bowed head and a contrite look, and dived into an alley if he saw any one of his acquaintances upon his path. When he had dollars in his pocket he held up his head, poked out his chest, rested a hand upon a hip and snuffed the air. He charged down then upon any comrade whom he saw, shook hands with him, and dragged him off whether he would or not, to treat him at a tavern. All this time his wife pined in the old ruin at Tivoli, ceasing to think of him, and mourning for her father who was dead, and had cursed her in his dying hour.

The Landgrave of Hesse Cassel, who had sent Philip Roos to Rome, not hearing from him or receiving any pictures, supposed that he was dead too, and coming afterward by chance to Rome himself, about the year sixteen hundred and ninety-eight, was vexed to find how ill his patronage had been rewarded. Roos for a time avoided meeting him; but was at last urged to present himself and honestly confess his errors. The Landgrave received him kindly, and asked for a picture, which the painter vowed that he should have. But, rapid artist as he was, and great as were his obligations to the Landgrave, both for social aid and for hard money given to him, he did not spend ten minutes in a picture for him. He sent nothing, and again kept out of his way.

While he was thus wasting his opportunities and powers, Philip Roos on one occasion went to Tivoli, and was met with more than the ordinary clamor from his birds and beasts, who surrounded his house with the urgent, painful cries of creatures that for many hours had not been fed. He ran to his wife's chamber, and found her white and still upon her bed, her fatal beauty marred with the few lines that had been left there by a long despair. In her cold right hand there was a piece of paper firmly grasped; it was the last letter written to her by her father; she had died thinking of him, and not of Philip.

These latter had long been so popular as to attract great crowds, perhaps the more so as the aerial voyages were as little dangerous as they were short. The balloons were strongly attached to the ground by ropes, which could be lengthened or shortened at pleasure, the ascent never exceeding the tops of the trees, even among the bravest of the adventurers.

The crowd were now leaving the balloon for the fireworks, on another terrace, when a young girl, leaning on the arm of a man about forty years of age, appeared at the end of the avenue. They were walking slowly, and appeared preoccupied by some serious matter. After a silence, the man said, energetically—

"No, sister; as long as I live I can never forgive that Christian Loffmann for disputing my inheriting Loerrach, my cousin's property; for Heaven knows it was not left to me as a gift, but as my right for what he owed me."

"He should have said so in his will, Michael," answered the young girl.

"And just because he did not, I am despoiled of my due! Because a dying man did not explain all his reasons and circumstances, I am accused of interested and almost fraudulent designs by this Loffman !”

"Alas! he does not know us, brother," said the girl, gently. "They have filled him with prejudices against us, and he has believed them, because it was his interest to do so."

And so," replied Michael, bitterly, "the land I have cultivated for twenty years, and earned by my unceasing labors, is to be taken away from me by a foreigner, simply because he happens to be born a fifteenth cousin!"

"The judgment has not been given," interrupted Florence.

"Ah! but I have little to hope from it," answered Michael. "This Loffmann is young and active; he has friends, too; perhaps already the decree has been pronounced-"

The husband was not capable of worthy grief. He plunged into fresh excesses, became prematurely haggard, staggered about the streets enveloped in the odors of the wine shop, and died, at fifty, of decrepitude. The Italians, embar-derful would happen to divert us—” rassed by his German name, called this great painter the Rose of Tivoli. A great painter, but a little man.

He stopped on hearing his sister sigh.

"Well, well; here I am talking of it all again, when I have brought you here on purpose to make us both forget it. I wish something won

After all, perhaps, the immortality of genius, taken alone, is not worth envying. He is both a great man and a happy man who knows how to be as respectable as he is clever; but sever the two qualities, and who would not rather be the honest man of Hackney than such an ever-blooming Rose as that which has been here depicted?

