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Advertisements not having the number of insertions marked on them, will be cnntinued uutiloidered ont uind charged accordingly. Communications, post paid, will be prompt v and strictly attended to. 117 The following gentlemen are announced by their friends as candidates for the Oflice of Tax Collector. at the ensning election Col. JOHN QUATTLEIU3, GEORGE J. SHEPPARD, EDMUND MORRIS. SAMPSON B, MAYS, Lieut.JANJES B. IAItRIS, 5aj. S. C. SCOTT, LEVI R. WILSON. JAMES SPANN. D17 The New York Skipping and Commcr cal List,contains the following statement, show. ing the not proceeds to tie seller in the United Statea after paying all ordinary and necersary expenses, of.Upland C.otton;faunded on actual sales in Liverpoolanid a computation of f1Z pennysterling per pound frcights. and nine per cent..premium on the elchange-insurance at peace rates 3 pence nets 41 cts. ' pence nets 131ets. :N " 548" 8 " J41 4 64 " 9 " 15 44 " . " 9. 1 6" i o and~!.: What tho' a tbntusa Shall throb on eart For hurled down hy thoei~i darts Their dream of life isb'er! They came at duty's trumpet call, With high resolve they came, Where better could a soldier fuill? Where leave a prouder name ? And is there one within our land, Whate'er his tenets be. r That honors not our gallant band, Who've won such victory ? Re his the shame-be his the doom, Of traitor and of knave, A life of self- reproach and gloom, A lone, unhonored grave! On Buena flsta's bloody plain, No party voice was heard, But side by side ouT ranks were slain, t And side by side interred; And shall we far from fear and harm, Tilk lightly of the might. t Of those, who 'mid the war's alarm, Are battling for our right!?t n Hluzza.' A thousand hearty cheers, t F'or all our gallant men;c With shouts ofjoy, and burning tears, We'll greet themr home ngaini; Joy, for the forms that safe return d Trears for the gallant slain! ( And let e-ch heart the craven spuarn, b2 That treats them with disdlaimn. u R. M.C. I SCIENTIFIC EXPED[TION TOi THE DEAD SEA. A paragraph pumblished a few days c - since in the New York Herald stated t that a party of naval officers, tinder thme r command of Lieut. W. F. Lynch would shortly sail from that port, in the United |s States store ship Supply, to the Medi-| terranean, for thme pmrpose of making an s ec ploration and survey of the Dead Sea. The editor has since received the fol- e lowing interesting conmmtunication rela-| imye to the expedition : To the Editor of the Herald :t 'in reference to the proposed survey r pf the Dea Sea, several of the newspa- t pers have asked "cui 4ona ?"z As the first public intimation was giv.. i en, without my knowvledgeu, through your a columns, I ask permission to avail myself 3 of the sampe meditum to answer, biiefly, i to the point of abrumptness, qgnesm ions at onco so natural and so reasonable, a Although most rinlctanit to parade miy e insignificant name in print, I take this( step without an instant's hesitation, in jumstice to thme enlighltened statesman wvhose mind in man instant, gr~isped thme impot tance of the questions at issue and foresaw the credit to be atcqumired by his contry in their solution. .For tupwards of four thousand years, e tle Dead Sea has laid in its deep and won 'derous chasm, a withering record of the visitation of God's wrath upon his sinful.creatures. Itself once a fortile vale, teeming with population and re dundant with the products of a favored clime, it. not lies inert and sliggish, a mass of-Jark and bitter waters, with no living thing upon its shore, or above, or beneath its sutface. Receiving at one extreme, the mighty volume of a swift and unfailing river, and the numerous lorrents that plunge into it through the clefts in its sides, it slowly rises and falls in its own solitary bed, with no visible outlet for its tributary waters. Its lofty ind fretted sides riven by earthquattkev tocre blanched