tired of the management of National affairs in the hands of their own friends, is shown by the fact that they actually stayed away from the polls in the Thirty-fourth Senatorial District [Laughter and applause], thus giving us a majority, so that a Republican might again be chosen to represent the State of Illinois in the United States Senate. [Applause.] This has caused the Republicans throughout the country to discover the turn of the tide in favor of Republican principles, and the hearts of all true patriots to leap with joy. [Applause.] To the energy and fidelity of the Republicans of that district are we indebted for this result. [Applause.]

And then, after describing in glowing terms the wonderful resources of Illinois, in population, agriculture, mineral, manufacturing, and other wealth—as well as the beauty, and marvellous growth, energy, and prosperity of her chief city -he added:

Why should a man not feel a pardonable pride in having been selected as a representative of such a State, against combinations of patronage and money, without the influence or use by himself of either? The people of this, my native State, have been more than kind to me in the past. Whether I shall be able to fill the full measure of my public duty, my future must disclose. I can only promise that I shall in all things try to be faithful to their great interest, and do no act that shall cause them to regret the choice they have just made. [Applause.]

LOGAN'S PRESIDENTIAL ""

BOOM" FOR 1888, STARTING STRONGLY.

While General Logan was taking a brief rest at Chicago, after his exhausting contest, the newspapers throughout the land were also felicitating him upon his wonderful victory. Many, like the Lincoln (Neb.) Journal, said "Had Logan been at the head of the ticket last year, there would have been a Republican President now,"-or words to a like effect. Hundreds of them proclaimed him as the next Republican candidate for the Presidential office; and many placed the name of John A. Logan of Illinois at the head of their columns as their choice for nomination to that exalted office, in 1888. Cannon-salutes and other rejoicings were had in many parts of the country including staid New England, and the Middle

States, as well as those of the West. The Staunton Valley Virginian well said: "The result sent a thrill of joy to Republicans throughout the length and breadth of the land. It was announced by the boom of cannon, the display of fireworks and bunting, and a wild rejoicing that demonstrated how strong a hold the brave true man has upon his party friends. And this, not because of the great personal triumph, but for the reason that the cause he represents will have still the services of one of its ablest and most intrepid advocates and defenders on the floor of the Senate, for six years longer, unless he should be called to higher honors." And the compliments were not uttered by Republican papers only, but by independent and Democratic journals also, as, for instance, by the New York Sun, which after tendering its "compliments to the General, added: "It has been a hard fight and Logan has won it by superior generalship"; and the New York Post, which declared that: "If General Logan's popularity was on the wane, as his enemies affirm, before the Presidential election, these events were amply sufficient to revive and widen it, even among his party antagonists"; and "Brick Pomeroy's Democrat, which said: "The most memorable political event of the season is the election of General John A. Logan to the United States Senate as his own successor. The coming of a cyclone through from the West to the Potomac would not have made more of a stir." No wonder the Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette admitted-as so many other journals, in substance, also declared,—that Logan's unprecedented victory "brings forward the gallant old General himself as a possible Presidential figure in 1888."

HIS RETURN TO WASHINGTON-SALUTE OF ONE HUNDRED GUNS IN HONOR OF LOGAN'S RE-ELECTION.

When the news reached Washington that Logan had been re-elected to the United States Senate, a midnight cannon-salute of thirty-eight guns was fired at the White House

lot by some of his jubilant friends, which awoke the Democratic President and all the city for that matter-and doubtless set him thinking about what might happen in 1888. Subsequently a salute of one hundred guns was also fired in honor of Logan from the Virginia shore opposite the city of Washington-where the General, upon his arrival, was warmly received by the Invincible Club of East Washington, and other Republicans of the city.

LOGAN VISITS GRANT'S SICK-CHAMBER-OLD WAR-MEMORIES

REVIVED.

It was in the middle of June, 1885, only two days prior to the suffering chieftain's removal to Mount McGregor, that Logan made a special visit to General Grant at the latter's residence in New York City. Grant was greatly pleased that Logan had come, and although the former was restricted, by the nature of the cruel disease that was eating out his life, from doing much talking, yet they managed to spend several hours together recalling old memories of the war-General Logan taking luncheon with the family down-stairs and afterward coming up again. It was the last extended interview Grant had with any of his old friends, and was throughout of a very pleasant character, as Logan afterward told the writer. Grant was still able to talk, at this time, though with difficulty. During this protracted and interesting visit General Grant showed to General Logan certain passages of the "Personal Memoirs " he was then engaged in writing, wherein he had referred, at greater or less length, to the services which Logan himself had rendered during the war—some in proof-sheets and others in manuscript. When Logan's visit ended, with a kindly adieu and warm pressure of the hand, he then for the last time on earth saw the friendly eyes and heard the loved voice of his old commander, who so soon afterward, like the great Hebrew leader, went up to the mountain-top to die.

