The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1872-04-20
Che Trareller.
TRAVELS IN INDIA.

Calcutta, bombay of The !Suez
Cdndt--The 7redsarers Of India Cash.
mere Shdtcls-The Bombay FashiondbLss
on driUe-The Pdrsees s-The Wdy Then
| Don't Bury Their Dead India Gods
The Temples Of India DINING Out in
The Edst-The Route 10 Persia and Alden
The Census and Exports Of Bombuy--
Extent Of Railroads IN Itdia-.SoHnd
Banks and Good Currency.
Mr.. James Brooks, while travelling
10 India, wrote from Bombay, November
4 1871 to the Nep Yorh Elpress:
Bombay is very respectable city.
with over 500 900 inhabitants. Where
they are put, though, | cannot see; but
it's sire,ched.out city, with long arms,
and very long legs, and considerable
OF body" 1t is as fat "as founder"
excepting Malnbar Hill, or a promon.
tory, where the quality live aud drive,
and two other little places of no great
note, unless the Government House
makes the Parell Hill a notablity, aud,
OF course, out here, it does. A Cover.
nor IN the East is, everywhere, the great
swell" ." Isn't he the representative of
the Queens majesty? Or course he is;
aud hence, Sir Edward Fitzgerald, the
Governor of the great Bombay Presi
dency, makes of Parell Hill great
notablllty-for he is the light set on
that hill. Bombay has fresh, lively.
clean look, that reminds one OF some Of
our rich mushroom Western cities.
The merchant princes do not generally
do business under their household
establishments, as, often elsewhere 10
the East, but live out in villas, amid
the cooling broezcs of Malabar. Cal
cutta is courty Bombay is mercantile.
There is great rivalry between the two
cities. One is the Court, the ton, as
well as tic town, while the other is
gathering up, aud taking away, the
trade and commerce OF Calcutta, because
here is the near st outlet, by the rail,
of India TO England, and for all the
ships GU the seas The French canul
through the Isthmus Of Suez, too, that
the British merchants SO long bitterly
opposed in the fear that the French
would thus monopoliZe the commerce of
India, is becoming the greatest boon to
Bombay; for here, now, without bulk
breaking, or sailing around the Cape,
come steamers from all parts of England,
aud lrom Trieste aud Brndisi, and from
Genoa, Naples, Marsoillcs, aud the
whole Mediterranean. Bombay is thus
brought into close coutiguity with all
Europe, while Calcutta is all the way
around the Island Of Ceylou, and up the
bad Bay Of Bengal. Bombay says she
is, too, "healthier than Calcutta Cal
euttians deny that "Our pure rivers,
now, from the recti6ed Ganges, and our
sewers" they say, "make Calcutta one
Of the fealthiest cities 10 the world.
(The world, however, will not believe
that for many years to come; for the
most that is known of Calcutta in the
world, is "thc Black Hole of history
there.) Bombay says, "Look at our
magnificent harbor, where whole navies
can ride in safety; the entrance to, aud
the exit from which is easy, while the
Hoogley River, the entrance to Calcut
Ia, is dangerous, aud costly in pilotage
and over giving trouble TO all the ships
that 20 10 there" Calcutta is silent on
that theme The Suez Canal naviga.
tion is concentrating here, directly, tho
steamships Of Austria-Russia, (from
ODESSA aud Italy, as well AS France
nay, perhaps more and more the direct
trade from London aud Liverpool, (and
scattering il all over Europo); but nev.
ertheless, ull is to be to the profit OF
Bombay.
Bombay is the mart Of India manu-
factures, from the lar up country OF the
ludus down to Madras; aud hence, one
has to shop here, Of course--but STOP
ping is easier ln India than in New York
ior the things come to you, not you to
the shops. On the front oil our hotel
yeraudah were spread out the treasures
Of lndla-b0xes OF sandal wood, ivory,
shell, teak, carved aud lacquered-work
IN wool, lu muslin, in silver aud gold.
embrUideries, &c; but the Indian is no
matcn, now, as manufacturer, with
the Chinese, or japanese, while the
European has stolen almost all his arts
irom him-all, perhaps, except the
Cashmere aud Indian shawls. The In
dian embroiders yet cheaply, on Euro
pean fabrics, more cheaply than the
European can, aud hence, commands a
market for some OF his fabrics, The
wealth Of shawls here, however, rather
startles the European or American, even
Que accustomed TO the high prices Of
New York or Paris. There was one
pair OF shawls noted, for which the In
dian dealer wanted 5000 rupees-that
is, 50 500 each. They were very long,
very, Ue,y tiae, but would not quite 90
through finger ring, as, some say,
some OF the very finest will. Prices oil
the good cashmere vary from $3.50 to
5000 and $1,000; but lew, or mono, oil
the latter are sold, except to royalty.
Months and months Of labor are spent
upon some Of these cashmeres, more
than upon the laces Of Belgium; and the
work upon them is immense. The
"wool" of which they are made is the
under wool, or hair, Of the goat, as, Of
the under hair of the seal, aud of the
very finest quality. Moore, the poet,
has gisen the world his fancy views of
the vale OF Cashmere; but his fancy is
very near the fact in his poetic descrip.
tion OF that beautiful region, which is
not yet British, though under the in.
haeoce aud sway Of Britous
There are many things to see in Bonn