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For the Sunday Appeal
Tn GENERAL FORREST.


How fares it, soldier brave and bold,
Erst chieftain OF the wood and void,
Since now thou rnay'st not ride
In the wild foray's bloody van,
or headlong lead thy reckless clan
To stem the battles tide?
Ye woke fhe echoes of the world
Brave southrons. ere your deg was furled;
And lis is hard to bear
'rwere better to be lying low
Ry your blue rivers restless flow,
With the brave who perished there,
Than live to view, with powerless hand,
The despots heel on the loved land,
For which ye fought in vain.
How long ye battled, and how well,
In gooth, your Northern foes can tell,
And their graves on hill and plain.
Once, Forrest, safer 'twere to wake
The sleeping panther in the brake,
Or seek the lions lair,
Than meet thy vengeance dread, brave son
OF the fair South, whose victories won,
Are quenched, in dark despair
But now, the hireling blue-coat sneers
At thee and at thy brave conireres,
Whose very name, in other years,
Had made the dastards fiyi
All, me full darksnme is the night,
Thou leader bold of desperate fight.
In the wild days gone by.
NEW LONDON, CONN, March l, 1859.
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sla,isliCs of the Hindaos.

In January, 1866, a census of the
inhabitants of the Northwestern Prov
inces of British India was taken, with
enumeration of their occupations, after
the manner of the English tables. The
population in number came out as equal
to that of the United Kingdom, or
rather more than 30,000,000 of souls.
The total number of persons supported
bv the community was found to be 54O,-
0l3, many of whom returned themselves
under these curious callings: Beggars,
479.O15; prostitutes, 26,806; eunuchs,
2.251 pimps, 321 mourners, 20; aims
takers, i'll pedigree-makers, % fat
terers for gain, 226 vagabond, house
painters, l6; bud mashers, 974 grave
diggers, 81 ear piercers, 1S; maker of
caste marks, 81 wrestlers, 2; charmers,
4; sturdy beggars, 30 !; professional
thieves, % informer, hangmen, 1873
fortune tellers, 3; testers, 851; astrol-
ogers. 1,123 minlics, 259; divers, 142
miscellaneous, 22,532. The vast ma.
jority are simply put down as beggars
but of "sturdy beggars there were
only thirty-fve. Mourners, almstaker'
(classed apart from beggars), pedigree
makers, and Aatterers for gain come IL
strange progression.
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rhe snoiIed iKoh.i.noor.

