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Show A ilOLl) J3AMFESTO. Wli&f Uarlnc I issnrji'iii ( Near Uuitiiikiy Hill lu luleh . Simla, 19. Tho disease baa up peared in meat ol tbe cilita ol Pun-jaub Pun-jaub Dacoity. Rubberiee by armed gand are assuming as-suming alarming proportions in tbe Deccao, especially inPoouab district, where for some time past binds of Dicoite have been scouring the country, coun-try, committing darine attacks on houses and village?. They seem t form part of a regular organization, under command ol Wamado Bui-wund, Bui-wund, lately clerk of the finaucial department. They are auspcted ol having set the fire which destroyed j the government school house, Bodaar palace, law courts, poetoffice and ri fly houses in Poonah on tbe night of the 13th inatant. In 1 their remarkable manifesto to the Bombay govercraout, threatening another mutiny and to cut oQ the head of the governor unless the diatrees is relieved, ihey inform government that unless extensive public works aro onco opened, employment em-ployment provided for the people, native trades encouraged, taxes reduced re-duced and ealariea of highly paid Europeans cut down, they will not cease to plunder and will extend to Europeans what they have hitherto confined to the natives. They will kill the governor of Bombay, hang the judge of tne court of sessions oi Poonah, carry murder and rapiue throughout the country, and engage in ft masaaore of Europeans. The manifesto ends by warning the governor that unless he at once complies with tbe requi aiiioo, the price ol 1 000 upeea will be put on his headv Four persons, including in-cluding Was4d'o Bulwuud append their Bignatureu and seals to the mum-festo. mum-festo. Government, which at first waa inclined to leave the matter in the hands of the polios, ia now taking more energetic measures. A considerable consider-able number ol troops patrol the country and a reward o! 1,000 rupteB has been oflered for the capture of Bulwund. Rain still holds ofl in Betar, Chota, Nag pore and the dtBtricts round Cal cutta. Tne indigo crop wili be very short and other crops must suffer if snowero do not fall very soon. Pricea are already rising. There has been some rain in other districts of lower Bengal, but more ia wanted, One thousand troops areengagtd in suppressing tbe Uncoita in the Bombay presidency. I |