A NIGHT AMONG THE CLOUDS. THE HE sun was setting on a certain Sunday in August, some years ago, at Manheim; and the pleasure-gardens which surround the town were rapidly becoming silent and deserted. In one, however, the crowd still remained-the eottage-garden, then famous for its entertainments, its fireworks, and its balloon ascents.

As he said these words, they turned a corner of the path, and came suddenly upon the open glade, where the balloon was floating a few feet above their heads, sustaining a light, pretty car, which seemed to be swimming over the grass.

Florence could not restrain a cry of surprise and admiration. It was the first time she had ever seen a balloon closely. She drew nearer. "Two more places!" cried the man who held the cords.

One man was sitting in the car, in the dress of a traveler, with one of the iron-spiked walkingsticks used on mountain excursions.

Two places! Who will go for a ride in the air?" repeated the man.

"more

"Is there no danger?" asked the girl. "None in the least," answered the man; than ten thousand souls have taken these little rides."

Meanwhile, the balloon, at the mercy of the night winds, floated through the sky with the "Are you, then, also condemned to defend rapidity of a swallow returning to its nest, while your just rights?"

its inmates could but just perceive the glimmer of some town or city over which they were passing. But, by degrees, even this failed them: the "Like mine," returned Michael. "If he gains balloon mounted higher, and the cold became ophis cause, I lose every thing I have gained in my pressive. Dull rumblings came in their earswhole life." sharp tinglings in their extremities-and stiffness "And I, all I have been looking to in the fu- in their limbs. Florence at last glided down ture."

from her seat, unable to support herself any lon

"The fruits of my labors will go to enrich anger. "I am sleepy," she murmured. avaricious man!"

may appear before Him without rancor in our hearts."

As he said these words, Florence entered; she seerned troubled as she advanced, holding a letter

"Amen!" answered Loffmann; "and may God in her hand. forgive us as we forgive each other!"

"Is that from M. Litoff?" asked Michael, and

Then, looking up, they perceived a pale light he turned pale. on one side: it was the dawn.

"Yes," answered the girl.

The wind appeared to change and sink; the balloon began to descend slowly; and a little hope re-animated their hearts. The sun rose, and the country began to reappear. It seemed like a resurrection to them. The earth existed still, and for them; and the balloon continued to descend. They soon distinguished the villages and fields. Suddenly Ritter joyfully exclaimed: "It is Loerrach!" and Florence, revived and thankful, recognized their old house and mea-patiently. The girl drew back a step. dows.

"Then the judgment is pronounced, and we shall soon know—”

He stretched out his hand for the letter, but the hand trembled. Florence took it between hers; and looking timidly at Loffmann, said gently

But at this moment the balloon seemed beginning to reascend on a fresh wind. Florence clasped her hands.

"Is there no means of stopping it?" she cried, imploringly.

"There is one," said Loffmann, "but it is a dangerous one."

"Whatever happens, do not let us forget that we have forgiven each other!"

"The letter! the letter!" cried Michael, im

"Promise to submit quietly, and not angrily, to the decision," she said. And pointing to the hill, where the pine-tree which had entangled them was still visible, she added, solemnly

"Have you so soon forgotten our night in the clouds ?"

Ritter and Loffmann looked at each other. For a moment they each hesitated, and then held

"Oh, let us try it!" cried Ritter; "nothing can out their hands both together. be worse than last night!"

'Ah," cried Michael, "it shall not be said Loffmann stepped cautiously on the edge of that in danger alone our hearts were disposed to the car, and hanging on by the cords, thrust the mercy! Saved by the goodness of God, let us spike of his walking-staff through the silk of the prove our gratitude by our submission. We have balloon. The gas rushed out with a roar; the left our enmity in the clouds-do not let us reballoon sank with frightful rapidity, and the trav-turn to it on earth. Whatever this letter may elers shut their eyes in terror. A violent bump announce, I declare that I will accept my fate with came, and they found themselves entangled in peace and calmness." the branches of a pine-tree, with the car but a few feet from the ground.

