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BY THE REV. W. R. Q. MELLFM.
The following item is from theChrijtain Union
IlaviDg arrived at Hutching's, and
8uBciently rested from his fatigues
greatly lesa than he had previously
supposed they would be tho traveler
naturally asks, "Where shall I go ?
H hat shall I see ?" Yankee hko the
host will answer, ''How long time can
you givey this valler" According 'to
the reply jto this question will be the
programme of hh "guide, philosopher
and friend' which he cannot do better
than to follow. Certain things,
uowever, he will not fail to see. He
will go early in the morning, if
4 w
possible to Mirror Lake, from whose
surface the reflection is so perfect that,
while laoking at' it, he will wonder
whether he is looking into the water or
the sky. He will goto Vernal and
Nevada Falls, taking a day for the
excursion, and finding it filled with
delight. Elsewhere these cataracts
would be stupendous ; even here they
are impaling. On his way to them he
will notice how the valley devides into
different gorges at its upper extremity
and, if curious, will try to trace oat
corresponding projections - and
indentations ou either side, as
illustrative of the theory that they
were violently sundered, and, if brought
together, would fit each other
indifferently well even now. He
will also tind I'iwvuek Cave just below
the Vernal Fall, and the.rocky parapet;
breast high on the furomit not without
interest; while at Caxn Nevida
almost within a stone's throw of the
Nevada Fall, and right at the base of
'Liberty Cap," he will find rest and
comfort. "If "Liberty Cap" or Cloud
Ue.st" is to be ascended- -and both are
aecessnble even to ladies thi is the
p int from which to start. Leaving
the Casa early in the morning, a party
can '"do" either mountain, and descend
to Hutchiogs in tiniJ for dinner
Then there is the Yo Semite Fall,
Worthy of more thin one visit at
both its foot and its summit ; while if
Glacier Point were not taken on the
way into the valley, it must not be
forgotten vot. No difficulty, indeed,
will be found for making up a
programme for a fortnight, every
day's features will embrace something
new and interesting. Who is forced
to depart hence without spending four
or five days, will find himself tormented
with a firmer desire to revisit the vallep
than he had to enter it thefirnt time
He will scarcely wonder that Hutchings
and oue or two other families should
have made their permanent home in
somarvelous a place though it be so far
in the wilderness ; and certainly will
not be surprised that many who go
there prolong theii stay far beyond
their original intention.
Of this number was Mrs Yelvertor
so welt known to fame, and who came
so nearly miserably perishing in the
valley two or tnree years since. uo
arriving, she said to her ' host ; "Mr.
Hutchings I have come to spend a day
or two with you.'1 1 .
I am very happy to see you
madame," was the reply, "aud I shall
do what I can to make you comforta
ble." ; ; ' -' ;;
la faot, she remainod just4 tour
mouths. It was October, and near tbe
time of driving and heavy snow storms
before she wasreapy to go. Whosoever
was not prepared, if need were, to
winter in tho valley, therefore, must
speedily prepare , to leave it Three
English gentleman were "also- in the
valley, accompanied by a single guide,
They were to leave oo a certain day j
and MreYelverton -deoided to go with
them. The morning bime, threatening
an ' immtdiate storm. r Horses were
saddled, and the gentlemen booted and
spured, ready to mouut. Uut no lady
appeared. After a while Mrs.
Hatchings, who had gone to her room J
to ascertain" the cause of delay,
returned with the report that the lady
was somewhat unwell, but would soon
be ready to leave. As she was a good
horsewoman, and knew the path for
some distance, she requested tho party
not to delay, saying she would over
take it by the it reached Inspiration
Ilock
Impatient to be gone the gentlemen
waited for nc thing more, but started
down the valley at the top of th6
horses speed. It was, however, about
half an hour before Mrs. Yelvertoa
appeared to follow them, when
scattering 6nowflakes bad already
begun to tall. Sha would not be
dissuaded from setting forth, started at
ot a pace not interior to that of her
predecessors. Near the lower end of
the valley, and where the briddle path
begins to asend the mountain side, she
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looked aoouc lor ner escort, n either
traveler or guide was there. She
pushed on, the snow now falling quite
rapidly, as fast as she could until she
reached Inspiration Ilock. Hut no
gentleman and no guide was there.
Hoping still to overtake her country
men, who seemed to be flying from her,
she urged her horse onward as fast as
possible. Hut the tracks i those she
was following grew fainter and faiuter
until they wholly disappeared, and the
path itself was not well defined. Still
she went on until (he came to a swamp
acroA which her way led. She put
her horse at what she supposed the
riglt crossing place, hut he refused to
take it sod sought another. She dared
not allow him to go where he would
foaring he would sink in the mire ;
bvt to force him to go where he would
not she was unable.
