It traveled for a lung time about us fast as the steamer, appearing to paddle itself by the help of “an undulatory motion of its tail in a vertical plane,” The body and tail wore marked as those of the salamander are marked—with alternate bands, black and pale yellow in color. “The head was immediately connected with the body, without tiny indication of a neck.” Both witnesses state positively that the only resemblance was to some creature of the frog or newt kind, while one of them (the surgeon) says that the longer he observed it the more he was struck with its resemblance to a gigantic salamander. Its back was oval in form. No eyes or fins were seen, and it did not blow or spout water in the manner of a whale. The great part of its head its never seen, being beneath the surface. Probably the creature is of a race which survives from that very different world in which creatures of gigantic size seem to have been so much commoner than now. There appears to no manner of reason for doubting the very express evidence so succinctly and soberly given. From— Public Ledger. (Memphis, Tenn.), 20 Jan. 1877. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.