by the.rain, there blac ?ncd by the tempest,-rise perpendici . |arly fifteen hundred feet on one side, ind two thousand feet on the other; ivhile from tha'summit the awe-struck ;pectator br-holds floating upon its sur racehuge masles.of bitumen, thrown up rrom its mysterious vortex. Mount Lebanon is 9~000 feet above the Medi erranean, and 10,300 feet above the Dead Sea, which is little more than nrie iundred miles distant from it. The 'Cotral" in the Island of Madeira is wonderful, for it is the bed of a crater carly level with the ocean; but here is sea, forty miles distant from another tea, and uptvards of thirteen hundred feet >elow it. Thre tnhappy Costigan, the mlv man who -has undertaken to cir :uninavigate thissea, and who perished n the attempt, could in one place, find to bottom, and it was indicated by in :essrnt bubbles and an agitated surface. -Whether or not this be the crater of a ;ubrnerged volcano, forming a subter aneous aqueduct with the ocean, who .an -tell This unfatitormable spot heer or not thi ough an extinct volca connexion with the depression of ae.id the ' a conttguo.s r.inary clnce,gani rio t ie.d ole risiia iyoirdor - It& a smy whic .has remained' upenetrable spce the awful. moment dhin the inters of that oidrous sea rst ruso abive t Ie-smouldering ruins of lie vale of Siddim. -The configuration f one half .of its shores, and its very xtent,. are unknown. Its waters, of a etrifying quality, and limpid as a moun min streanm, doubtless hold within their osom; and holding,. will reveal those uins, upon the non.existenco of which te unbeliever states his incredulity. Strabo, Diodoros, Pilny and Josephus mong the ancients-and Maundrell, 'ocock, Abbe Martine, Chateaubriand, .a Martine, S:ephens and Robinson, mong the moderns, all differ as to tiw xtem, and many of the peculiatities of tis sea. Considerable streams are said > empty into it, the very names of hicn are unknown. Some have heard te gambolings of fish upon its surfacs, hile others deny that any animated ting n hatever can exist *swithin its dense nd bitter waters. Frtuits, luscious to ie eye, but of nauseous taste, and rumbling in the grasp, are said to he >und upon its shores. Many travellers eny the existence of all vegetation, and mliateaubriand asserts flint . ho foutnd ranches of the tamarind trees strewn pot thte beach. Its southt.rn coast is tid to consist of masses of solid salh; thite, as far the eye can reach fronm s northern extreme, it beholds only the rashed and barren htillIs of Juden on ne side, and those of Arabia Petrea on le other.--AlI is vague, uncertain anid lysterious. Are the questions answered ? . Or, hall a small pecuniary consideration eithhlold a country such as this, from ucht ant undertaking ? I admit that it is not a suimmer's en. tirsion, andl that Bi itish oflicers are saidi have twice failed in a like attemipt. hould that circrumstance deter 1 I yen ire to say, that within the broad peri, htery of this land, which, cradled be ween oceans, stretches 'rom the frigid one to thre tropics, there is riot one ative 'oorn or true hearted adopted ciri ent who will answver in thte affirmative. Ve owe something to the scientific and 1e Christian world, andl while extending be blessings of civil liberty ini the souith nd west, may well atfford to foster sci nce and strengthen rte bulwvarks of. htistiaunity in the east. W. F. LYNCH, U. S. N. We shall look forward to the restult of uis expedition- with rno little interest. C'uriosities of Art.