From all the Year Roupd-l
The Koh-i-noor has hitherto been
fatal level. Its history is well authen-
ticated at every step. This stone Of fate
seems never to have been lost sight OF
from the days when Ala-ud-deen took 1t
from the Rajahs of Malwa, five centuries
and half ago, to the day when it be-
came a CROWN jewel of England. Tradi-
ton carries back Its existence in the
memory of India to the year % b. o.;
and still wilder legend would fam re-
cognize in it diamond first discovered
near Masulipatam, in the bed of the
Godavery, five thousand years ago:
The Koh-i-nOor is reported by Bader'
the founder of the MogAl Empire, to
have come into the Delhi treasury IRON
the conquest of Malwa, in 1904. Ihe
Hindoos trace the curses and the ull-
mate ruin inevitably brought upon i1s
successive possessors by the genius o.
this fatefui jewel ever since it was ,. nrs'
4 wrested from the line of Vikramadltyaa. ,
IF we glance over its history since l5V4'
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regimental-they were amused for the
time. and convinced tnat some Interior
work was preparing an immense revenue
was levied from the sale of shilling
medals fund which was never ac-
counted for. Nobody ever supposed
that Father Mathew pocketed one of
those shillings. He gave many of them
to the relief of the poorest of the crowd
but he and his relatives became bank
rupt by the movement-his brother by
the ruin of his distillery, and himself by
the loans and ADVANCES required of him
by the urgency of the movement. Of
his perfect disinterestedness, that never
was any question. He handed over his
life insurance to his creditors and the
pension of 93O0 year from the Crown
was all spent in keeping up the insur-
ance.
LORD MACAULAY.
Of Lord Macaulay, she writes
He was the son of that excellent man,
Zachary Maculay, whose honored name
is inseparably connected with the Anti
Slavery movement of the beginning of
the century. Strange as the saying may
seem, there is, in our minds, no doubt
that his parentage was his great dis
advantage, and the source of the COM
parative unfruitfulness Of his splendid
powers. Zachary Macaulay sacrificed
fortune, health, time, peace, and quiet,
and reputation, in behalf of the great
philantkropic enterprise of his time
and, instead of his distinguished qualities
being perpetuated in his son, the reaction
from them was as marked as often hap
pens in the case of the children OF
eminent men. We see the son of re-
marakably pious clergymen grow up to
be men of the world the sons oi
metaphysical or spiritual philosophers
make rush to the laboratory, or wander
about the world, hammer in hand tC
chip at its rocks. The sons of mathe
maticians turn to art; and the tamllle:
of statesmen bury themselves in distan
counties, and talk like grazlers OF bul
locks and breeders of sheep. The chllt
of a philanthropist, Thomas Macaula.
wanted heart this was the one deticlenc.
which lowered the value of all his othel
gifts. He never suspected the dehcienc.
himself; and he might easily BE- un
aware of it; for he had kindliness, ant
for any thing we know, good temper
but of the life of the heart he kne7
nothing. He talked about it, as Dl
Blackjack, the blind poet, wrote descuP
tons of scenery-with complete con
viotion that he knew all about it bu
the actual experience was absent.
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its malevelent influence far excels that
Of the necklace for which Eriphyle be-
trayed her husband, or the Eguus
Seianus of Greek and Roman tradition.
First falls the vigorous Patan, then the
mighty MOgul Empire, and, with vastly
accelerated ruin, the power of Nodir, Of
the Dosrance dynasty, and of the Sikh.
Runject Singh, when it was in his pos
session, was so convinced Of the truth of
this belief that, being satisfied with the
enjoyment Of it during his own life time,
ne sought to break through the Ordi-
nance of fate and the consequent de-
structiOn Of his family by bequeathing
the stone to the shrine Of Juggernaut
for the good of his soul and the preser-
vatiOn of his dynasty. His successors
would not give up the baleful treasure,
and the last Maharajah is now private
gentleman. In 1850, in the name Of the
East India Company, since, in its turn,
defunet, Lord DalhOusie presented the
Koh-i-nOOr to Queen Victoria.
Perhaps we should have been better
without it. The Brahmins will hardly
relinquish their fate in the malignant
powers possessed by this stone, when
they think Of the speedily following
Russian war, which annihilated the pres
tige of the British army, and the SepOy
mutiny three years later, which caused
England's existence as a nation to hang
for months on the forbearanee Of one
man.
The public saw the Koh-i-noor luster-
1 less at the exhibition in 1851, then
weighing one hundred and eighty-six
carats Its recutting, performed IN
1922, though executed with the utmost
skill and perfection, has deprived the
stone of all its historical and miner
illogical interest. As a specimen Of a
gigantic diamond, whose native weight
and form had been interfered with as
little as possible, (for with HindOO
lapidaries the grand object is the preser-
walton of weight it stood without a
rival, save the OrlOf, in Europe. As
it Is, in the place of the most ancient
gem in the history of the world-Older
even than the Tables of the Law and
the Breastplate of Aaron, suppOslne
, them still to exist-we get, according tC
, Mr.. Kink, bad shaped, because toe
! shallow, modern brilliant, mere lady
bubble, of but seeond-rate water, for i
/ has a grayish tinge, and, besides, inferior
| in weight to several, being now reduced
l to one hundred and two carats and
. half. The operation Of recutting wa
performed in London, under the care o
the Messrs. Gerrards, the Queen
{ jewellers, who erected for that purpose
: small four horse steam engine on th'
e premises. 1t was conducted by VOor
5 sanger and another skIllful workman
5 sent over by NJ COster from Amsterdam
O In consequence of the advantage gaine'
: by using steam power, the actual euttin
e occupied no more than thirty eight work
n ing days-a striking contrast to the tw
}. years necessary for cutting the Pitt di'
n mond by the old hand process. In SON
f parts Of the work as it was necessary
e grind out deep flaw, the wheel mad
n three thousand revolutions per minute
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lS4O.
For the Sunday Appeal
In MEMORY or H. w. A-H'


