170 Four-in-Hand in Britain. 



man to drive at once to the office of the Provost Mar- 

 shal. Here is what he found in that tiny strip : " P.M. 

 Washington — Send Private Johnston, Company B, 9th 

 Penn. Infantry, to his regiment. A. L." 



That is the kind of thing that took our trusting 

 hearts and gave this wood-chopper of IlHnois such 

 power as all the hereditary monarchs of the world can 

 never hope to acquire. Just so with Jefferson Davis : — 

 it wouldn't do anybody any good to shoot him. Happy 

 America ! strong enough to laugh at all powers which 

 talk of assailing you. 



In driving to and from Bilton Grange, we passed 

 famous Rugby and talked of our favorite Tom Brown. 

 What a sad pity that Mr. Hughes was carried away by 

 the fascinations of a scheme for transplanting gentle 

 manly Englishmen to the Rugby colony in Tennessee ! 

 It was foredoomed to failure, and to much heart-burn- 

 ing and recrimination. Of all men in the world, your 

 well-educated young Englishman is least adapted for 

 such a life as Tennessee has to offer. Had the West 

 or North-west been selected, the result should have been 

 different so far as pecuniary considerations are con- 

 cerned, for even poor management there could not have 

 kept the land from rising in value. The stream of emi- 

 gration from the older States to the new might have 

 told these men where to go ; but it seems that when- 

 ever foreigners attempt to do anything in America 

 through an organization, their first thought is how to 