Toward the close of the same day, Loffmann and Ritter were leaning out of the window of the old house-the disputed property-to which Michael had conducted his two companions after their common deliverance. Their mutual congratulations had at first quite occupied their minds; but now that the first feelings of relief had passed away, Ritter began to feel his menaced interests reawakening within him.

He was still leaning silently on the wooden *balcony, when Christian, who had been looking out intently all over the country, suddenly asked, "How far does your demesne extend?" Michael started, as if his conscience told him his guest had divined his secret thoughts.

"Ah! you want to know how much your cause will gain for you?" he answered, bitterly.

"And for myself, I shall thank Heaven for having gained a friend," answered Christian, "even if it tells me of the ruin of all my hopes."

Florence gave the letter to her brother. He opened it with a firm hand, and turned slightly pale.

"You are in your own house, Loffmann," said he, turning to the young man.

"In my favor!" cried Loffmann, joyfully. "You are master of all that belonged to your cousin; his demesne is yours-"

"A demesne is not worth as much as the happiness of a friend," interrupted Loffmann, and he tore the letter in pieces.

Ritter beheld him with astonishment: Florence clasped her hands.

“Yes,” continued the young man; “I came in here as a guest, and I will not remain as an enUpon my word I was not thinking of it!" re-emy. He who has received me so kindly shall plied Loffmann, but he looked disconcerted.

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"You need not blush about it," said Ritter; "we each have confidence in our own rights, naturally. I will show you the demesne."

And he pointed out woods and fields, one after another, far and near.

himself be the arbiter of our rights."

"Me!" cried Ritter. "Ah! if I could choose!" Loffmann turned a look full of tenderness on Florence, who cast down her eyes; then taking Michael's hand

It is for her who began our friendship to tie "It seems a wonderfully well-cultivated prop- the knot which shall bind us to each other, and erty," observed Christian.

"I have given every thought and hour I possessed to it," replied Michael. "I had hoped to continue my improvements; but who can tell how many or how few days it may perhaps still be mine? Perhaps, already-"

render our division of rights more easy," said he.
"How?" asked Michael, astonished.
"By enabling friends to become brothers."
Ritter smiled, as Florence hid her blushing
face in his bosom, and held out her hand to Loff-

mann.

THE UNITED STATES.

HE final passage of the bill organizing govern

ernment instead of two-Rejected, 100 to 83. Mr. Mace, of Indiana, moved an amendment, that the

Territorial Legislature shall not have power to admit or exclude slavery at any time by law. This was rejected, 94 to 76. Mr. Parker, of Indiana, offered an amendment proposing bounties to emigrants to Nebraska-Lost, 85 to 66. Mr. Hague, of New York, offered an amendment, that the bill shall not take effect until the Indian title shall be extinguished-Lost, 84 to 63. Mr. Fuller, of Maine, offered an amendment, that the Legislature shall