The tenderness of thy early wife-hood mast
Thou taken away fOrevermore' dear s'lnN'
From him whs loved thee, and Thy ehli"ren
young .,,,,+
That olamor nor thy caTe9 Come token faint
Drop from the easement Of thy later hoIne
To those who call on thea jewel-ray
Fran the bright crown binding thy perfect
brows,
A Leaf OF the palm within thy hand, to say
aItis well with me'
Wasit the miIky-way thy fairer feet
Tracked 10 the Eternal City with white gate
Atsr for spotIess travellers like thee?
And vast thou, trsmbler, ,ushered in with state
Iy Him. that city's Lord, who loves the meek :
Saw. sweet!-we loved thee; tell as OF thy
way ,,,-.
What raptures divine, what welcome thou didst
meet!
How safe and happy One "oro' "Oo' Pi0'
She thence speak to US!
1ylobt- EthIop-Queen wi h dusky, noiseless feet'
PAGES her star-courts, Ioosing gems Of IRE,
A Zapvrus doth the dew-pearls from the rose
And pale I kneeI and worn with strong
desire
To pierce the rolds that shut the happy in =
A glimpse Of those the curtains hide rom
sight,
That hang athwart the skies! tone lfon ills
We've kissed-ta'en from us-O' usrS d H4Sii' b
Were worth thy crown gems
". challenge empty airt Our idle breSths
Eau hack 70 Us from Heavens embattled
walls
Tnev cannot glide o'er these to ears Of Saints
shut In by God frem Esrth's too elamorou'
calls,
aodtt tiswell, or from His work, the 81 us
Welove, we'd turn with our vehement cries
And fail in prayer to Him, to cali on those
Our fearful natures cling to, loved and knoWI
To earthly sensesi o. so dear and close
They-far God meier seen!
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Victoria meditates erecting widows
home near Coburg.
Seventeen thousand men and sixty
dredging machines do the work on the
Suez Canal.
in the manufacture of bird cages
alone one thousand persons find employ
meht in Birmingham.
The rainfall in Calcutta in 1868
was forty-eight per cent. above the
average Of the last fifteen years.
1t costs English railroads one and
three-quarter million dollars to pay for
personal injuries done in one year.
The English are reported to be
adopting the American Convention
system for nominating members OF Par
lament,
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soul may honestly put on in entering
upon unexplored and unknown glorles
beyond this world Of blight. His head
lies draped by the solemn testoon OF
Death. But we often meet him in the
mysterious vigils of the soul and thus
feel that, though departed, he still hUes
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FATHER MATHEW.

The following, of Father Matthew,
will be interesting
The Political Apostle of the day had
the sagacity which was not remarkable
in the Moral Reformer. 0'Connell made
Father Mathew his unconscious agent
and hence some of the success, which, to
those who did not discern all the springs
of the movement, appeared miraculous.
0'Connell's aim was to keep up state
of vigilant expectation among the peo-
ple and it is certain that the two mil
lions who were presently pledged by
Father Mathew believed, generally speak
ing, that some mighty political event
was at hand, for which they must hold
themselves ready in state of soberness.
Most of them believed that Dan. was to
be King of Ireland many, that the tenn
perance medal was to be their badge of
safety in the day of cofiet; and all be-
lieved that it was their token of saliva
ton. 1t was commonly believed that
Father Mathew could work miracles,
and even that he had raised person
from the dead. When inquired Of about
his action in regard to these supersti-
tions, he wrote letter containing few
sentences so characteristic, that they al
most preclude the necessity of describing
his mind. off could prevent them,
he says of these superstitions, without
impeding the glorious cause, they should
not have been permitted but both are
SO closely entwined, that the tares can
not be pulled out without plucking NJ
the wheat also. The evil will correc
| itself; and the good, with the Divin'
assistance, will remain and be perma
nent." Such an agitator was the yer.
man for 0'Connell. His gathering
trained the people to marching in physi
cal sobriety and moral enthusiasm
With their bands of music and their or
ganizatiOn-nearly approaching to tn
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By ROBERT INVADE.
Pa-pa's pet, and ma-Ena's boy,
Hold him's ; ! tie footie upple,
Den he'll have hlm's yittle supple
And bis yittle ysttle toy.
Da nowi uppie daisyi
Pull him's yittle tOckie on;
Pwecious cbile-slnks ma-ma's kazy-
There--don't kuy cause pa-pa's gone.
Now Eddie take hin's yitile feed
Want mama skstch his yittle heel?
Oh-Kd! ri s0hfr-I toill indeed,
If you Jiie-gou title eel!
Mama thio owe haby on the bed and looks fOr
simple serate salve-l
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For ne Sunday Appeal
LITTLE EnnIR
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By ROBERT INVADE.

