shr Cnitrr jpraomt BELI.EFONTE, PA. The Largest, Cheapest and Best Paper VUHLISIIEO IN I'KNTRK COUNTY. |frout tlt New York Olwfor, INTERNATIONAL LESSONS. Second (Quarter, lit REV. IIKSRT M. atoll, t>. D, JUN E 6. Lesson 10. THE CRUCIFIXION. liVRR S!: 33-4#. UOLDIN TEXT :— *• Ami I, If I Iw llflesf tip from Ifiß rurth, will lrw all turn unto we." Ventral Truth.—' The sinless .lesus died on the cross that guilty sinners might be pardoned and live. dust one week intervened between the time of our last lesson and the great event we are specially to contemplate in this; a week crowded with scenes and lessons of intense and momentous interest. heaving .lericho, our Saviour reach ed bethauy, Fiiday, toward evening. There, in the house of Lazarus and Martha und Mary, he spent the next day, which was the Jewish Sabbath. Being now ready openly to announce himself as the Messiah, the day after, amidst the shouts and hosunnas of the people, he made his triumphal entry into Jerusalem. The same evening he returned to Bethany. Monday he was again at Jerusalem, cleansing the Tem ple aud healing Hie sick, the blind and the lame. The children renewed the cries of the previous day, and made the Temple resound with "Hosanna to the Son of David." After another night in Bethany, Tuesday found him at the Temple once more, and for the last time. This w'as nlso his last day of public teaching. He predicted theap-, proacbing destruction of Jerusalem, j and his own second coming; and, be side others, he spoke the parables of > the Ten Virgins, the Talents, and the ' Last Judgment. His public ministry was now ended: j and Wednesday was spent in retirement and rest in tbe quiet home at Bethany. ! Thursday he set out for the cross. To- ! ward evening, in a little upper chamf>er in Jerusalem, he washed the disciples' feet, and taught them the greatness of humility; and, being now about to offer himself as the one all sufficient sacrifice for sins, he ate with them the Passover, and instituted the Memorial Supper; then, having poured lorth his soul in the tender words of a farewell discourse and prayer, he joined the disciples in the great Hallelujah Song, and made his way to Gethsemane. Here, in the darkness of the night, transpired the dreadful agony and the cruel betrayal. Though he might have called legions of angels to his aid, he made no resist ance. Did he not come to the very end that he might give his life a ransom He is taken first to tbe house of An nas, the oldest, though not the acting, high priest. Thence, with insults and 1 mockery, he is hurried to the palace of t'aiaphas, where, having been question- ' ed, accused, smiften and reviled, be is condemned to death by the Council, and denied by his own foremost disciple, Peter. The sentence of death must needs be ratified by the civil authority. Accordingly the next step is to bring liini to the official residence of Pilate. By him he is questioned and sent to Herod, and to him he is again returned. "Unrig.iteoas, cruel and arbitrary" as Pilate wan, he testified to his innocence; and only after delays and protestations and expostulations, did he yield to the furious demands of the priests and rul era and people, and deliver him to be crucified. This punishment was of all that could be devised the most dreader] and shameful, reserved even by heath-* enism for the worst of criminals. Just where the cross was set up we do not know. It was not far outside the city walls. The two thieves crucified with him may have been ordered to the cross to spite the Jews; nnd the iu*cri|>- tion placed above the Saviour's head, "This is the King of the Jews," may have bad the same motive. •Some of the disciples drew near to the croas, among them the Marys, John nnd the Mother of the Lord. The soldiers carelessly parted and gambled for Ins garments; the people stood beholding ; j the rulers derided. Vet, in the midst of all, and in mortal agonies, the insjestic 1 surt'erer, burdened wilh the sorrows and sini of a world, uttered no accusation, no reproach, no complaint. He had saved others. He might have saved himself. How well it i* for us that he i would not and did not! It was for us that he endured the eeoss, despising the shame. Pitiful and loving to the end, for the soldiers whose hsnds had driven the nails he prayed: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." To the penitent thief he spoke words of great promise. Other words of tender ness and power are recorded in the other Gospels. What mingled pity and agony filled his soul we know not. A supernatural darkness now enshrouded the earth in sympathetic gloom. Doubt lees, by direct divine interposition, the veil or tbe temple was rent in twain, signifying that, through the blood of Atonement, access to God wss no longpr imperfect but free. The purpose of his sufferings was now accomplished, and, with a loud cry and commending his spirit to the Father, as a self-sacrifice completed, the Incarnate .Son bowed his head in death. PRACTICAL SL'OORATIONS. 