And now, with snow eight or ten
inches deep and rapidly increasing, the
shades of uight were falling. What
ti do in this terrible strait! To
proceed ou was impossible ; to retrace
her step hardly less cifficult. At length
she remembered passing not far back
a large pine tree, out of which the
fire hud burnt, near the ground, almost
the entire hert. Hack tothat she
retreated, and found it large ccough to
admit not only herself, but tho head
and about half tho body of her horse.
Here, therefore, drawing her shawls
and wraps about her as well us she
could, and leading her horse into the
friendly covert as it would permit him
to enter , she passed the nignt, holding
the briddle rein in her had. What
were her fears and hopes, her phstcal
and mental sufferings during the slow
moving hours, and while the wind
was roaring and the snow was drifting
down through the pine tree ' tops, it
would be difficult to. imagine. She
remembered shat grizzly and cionamou
tears, if not verry common, were not
unknown in those regions, and that it
was not at all impossible that one of
them might pay her a visit before
morning dawned. She remebered, too,
the terrible cursed prouounced on her
by her husband at their last interview
He had endeavored to acquiesce in his
wishes, admit the invalidity of their
marrivgo, which both Irish and Scot
tish . Courts had ' declared legal, and
confess herself something else than a
virtous and honorable woman. To
this end; he exhausted all his means,
whether of argument or entreaty,
bribery or tnreats, within his power
but without avail. Finding ber
utterly immovable, and losing his own
temper, this beautiful specimen of
Brittish nobility launched at his muth
abused wife the most tetrible tnaledio-
tioos,. Might she live friendless and
alone, in complete destitution and
degradation, -Might she die with no
human dar lto Iiten;to her parting
sigh, no gen tie voice to speak a com
fortiog vford, and " do friendly hand to
to cl6se the sightless eyes or give her
lifeless form a decent burial.
How such a curse, though fron a
really cursed as well cursing creatine
1, 1873.
affects some superstitious minds is well
known ; and ia Mrs. Telvertoo's Irish
temperament there is probably no blight
streak af superstition. At any rate all
night long the dreadful malediction
was ringing in her ears, and seeming
likely of realization. For if she had
not lived in friendless solitude and
pinching want, she certainly appeared
likely to die in as bitter looliness and
desolation as malice itself could desire,
while for her body thero seemed , oo
better fate than to feed the birds and
beasts of proy.
But all thiogi earthly sooner or later
come to an end, so the night wore away
without bringing a visit irom either
wolf or bear. As soon as it was fairly
lignt, benumcd and almost frozen she
emerged from her covering.mounted her
horse, and, there was nothing, else to do
turned his head toward the Valley.
She succeded in finding and keeping tbe
path, and was making good program
down the mountain side, when she
came to an immense bolder around
which the path made a sharp angle.
Turning this, what should confront her
but a huge cinnamon bear ! Ot course
the frightened horse instantly xhceled,
and made his way back some little
distance with the greatest possible
speed. Theu his nder reined him in,
She looked around tome time. Goj in
the opposite direction she could not.
If her life was to be preserved she
must go in that. So after a while, she
urged he i horse down the mountain
again, and around the rock. To her
great joyjthe bear was gone, seeming
to have been as much frightened by
her as she was by him
With revived courage, she now went
on ner way. xut wnemcr-ior tne
9
purpose of increasing her circulation,
or for soje other reason she ere long
ditmountd and attempted to walk.
She had not proceeded far, however,
when, making a mistep where, on one
oide of the path, was quite a precipice,
he lost her balance and feel down the
declivity between twenty and thirty
feet, landing among bushes and in seme
depth of snow. The shock to her
already over taxed and exhausted frame
was so great that she swooned. How
long she' remained insensible she could
not tell ; probably not many minutes
Reviving, she recalled her recent expe
riehce and present condition, and real
ized that if her life were not to termU
nate then and there, she must make a
desperate effort in its behalf. Accord
ingly she dragged her behagg5red and
her bruised and bleeding limbs out of
the bushes, succeeded once more in
finding the path, down which jfshe
rather stumbled than walked a little
distance. She came then to a large
prostrate tree, lying close to and near,
ly parallel with her way, and ou the
leeward side of which was almost bare
ground.. Here exhausted nature re
fused to do more, and here, therefore,
she lay down to die. That is,she became
unconscious, and , had she not been
quckly found would have known no
more of earthly grief or gladness.