A DOMESTIC EPISODE, FROM Personal
OB8ER VATION.
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He employed many scores of laborers
on his Welch estates, made roads and
planted, and built a house which cost
him $4,000. He set his heart upon
game-preserving (Of all pursuits for a
democratic republican, and had at times
twenty keepers out upon the hills at
night, watching his grouse but, with
10000 acres of land, he never saw a
grouse on his table, His tenants
cheated him, he declared, and destroyed
this plantation and though he got rid
of them, he left, not only Wales, but
Great Britain, in wrath. Then the
steward in charge of his house cheated
him, when he not only got rid of the
steward, but had his splendid new house
pulled down-out of consideration, he
declared, for his sons future ease and
convenience, in being rid of so vexatiOus
property.
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sKossfni was born on the 18th OF Feoruary-so
that two wears out of three the anniversary ,
his birthday was March LA. y >
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BY MISS MARTfNEAU.

We published some weeks since
several extracts from the Biographical
Sketches" of Miss Harriet Martineau,
which having enjoyed an extensive
popularity in England, are now pre-
sented to the American public, IN a
tasteful and substantial volume, by
Leypoldt & Holt The book, from which
we propose further to regale our readers,
contains in all forty-six articles, descrip-
tive of the most notable Englishmen
and women in the various departments
of life. who have died since 1852, when
Miss Martineau established her connec-
ton as an editorial writer with the Lon
don DAILY NeloS, in which these sketches
appeared as obituary notices. They
are now presentse in an unaltered. form,
they having been merely arranged by
Mr.. J. r. Robinson, also of that journal.
The title Sketches" is a very apt
one; there is 4(general plan, nor any
attempt at Completeness few facts,
personal "reminiscences, incidents, anec-
dotes, merely thrown together, but in so
ohatty way and in such pleasant Ian
guage, as to be the very perfection Of
F" sketch writing"
WALTER SAVAGE LANDoR.
Of Walter Savage Landor, we read :
His tall, broad, muscular, active
frame was characteristic; and SO was his
| head, with the strange elevation Of the
eyebrows, which expresses self-will as
strongly in some cases as astonishment
in others. Those eyebrows, mounting
up till they comprehend good portion
| of the forehead, have been observed in
many more paradoxioal persons than
one. Then there was the retreating but
broad forehead, showing the deficiency
of reasoning and speculative power, with
the propOnderance of imagination and a
huge passion for destruction. The mas
siye self-love and twill carried up his
head to something more than dignitied
bearing-even to one of arrogance. His
Vivid and quick eye, and the thoughtful
mouth, were fine, and his whole air was
that of man distinguished in his own
ewes certainly, but also in those OF
others. Tradition reports that he was
handsome in his youth. In age he was
more. The first question about him
usually was why, with his frame, and his
courage, and his politics, and his social
position, he vas not in the army. One
reply mighty be, that he could neither
obey nor cooperate; another was, that
his godfather, Gen. Powell, wished it
and Landor therefore preferred some
thing else. As for that something els'
his father offered him e400 year t.
study law, and reside in the Temple fol
that purpose, whereas he would glveehin
only G150 if he would not; and o
f course, he took the G150, and went a
, far as he we'll could from the Temple
5 that is, to Swanses.
X X X X Z K
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TYPOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

NEW LONDON, CONN, March l, 1859.
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pRoPosALs FOR STATIONERY.

