feet longer than any 

 merchant vessel sailing from that port. All the prin- 

 cipal pieces are to be of live oak, and, what is alto- 

 gether novel in the construction of American merchant- 

 men, a system of iron lattice-work, or diagonal iron 

 bracing, is to be introduced, with a view to secure the 

 greatest practicable degree of strength. She is to 

 be finished in about six months, and will run from 

 New York to Canton, via California, and thence 

 home, completing the circuit of the globe with each 

 trip. She will measure near 2,500 tons. 



The number of light-houses in the United States is 

 288, and 82 floating-lights ; 61 of which are on the 

 northern lakes, 



The Secretary of State has communicated to the 

 two Houses a list of the number of seamen registered 

 in the United States for the past fiscal year, of which 

 the subjoined is a recapitulation ; — 



