CHAPTER XXI.. A New Presidential Contest.

A NEW PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST. Four Ohio Presidential Candidates, Grant, Chase, Stanton and Wade --Chief-Justice Chase Before the Democratic Convention--Care Taken by General Grant that all Confederate Officers Should be Paroled-- Extension of the Treasury Department--Senator Ben. Wade and the Restaurant Keeper--Senator Sumner's Great Speech on Alaska--Happy Hours of General Grant at Washington--One of his Evening Receptions --Sam. Ward, the Bon Vivant--Charles Dickens.