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Dle 10ffG CtleSs uiilcSs ttls't tSottS oiii n4i- Van Buren, or Mr. Kindle, or some other Of our. great folks. T hen we sort lem . lest as zeisel isigeIow doc 5 tie iaackerel at his Pickin Yard, for tho there are many more sorts than he finds among fish, we on- ly make three sorts, and keep } big bas- lets. one marked ssnei a,ed, 7 another rcd, and worth nothill,' and another ssfe6, and to be answered.p Ard then all tie Giner- al has to do is to say Major, Ireekon We best say so and so to that and 1 say jest 50, CT not, as the notion takes me--and then we go at 1t.

 Nekeep all the Secretaries, and the Vice. President, and some district Attorneys, and d good many mere of our folks, and Amos kindle, moving about; and they tell us just how the cat jumps. And as said afore. If 1t warnt for Congress meeting once year, we'd put the Government In a one horse wagon and go jest where We liked

 THe Seq .serpeat. following ac- count appears in the Essex Register. 1.tNe agree with the Editor of that paper, that coming from a respectable and intelligent ship master, t is the strongest piece ofeyi- Edence in favor of His Snakeship, that we have seen for a lopg time.

 On the 18th of May, 1883, on my pas sage from Salem to Philadelphia, in the schooner Mechanic, a man at the mast- head discovered something in the water, which he supposed to be an empty hogs head floating. l looked at t with the glass, and saw not only what l supposed to be a hogshead, but also several smaller objects which appeared like kegs or barrels. Ne were then 8 or 9 miles from Cape Cod light house, the sea was perfectly calm, and cur lines were out fishing. 4 short time after we discovered the object approached nearer l to Us, which attributed to current, and let our leads go to the bottom to ascertain l the set; but found if We had any NC had q slight drift from it. N.e however found that the object was alive, and soon saw ye- ny plainly that 1t was the Sea Serpent He came directly towards the vessel, and pass ca within F or 5 yards of us going quite si0W, 90 that we had an excellent view of aila Be appeared upwards of So feet i5ng, judging from the length of our vessel, as when his head was opposite our stern, l We all judged his tail to be 10 or 15 feet i beyond our bows, and our vessel is TO feet long. Lis body inthe biggest part, appear ed aba0 tl4e size of a 60 gallon casz, and i hss a6ad Has much larger, and appeared l very rough and shaped much like a horses. Lis color was a rusty black-he appeared l at q distance to have a great many humps, but as be came near, Irather thought 1t was only his nndtiiafino raOfi0n which uava f5at appearance. He never altered his direc= ton, or appeared the least disconnected by his being so near us. Is he passed us, he turned his head little on one side to lock up at Us; he swan with his head out of wa- ter. N'e#saw him fairly, for more than half an hour-he was seen by all on board as well as myself-and the mate made an en- try of it i.a ios i5J1oiN= sat the time.

 THOMAS BRIDGES.

 Salem, Aug. I9.