Tments in the new Territories of Kansas and Nebraska, has been the event of leading interest during the past month. Our last Record mentioned that, on reaching the House from the Senate, the bill, on motion of Mr. Cutting of New York, had been referred to the Committee of the Whole. On the 8th of May, Mr. Richardson, Chairman of the Committee by which it had been reported, moved that the House resolve itself into Committee of the Whole, on the state of the Union, declaring his pur-have power to exclude or establish slavery as it pose, if the motion should pass, to propose to lay may see proper. This was rejected, 91 to 71. Mr. aside all business which had precedence of the Ne- Eliot, of Massachusetts, offered an amendment, that braska Bill on the calendar. Mr. Richardson's mo- the States that may be formed out of the Territory tion was carried-Yeas, 109; Nays, 88. Eighteen shall be admitted without slavery. This was rebills were then taken up in succession, and laid | jected, and the House adjourned. On Monday the aside by vote of the Committee. The Nebraska | 22d, on motion of Mr. Richardson, the House voted Bill was then taken up. Mr. Richardson offered a substitute for the bill as it came from the Senate the only difference being, that the clause confining the right of suffrage in the Territories to citizens of the United States was omitted in the substitute. The subject was then discussed, under the rule permitting speeches of an hour, until Friday the 12th, when Mr. Richardson offered a resolution to terminate debate on the bill the next day at noon. He said the Pacific Railroad Bill was a special order for Tuesday the 16th, and it was desirable to dispose of this matter as speedily as possible. He moved the previous question on his resolution. The opponents of the bill resisted taking a vote on this proposition, by motions to adjourn, to lay on the table, to excuse members from voting, &c., on each of which they called the Yeas and Nays, until Friday evening, when by general consent the House adjourned. On Saturday, Mr. Richardson having modified his resolution so as to close debate on the Nebraska Bill in five minutes after the House should again go into Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, after some slight debate the House adjourned. On Monday the 15th, Mr. Richardson withdrew his resolution, and offered one to extend the debate on the bill until Friday the 19th at noon, and on that he demanded the previous question. He afterward moved a suspension of the rules to enable him to offer a resolution terminating debate on the Nebraska Bill on Saturday the 20th at noon, and postponing the consideration of the Pacific Railroad Bill until the 24th. The motion was carried-Ayes, 137; Nays, 66; and Mr. Richardson moved the previous question on his resolution. After a good deal of confused debate, mainly personal, the demand for the previous question was seconded. The first branch of Mr. Richardson's resolution, terminating debate, was then passedAyes, 114; Nays, 59; and the second, postponing the Pacific Railroad Bill, was also passed by a vote of 123 to 53. On Tuesday the 16th, the House went into Committee on the Nebraska Bill, which was debated by various members until Saturday, when the bill came up for final action. Mr. Edgerton, after the first section had been read, moved to substitute the bill passed by the House at its last session. Mr. Walley, of Massachusetts, moved an amendment, that the Territorial government shall not be created during the present year. This was rejected by a vote of 103 to 77. Mr. Peckham, of New York, moved to have but one Territorial govVOL. IX.-No. 50.-R

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to go into Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, Ayes 105, to 70 Nays-Mr. Olds, of Ohio, taking the Chair. The question was then stated to be on the substitute offered by Mr. Edgerton for the one submitted by Mr. Richardson in place of the bill as it came from the Senate. Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, moved to strike out the enacting clause of the bill-saying that his object was to cut off all amendments, and secure a vote upon the bill. By the 119th rule of the House a motion to strike out the enacting clause has precedence of a motion to amend, and, if carried, was equivalent to the rejection of the bill. If, therefore, the Committee would agree to his motion and strike out the enacting clause, that action could be reported to the House-the House could then disagree to the report-Mr. Richardson could offer his substitute, and in that way all amendments could be shut out, and a vote had on the bill. Several points of order were made against the motion, which afterward passed by a vote of Yeas, 103; Nays, 22. Richardson then moved that the Committee rise and report this action to the House-the vote reported on this motion was, Ayes, 101; Noes, 2. The Chairman (Mr. Olds) then reported to the House that the Committee of the Whole had struck out the enacting clause. Mr. Richardson demanded the previous question on this report. Several motions to adjourn were made and lost. Mr. Goodrich, of Massachusetts, asked to be excused from voting. Mr. Clingman raised the point of order, that the motion could not be entertained, as the previous question had been demanded. The Speaker decided Mr. Goodrich's motion to be in order. Mr. Clingman appealed, and the House, by a vote of Yeas, 82; Nays, 100, refused to sustain the Speaker's decision. By a vote of 98 to 87, the House also reversed the Speaker's decision, that a motion to adjourn was in order. After several other motions had been disposed of, Mr. Richardson's de mand for the previous question was seconded, Ayes, 117; Nays, 94-the report of the Committee of the Whole to strike out the enacting clause was disagreed to, Yeas, 97; Nays, 117-and Mr. Richardson moved to substitute for the bill as reported, the same bill, with the clause excluding aliens from voting omitted. On this motion he demanded the previous question, which was seconded, and the main question ordered to be put-Yeas, 116; Nays, 90. The substitute offered by Mr. Richardson was then agreed to, Yeas, 115; Nays, 96. The bill was

