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New-York tribune., 1878-10-12
TILE INDIAN WIZ.

Now that the Cheyennes are upon the war
path, there is no policy left to white settlers,
agents and soldiers but to kill and drive
them off it, as speedily as possible. In these
attempts the whites will suffer, as they gen.
orally do. almost if not quite as much as the
Indians Probably, after awhile, our Western
pioneers will begin to question the wisdom OF
driving the Indians to desperate measures,
and discover that honesty is the best policy
with any man, be his skin white, black or
red. From the facts set forth in Washing
ton letter, printed this morning, and from
accounts published in the Kansas papers
written by eye-witnesses, there can be no
manner Of doubt that the present outbreak OF
the Cheycnnes was provoked by treatment
which civilized white men would not have
endured We should not be afraid to look
this matter squarely in the face; indeed. the
bare facts are so palpable now that they are
forcing recognition even from journals who
have heretofore been most prejudlced against
the redskins.
The atrocities of the Cheyennes since they
have gone on the war-path are well known
we have no wish to defend them. They have
stolen, burned and pillaged wherever they
could; murdered men and ravished women.
They are sayages, and make war like savages.
But they have been driven into it by savage
treatment. Removed to a new home in the
Indian Territory, they were mercilessly de-
frauded by the Government, which utterly
failed TO keep its engagements with them. In
addition to this, the settlers in the neighbOr-
hood robbed them of their horses and cattle,
even kidnapping their children, to force them
10 pay ransom for them. In many cases no
choice was left to the uprising tribes but star
vatIOn or war; General Sherman volunteers his
opinion that the only hope of ciyilizing them is
through their own efforts. He ignores the fact,
which has never been denied, that in no in
stance from the Treaty of Penn and the work
of the MOravians TO the history of the Poncas
in our own day, have the Indians of any tribe
refused to accept civilization when it was Of
fered to them with friendly, honest, Chris
tan spirit. Even the fierce Apaches had
nothing but good will for the brave, friendly
soldier who travelled unarmed among them.
Let us as a mere ma ter of policy, If not hu-
manIty have an end of this alternate fraud
and slaughter. If nothing else can be done,
let the whole border be put into the hands of
the Army, with power 10 punish alike thieving
whites and murderous redskins.
New-York tribune., 1878-10-12
NEW yoRK DAILY TRIBUNE SATURDAY SHEET

"cant,n were imperfectly translated because,
while the meaning was cleay the word taken
made no sense. Further examination shows
that the word was "tOken," and the correct
translation IS: "Just left Bar low. Latter
Comedies State to Till den, and will so ad-
''vise. Have strong hope of Board"
vi. Some Democrats say 4" AS bad reVela-
"tions would be made if we could only get at
Republican cIphers." Bring them on gen.
tlemenl The TRIBUNE staff will undertake
to decipher them. The Democrats have had
Congressional committees casting drag-net
through telegraph offices for two years. These
committees, while suppressing proof of Demo
cratic frauds, have carefully refused to hear
proof of Republican innocence, though Mr.
Chandler and others have repeatedly offered
to produce translatIOns of their dispatches.
If anybody has evidence against any Republl-
can let him produce it. If not, in the name
of common decency, let him not try to offset
proofs of crime by vague and baseiess vilitica-
New-York tribune., 1878-10-12

facts. If Mr.. SaltOnstall used the language
here attributed to him. he must have spoken
without making himself acquainted with the
particulars of The TRIBUNE's disclosures and
if he charged The TRIBUNE with forging sig
natures to these dispatches without taking the
trouble to find out whether it did or not, ne
was guilty of an Inexcusable outrage. IL Is
not true that The TRIBUNE assumes to guess
at the signature of Mr.. Marble, or that IL
affixes signatures to any unsigned dispatches,
or that it seeks to impicate" anybody In
the transactions which these kilograms dis
close. All the gravest of the dispatches at
tributed to Mr.. Manton Marble are signed
' Moses,n and we have shown at some
length how the identity OF Mr. Mar
ble with Moses" was established. Inc
proof appears to have been satlstac-
tory to all mankind except Mr.. Saltonstall
We think it unnecessary to repeat the argu-
ment at this late day; it will be enough 10
remark that when "Moses" in Tallahassee
addresses telegram TO Gramercy Park requlr-
ing an immediate answer, the answer IS
rronptly sent from New-York, addressed to
"Manton Marble, Tallahassee conversely,
when Peton cautions MantOn Marble against
trusting B." it is Moses who replies that
he has not trusted Barlow, or anybody else !;
and finally Paris telegraphing in dlheIent
key about one of the Moses" dispatches,
spcaks of it as Marbles" The identity OF
Moses" and Marble is absolutely proved !;
and 80 Is the identity of Fox" and Woolley'
and of Maxi and COyle.
But Mr.. Saltonstall says that names nave
been signed in the translations to dispatches
which are marked No signature " III the
cipher. If he had read the documents he was
talking about he would have seen why.
" Moses - counted his signature rs part OF
the dispatch, and when the message was
transpOsed the name was thus shifted into the
body OF it and buried there. The telegraph
operator did not recognize it, and consequently
marked the manuscript No signature" But
when the key is applied, Moses " always
falls AT the end This has already been ex-
planned in TIE TRIBUNE, but for the infor-
nation of Democrats who do not wish to be
convinced, we explain it again. And we
Furthermore repeat that III no case have we
added a signature to any unsigned dispatch.
nor shall we venture conjecture rs to the
authorship of any such communication with
out at the same time giving the public the
reasons for opinion, that they may judge
for themselves whether we are right or
wrong
New-York tribune., 1878-10-12
II RIPPLE SHE Z T
TRE NEWS THIS NORNING.