-[t is singutlar ow mnry rmetn have directed their en rgie of mindl to nerfecting toys, whlichi altho' displaying wonderful invention powers, yet have not conferred any benefit on makind or have ever been used for any other purpose than a place of amusement-the childish exhibition of mascaline mind, the fame offoolery, the foolery of fame. Thus,Jerome Fab'er, nn Italian pri and a native of Calabria, exercised hr self in a species of induistry, wopderfuil fion its difficulty. He finished work of box-wood, which re{irednted all the mysteries of tie Passion, and which might he put in the shell of a walnut. Tojim was ater.ihuted a coach the size heat, within which, there n a-nran and a woman, a d and horses who 1 e~se wpe presented to Fran cis the bd Charles the V. In ue tomb of Confucius has' been n , small miniature, no larger than a nut, Gut- vonderfully composed of gems, but its value consists ofr the labor expende'd on its execution. its landscaprs, dragons, a ngels, ; nimals and human figures, would reiire several pages of description, which, after all, would, without a view of ibc. model, prove tedious and unintelligible. Charles the Fifth of Spain iad a watch was confined in the jewel of his ring, and a watchmaker in London presented George the Third with one set in the sane manner. Its size was something less than a silver two-pence, and it contained one hundred and twenty five different parts, aid weiglied alto getler no more than five penny weights and seven grains. Th'! tomb of Rafael, exectited by an Italian named Raccavala, is indeed a wonder. It is only twelve inches in diameter. It is adorned with various arch:itectural ornaments in the richest style of Gotkic, and also figures of the Virginia and Child. The work -is. said tobe of unrivalled beauty and merit. Thi model is contained in a case of rought gold, irid is itself of box-wood. Cneral -designi majbe regar ded as ctural, embellished,:with.several tnenits'of Asulptrureorcarving, arotussgroups of gurgs. ese . rffidenr events ii'thi life of Christ;some of-the figures ireles 3harr,a quarter of an in-c in height; but. though thus minute, are all flitished with the -greatest precision and skill, and what renders this arrangement still more curious.and admirable, is thre delicacy and beaity with which the back and distant- figures are executed.-Scicn tific Mechanic. Anecdote of Stephen Girard. -The following capital anecdo'e, illustrative of the late Stephen Girird, of Philadel phia, is from the New Bedford Mlercu. ry : Mr. G. had a favor ite clerk, one who every way pleased him, and who, when at the age of 21 yeats, expected Mr. G. to say something to hint of his fu ture prospects, and perhaps lend him a helping hand in starting him in the world. But Mr. G said nothing, care fully avoiding the subject of his escape from minority. At lnth21lr. after the lapse of some week-, the cler k metstered courage enough to addiess Mt. G. upon thre subject. "I suppose, sir," said the ch-rk, "I1 am free., arid I throught I would say~ somecthing to you as to mv frutre course. What do yo r think I had better do 7" "Yes, yes, I knew you are," said Mr. G., "atnd my advice to y'ou is, that you go anti learn a cooper's trade." This announcement well nighi threw tho clerk off the track ; but recovering Iris equillibrium, he said if Mr. G. wvas in earnest, lie -would do so. "I ani in earnest"-and the clerk rater hiesitaitingly sought one of the best coopers, and agreed withi him uplonl thre termis of ahpprenticeshrip, anud went at it in good earnest, and ini course of time made as goodl a barrel as any one. He went and told Mr. G. that Ihe hadl graduated wvith all the honors of the craft, and was readhy to set upl hris busi, ness, at which ttie old man seemed grart ified, arnd told hinm to make rhree of the best barrels lhe couild. Thn~ youtng cooper selECted the brest materials, arid soon put into shape arnd finisherd three of the best biarrels, and whleeled them tip to the old mnirt's counting roonm. Mr. G. said the barrels wvere first rate, arid demanded the price. "Onri dollar," said the clerk, "'is as lowv as I can live by." "Cheap enoughr," said hris employer, "maot your bill antd present it." And- now conies thre creami of thre whrole. Mr. G. dlrewv a check for twenty thotisaind dollars. and hi mdred it to thre clerk, closing with the~se words: ''There take that, and invest it in thre best possible wvay, and if you are unfor tunatn arnd lose it, you hrave a goodl trade to fill back uploni, which wilI aifrord you. a good living at all timies" ONgfYfDA - PN.