The buffet which surmounts the mantle contains some curious china and glass, among which may be enumerated a porcelain figure of a monster, with the body and legs of an elephant and a grim head, half brute and half human, and some Japanse figures upon its back all indicative of the connection of the first emigrant to America with the Dutch West India Company. This very curious ornament for many years stood on the parlor mantel piece at Castle Philipse near Tarrytown, then occupied by the Beekman family -- but in 1847 Cornelia Van Cortlandt, wife of Dr. Gerard G. Beekman, and sister of General Pierre Van Cortlandt, restored this heir-loom to the manor house ; some curious china brought by Captain Dean from China for Gen. Pierre Van Cortlandt and late James Caldwell of Albany, cornucopia for flowers, brought from Holland; curious glass goblets, opaque thread in stems, pair of buckles made of conch shells, &c, &c. In china closet, in parlor -- old china brought from the east in the early part of seventeenth century by the Van Cortlandts, including a china stand for ashes of pipe with brass foot ; very small and ancient tea-pots, china shaving-basin, the property of late William Caldwell of Albany in use 153 years. Piece of china which belonged to Lord Fairfax over 200 years old ; glass tumbler with colored figures brought by theRomeyn's from Holland in 1654, and. then thought to be very old; box made of wood of the " Endeavour," the ship in which Capt. Cook sailed round the world ; she was brought to Newport, R. I., condemned as unseaworthy; the keel was sold to a cabinetmaker, and used for canes, boxes, &c. Medallion of Franklin, made of the red clay of Passy. Beaumarchais caused them to be struck from a profile sketched by Mile.