FOREIGN.-The Austrans have decided not to ad-
vance as far as NOvi-Bazar this averts danger of
conflict. - There has been run on the Bank
of Commerce in Odessa, owing to a defalca-
tiOn by the cashier - The German
Reiohstag has passed the second and third
clauses of the Socialist Bill. - Heugh,
Balfour e. Co., a great Manchester firm, has failed
80 Thirty-seven people were suffOcated last
evening during panic IN a Liverpool theatre.
DoMEsTIC.-Eleven Democratic chairmen of COM
mittees of House of Representatives have been de-
feated for the next Congress. - The President
ana the Cabinet have decided not to use troops in
Arkansas until the civil resources of the Govern
ment for the suppression of illicit dstleries are
exhausted. -S s. Cox and Mr.. Blackburn
are already candidates for Speaker of the
next House. - Mr.. Thomas Harland has
been held to bail in $4,000, TO appear
for trial next May for puTloining the
books of the New-YOrk Mine.-A son of Jeffer-
son Davis is sick with the yellow fever - In the
Woman's Congress at Providence, yesterday Kate
Newall Daggett. of Chicago was elected president
for the ensuing year.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-De Witt C. West, Algernon
S. Sullivan, General Pryor, Rufus s. Andrews and
others. expressed opinions yesterday in regard
to the Florida disclosures - Further test-
mOny about Commodore Vanderbilts belief in
Spirtualism given in the will
contest. 60 Generals Mcdowell, John C
Robinson, Carr, Minded and Others testi-
hed IN the Ftz John Porter case. -
Coroner Dempsey claims that he has
conclusive evidence of Edward Reinhart's guilt.
- The Attorney General heard testimony and
argument concerning the Metropolitan Line. -
ruffian in Jersey City fatally assaults a mother
who resented an insult TO her daugh-
ter. 60 The late Henry J. Montague's
effects brought small prices at the auction
sale. 80 Gold 1905 1OOlS1e, 1O151s Gold
value of the legatender dollar 9s7lo cents. Stocks
feyeri,h, opening lower, but afterward improving,
and then closing weak.
THE WEATHER.-TRBUNE local observations in
dicate cooler and cloudy weather, with rain. fol-
lowed by clearing weather. Thermometer yester-
day, $50, co., $50.
New-York tribune., 1878-10-12
&" NO SIGNATURF.D

Mr. Saltonstall, Of Massachusetts,. who was
mentioned in the Florida ciDhers as one of the
Democratic counsel at Tallahassee, has been
talking about the bribery disclosures to q cor
respondent Of The Herald. He does not be-
lieve that the captured dispatches are genu-
inc, because he occupied the room next to
Mr.. Marbles at Tallahassee, and heard no
whisper of any such cOparceny. This would
perhaps be satisfactory reasoning if it had
been Mr.. Marbles custom TO spell over the
ciphers aloud, and Mr.. Saltonstalls custom to
listen at the key-hole; but as we do not be-
lieve that either gentleman conducted himself
in such manner, we cannot regard the
deductions of the Massachusetts, lawyer
as conclusive. But there is another
remark of Mr.. SatOnstall's to which ii
is proper for us to make serious reply.
He is reported as saying:
notice that THE TRIBUNE assumes TO guess at the
signature Of Mr. Marble to several OF the graYest Of
these pretended transIatious, and that to Other
dispatches signed 1t also TO ai1 the sig
natures Of otner gentlemen sought to be Implicated
tlon II cipher dispatches to be stolon-and that
beyond that translation OF these cipher dispAtches
a. TO be assumed and also DO attached at
random where the originals really signed
to them. who s to be safe among all our public men
against charges of bribery, any other grave puta-
tOni
This is gross Misrepresentation of the
New-York tribune., 1878-10-12