-EXTRA 0R1ESE MILL. .an ' MD 41ej vhenever ho comes adtng, o bb found in pos session q"4g. His lst is an. itactory, and its me ~ fold- the followviti woe 46dnt a table, in ashviinal itadating crack, ers a r -sdtion turned upon lgar TINijre cheese pre sented f row Jackson." said .one1. "Yesit-ei Itindrd pounds and ufwir s Ote other. -A ypang. Io was sining seadinga ame room, el ed :s H 0' 4 y, sirV "How "Nin tipivrd," an% swered t "Tha large as som my father onty" was the young ma cheese general ly averag pounds." o bofo undsd!" exclaimed the tivi strgnge porfect astonish ment. Whay, tes he mange aI a milk-dairy so; ible of making uli an enormous cite ;I inquired both si-I n ultneouslya ck "Veryceasily. 1 led theiyoung man. I "fie has an eciksiWe trough leading down the side of a1 de lhll on his . I and half way dowO ore is an imiuense va t ; theco ws al lk d in the trough, and the same runi-anto this reservor, about midway, onje w.ide of t e hill." Leaving the ,si p"ers to digest hisc dcscri'tion, thle y man coolly laid down hi papera alked off. Pr sontly theandor n ped in. th "Do * 'you knbN' young mn tht left thi!riom a minutes since ?"am enquirc4-cne b h aar. the t w strang praetr atn m t. Whsays dandlord "he is' the son adatryo er in Ainvuc 11in l ns cer fop,.- tth aiid'" vr oius inqe 6-1i uieth "er aslyidthdyug an Ii it "H as an ese se troug eaing V dot~~ ,uAhe sdof'ilo h.'is lace g us thalfat w atdr man'ai s imeses < at his darFy ain this countywhich vrogh rage about tro thousnd pouvds in "I don't ki ow an thing about the wveighit of _his cheese," 'ansvortld 'the landloid, "but I know thant his old own rns at the bottom of the hill, on hig t place, two sa mills, which are driv ai de nhole year round by ohe .ey which v runs from his cheese prsss!" " .heill you be so kind as to order us t our ihorss?" quietly remarked the i rveler.-Rcvllie. s r Ches vs. Cannon Slaot.-The i ~ratest ammunition that we have heard it iX lately was used by the ceebrated Coin. Coe, of the M intivedean navy, vlio, in an engagement with Admiral Brown, of the Buenos Ayrean service, 7 Ired every shot from his lockers. 'Whait shall we do, sirl' asked his first lieutenant. 'We'vo not a single iliot aboard-round,- grape, cannister d double headed, re all gone.' Pwdigh onei che', as ore . e rNsir; th bot of thteth.' n ist ~the whlarud a by hr cheywsicha rund fromchi onefdeseprs! -td e t -'ill d you bemsoe kitnd ai ode Cus. 'ough to;rses?" qtie cearind thefe itryengeto-cuei.i h 'Ar hee s annoen abod The' greathe g amu ito thwe havepouad b 'fBay wasder Cused rte butebrat's Co.Ce fthe idaM'r em,'ecredethn navyt who, in an engamnt th Airstofth Brow ntfethe Buens Areapnev, ' Aired evrowonhr short fromhiinckrs 'Wrhis ha wedsirly akedo tis sthi mbai-mand,- gape, cnisiterso ddle eadedn fle ail gev.'irc 'Weha a dai ithard whchteee Drudy Duth one camdesr ainn to-. a ortand ildo voo men who ier staid e in ar him t; anbdk th strking ife -p inBtyin o cthi itoo muhir.isi cAe slthroug his soeaboard lie gav th 'Abou to dozen.yan acuae book'emd rot oa thoer. figt reevn atn bradidte go nt ches 1pun' was thndirstltnn Cm o oo'bu shp.s And n afeminutesI the mattr of the. foverhis athead, Dire.edy a otem man named Lander. upon his grand father, for some $20,000 a settleuent has been affected. Whether it has been a forgery or not, the paper is all to be taken up by the gentleman whose name it bears. A GRECIAN BURIAL. When a soul departs, their lamernria tations are terrible, but they sorrow for the survivors only! as for the dead, they count. him in all things a conquerer ; so they place the lanrel garland onl his brow, anid in his hand the balm of victorv ! They uncover the face, that all may see what a man:jesty of most serene re