1. That any man who looked upon the Saviour crucified could deride his agonies, seem* too horrible for belief. We do well therefore to guard lest we contemplate the same scene with idle indifference or heartless curiosity. No thoughts are so fitted to humble, melt, subdue, quicken and sanctify as those which cluster about the cross. And yet the heart needs to be opened to them by deliberation, effort and prayer. 2. It is especially important that the lessons of the narrative be applied to ourselves. It was for our sins that God gave his Hon; to save us from shame and everlasting contempt that Jesus came and was obedient unto death. It was that we might be justified and saved that he consented to fie numbered with the transgressors. To the impenitent there could bo no moro tonder and powerful persuasive to repentance. To the believer nothing could bo better lilted to renew faith anil quicken obedi ence and love. 3. How great in the love of Hod ! It was bocauso he so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son. 1. What a revelation there is in the cross of the holiness of Hod! It was because his moral nature would not suffer him to pardon without an expia tion that in Christ his Son he himself made an offering for our sins. 5. How wide open the door of life and salvation now stands, since he who died upon the cross thus became "the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but ulso for the sins of the whole world." The ransom has been paid. It is Hod's desire that all should believe anil live. C. betwixt the believer's death and paradise there is no longer sleep of un consciousness. He passes at once to the companionship of the blest. 7. Heath bed repentances may be real. That of the penitent thief was such a case. Nevertheless it stands alone in thnHospel records. In it there is no encouragement to delay repent ance. 8. Salvation is of grace ; not of merit. The thief had nothing with which to pay. He could only humbly ask and receive. So asking, he did receive. This is the one, the sure way for all. ■J. To learn the worth of the soul, the greatness of its ruin by sin, the depth of the abyss from which it is to be re covered, the immortality of our being, and the blessedness of the saved, one has but to look to the cross. Can it be wise, then, to defer a personal inteiest in Christ as an atoniug Saviour? Is there any better work for the believer than that of bringing men to him? I'IC KKTT'S ( lIAHHK. A PARTICIPANT'S INSCRIPTIONS or WHAT win. LIVE IN HISTOBT AS A OR P. AT EVENT. Caj't 11. T Owtfi in HVekly Tim**. The command now came along the line, "Front, foiward !" and the column resumed its direction straight down upon the centre of the enemy's posi tion. The destruction of life in the ranks of that advancing host was fear ful beyond precedent, officers going down by dozens and the men by scores and fifties. Kemper has gone down terribly mangled, but Harnett still tow ered unhurt, and rod up and down the front line, saying in a strong, calm voice: "Faster, men ! faster! Clone up and step out faster, but don't double quick !" The stone fence was carried without a struggle, the infuntry and theskirin i-h line -wept away before the division like trash fiefore the brooin. Two third* of the distance iru behind and the one hundred cannon in the rear were dumb and did not reply to the hotly worked gun* in our front. We were now four hundred yards from the foot of Cemetery Hill, when away otr to the right, nearly half a mile, there appeared in the open field a line of men at right angles, with our own, a long dark mass, dressed in blue, and coming down at a "double quick" upon the un protected right flank of Pickett's men, with their musket* "ii|>on the right shoulder shift,'' their battle flags danc ing and fluttering in the hreete created by their own rapid motion, and their burnished bayonets glistening above their heads like forest twigs covered with sheets of sparkling ice when shak en by a blast. Ca>net! galloped along the line saying: "Faster, men I faster!" j and the front line broke forward into a double quick, when • iirnetl called'out: ' Steady, men ! steady ! Don't double quick. Save your wind and your am munition for the fioal charge;" and then went down among the dead, and his ciarion voice was no more heard above the roar of battle. The enemy were now seen strengthening their lines where the blow was expected to strike by hurrying up reserve* from the right and left, the columns from opposite directions passing each other double along our front like the fingers of a man's two hand* locking together. The distance had agsin shortened and offi cers in the enemy's line could be dis tinguished by their uniforms from the ! privates. Then was heard ladiind that heavy thud of a muffled tread of armed men that roar and rush of trampling fe-t as Armistead's column from the rear closed up behind the front line ami he (the last brigadier) took command, stepped out in front with his hat ufi lifted on the |oint of his sword and led the division, now four ranks deep, rap idly and grandly across that valley of death, covered with clover as soft as a Turkish carpet. There it was again I and again ! A sound filling the air above, below, around us, like the blast through the top of a dry cedar or the whirring sound made by the sudden flight of a flock of