. But it happened. that Mr. Hutchings
and a neighbor had business urgently
requiring their presence at "Mariposa;
and, notwtihstanding the snow of the
previous day and night, they set fourth
that morning on their journey thither
When near the fallen tree, Mr. H. who
was somewhat behind his companion,
suddenly heard him call; "Hatchings,
Hutchings 1 for God's sake, hurry up I
Here is a dead woman V" Instantly
divining who it must be, as he had
been not a tittle anxious for ' Mrs.
Yel vertonV safety, Mr. Hutchi n gs
rushed forward to find, by a glance,
his suspicions verified. A slight ex
tminatioQ, Jiovrever, showed him that
life waanot j extinct. . Asking his
neighbor to kindle a fire of the dried
leaves and dead wood scattered around,
himself succeeding in forcing a few
drops of brandy from a pocket flask
between her teeth, and in quickening a
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her circulatien by ehafiug her bands -and
feet. Soon a blazing 1 firdwaf t&
burning, and in time the almost frozen
woman was restored to consciousness -and
partial strength. ' Then, liftiegsil
her upon one of their horses, these ,
good Smaritans gently ' conducted her.
back to tbe.hospital house she bad left t
on the previous morning, r Here Mr.'.
and Mrs. Hutchings so successfully
ministered to her needs as not ooIy fL' i s
revive her drooping ecergiesbut to' iJ
obviate any considerable shock to her
system, or injury to her health frotn'3
her iearful adventure. I f.-.- u't?ri
Oo. presenting herself next morjjiog,. ,c
whioh the did in good season, Mr H, u
said to Der, "Madam, it is very neccssa 4 .j
rV that I should start to day for
Mariposa. Vou, uf oourae, are wholly ,
unequal to such an undertaking, ; You
will therefore remain here, vh,ere as,
good care will be taken of you as .
pofstblo, until some suitable, opportu
nity presents to take your, departure'
"Mr. Hutching," replied the resur
rected woman, "I shall, go with you.
feoting perfectly safe under his gaid
soce
"But that is impossible," exclaimed
her host; "in your present condition 1
you would fall from yonr horse before
the long day's ride were over."
"I shall go vo'uh you' was her
persistent responce; nor would' she
listen to any dissuasives from to doing
Go, therefore, she did, riding twenty
four miles that day before reaching
Clarke and Moore's," where they spent1'
the night. The next day they rode to !"
Mariposa, nearly or quite as, far; where
on the following morning she bade ber" '
four months' host and the savior of her '
life, a grateful adieu, and disappeared
from his sight on her way to San Fran ?
CISCO.
And here, perhaps, the reader , 4
begins to think it is quite time for the
writer to follow her example, and V
vanish away. ..This I will make' haste '
to do by paying that the best route by
saying that the best route by which to
leave Yo Semite, affording some new '
and glorious views, is by way of Gen
try 's and the new stage route-1-- "'i
cerning whiih I conld hear nothing in '
San Francisco via the Tuolume '
Valley Big Oak Flat, and Chinese ;I
Camp, striking the railway at Burnett's. '
By this route the traveler passes
directly through Tuolome- grove "of
Sequoias; through a most wonderful
pine fore&t, capable of yielding fifty'' '
millions of feet of lumber to' tho acre J M1
over a region which shows what surface J '
mining has done for parts of California '(
down some long, winding hillsv- where
if he have a seat on the' outside of the;
coach, he finds sufficient occupation i''"
holding on ; and reaches his hotel in.
San Francisco, as he can do any other
route, on the second ' evening after
leaving Hutchings.' If whcn he does
he docs not "thank God aud take -
courage," he must be lf, will . uv
oikcuik iu oj mint, . . j , ,
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How He Lost the OrpoRTUNrfr.' -it
A useful hint to many tonog 'meoi r'
may be derived from this little story t
which the Springfield (Mass.) -Union h
prints': "Not long "ago a young man
of this city had a most favorable
opportunity to entera busines8v houso
iu this State, at a large increase over
his present salary, with a prospect -of
Boon, getting a place in the firm His ' t
recommendations were. first class, an4
the officers of the ' institution d were
decidedly pleased with his appearance.1 J
They, however, made him" no proposals, ;
uer did they state their favorable ina-,-
nrcsions. A gentleman of this city 1
was requested to ascertain where the
young man spent his evenings ' and
what class of young men were ..his
aociatea. It was found that he spent
several nights of? the; week in a billiard
room on Main street and Sunday4
afternoon drove ahircd span into the
country wiih three other young men.
Ho is wondering why he did'nt hear.
from the house concerning that coveted
position.
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