then ordered to be engrossed for a third reading- in reply to a letter from Archbishop Hughes, who Yeas, 112; Nays, 99. The question then being on has published a rejoinder, in which he holds that the final passage of the bill, Mr. Richardson de- while civil governments have no right to enjoin manded the previous question, which was second-upon any person the doing of acts which his coned, and the bill was passed by the following vote: science condemns, they have a right to forbid the YEAS.-Messrs. Abercrombie, Aiken, Jas. C. Allen, performance of acts which his conscience may reWillis Allen, Ashe, David J. Bailey, T. H. Bayly, Barks- quire.On the 16th, Mr. Mallory offered a resodale, Barry, Bell, Bocock, Boyce, Breckinridge, Bridges, lution declaring that recent acts of the Spanish Brooks, Caskie, Chastain, Chrisman, Churchwell, Clark, government were calculated to create the appreClingman, Cobb, Colquitt, Cox, Craige, Cumming, Cut-hension that it was designed to place Cuba in the ting, John G. Davis, Dawson, Disney, Dowdell, Dunbar, hands of the negro population, and that such a step Dunham, Eddy, Edmundson, J. M. Elliott, English, would be deemed by the United States inconsistent Faulkner, Florence, Goode, Green, Greenwood, Grey, Hamilton, Sampson W. Harris, Hendricks, Henn, Hib- with their progress, their prosperity, and the civilibard, Hill, Hillyer, Houston, Ingersoll, G. W. Jones, J. zation of the age.- -Hon. Edward Everett, in a G. Jones, Roland Jones, Keitt, Kerr, Kidwell, Kurtz, letter dated May 21, resigns his seat in the Senate Lamb, Lane, Latham, Letcher, Lilly, Lindley, Macdonald, of the United States on account of his health. The McDougall, McNair, Maxwell, May, John G. Miller, Governor has appointed Hon. J. R. Rockwell to Smith Miller, Olds, Mordecai Oliver, Orr, Packer, Per-fill the vacancy thus created.On the 31st of kins, Phelps, Phillips, Powell, Preston, Ready, Reese, May, President Pierce issued a proclamation, statRichardson, Riddle, Robbins, Rowe, Ruffin, Shannon, Shaw, Shower, Singleton, S. A. Smith, Wm. Smith, ing that information had been received that sundry Wm. R. Smith, Geo. W. Smyth, Snodgrass, F. P. Stan- persons in the United States were engaged in orton, Richard H. Stanton, Alexander H. Stephens, Straub, ganizing and fitting out a military expedition for the David Stuart, John J. Taylor, Tweed, Vail, Vansant, invasion of Cuba, and that the said undertaking Walbridge, Walker, Walsh, Warren, Westbrook, Witte, was contrary to the spirit and express stipulation D. B. Wright, H. B. Wright, and Zollicoffer-113. of treaties between the United States and Spain, 1 NAYS.-Messrs. Ball, Banks, Belcher, Bennett, Ben- derogatory to the character of this nation, and in son, Benton, Bugg, Campbell, Carpenter, Chandler, Crocker, Cullum, Curtis, T. Davis, Dean, De Witt, Dick, violation of the obvious duties and obligations of Dickinson, Drum, Eastman, Edgerton, Edmands, Thomas faithful and patriotic citizens. He therefore warns D. Eliot, Ellison, Etheridge, Everhart, Farley, Fenton, all persons that the General Government claims it Flagler, Fuller, Gamble, Giddings, Goodrich, Grow, A. as a right and duty to interpose for the honor of its Harlan, A. J. Harlan, Harrison, Hastings, Haven, Hies-flag, the rights of its citizens, the national security, ter, Howe, Hughes, Hunt, Johnson, D. T. Jones, Kitt- and the preservation of the public tranquillity, from redge, Knor, Lindsley, Lyon, McCulloch, Mace, Matte-whatever quarter menaced; and it will not fail to son, Mayall, Meacham, Middleswarth, Millson, Morgan, prosecute with due energy all those who, unmindMorrison, Murray, Nichols, Noble, Norton, A. Oliver, ful of their own and their country's fame, presume Parker, Peck, Peckham, Pennington, Bishop Perkins, Pratt, Pringle, Puryear, David Ritchie, Thomas Ritchey, Rogers, Russell, Sabin, Sage, Sapp, Seymour, Simmons, Skelton, Gerrit Smith, H. L. Stevens, Stratton, A. Stuart, J. L. Taylor, N. G. Taylor, Thurston, Tracy, Trout, Upham, Wade, Walley, Elihu B. Washburne, Israel Washburn, Wells, John Wentworth, Tappan Wentworth, Wheeler, and Yates-100.