quail. It wa* grape, canister, and the column biwe forward into a double quick and rushed toward the stone wa'l where forty cannon were belching forth grape and canister twice and thrice a minute. A hundred yards from the stone wall the flanking party on the right, coming down on a heavy run, halted suddenly within fifty yards and |>oured a deadly storm of musket balls into Pickett's men, double quick ing across their front, and under this terrible cross fire the men reeled and staggered between falling comrades and the right tame pressing upon the centre crowding the companies into confusion. Hut all knew the purpose to carry the heights in front, and the mingled mass, from fifteen to thirty deep, rushed to ward the stone wall while a few hun dred men, without orders, faced to the right and feught the flanking party there, although fifty to one, and for a time held them at bay. Muskets were seen crossed as some fired to the right end othert to the front and the fighting was terrific—far beyond all other ex perience even of Pickett's men, who for once raised no cheer, while the wel kin rang around them with the "Union triple hurra." The old veterans saw the fearful odds against them and other hosts gathered darker and deeper still. The time was too precious, too serious for a cheer ; they buckled down to the heavy task in silence, and fought with a feeling like despair. The enemy were failing back in front, while officers were seen among their breaking lines striv ing to maintain their ground. Pickett's men wore within a few feet of thestono wall when the artillery delivered their last fire from guns shotted to the muz zle—a blaze fifty leet long went through the charging, surging host with a gap ing rent to the roar, but the survivor* mounted the wall, then over und on ward, rushed up the hill elose alter the gunners, who waved their rammers in the face of Pickett's men and sent up cheer after cheer a* they felt admiration tor the gallant charge. On swept the column over ground covered with dead ami dying men, where the curth seemed to he on fire, the smoke deno and suf focating, the sun shut out, flames bins ing on every side, friend could hardly he distinguished Irom foe, but the divi sion, in the shape of an inverted Y, with the jwiint flattened, pushed for ward, fighting, fulling, and melting away, till half way up the hill they were met by a powerful body of fresh troops charging down upon them, and this remnant, of about a thousand men was hurled back out into the clover field. Bravo Armistead was down among the enemy's guns, mortally wounded, but was last seen leaning upon one elbow, slashing at the gun ners to prevent them from firing at fiis retreating men. Out in front of the breastworks the men showed a disposi tion to reform for another charge, and an officer looking at the frowning heights, with blood trickling down the side of his face, inquired of another, "What shall we do?" The answer was ; "If we get reinforcements soon we can take that hill yet." But no reinforce ments came, none were in sight, and about a thousand men fled to the rear over dead and wounded, mangled, groaning, dying men, scattered thick, far and wide, while shot and shell tore up the (-Arth and minnie ball* (lew around them for more than a thousand yards. I'OMMODOKL STOCKTON'S IH LI.. A I>E.*I'EKXTE ACT tIV WHICH HE SAVED UIMsEI-r no* C A I'll HE. From reminiscences by .lo*iah C'uincy, in the Independent, we take the follow ing striking incident : I now come to the roost marvelous dueling adventure in which Stockton was engaged, and this 1 shall give as I heard the story told by it* hero one day after dinner and in the presence of several gentlemen who were lingering about the table. Since writing out the narrative given below 1 have found in the Boston City library an anonymous life of Stockton, apparently written for some political purpose, and published in 18-56. The writer give* an account of this duel from hcarsny and "according to hi* remembrance." The narrative differs from jnine in several respect*, and omit* some striking particulars, which I am certain that 1 heard from the principal actor. There inut exist material* for an authentic life of the brilliant Commodore, and a most inter esting book it would be. Neither roy memory nor my journals are infallible, and if any particulars are misstated (which 1 do not believe to fie the ca*ei they are offered a* subject to correction by a responsible biographer. The scene wa* at Gibraltar, and there had been a previous duel between Stock ton and a British officer attached to the station, who, however, wa* not the offi cer from whom the affront to he are tig ed had reslly come. There had been charge* and counter charge*, negotia tion* and crimination*, till finally the American officer in command put a stop to proceeding* by an order that none of hi* subordinate* should go ashore while the ship remained in that r>ort. The lull wa* only temporary. After a short cruise the Krie returned to Gibaraller, and this time the real offender WAS forced by the pubtio opinion of his fel low* to give the Yankee lieutenant the meeting he had demanded, A guaran ty was required