Unintentional Admissions.
By Jos. Clarke
A LATE New-York paper, (N. Y. Times) in commenting upon some singular manifestation, has the following important admission lightly but truthfully spoken:— “In more common-place regions than Nevada, a spectacle of the earth vomiting forth steam from a hundred fissures would be considered remarkable, and to the average mind a speedy cessation of the alarming jets would seem very desirable. But use creates necessity, and the good people around Virginia City feel as much perturbation at the sudden stoppage of their steam-boat springs as elsewhere might be caused by their beginning. “Steam,” impressively says a local journal, “has rushed from these crevices and flues ever since the eyes of white men first rested upon the spot,” and now that the phenomenon has ceased to show itself, the gravest consequences are apprehended by the denizens of the neighborhood. A grand explosion of the world is the mildest result looked forward to by the editor of the Virginia City Enterprise. Let us hope that when the blow does come he may meet it with proper fortitude, so that “ ‘Si fractus illabatur orbis,’
Impavidum ferient ruinæ. “In other parts of the country, nature has been acting in no less erratic and unaccountable a manner. Scarcely in the memory of man have earthquakes been more general, tornadoes more frequent or more fierce, or floods more destructive. Never at any time have we had more wonderful seers prophesying evil to come.” At this time when men contend that every thing earthly is improving, such a testimony is of much weight.
JOS. CLARKE.