Connecticut western news., 1879-01-08

ship, and If he had not enough could borrow them. A comparison of the crew as taken from the description in the papers, and the Jack tars themselves would be amusing. To-day if an Amer ican ship were compelled to go to sea without majority of her crew aliens, she would lie at the dock long time before making sail.
 Every time we read that some enter prising sea captain has discovered the sea serpent we think of old Capt. Ansel Nye and his experience in that line. Capt. Ansel sailed schooner from the Kennebec to Boston. Becalmed one day in Boston Bay he saw the veritable sea serpent. It lay in the water about four or five miles off. Nearly its whole length could be seen, and it appeared to be about sixty or seventy feet in length. Its head reared up about six feet, and the serpent moved gently with the light waves. Capt. Ansel watched the sea serpent through his glass and his pas sengers, half dozen in number, also took a good look and began to crow over the story they would have to tell when they reached home. Capt. Ansel de- termined upon better view and lower ing away boat he was pulled towards the beast. Approaching it nearer and nearer and the serpent not moving of, judge of his surprise to find the beast was the mainmast of vessel that had evidently been in the water for some time. Its surface was covered with car buncles and seaweed which gave it the scaly appearance of the serpent, and the seaweed which clung about the keel | timbers still attached to the mast was 1 much deceptive. Capt. Nye and his passengers all declared that so strange was the resemblance between the old mainmast and the imaginary serpent ot the sea, that had they not approached it they would have h,d no hesitation in making an affidavit that they had seen the veritable sea serpent itself. Aneare1 view of the beast would no doubt relieve the minds of many sailors of the marvel ous..that attaches to the wonderful stories of what they have seen.
 The late Caleb Cushing began life with the century. He was born at Sails bury, Essex county, Mass, Jan. IF, 1900. He graduated at Harvard Col lege at the age of seventeen, and opened law office in Newburyport in 1922. He was elected to the Massach usetts Legis- lature for several terms. His public ca reer began with his election to Congress as g Henry Clay Whig, in 1885. By three successive ra-elections his term oi service as 8 Representative was pro- longed for eight years, ending in 1849 when President Tyler nominated hin for Secretary of the Treasury, the Sen ate rejecting him. He was accepted .! Minister to China, the same year, re turning to Newburyport in 1S46. The Massachusetts Legislature having re iected bill to raise funds to equip i regiment for the Mexican war, MT Cushing furnished the means from hi own pocket, and went to the seat of wal as Colonel of the regiment in the spring of 1847. President Polk made him ( Brigadier General. He was defeated for Governor, while still in Mexico Under President Pierce he was Attorney General, and under President Grant ht was one of the counsel of the United States at the Geneva Conference. Hi name was proposed by President Gran as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court but'he was not confirmed by the Senate and he went as Minister to Spain.