Show bombardment OF valparaiso san francisco may 14 valparaiso was bombarded april and a large portion of the city laid in ruins the british and american fleet left the bay and took anchorage outside the resolution was placed opposite the railway station the villa de do madrid and bianca twelve hundred yards from the custom house and the Van cedera close in shore to destroy dwelling houses the fire opened at 9 A M and was kept up without intermission for three hours at 8 1 p ai the Admi admirals ship signaled for them to desist when they drew off the people who had been witnessing the bombardment from adjoining hilltops hill tops then tilen came back to extinguish the fires which raged in different parts parta of the city from two to three million dollars worth of property nas was destroyed nearly all ali allot of which belonged to the english american and foreign merchants the business part of the town was waa almost entirely destroyed destroyed the spanish admiral received or orders ers from madrid to destroy the town and notified foreign representatives that he should bombard it in four days they all protested british residents were promised the protection of the english squadron the american commodore offered to join him when the representatives of france joined them the english admiral backed out at the last moment and refused to interfere except diplomatically gen kilpatrick and commodore rodgers labored in vain to save the town enterprise JEWS GOING TO PALESTINE the Ha Za magid a hebrew paper papon published at lyck in the province 0 of eastern prussia says that sixty jewish families save have u lave determined to form a colony near jaffa in palestine GREAT USE of oi OPIUM IN ENGLAND according to AI chevalier the use of apiu opium m in england is ine inc increasing beasing enor emor the thir quantity now used ls i certainly enormous in 1845 the consumption was 9 P pounds in 1863 ier lur HP was pounds international COURTE courtesies sies belgian shareholding share holding companies have been permitted to carry on business in russia slat and russian bussian companies have been accorded the he same privilege in belgium this mutual concession will it is expected be followed up by the establishment of ofa a belgian bank at st petersburg agriculture IN NEW JERSEY the committee on agriculture in the new jersey legislature report that the improved P roved farming land in the state is about two million acres while one million acres remain unimproved the value of the whole was one hundred and twenty million dollars in 1850 and one hundred and eighty millions in 1860 an increase of fifty per cent the cash value of the farms in 1850 averaged 43 77 per acre being 1117 above the farms in any other state in 1860 isoo it was 60 40 per acre an advance of thirty eight per cent and 2 1713 23 40 per acre beyond any ny other state much of this advance is ascribed to the use of the green sand marl which is found in this state alone ks as a fertilizer owing to the use of this marl lands which thirty years ago were useless and abandoned are now teeming with abundance and its supply is inexhaustible THE RUSH TO MONTANA in tho the history of mining excitements excite ments we doubt whether there ever has been a rush equal to that now going goin on to montana from every point of tie tle the compass they drift by hundreds and thousands and the cry is still they come the ex to depopulate portions of california and from our own territory i as well as the adjoining state tho tha rush is unprecedented the stages that leave here go out loaded with passengers all bound for blackfoot in add addition to the usual conveyances men of enterprise have placed passenger trains on the route betwee between nN walla alla aila walla and blackfoot and those trains go out daily with wi th full passenger lists malia walla walla statesman THE NEW ISLAND IN THE GRECIAN Ancin arcin ancl Anci ripE pELAGO LAG nag 0 we behave have bave already noted the appearance of Df a new island in hi the grecian archipelago accompanied by various evidences oy of volcanic action it is now stated that as this island increases ni in size another another near it gradually disappears the new now island has haa grown until several miles ill in circumference but hut being of volcanic or origin i n it is sup supposed ased as soon as the force 0 of the arru irruption ton is spent it will disappear A at t to the latest dates however it was still growing and the ocean all around was boiling and steaming at a great rate CANKER WORMS eastern papers complain of the appearance of multitudes of young caneer cancer worms in the fruit trees this pest should receive prompt attention the best remedy proposed is a metallic collar encircling each tree the upper surface of which contains a groove or trough filled with crude petroleum the male grub crawls up the trunk the female flies up if the former is kept down the reproduction will be much diminished if not wholly prevented N Y journal of commerce RAILROAD EXTENSION passenger trains on the pacific railroad began making regular trips to Secret town nine miles beyond colfax on the ath ofray of may at this point an extensive piete piece of h being erected which w wiil will I 1 require several weeks to complete when the rails can be laid down with out delay to alta station two miles be b yond ond end dutch flat the latter point will be e reached between the middle of jung june and find the first of july placer horald FROST destroyed the peaches plums plumy pears and nectarines necta rines and froze apples appleg in trinity county cal on the night of may mayeth ath r |