TnEAsrar DErARTnESr. NAY 10, $50
Sealed proposals for furnishing stationery for tho
SesT endlng June y, lsIO, will be roceyed at ihi.
o'clock m.
sshedule Of the articles, ard qusptits. r,-
Spmhr;;d and ank firm. for bidd,nG, eoniAinins
tioH. wv T'fF~
The BIDS will 9 considered. and accepted or TO
Cobtraels must he executed by the successful
to do.
pursuant 70 orders from tho Dep, RI mont. The en-
tire qusntlties In the schedule will, however. be
called for during the year,
win " 80 su or Ave " thSusSDd SS
%3IIaT; t co. spPiroysd By United ststss Bi.:
eoatrSsi, with gotd and saMeieat sonSs, fSr fur.
nlshl1s such portion Of the articles as may bo
All deliveries viii bs subject to inspection by an
expert. detailed for the purI by the Secretary Of
&: y Sf % %sSi:., :: % a2 : s5a
tract '''7T7'
liyeries must be free Of charge at The rressyry
DsPhartiTissnt. Shtn Wsshlngton
the soarsst viii Spsiat s s fS.Sfs Htass SnfS fSs
entire penalty Of the bond or the sterssry Of The
Treasury may direct the purchase. In open market.
sary to supply tho dencisney caused by suah fall
ure, and charge to the contractors atty per cent
q the price which 1t shall befound necessary to pay
tRF0PS;sls FsSss9esa9ipd By . ss.I.f4etOry bond
sssfr5.t FSl \, s:tsblishea 'aspdssErsf'c' Or
the spcoiasstOas fSrnisSeS and lafS tn tO O 20
will cause tho rejection as q az 3 III 'ssourwKIL
my l0-ln Secretary Of the Treasury.
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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
hiRsoR IxPRovsXWEissTs AT GREEN DAY
Usirkp STATES ExaISEHR q osYIcR.
-, Va. 6l2 MAIs srREEr.

Nh. OH AAIh
Sealed propos,i 10. In duplicate, Of ths form far
once qptil Y m. ,,wEDEEsDAY, Juse i6. 1850, for
Close -piling part Of the New Cut At Green Bay /.
Wis,
Contracts will be made for GU lneal feet Of close
Por ibis parPsss there will be required, IN round
piles, 50 feat lopE, aud not lS,s ~ inches at the
small end 100 plies Of % and q feet In length, q
wrought American iron drift bolts 500 pounds q
best wrought AmsrtAn Iron ser " hOltsI from 100
10 40 cords Of stone nast; 80 cords OF bTu
up Ia liable bundles.
The piles, square timber, and all materials to be
free from all dsfocts. aud prices Of white oak. Nor
way pine. OF tamAratk TO be stated tl the bids.
Por particulars hrnly at this ot1oe wheIs plans
and speeinsatou. of The work can bs seen, aud all
Information fuIaished.
The work to be c jmfnoRced on or before July !,
1892, and the DO feet nnish d on or before October
J., lSD.
The r!sht 10 reject any or all BID. l. ,G.sTysA.
h:lSr e ssg, aeess aud bEsssi Colonel o. sh
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PosALs FoRrBAY.

pRoP PosALs FoRBAY.
HEApG'Rs FTrH MILITARY DIsrnicr.l
oYFIca CHHP -ogAErEnsAsrsR.
ApsrIN. Nay II, lsp.
Sealed proposals, In dupllc vii be received
st this olee until The 18th day Of JgNE, iso, Him.
for furnishing such quAntites Of Hay as may DO
required from the rit day Of yuly, 1862, until the
Mst day Of May. 1870. the following Posts
Corpus Christi. fort grmn,
ror. CLARK, rort Mekaveit,
Jefferson, Fort HiehArdsob.
Rort Davis, Port Stockton,
Fort Duncau.. Oreenville
Bids for the same will also bs ressivcl for tho
Posts Of As.tin and ssn Aatonio. until ths lst day
6sy .o Be- o. s%o,d. % clean. msrehsn,ablc quality.
p Ifestly eurod, and subjeet to rigid Inspection.
Delivery to commence the LIST day Of July. 1909.
aud continue, In sneh qualities and at such times
as the receiving ofheer may require. uutl NAY 81.
Bach bid must be accompanied py . gpatsntee of
at least two petsobs, lwnose responsibility must
be cerii ted By the CLERK ofs Court o. Rseord) that
the bidder is competent TO carry ont the Contract,
ofiee address Of each bidder aud guarantor must
be stated. No bid will be entertained OF conf
ing to these requirements. The attention Of bid
ders Is called 70 section sixteen Of the act Of on
gress approved July ~, 1882
for r---st--- and addressed 70 the
by eSSnand Of BrOve. Major Locn.r.I J, }.
Roy nolds. MORkISS MILLER,
Deputy Quartormaster General, and Breyet Bhg.
adler General, U. s. A. myA-td