thus to disregard the laws of the land and our treaty obligations. He therefore earnestly exhorts all good citizens to discountenance and prevent any movement in conflict with law and national faith; and especially charges the several district attorneys, collectors, and other officers of the United States, civil or military, having lawful power in the prem

ing the authority and preserving the peace of the United States.

The names in Italics, as given above, are Whigs.ises, to exert the same for the purpose of maintainOf the 113 affirmative votes, 12 were given by Whigs, and 58 by Democrats, from the Slaveholding States, and the remaining 44 by Democrats from From California we have intelligence to the 16th the Free States. Of the 100 negative votes, 7 were of May. The weather had been favorable to the given by Southern Whigs, 2 by Southern Demo-working of the mines, and also to the agricultural crats, 44 by Northern Whigs, 43 by Northern Dem-interests of the State. The grain season was likely ocrats, and 4 by Free Soil members. In the to be later than usual, but none the less productive. Senate the bill was taken up on the 25th. Mr. Pearce, of Maryland, moved to restore the clause restricting the right of suffrage to citizens of the United States. This motion and the bill generally were warmly debated for a day or two. Mr. Bell, at great length, denounced the misrepresentations that had been made of his course, and said he had never been in favor of repealing the Missouri Compromise. Mr. Seward spoke at some length upon the general principles of the bill, and upon the contest between Slavery and Freedom, of which this bill was only one of the incidents. The amendment was rejected, 41 to 7, and the bill, as amended by the House, passed the Senate by a vote of 35

to 13.

The other proceedings of Congress have been of but little interest. On the 15th of May, Senator Cass made a very long speech in favor of religious liberty, and of instructing American representatives abroad to endeavor to secure for American citizens in foreign countries perfect freedom in the exercise of their religious opinions, and the performance of religious worship. A large part of the speech was |

A very large portion of the population are turning their attention to farming, and every thing indicated that the State would become far less dependent on imports for its general supplies than it has been hitherto. The Legislature adjourned on the 15th. In a Message to that body, the Governor states that the public lands in the State applicable to purposes of education, amount to seven and a half millions of acres. M. Dillon, the French Consul at San Francisco, has been indicted for an alleged participation in the enlistment of Frenchmen in California for service under the Mexican flag. The Expedition of Captain Walker has been completely broken up. On the 26th of April, a Mexican party of about ninety men, under Melendrez, made an attack on Walker's force at Guadalupe, and skirmishings were kept up between them, with losses on both sides, until the 7th of May, when Walker had reached the State line, and surrendered himself and his command to a detachment of United States troops, by whom they were taken to San Francisco, where they would be tried for a violation of the Neutrality Laws of the United States. This will put an end