pose is stamped thereon, and they sing i hymn of thankkgving as they bear aim away to his rest. I remember when they buried that bright-eyed Greek miden, satched suddenly from oarth, when her young heart was light as her 'ace was fair; they arrayed hr, so rigid md motionless, in the gay dress she had iever worn but for soie great f:-te or Ydla, as thougi this more than any wet e ;.day of rejoicing for her ; an'd thus ttired, with her long hair spread out wer her still bosom, all decked with lowers, they laid her unconfined in her trave. At her feet they placed a small lask of wine and a basket of corn, in iccordance withn ancient Greek su ierstition, which'supposes that for three lays and nights the disembodied spirit inigers naom ning round its- tenement of lay, the garment of its mortality, where n, as a pilgrim and a stranger on the arth, it lived and loved, it sinned and ffered ! As soon as the first symptom if decay announces that the course of :orruptionis at work, they believe the murer essence.depars to purer realms. fore the- grave was closed, whilst for lie last.time the warm radiance of. the unset casia glow like lhe .mockerj. of if-o r, Ihe matil"- ice of.the p*ior o.tng girl, herfriends, as a asupreca.ti aen, took masures'to ascenainW tsh& as acnialf dead,'nd not :a*swo phi 'heea a t en str__ ~j~hict-el~se~ dimwasah svnt me~ eceased loved- besr, thfhi6ie nay "o the young b36tathid,-'ji'hi6hi oped to place on he/headthgay'ri al crown, instead of' the greei laurel aaland-of dEath,,advandesand calls her y name, repeating after it the wotd la (come) several times, in a tone of ae aiost passionate .entreaty;. if she is lute to ihis appeal, if she is deaf to the oice that was deaaest to her on' earth, aey no longer doubt that she 'is dead; ley cover up the grave, lift up their yes to the heaven where they believo er to be, for the Greeks do not hold te doctrine of purgatory, and having iade the sign of the cross, they depart i silence to their homes. 'roma the Correspondeice of the Evening News. W AsiNGToN, Dec. 1, 1847. 'he Season-Arrival of Memlers-Who will be Speaker ?-Canlidates for the Clerkship, etc.-The Fremonte Trial its cost-The Message. This, the first wiater month, 'vas shered in with a slight fall of snow; but soon disappeara d, as dhoth the fuost, nder thae etTect ofthae solar rays. There will nearly, be a full aa:endance C aenmbers oh Coangress, (of the House speciaily,) on the far-t day of thao ses in; for boith Whligs- and Democrats, as me nmajority of then fornmer is small, wil nier amto a spirited coanaest for the 'petakershiip and oathaer officers. The otels tare already falliang up; every arri al of then Soauthern boat and thae rail ad train froma thae North aand West rings unm accession of members. The most proaminent of the candidates >r Speaker (who receivessixteen loillas day,)arae, M'r. WVintharop, of Massua hausetts, anda Mr. Hillard, of Alabama. ,Ir. Wintharop, ;alhough ai(t an avowed boli:ioanists, is frienidly to the ftanatics. ['bis is objectionable to the Southern Vhigs, and he cannot, therefore, rely on icir votes. But M~r. [1 illtard, being, rom thae South, is not similarly obnox mns. Between a choice of wvhat the, iouthern Denmocrats considetr ovals, if riven to the alternative, no one can outht whlich thaey wiill prefer. So much mr thec Souathiern vote. And threre tare or a fewv Whligs from other sections rho woal ianfiaitely prefer Mr. Hilard.. Vhant is much in his favor with the )enaacrats is, thaat lie was thae only WVhig who voted for the revenue bill of 1846; aid while Mr. Wyvntharop, with thirteen thers, voted against the recognition of ,n citistiang wi'ar on thme part of the Ulni ed States wvith Mexico, Mr. Hilliard rotedl for it. Tlhaeso, tare argaumeants in hvor~ of Mr. Hlillaird to-day. M~r. Calteb 3 Smi:h, of Inaditana, is also spoken of 'or thaat high station. On Ie riday nighat a cauaeus of' the WVhig members will he