Manton Marble. John F. Coyle. C. w. WoolIev
Smith N. Weed. and Samuel J. Tiiden on the stand
under oath. But the committee was not acting "a
an investigator. but as scavenger. 1t was its
sweet function to gather up all the filthy
falsehoods that bribery and perjury could
cOncoct, and has it not performed that
part . This cOmmittee-like Dickens's Circumlo
cution Office which had learned How not 10 do
it"-had been organized, had labored, and fully
learned How not to find out" The ability of Afr.
Potter and his committee is shown most clearly n
the complete success with which they have dodVed
every uncomfortable fact that went around hunting
for them. AS to the moral rectitude. the respecta
biIty, the fairness or the decency of the proceed
ing, that is another natter but it really is not right
to say that Mr.. Potter dull to discover any.
thing.
The mortality among Democratic statesmen this
year is positively frghtful. Mr.. Tiden dies of too
much cipher, and Mr.. Thurman Of too much "0ho
idea," and Mr. Hendricks of too much Communism
and all the Massachusetts Democrats of TOO much
Butler. In the country of the blind, the one-eyed
is king" says the prOverb. Chiefly because no
other Democratic candidate be said to have tina
breath of life left in his body. the strongest now
seems to be Mr.. Bayard, and he, although an
accomplished gentleman and, according TO his light
most faithful public servant, hasn't enough chance
to brag on.
In 1876, Mr.. "TOkep Descant' in the Marbleish
dialect, narrowly missed being elected President
What a fine thing it would have been for thus Re-
public if in its Centennial year it had chosen
Chief Magistrate known to one set Of his confden-
tial agents as Russia" to another as Twenty.
three" or Three" and to another as Token
(1IlD "Descant" DEM The White House would
have become "den y indeed-Of "Reformersp
"What sort of is that Marble, anyway !"
1t was blunt cabinet maker who asked his brother
workman the question. "Well, worked about his
house some, and I'll tell you what sort Of man he
is. In proportion to his cubic contents, there's
more veneering on him than you ever saw in any
furniture shop in the universe" Pity that veneer
will peel. "Traces of money payment are darkly
visible"
1t appears to The Herald and The Nation that no
body will believe Mr.. Tllden ignorant of the cipher
dispatches which were addressed TO his private res
dence, his nephew, and his confidential clerk. But
there is no telling Perhaps Mr. Charles Francis
Adams may possess a sufficiently able-bOded credu-
lity even for this feat.
New-York tribune., 1878-10-12
THE STATE CANVASS.

Thus far the Nationals or Greenbackers have
nominated candidates for Congress in seventeen dis.
trcts and IN two districts they have two candidates
running The PrOhibitionsts seem TO have made only
two nominations In the whole state-whieh Is two too
many.
The Democrats of the XXIXth Congress
sona District adopted series OF resolutions In which
their nominte Francis @. Babcook the peoples caDd
date was referred not having sought but having
parnesty endeayored to prevent bis nomination"
Earnestly endeavored TO prevent" IL one OF the best
things OF the season.
There is trouble among the Greenbackers in
Syracuse, and the suspicion that the Democrats have
captured the party Is making the earnest softmOney
men decidedly uneasy All the Greenbaek candidates
for Assembly have ndorsed by the Democrats aud
he GreenbacKers are anxious to know whether these
woaced candidates belong 10 their party the other
meeting held the other day OF the Greenbackes
OF the District, which demanded from their cand'
date explicit declaration Of Greenbaek principles
Benson ]. LOSING, the historian, made on
Wednesday hls first appearance for many years in ke
publican convention order have the pleasure Of re-
nominating for Congress his friend and neiGhbor Gene
raj John II. Ketcham. In the course OF Mr. Lossings
speech he said "We have q Representative whose
record in peace and is clear. public and private
that Il freely challenges the closest scrutiny, and eoh
mands the profound respect OF his political opponents
80 beloved was he by our home regiment lloOth "hoD
he gallanty led In the hot 6ght Cups HILL at Getys
burg in Virginia, aud the plains and through lne
mountain gorges of TeDnessee and Georgia-the regr
ment that was 10 sherman's victorious march from Az
lanta TO the seathat when he was offered oy MS con-
stituency at home as candidate for Congress every
.oder In the regiment without regard 10 bis party sf
natons voted for him. had the honor Of costing sew
ernl OF these votes by proxy this oltv He was
ana entered the House OF Representatives bearing
orabls soars OF wounds received IN the seffi'e
New-York tribune., 1878-10-12
TESTING THE CIPHFRS.

