have twice addressed you a note calling attention to this language. You have failed and refused to answer either of them, and you thereby force me to the last alternative. I therefore demand that you name some time and place out of this District where another communication will presently reach you. My friend Charles Pelham, Esq., is authorized to act in the premises.

"Respectfully,

In conclusion, of his own account of the affair, says Mr. Lowe:

Thus ended this one-sided correspondence which explains itself. It needs little or no comment from me. I will not brand John A. Logan as a liar, for he is a Senator of the United States; I will not post him as a scoundrel and poltroon, for that would be a violation of the local statutes; but I do publish him as one who knows how to insult but not how to satisfy a gentleman, and I invoke upon him the judgment of the honorable men of the community. Very respectfully,

Of course the newspapers were all full of this sensational matter, for days after. Senator Logan's account of the Lowe performance is given thus, in one of the papers of the day:

Logan, when asked to-night about the reported challenge, said that Lowe could make as great an idiot of himself as he pleased. He (Logan) should pay no attention to it.

"Have you read the challenge?" asked the correspondent.

"No," was the reply; "Lowe has been writing me letters for several days past, and when a messenger came this morning I declined any more communications on any subject."

"So you don't know what the last missive was?"

"No," said the Senator.

"It is said that it was a formal request for you to deny over your own signature the charge of lying made by you against Lowe, or else to name a place outside the District where a written communication could reach you."

Logan burst into a hearty fit of laughter, and said contemptuously, "I shall pay no attention to this man; but if he wants to test my courage he can easily find the way without this parade

The course of General Logan, throughout this whole affair, received the warmest commendation of the Northern and

Western press, as showing the highest degree of good sense and true moral courage; and the following resolution was unanimously adopted May 2, 1879, by a joint caucus of the Republican member's of the Illinois Senate and House:

Resolved, That we, the Republican members of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, in joint caucus assembled, heartily approve of the action of Senator Logan in his recent controversy with Representative Lowe. That, having heretofore demonstrated his courage on many a hard-fought battle field, it is not now necessary for him to resort to the false and demo ralizing duello code of the South to vindicate either his honor or hourage, and we recognize in the present attitude of Senator Logan... moral courage far higher and more commendable than any he couldisplay in accepting a challenge or meeting his antagonist on any falsely called field of honor.

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Apropo of this "duel" business, Gath" happened to meet General W. T. Clark, ex-M.C., and formerly Adju tant-Gene al of the Army of the Tennessee, in New York, about this time, and from an interesting interview with him, of April oth, in the Graphic, the following paragraphs are culled:

"General, do you suppose the rebel troops in the Western army fought as well as in Virginia?"

"They were often the same troops. At Ezra Church, looking over a log as I lay down on my face, I saw the rebel column brought five successive times out of the woods where they had been formed, and compelled to charge, and every time they melted away. I don't say that the Eastern troops had not plenty of courage; but it was natural that Western boys, brought up among horses, on farms, in sight of Indians, and use to firearms, should make quicker soldiers than the boys of the old still towns in the East. The East furnished the capital for that war, and the West was quicker with men."

"Returning to the army, what is your estimation of Sherman?"

He is a strategist, with a good deal of ability to lay out a large campaign."

"What kind of a commander was John A. Logan?"

"When there was no fighting to be done he was one of the most in

subordinate Generals I ever saw; but in action his behavior had an influence over his troops perfectly irresistible. He had black hair, broad shoulders, a look of resolution, and could swear tremendously. He would say, 'Boys, go at 'em now; I have found whe. they are for you, just in that clump of trees; come right along with me and we'll give 'em!' Although never wounded [This is a mistake. He had often been wounded, as we have seen in narrating his military life], he was almost invariably upon the battle-line. Frank Blair was also a brave man, but he never went to the front in action; he kept the position prescribed by military rules. Logan's influence with his corps in battle was enormous."

"What do you think about this noisy duel, so called, between Logan and one Lowe of Alabama?"

“John A. Logan can take a revolver and shoot a 3-cent piece out of the fork of a bush with the nonchalance that you shake that cane. As to his courage, you can't make anybody discount that. He simply has no time to fool with such a fellow as Lowe."

The Christian Advocate of May 1, 1879, said of the affair:

He leaves the lie. He

run a foot

He acts as

Lowe says, Retract, fight, or be flogged; but Logan does not obey orders with the slightest alacrity. He does not retract. Lowe and the reporter to wrangle about which one tells does not fight. He does not even allow his stable-boy to race with Lowe. He does not recognize Lowe's existence. if Lowe, having committed a mean, slanderous crime beneath the possibilities of any gentleman, cannot be treated as a gentle.man till he acts like one. The old bully and bludgeon business of the South with the cry of coward is unavailing. General Logan bears too many honorable scars for even his enemies to hint at cowardice. No man that ever heard of "Champion Hills" could believe such a hin. t. It only remains for Lowe to flog the General when he meets him on the street. But that is not an undertaking for boys. Possibly half a dozen of these bullying bulldogs might venture to assail him. Even that is not safe.

