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Show Waz ze-waub prophesies that the world will again be destroyed by flood; that there will be a deluge and that snow and land slides will eliminate the asperities of thB earth's surface and reuder it a fit abode for the blest alter the resurrection. All Piutcs, however distant, must obey his orders implicitly i and on the instant of their reception, whether they are commanded to eat, sleep, wash, dance, steal or kill. The rain was to have commenced about five days since but Waz-ze-waub took the precaution ito say that God might chance his mind and postpone the shower a little longer. The rain is to tall for ten days only. He told all the Indians to pitch their tents upon level cround, and to prepare plenty of wood. When this prophecy reached Virginia city at ninht, the I'iutes stampeded in terror, leaving their ponica browsing on the hills. Johnson says he saw a large and beautiful rainbow stretched upon the earth around Waz ze-waub' s camp at midnight, j'J'hc story has not yet been confirmed, and we don't vouch I'or its tiuih. Nearly all the Indians believe this nonsense, and those who do not are afraid to express doubt. Johnson suys ilmre are nearly ;(,0(Kl Indians at Walker Lake, and that they are r-till gathering in from the west and south, drawn thither by the wonderful won-derful stories told of tho prophet. He says tlipre is no danger lo the whites, that Waz ze-waub' s whole policy is peace, and that under his orders the Indians at the lake are now selling ponies to raise money to pay damages for killing cattle in Churchill. He says the reason the Indians lired on sheriff Sherman was that they (the Indians) believed the whites had already killed i Breckinridge and his companions, and would kill them if they surrendered. This statement was brought in night before last by two Indian boys, the .Irwphus brothers, from Walker river-f river-f Johnson says that while the Piute mind , is now in a state pf feverish excitement excite-ment on relifious i'.'i matters, the tritx has. never bon more peaceably disposed dis-posed sine tbe whites came amont them. CartAiK Rfgi'fer. |
