Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-23

for. ~e reached that dispatch, bu, hi. VIM.
the first time We had encountered nilsson.
RI" Yet the Interpretation Wa perfectly
simple. The maturity wss said to be from
20 u s.--thc last unit being unknown. Ill
mu.t be something higher than 8. l, wn,
neither . NOR y. because vi had identified
them already Of course II was not 8, and
there was nothing left but 0. This led u,
sscp further. We had all the units ex
and =. and two rivers remained, "Rhin.'
and Hudson" Tho meaning Of "Khine
was speedily settled by . telegram in which
alter giving the majority for the Hayes
electors in South Carolina, s" went on TO
ssy "lshine Of T,lden's within twenty Of
their lowest" The journals Of the period
VII saov that one Of the Tilden %eiector.
was said to be only a little way behind the
lowest republican elector and no "Rh,nc', in
determined a. lone" and Hudson il The
equivalent Of -four" Glasgow" and
%'Edinburg" are frequently found preceded
by numerals, and never found alone. I'll
would have been easy to guess that thew
dtlu luOuHnnu re. |
spectively, but guessing i, quite unnecessa-
ry; the care with which M. Tilden'. apents
t.iegraphed the figures Of majoritics sup.
plies lis with the proof Of these interpre.
%tations.
1DENTIFIDATIoS OF PERSONS.
We explained the other day the manner
in which the "Fox'' Of these dispatches was
recognized as c. w. Woollcy-a recognition
so complete that there il not a word more
to be said about it. "Max," in the same
way, H. proved to be Colonel Coyle, and
Moses to be Nj. Manton Marble. The
correspondents, when using the cipher, new
or sigued their real names, and yet it is al
most always easy to determine who they
we're. For the kilograms were ALWAYS ad.
dressed to the real name of the persons for
whom they were intended, and a large ma
jority OF the n either give or call for an an.
swer, or else belong to a series of continued
dispatches, all relating to one transaction
and under the IN .nageInent Of one person;
and in the course OF such q series the iden'
LITIGATION Of the writer is sure to be estab-
lished. When We find a telegram addressed
To Colonel Pelton and signed "Moses," and
just afterwards another in answer to it, ad-
dressed 10 Mr.. Manton Marble and signed
Denmark" We are at NJ loss to decide that
Marble is Moses" and that Pelton is
Denmark"
DUMs WORDS.
In many cipher systems the use of "duub
words" or "nulis," that is, words thrown
in merely TO confuse, is common. There i.
something of the same sort in the transpo.
site and substitution-cipher. 1t was ne
ce>sary TO fill the sequence of numbers ex.
cCiIv op o1so tho l,o, ,roull ...C. .-l
when the dispatch fell short Of the proper
leagth "nulls'' were added TO complete The
measure. In the form in which the cipher
was sent these unmea ning words appeared
scattered all over the dispatch, but when it
was transposed for translation they all fell
together at the end. There we're onlv a few
Of the n--Anna, Charles, Thomas, Jane,
Captain, Lieutenant, etc., and, Of course,
they we're easily recognized. There is one
dispatch which really consists only Of the
Swords, "Mstters desperate here" but to
these seven +" nulls" are added, in order to
make ont the sequence Of 10. 1t was hard
ly worth while, perhaps, to go through 40
much for the sake of getting 10 little; but
many foolish things are to be found in the
cipher dispatches.
TIE VOCABULARY.
The following list contains some of the
substitution ciphers whose meaning seems
to be distinctly proved. There are many
more of which We feel quite confident; bul
We prefer to wait until we have an opportu.
nifty to put them to further tests. We desire
to give nothing in this table but what i,
proved.
Copenhagen. 81 reenbacks.
Denmark. Pelton.
Fox. .........W eolley.
Greece."".". Hayes.
Havana........R Radical.
1thaca...... Democrats.
Llna........ ..accept.
London ........R Returning Board.
Monroe.."..".County.
Paris .........draw
Petersburg....deposit.
Rochester. .....votes.
Ru sia........Tilten.
syracuse .""...majority.
trading.
Warsaw ..."....telegraph.
Winning Woolley.
hlVer".......O
1thlne ...........l.
Moselle .........2.
Thames .... .....3.
Hudson .........4.
Danube ........5.
Potomac .......6.
Schuylkill......7.
Mississippi ......8.
Missouri .....9.
Glasgow ........ hundred.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Thomas
Jane
Anna
Charles nulls.
Daniel
Captain
Lieutenant
CHANGE OF CIPHERs.
The meaning Of the substitution-ciphers
however, was not invariable. There ar
cer,aln words which seem to mean one thin
in Florida and another in Louisiana ther
are words which mean one thing to-day an
another thing to. morrow and at an ascer
tanned date the VIII. lie system was altered
We do not find any o. the ciphers, however
in the preceding vocabulary used at an
time in any other sense than the one Their
assigned to them although We do find 9th
-s.l. H. ,nro1 O,1nn-. Ill.,