by Stockton that the British authorities of the town should not be informed of the duel, witb a view to ordering his arrest, and a pledge was given that there should be no in lerjrrence. "Under these circumstsn ces," aaid Stockton. "I went ashore without distrust. The flag had been grossly insulted by a British officer, who was now hacked up by bis com rades. I wa* the only unmarried offi cer on board the Lrie, and my duty was, of course, clear. The governor of the fortress, during our previous visit, had announced thst he would hang any Yankee who came ashore for the pur pose of fighting, and, although it was not probable that he would have dared to carry out the threat, he would have been ugly enough had hn caught me. It was arranged between our seconds that, u|>on landing, we should be con ducted to a retired place where the duel might come off" without interfer ence. British honor was pledged lo this, and, believing it still to he worth something, I was rowed ashore, accom panied by my second and the ship's doctor." The graphic description of what followed must be given in a feeble outline. The Americans were conduct ed to a *pot near the top of the rock, where they met the opposing party. It then appeared that no immediate fighting was contemplated, for theJlng lishmen began to enter upon a discus sion, and to raise frivolous objection* to the recognised code of dueling. Stock ton, seeing that all this tended to de lay, and suspecting treachery, suddenly declared that he would waive all rights and fight at once upon whatever terms his opponent chose to exact. After such a declaration no retreat was possi ble. The ground was measured, shots were exchanged, and the British officer fell wounded. Stockton advanced to inquire into the nature of the injury, and then the wretched man was shamed into a confession that treachery had been praetioed, and that instant flight was necessary if hi* opponent would avoid arrest. Upon this the Lieutenant started for hia tioat, running at full speed. His way lav through a passage cut out of the rock, which gave access to the beach below. Upon turning a corner, when about half way down, be was confronted by a file of soldiers, drawn up to oppose his passage. The officer in command was a pursy little fellow, who seemed to enjoy hugely the iiicotnfiture of his supposed captive. There stood this merry gentleman upon a parapet which gulped the road, and which was raised a few feet above it. Hia squad waa ranged In a Una with him, completely cutting off the pas sage. There was not a moment for de lay ; the situation was desperate; it could be met only by u resolve a* des perate. The officer was off his guard and was chuckling with delight. Now was the instant for a dash. Now stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, and there was yet a chance for liberty. In stead ol making the surrender which was expected, Stockton sprang at this cheerful officer. He grappled with him ; lie got his head under his arm, lie jumped with hiin from the parapet, and in a moment the two men clasped to gether were rolling over and clown the side of the rock. Presently the parties separated, the Englishman rolling one way and the American another. At length Stockton managed to stop his perilous descent and dropped a number of feet to the bench below. Covered with blood and dirt, with his clothe* nearly stripped from him, he accosted a gentleman who was taking his morn ing ride upon the beach, and begged the instant loan of hi* horse. This re quest the rider not unnaturally declin ed, Whereupon he wa* seized by the leg and pulled from the saddle. His assailant mounted the horse and put ting him (o hi* speed made for the boat. He looked up for a moment and saw the Moldieis running about m a dis tracted manner, most of them tearing down the road to cut him off. Stock ton, however, reached the boat, gave the order to pull for the frigate, and then fainted. He did not recover con sciousness until he found himself in his berth on l>oard the Erie. These events were related at the per sistent request of other*. They were given modestly, but with great spirit. There were at that time living witnesses to the escape, and the fact* connected with it were well known. I have al ready said we must regard Stockton's duels from the |>oint of view of the profession to which he was devoted. The highest officers in the Navy sanc tioned this barbarism a* a duty to which a brave and honorable man might be called. Ooly a few years before my visit to Washington four American com modore* left the city on this miserable business. I'ecatur ami Barron were the principal*; Bainbridge and Elliot act ing a* seconds. The brave and gallant 1 'ecatur, the pride of the American Navy, there met his death. It is not necesary to reort to Christian ethics to condemn a practice which has cost such valuable live* ; but let u dojustice to the high-minded men who were vic tims of infatuation which we have left behind us. V ltOl.lt M'Li I I.ATOIt. I Hiring the first oil excitement a young man came to (hi "ty with but i-'t ; but he wore good clothe*, had an education and plenty of "check." After surveying the situation