The bubble burst by the unexpected seizure of our lands, implements, and improvements, by the--Government.

It contained nothing but air! Fenwick and Lyon had just played one of their reserved cards--it had something to do with the flooding of a shaft, which would delay results, and require more capital--when the impatient grantors of the land foreclosed every thing.

From the hour this catastrophe became certain, Lyon was no more seen.

He was fully prepared for the emergency." In confirmation of this, letters giving the minutest particulars were shown, thus corroborating the worst, and extinguishing the feeblest rays of hope.
All was too true.

The brilliant bubble had indeed burst, and not the shadow of a substance remained.