The New York herald., 1869-11-30
ITEMS FROM INDIA.

Our newspaper files from Calcutta and Bombay
to the 23d OF october supply the following interest
ing news items from Asia:-
large village reported to have been burned at
the Black Mountain by an English force, under
Lieutenant Colonel Kothney as punishment for o
recent raid.
Russians and Of the Kushbegi OF Kashgar is con-
frmed.
Aboool Rahman Khan the companion In misfor-
tune Of the late Monammed Azm Khan. reported to
have turned back from Merry and expected at
Teheran.
Cholera has AGAIN broken out at Teheran
The silk crop In the Persian province OF Ghilan has
almost entirely failed. owing to disease among The
worms.
From the east Of Yarkand the country Of the Tun-
gans, or Turk Mussulmans of Thtbet 1t is reported
there was war between the people and the Chinese,
who were said to be endeav0rlng to re-establlSh
themselves in that quarter.
The Cotton Frauds bill, with some amendments.
passed the Bombay Legislative Council.
The ships Tweed and Calcutta lett Bombay by the
Persian Gulf with the new telegraphic cable which
to be laid from Jask to Bushlre
presidency is likely, before assuming the reins OF
government in that STATE TO pay visit TO England.
is proposed to RAISE statue to Duplex at Pom
A new paper, called The Indian church Repie,o.
has been started In Bombay TO propagate Rituastic
The Minister ct Hyderabad offered rewards OF $50
rupees for the translation OF works on moral phoso
ana Mahrattee for educational purposes.
The note circulation Ia India has reached half OF
that OF the Bank OF England, and during the last
year gave considerable prodt to government
The receipts on the East Indian Railway for the
week ending October amounted to E38 44a, being
an increase OF f4S3 as compared with the corre-
spending period OF last year. The JubbulpOre line
shows decrease OF nfty-eight pounds as compared
with the same period.
The cyclone OF october 7 extended for con.
siderable distance up country. Arrah and other sta
tions In the neighborhood suffered severely. Heavy
foods followed in Behar and the Bhaugulpore
DIVISION ana the trafic of the East Indian Railway
was stopped for short time by the washing away
OF o bridge.
Burmese merchants are eagerly demanding the
compete on equal terms with Saigon and other free
Locusts destroyed fifty per cent of the crops in
Marwar ten per cent in Tonk and seven per cent In
Joypore.
the principal towns OF the Central provinces from
the 1st Of November. .t-077
1t Is thought that the government intends taking
over the railway telegraphs In India as in an ON.
cla paper they stated that II Ia absurd to encourage
system kept up by guaranteed capital against
system maintained BY government capital.
Azim Khan, the ex-Ameer of Cabool. died at
shahro0d in Persia, on the 9th Of October.
The Madras census has been postponed until the
taking of the general census or India In 1871.
The cultivation OF opium In China IL reported TO
be rapidly increaslng and the government notwIth-
standing their prohibition, levy slutIes on 1t and
Numerous pilgrims and merchants with roods
arrived at Leh from Yarkand.
There was slight earthquake At Sima on the Ith
OF october.
The turkish envoy to Cabool arrived at Umbals.
The state Of the crops in the Punab Ia said to ba
prospect Of bumper" harvest after SO long q
scarcity.