mla, ;aa,1 wiaoe,- ,thay aaomiait ei: receive the vote of their party. Of course the selection of Mr. Hillard as the candidate cannot be depended upon as certain, but, under present circum stances, his prospects seem to be in the ascendant. On the Whig side, Matthew St. Clair Clarke, John C. Clarke, and Nathai Sei geant, are among three or four others who have announced themselves for the office of Clerk; and for Door Keeper there are, so far, seven or eight candi. dates. Besides, the station of Postmas terJf.g House is a good fat one, as is alSM0 fthe Sergeant-atArns, all of wiil.Qbents have patronage. And as ~'there.are many applicants for the minor offices, there is, as a consequence much electioneering by the host of major and miror expectants.-The Democ-ats will hold their caucus on Saturday night. Little is said about their candidate for Speaker.,. or French, the present Clerk, af ..Whitney, the Doorkeep er, will _4Us little doubt, again be placed ' in-tion; and, though it is not pro=. the friends of the Majoz nre in god spirits, and say they have a prospect of his success. Weha o ic of conversa tof tn .at yas that of the as eshall do e' , intd tii rnotlat This imich'interest persone at a dist 11'. c -in this city it is regarded as hig & portant. - The Court Martial in the case of Lieut. Col. Frentente did-hot sit to-day. To-morrow the defe6ce, will. be cow mencedJ. Publit o, i i d with regard to whatw - h ig of the - Court. The. e- o.vg a e sed think that hii b i and others ate of opinion .hi _44i d judgedl guilty n~tot mt.b* > 04 sin pf. fi r.sinc 464o eforu Tte Coming Sessifn Pblic P a ing-fria Wit at e Wile House The Premonte Trial-Biographies of Members of Congress. As the day for the meeting of Corre gress approaches, the interest in the claims of the respective candidates for office in the House increases on the part of those who fondly expecl to be bene. fitted by the result. There are many happy faces now; but some of them, before the close of another week, witf present an aspect of sadness, Wendall & Co., the Public Printers elected by the last Congress, for this, have conveniently arranged their estab lishment. Unfortunately for them, their founts of type are said to be deficient, owing to a diiappointment, The fore. men of two offices in which the public printing wvas formerly executed, were applied to foir a loan; but it was not convenient to grant it ! The sorts, they saidh, could not be collected. It is no woender, then, that liutle progress has been made in the work usually executed before the meeting of Congress And to-dlay there is some gossip that the two H-ouse-s will repeal the law weruhorizing thme printing to be given out by contract. No doubt it would not be urvwelcomw to the editors of tfm two ptincipal oppo'. sing politica? organs, if the old arrange-. ment should be restored. Each B~ouse, in such an event, could bestowv patronage on ius flavorite editor, A few days auo, the President, white promirmding the grounds on #hich the IExeccumive mansion is erected, espied' a rough wooden box neamr the shrubbery. lie accosted the 1.rish gardener, "What have you got there,Denuis ?' A cooen,sir, (touching his lhat) which I caught yes terday in yon corner." "A coonr !" replied his Excellency,- "I have heard that they are good eating." "Dy jn.. bcrs !" said the sun of g~rin, "an' I'd not he ailing the baste." "Why n'ot 7" Because, responded Denis, "before I came to MJerikay, I heard that the coons was opposed to yer M~ajesty,"' The President turned aside, with a smile,and resumed his morning walk. It was expected that Lieut. Colonel Frenmonie would commence his defence to-day; but, owing to the siclsucss of a member of the Court, it wats deferred until to-morrow. Thme public haeve long been tired of the proceedings, and-there fore it is not necessary to say ay thing at'present on the subject. tA gentleman oftalents, and attached to te reortig cops; as ben9osom