for a day or two lie concluded to 'peculate, and finding a farmer who had not yet !eaed or sold hi* land, he represented himself as an agent for a wealthy companv. with in structions to buy up land. The farmer wa* rather reluctant about selling, but finally terms were agreed upon, and the paper* were drawn up arid signed. Twenty dollar* were paid down to bind the bargain ; s'>,(*lo more were to be paid in thirty day*, ami ST.OOQ more in six month*, lie bad hut |i to meet an obligation of SIOOOO. but, not despair ing, fie quietly awaite i the completion of a well that wa* being drilled near hi* ne v puich*e. The well was finish ed in five day* after the *le, and proved to be a good one. He wa* offered SJO,- I**l for the farm, but f 10,00' I clear gain in five 'lay* did not tempt him to sell, for another well wa* being drilled on the adjoining farm, and should it prove to be a big producer, hi* land would f>e very valuaole. <'n the other hand, should it be a "duster," he could not even get a* much a* he agreed to pay for it. Still lie did not sell, and the time pjued rapidly away. Only a few day* remained before be would hare to pay s'|,ooo, or the *le would be can celled. Twenty eight days had passed and the well was rot down yet, although they expected to reach the oil rock every hour. On the night of the twen ty-ninth day he sat up in the derrick with the driller*, for they knew they were within a few feet of the and. Midnight came and the hand* were re lieved by another force. Hi* lat day had come and was wearing away, and he knew that the farmer would not wait one minule longer th*n the law requir ed him, for he had several time* l>ecn offered a larger amount for the land. At two o'clock the *and was reached, and the well proved to be the largest producer yet struck in the new field. The new* of the new well rapidly spread, and by noon the hext day a number of wealthy oil men were on the ground, anxious to secure the adjacent territory. That (lay the young man sold hi* farm of 110 acres for SI,OOO per acre, clearing in thirty days SIOO,OOO. with a capital of only twenty five dol lars to start on. tVashlaglnn In Sntnmer. X MTV WITHOI'T HBBEZBS. A Washington correspondent of the Buffalo tirvner say* : "There is nd place in the Union with such a combination of cause* for the production of heat in Summer at Washington. The result is there are day* every Summer when it is hotter here than at any other point covered by the observation* of the sig nal service. The causes are numerous. First the altitude is low, it could not well be lower, without danger of inun dation from the ocean. The ocean tides come* up, and if met by high water from shore, as in February, the low ground is covered with water. Pennsyl vania avenue, between the White House and the capitol at its lowest places, is only eight or ten feet above tide. The capitol itseH, which occupies the highsst ground within the corporate limits of Washington, is only one hun dred feet above the sea level. Yet with alt the disadvantages of a dead sea level, there are none of the advantages. The distance to the ocean is so great that sea breexe* are sn unknown luxury unless one goes to them. Tbs surround ing country is low and sandy, and there are no mountain* or large extent of forests near enough to have the least ef fect upon the heat burdened atmos phere. In the City the black asphaltun pavements "draw" the heat and hold it. lakrn altogether the combination mirl' pn ,t torrid Summer climate, from which those who rim try to escape. Another disadvantage of Hummer re lot nee here i* the remote rienn of relief. 10 reach any of the seaside resort* or the mountain* of Pennsylvania or West Virginia require. , |H jte a long journey. F.very Summer there i. .„ ÜBU HI com I " ll 'l the Tapitol hould not have been erected hero, and Heorgs Wash ington IH blamed (or making the aelec lion, although be had little to do with it except to throw hi. influence for a aite on the Potomac instead of the Sua quehanna, in Pennsylvania. At a mat ter of fact, the aite selected by a vote of Hongre** then tutting at Philadelphia waa on the Susquehanna, a little at>ove liarrishurg. That was about the first sectional question introduced into our |oiiti(-s, the Southern members all vot ing for a location on the Potomac, and the Northern members for a location on the Susquehanna. The vote locating it on the Susquehanna was reconsidered by a compromise in which a proposition that the National Oovernment should not assume the debts of the several Slate* was involved. A Pim itKStJK I'IO.NEKIt. cot., AI.IIEHT it. T-iKirrea'S KEVIKGE FOB THE NI'KOEK OF HIS WIFE. Fe lew* (if SlrmytA. Loci ef Energy, tit, hnrichrw the blood, strengthen* Ihp muscle*, and giec* new life to the in rce*. Titer art like a charm on the digestive organ*, removing aJI draneptic nmMiiira, imrh aa 7h*tinmi l* la all lla t>n*ba la UM> Pf*t CHIP*. u4 t* BaprMa* awl (Sraall Ooarte of tb* v'altad ftalo ruapbl< t nad fraa, (Ml New Adeertlnementa. ] | J. RAKER Ai BRO„ (OMPURRJ; MANI HKS, rr|wr, unitattilii* lb a u.ti<. Lira!.-1 lira jnt lh flalit tool, 111 Hi" i y. 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