The Albany Evening Journal tried the trans
position keys on one OF the cipher dispatches
published but not translated by THE TRIBUNE,
and produced a perfectly correct version.
With little patience anybody can fit tho keys
given by us last Monday to the kilograms in
which the Gramercy Park consplratOrs at
tempted to conceal their coparcenies, and can
thus Judge of the accuracy of our expiana-
tons. Here is short communication. upon
which some one may wish to try the expert
ment
COLUMBIA, Nov. 19.
HENRY HAyEMEYER. Her- York
For my result do yourself mind it definite doubtful II
ts sure to but shall and say meet trying worth
get will me tonight London they prudent leave O'Clock
their lone omitted here by lowest Missouri
charge river London statement Of Glasgow or MOSelle
errors answer Rhine face OF within Rnssias SYRIA
cuse Rochester Mississippi Greece show before. s.
1t is only necessary to observe that there is
one word missing, and to allow for 1t in count
ing. The fact that 1t is missing from the pre-
else place we have indicated, is proved by the
low
New-York tribune., 1878-10-12
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New-York tribune., 1878-10-12

There is a plague abroad among Democratic
statesmen. The mortality among Presidential
candidates is now shown to be nearly equalled
by the mortality among the chairmen of House
committees A Washington dispatch states
that eleven of these have been defeated so
far either in the party councils or at the
polls. MIR. WhitthOme, head of the Com
mittee on Naval Affairs, is no more, and when
Robeson enters tho next House, as he un-
doubtedly will, the man he came to meet will
be missing Carter Harrison, of the Commit
tee on Reform IN the Civil Service, is
gOne-died of too much elasticity. Mr..
Banning suffered o violent death, and
deserved it. He was never elected,
and was a reproach to the people whom he
msrepresented Mr.. SOuthard, head of the
Committee on the Electoral System, the man
who devised q scheme for allowing as many
as three citizens of Ohio to crafty their
Presidential ambitions at once, has sunk under
the weight of his ingenuity. Mr.. Eden, Chair
man of the Committee on War Claims, who
was a cOnspicuOusly foolish person during the
last session, has been made away with. There
are others, Of whom the most respectable are
Mr.. Schleicher, of Texas, and Ex-Governor
Swami, of Maryland. But on the whole these
losses are great gains for the country
and for the Democratic party, if it only
knew If.
New-York tribune., 1878-10-12

the conductor of the freight train, who was
responsible for the displacement of the switch.
He has been arrested on a charge of man
slaughter. Massachusetts has a wholesome
way of dealing with these criminal blum
derers
New-York tribune., 1878-10-12

So Mr. Cox insists on running again for
Speaker, should the House be Democratic.
Mr.. Cox should reverse himself and resume
+" his judgment" But it seems to be of no
use to ask him to resume what he never had,
and it is sheer cruelty to ask man to reverse
himself who has always been upside down.
New-York tribune., 1878-10-12

Mr.. Tilden's lawyer has been held for tria
for stealing the mining books. But Mr.. Til
den himself stands before higher bar on
much graver charge, and the people are walt
ing TO hear him plead.
New-York tribune., 1878-10-12

A Paris correspondent, taking the recent
speech-making tour of Gambetta as a text,
recalls some of the stirring incidents of a
similar trip five years ago, aud incidentally
revives a chapter in the " History of Crime,"
adding to it a picturesque incident which
Victor Hugo did not know.
New-York tribune., 1878-10-12

They have a way of stating things very carefully
in Connecticut. One of their Democratic Congress.
sonal conventions not long ago. in view of the fact
that the currency question the foremost issue III
politics and one upon which tho party could not de-
Gently avoid saying something courageouSly re-
solved that they were in favor "of such wise fnan-
cial legislation as will restore prosperity to our
people," Everybody is in favor of that; IL
offends no one. And now comes Demo-
cratic newspaper in New-Haven, which, after
a hasty glimpse of the first instalment of
cipher kilograms. carefully remarks: "We
do not believe that Tilden his friends tried 20 Sc
cure fair play in the electoral contest by the of
money" Bless its innocence! no one does. 1t has
not been charged. With all these telegrams and
the keys before us we prepared TO say that ice
do not believe Tden his friends tried to secure
fair play in the electoral contest by the use of
money" But no candid man, after reading the his
tory of the transactions will deny that they tried to
secure something "by the use of money" 1t was
not fair play: to that We agree. But what was itf
That's the question.
New-York tribune., 1878-10-12

Careful investigation by the Railroad Com.
missioner of Massachusetts seems to place
the blame of the WollastOn slaughter upon
New-York tribune., 1878-10-12

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As to Mr.. Potter aud his investigating committee,
now, we protest that the press should not be too
severe OF course. II 1t had ever been Mr.. POtters
desire to find out things. 1t would be proof Of q
atupidity almost past belief that he failed to put
New-York tribune., 1878-10-12

SATURDAY, OCTOBER II, 1878.
New-York tribune., 1878-10-12
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