CHAPTER XXXIV.

A SHORT RESPITE FROM OFFICIAL DUTIES. Visit to Mansfield and Other Points in Ohio--Difficulty of Making a Speech at Toledo--An Attempt to Break up a Meeting that Did Not Succeed--Various Reports of the Gathering--Good Work of the Cincinnati "Enquirer"--Toledo People Wanted "More Money"--Remarks Addressed to the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce--Visit to Lancaster, the Place of My Birth--My Return to Washington--I Begin to Exchange Silver Dollars for United States Notes--My Authority to Do So Before January 1 Questioned--The Order is Withdrawn and Some Criticism Follows--Instructions to the United States Treasurer and Others-- Arrangements with New York Clearing House.