New-York tribune., 1878-10-16


it of Bavaria friends and their London
and sake plan Copenhagen I'm of watch-
ing careful let and Africa RetersDurS
France it have done Warsaw or be 10
Copenhagen decided sunday viii 60
ready this safe Baltimore reach be once
I'm y Ou do at Africa IL. We
Use Key TX, five times.l
Translation.
Majority Of Board have been se-
cured! Cost is 10000, TO be sent as
follows. One parcel Of $4,000 dol
lars, one Of 10000, and one OF
5000; all TO be five hundred or
one thousand biIIs; notes 10 be de-
posted as parties accept. and given
up upon vote of land Of Champion ID. e''
State Of South CarOIinEl being given
10 TiIden'E friends. The three packs
should be seHt without inscription, anu
tonight, unless yOu receive telegram
from me cOuntermnnding. Shall Try
10 secure everything by the plan OF
deposit. The friends Of Hampton and
Bavaria [?I are here i'm force, and
fear their money and careful watching
and Ia Intimidation of Board. For Gods
Flor Fio%id" de- or @ kfrlc~' ri: do this aI once,
moro Sunday might. Telegraph decid-
edIy whether II will be done. W.
Possibly slip Of the pen for America which
would here be understood in the sense OF South
Carolina,
The answer seems TO have been somewhat tardy,
butMr Smith Weed made his preparations to start,
and in the meantime he telegraphed again:
C3GiIMn1,. C3GI Ala. Nov. IS.
HENRY HAvEMEYER, 10 Hest 17th-st, y. l.:
For my result do yourself mind it definite doubt
fu if n. its sure to but must shall aud say meet
irving worth get will me tonight London they
prudent leave o'clock their Thames II By lowest
Missouri change river London, statement OF GIas, las
gov of MOsolle errors answer khlne faGe OF withIn
Russia's can Syracuse Rochester Mississippi on
Greece show before. s.
use Key IL, twice.l
lTranslntion.l
Shall leaye tonight for B Meet me yourself. II
prndent, RcfqrainG Board sag fbcg ,ciH do IT, sure
and it's worth trying but result doubtful TO my
mind Must get definite answer before o0clock.
face Hayes majority [ofI 300; one of Tildcus eleo-
torsl within 23O Of their lowest Errors can
change.
The najorities gwen in this telegram correspond
exactly with tho figures reported in the New-York
papers of the lothian agreement which may be
taken as evidence of the correctness of our kcyS to
the cipher
No doubt Nj Smith Weed did get the definite
answer he desisad "beforc o'clock" for he broke
out in the following exultant dispatch:
COLUMBIA. Nov. 1s.
HEvRY HAvEMrYFR No. 10 Vet ! 17t-si.. y. J.:
Have al now must you, early Monday tonight ten
baltimore 90 looks III morning at Copenhagen well
Baruums the W.
use Key VIZ
(Translationl
Looks ircl nowl You must have the money at
BaTuum's III Baltimore early Monday morning. /
go at ten tonight
And he went Tho New-York papers Of the l0ih
of November contained dispatch from Columbia,
saying:
smith Weed, who has been here since Tuesday. look
ing after udens interests, leaves tonight for the
North.
III.
THE SFCOND ACT
"HoteI arrivals, Baltimore, Monday, November 90.
1876. At Blruum's, Smith NJ Weed. of New-York."
On this occasion. being near home. he registered
openly by his own name. Before leaving Columbia
II was necessary for him to establish system Of
with somebody ut the South Caro-
lima capital and there we're obvious why he
should not trust the transpOsiton cipher to any of
the Southern politicians who were then attending
to the affairs Of the party. To say nothing Of more
serious matters that cipher might lay bare the evil
denccs of doublo-dealnG with respect to Hampton.
Heexpected TO be absent only three at most four
DAYS, and No very elaborate system Of crvpto-
graphy seemed TO be necessary for ~ short
a time. Ho therefore drew up n little vocab-
ulIIy OF aIDlIdIi NUDSlllullD0 flplNI1, IuT
use during the trip to Baltimore and back. It
consisted merely of the adoption Of fow proper
nouns in place of the tolI-talo words ho expected
to need-not a good cipher, because IT arOuscs sus'
picons. and offers the greatest facility for shrcwd
guessing. II tho specimens Of this code were
numerous they could be dcciphcrod with
the greatest ease by means Of comparisons.
1t happens. however, that W. have only nine short
messages in which it was u,o'. and with so little
material we do not pretend 10 construct key. We
snail merely present the dispatches III connection
with the narrative Of events. and offer cOniectural
of tho pausbty Of which every
man will Judge for himself Fortunately. these
messages are not of great importance.
Who wsro Smith Weeds Columbia cOrrespon-
dentist They were two, and they signed them
selves "Pops" and Spain" The most active of
the Democratic managers at Columbia during
these days were Colonel A. G. Haskell, chairman
of the state Executive Committee, and Senator
Gordon. of Georgia, who paid particular at
tention to tho acts of the Canvassing Board,
and of whom one Of tho local Democratic
leaders telegraphed to Colonel Pelton, "Gordon is
@ tower of strength to u.s." Weed was in teIe-
graphic communication with both these gentlemen,
and there is no Indication that he telegraphed TO
any other person at Columbia. Which was
Spain" and which was "PopeDf THIS ques-
ton seems to be clearly enough answered
by q dispatch in which S. w. requests
Colonel A. c, Haskell to please sugar Pope and
Bull" etc. Pope" then was not Haskell and we
may fairly conclude that he was Gordon, and that
Haskell was Spain" Who BullD may have been
we do not know; but as this is the only reference
we find to him, the inquiry is not of much conse-
quencs.
The day after Weeds departure some INQUIRY
seems to have been made about him from Now-York,
and "P" telegraphed to Colonel Pelton "Am told
that w. left for Baltimore yesterday, Saturday
An examination of hotel books that city fails to
throw any light the identity Of the "safe