There was but one expression of feeling at our departure--one of regret; into our short stay in Baltimore, which we reached in a couple of hours, there was compressed so much cordiality and hospitable intent that we were beggared even in thanks. There was a drive with Mayor Latrobe through the city and Druid Park, following an excursion down the harbour and Fort M'Henry in a steamer, visits to elevators and wharfs and landing-piers, and lunches without speechmaking, all to be got through ere the special resumed the run to Washington, of which the Capitol loomed in sight just as the last rays of the sun shot up from behind the ridge which I remember white with the tents of the army of the Union. The long drive to Rigg's House--a magnificent creation of the last few years--was a succession of surprises; new streets, splendid mansions, smooth pavements, electric lights, private carriages, an animated crowd of well-dressed, pleasant-looking people in Pennsylvania Avenue, reminiscences of Paris and New Vienna all around us, instead of mud and closed shutters, gloom, and "John Brown's body lies mouldering in the grave" sounding out of patriotic cellars, horses tethered to every tree, orderlies galloping, patrols marching, and the noise of never-ending convoys of warlike stores. It was indeed a happy change. _Si sic omnia, si sic semper!_ CHAPTER IV. WASHINGTON. Heroes New and Old -- The Soldiers' Home -- The White House -- President Garfield -- His Visitors -- The Capitol -- Mount Vernon -- Mr. Blaine -- "On to Richmond!" -- Fitzhugh Lee -- The Capitol, Return -- The Corcoran Gallery -- Sight-seeing.