We are glad General Logan remembers that he is a Christiar statesman and not a heathen prize-fighter or gladiator. He represents a Christian civilization. He is intrusted with the honor of mem' oership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he cannot stoop to be insulted by any bully.

Said another journal:

John A. Logan is a good Methodist and will not fight a duel, but he uses pretty strong language sometimes. When Mr. Lowe's "second" waited on Logan with a challenge, Logan refused to receive it, and said, "Go to hell with it! I will not even recognize the existence of your principal until he makes an abject apology "-to which we, with all the good Methodist brethren, say Amen.

Said the Washington Republican:

Senator Logan continues to receive high and unqualified commendation for sitting down hard on the idiotic, vulgar, brutal, and murderously digraceful code duello. It required It required a brave man to do this, and Logan's display of that courage comes with splendid effect in view of his grand record as a soldier and his wide reputation as a statesman. It was considered by the New York Tribune and other papers that General Logan has done a public service by his action in the case of the bullying Alabama Congressman, William M. Lowe."

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Thus ended this episode. We shall see, later, how Logan forced Democratic Senators to acknowledge that these insinuations against Logan's loyalty before the war were false, and that the proofs were "full, complete, and conclusive."

It may be mentioned en passant, however, that it would have been a bad day for Lowe had he ventured to make a physical attack upon General Logan, or had the latter chosen to go on the "field of honor," as the latter was somewhat of an athlete, having learned boxing even as a boy, and was a dead shot.*

* General Logan was always fond of out-door sport. He was an admirable horseman and swordsman, and knew how to handle a rifle, but he was the last man to brag of his strength or skill. When down at the Hot Springs of Arkansas, a few years ago, trying to throw off a peculiarly severe attack of rheumatism, he astonished the pistol experts of that pistolling country. On one occasion a dozen young men were shooting from the piazza of the General's hotel at a bottle laid on the broad crotch of a distant tree. The bottle was round. Unless it was hit plumply in the middle, it spun round and round like a top. The young men were good shots, but now and then they would miss the somewhat difficult mark. Then the invalid Senator would chaff them. The young men finally became irritated,

GENERAL LOGAN'S DOMESTIC LIFE AT WASHINGTON-HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN-A HAPPY HOME.

Washington correspondence of the Philadelphia Record, February 28, 1879, says of the General's domestic life at this time:

Mrs. Logan is almost the model of an American woman. She is not at all such a woman as one would naturally suppose from reading of the powerful factor she has been in her husband's successes. There is nothing of the strong-minded woman about her, in the ordinary acceptation of that term. She is the embodiment of dignity, and one of the most quiet, womanly, wifely women imaginable. Not pretty, but finelooking; tall and shapely, with a perfectly moulded head; dark-brown hair,* with just a few silver threads; clear, quiet eyes, a high, intellectual brow, and a mouth that expresses more than all the rest of the face together-a mouth that can be tremulous with love, or firm with duty, as occasion may require. Her voice is soft and low, as a woman's should be, her manner gracious and dignified, and her movements quiet and lady-like. Her admiration of and devotion to her husband borders on the sublime. To her he is evidently the one great man in all the earth. Every thought is for him and their children. Every look and gesture ennobles him. They have two children-a daughter, just on the verge of womanhood, who was married a year or two ago, and a son in his early teens. Both children are unusually bright, intelligent, and fine-looking. The daughter has been her mother's helpmeet in matters political and social for years, and the boy is as thorough-going a specimen of that genus as could be found in a day's march. He already shows the audacity and daring of his father, combined with the

After a little more chaffing he said:

and asked Logan if he could improve upon their skill. "I'll tell you fellows what I will do. There are twelve of you, but I'll give you each a box of cigars for every time you hit the bottle if you'll give me a box every time I hit it." The boys accepted the proposition instantly.

"I'll shoot first," said Logan; "and if I hit I'm to shoot again and again until I miss."

They had no objection, so the General fired twelve consecutive shots, each time breaking a different bottle, while the young men's eyes opened wider and wider.

"Do you want any more?" he asked, after the twelfth shot.

"No," said the young men, hastily; "we guess not."-Howard in the New York World.

*Now all silvery white, a mute evidence of what she also suffered during, and since, the War of the Rebellion.