The Press., 1886-09-30
WASHINGTON LrTTER,.

Washington ID. C., Sept. %, tss6. 't
 The president has returned to the city and found the departments moving as on oiled gudgeons under the skillful, careful, aud honest management of the many train ed republican employees whom the demo. cratic cabinet officers have been wise enough to retain. It is m open secret here that the employees do all the intricate and delicate work of the government, and and that in nothing requiring either judR- ment or faesse are the recently appointed employees called upon or trusted. ,......
 Mir. Cleveland is, if possible, more un- wieldy than eyer since his simmer outing. He got out of the cars and into his carriage at the station with ponderous difficulty when he got to the white house he was quick to seek his bed, and he seemA little inclined to go to work again and slgn his name to the many papers which have Hc- cumulated on his desk. He spent q good part of the first day after his return at his new country home, whither he was accom- panied by Mrs. Cleveland and Mrs. Fol som. The country house is being thor. oughly reconstructed, and it's barn like Jeffersonian simplicity is yielding to mod-l ern canons of architectural common sense and beauty. I think there is but little doubt that MT. Cleveland intends to spend the evening of his life at Pretty Pros. pect, as the place has been christdned.s But there is just as little doubt that he hopes to have another term in the white house. It is only necessary to scrutinize his appointments, the measures he ape proves as well as those he vetoes, to see that his policy is to make himself solid in New York and the south.
 It is too early, however, to talk about presidential candidates, and my excuse for mentioning it must be that the subject is omnipreseut in the air of Washington, Apropos of the air, 1t is quite cool and bracing at present. and the absent summer dwellers at seaside and mountain arc fast returning to the city. But little has been done during the summer towards improv.a ing the streets, parks, and public build ings of the capital. .........,.,.-i r,.,
 It is too early in the season to expect anything of interest in the political or so- cial world. Nothing is going on in the de- partments. Not half the cabinet officers have returned from their protraoted sum- mer vacation. At the cabinet meeting which will be held early next week the cabinet officers in several departmental will be represented by their assistahts. It seems to be still unsettled whether or not MT. Manning will resume charge of the treasury department. It is believed by those best informed that he will come to Washington about the first of October, and with the help of his assistants conduct the affairs of the department There is DO question about his mental condition being entirely unimpaired, and the only trace of his recent illness that remains is the slight halt in his step that will probably never be cured. ..a... ... frs ...a.'r
 One of the first questions to be consider ed in cabinet session will be the disposal of Is,f ura,G G.nt.I ~ official report of the "surrender," as it ts called, has not been made public, and there is Q general impression that the willy cut-throat has received promises of proteo- ton and immunity from death. If there ever was an occasion and a subject for lynch law we have it in this unspeakable | monster .-' .5. i.'