EDITOR CHIEF:
I was fortunate last week in meeting ýa
gentleman, an old friend of the President
elect, Cleveland, who:comes from the same
section of New York, and now holds an
important office under Cleveland's com
mission. "I have known Cleveland twen
ty-five years," said this old; gentleman,
'and he has not changed a particle in man
ner in all that time. He is 49 years old
and weighs about 225 pounds. In religious,
faith he is a Presbyterian. I presume that
will become the Court church in Washing
ton when he comes into the presidency."
" As to the Cabinet, the only thing I know
which has been determined on is that the
presidential advisers will be selected from
those States that cast their electoral votes
for Cleveland. I say I know this, because
he has said as much to me, and 1 was talk
ing to Dan Lamont and he intimated the
same thing. I can tell you, however, what
I believe. I think New York will get the
Treasury. I can not say who the man is,
or if he has been selected. The South prop
er will be offered two places; they will most
probably be the l-ost-office Department
and Attorney General, and they will bth
go to far-South States. z
" Now as to Cleveland sdd y, he is dif
ferent from President A4hur i.gLp~ any
ways. I have always lId Arthur. I
was a member of the New York Assembly
one term when he was Governor Morgan's
Quartermaster General, and Arthur once
tore the shoulder-straps off a New York
Colonel and gave him a sound whipping
besides, for some vulgar insolence. Arthur
is a good dinner-giver and diner-out.
Cleveland is like Gen. Sherman or Gen.