LOGAN'S ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION AT THE G. A. R. ENCAMPMENT, PORTLAND, ME.-HIS TELLING SPEECHES THERE.

Toward the end of June, 1885, the city of Portland, Me., was treated to the sight of an encampment upon its borders ---of more than two thousand tents, fairly crowded with some twenty-five thousand veterans of the G. A. R.-and to all the excitement and bustle and beauty of military pageantry which the G. A. R. reunions always bring in their train. Logan of course was there, and watched the martial array as for three long hours it marched, in solid ranks, past the reviewing-stand. A newspaper report of the Tuesday's glorious pageant said:

The enthusiasm for Logan was simply boundless. Sometimes there would be a little hiatus where the Down East men were not familiar with the face of the great volunteer chieftain. Then would come marching along some man who had served under "Black Jack," and he would start a cheer that would roll along for minutes. Everybody wanted to see Logan, and after the Posts were dismissed the comrades came streaming back, and crowded around the reviewing-stand by thousands to study the hero of the citizen-soldiery of the Great Republic. They thronged the space to such an extent that Dahlgren Post had to be called back to open up a line of march, which it did with tact and skill.

On the same evening, at the City Hall, during the reception to the commander-in-chief, Logan, as usual, had to speak, and the journals of the day mentioned that he "came forward amidst the most tremendous applause," and that "the house fairly rang with enthusiastic cheers, which were repeated again and again." When, at last, the audience quieted down, the General said:

MR. COMMANDER, COMRADES, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: While we are assembled here to-night in this beautiful city, surrounded as we are by friends who meet us cheerily and greet us kindly, we can but allow our minds to wander away from here, momentarily at least, to where the old commander, grander than all, suffers with a disease that has brought

him to the very verge of the grave. In my judgment time has not given to any people a grander commander of men, a greater director of forces, or a more magnificent campaigner [applause]; a man with more ability to execute than U. S. Grant. [Applause.] For this country he has done as much as any man that ever lived has done for any other country. [Great applause.] No matter what may have been said, no matter how much aspersed by those who despised, he has passed up and beyond all the clouds that have surrounded him, and his character shines out to-day before the civilized world as bright as the brightest star that decks the heavens. [Applause.]

I believe there is not a citizen in the United States of America who does not sympathize with his misfortune and suffering now, and it is the prayer of the G. A. R., I am sure, that God, who disposes all things, may permit this grand old man to live on as one of the citizens of this Republic. For him I can say no more than that when he passes away, this country and civilization will lose one of the greatest supporters of liberty that ever lived, and one of the grandest citizens that ever died.

Comrades, we have met again according to the forms of our organization, an association based upon Fraternity, Charity, and Loyalty ; fraternity that lives and is worth recognition, which has been blistered in the fire of battle. It is that character of fraternity which shines out like the brightest gem from the mines of Golconda.

It is a fraternity not to be broken. It is as fixed as the stars. It is as strong as if held together by hooks of steel. It is that character of fraternity not in name, but which lives and wells up in the heart, and which would to-night go far, travel long, in darkness and in light, in sunshine and in storm, to stand by the side of, and aid and assist in all proper ways, that comrade who touched elbows in the time when shot and shell rained like hail from the clouds above. [Applause.] The charity that belongs to our organization is that heaven-descended charity, whose heights have not been taken, and whose depths cannot be fathomed. It is the charity with no bounds to its land and no surveys It is the charity that stands ready at all times to snatch the body of the poor from the potter's-field and inter it where at the head shall be marked, "He fell fighting for his country."

to its seas.

It is that charity which hears the wail of the widow of a comrade. It is that charity which hears the cry of the orphan; that aids and assists the sufferer. It is that charity which pledges one comrade to another that the poor-house shall not be the dwelling-place of a comrade; that he shall stand before the world a proud American citizen; having fought and preserved the Stars and Stripes, beneath its folds he shall not be disgraced. [Tremendous applause.] It is that charity which collects.