New-York tribune., 1878-10-16

Expense is too heavy for the electoral ticket,
less money is sent to Haskell Five thousand IS I'm,
peratvely needed to prevent majority failing, ana
involving court and electoral vote. Telegraph Has
kell to draw Immediately.
1t was perhaps not quite clear just yet at Gram
ercy Park what advantage it would be to the Re-
form candidate to capture the South Carolina Leg
slature, and Mr.. Weed not at all prompt in re-
plying to the request for 5000. But on the 23d the
defeated Democratic electors brought an action
against the Republican electors at Columbia to de-
termne their title 60 Office, and Mr.. Weeds hopes
revived:
NEw-YoRK, Nov 2l-10:30 A. NJ.
Colonel A. G. HASKELL. Columbia:
!, Please sugar Pope and Bull and 10 whether any
thing can be York 10 effect Rome IN London now.
Tom abundant. 10 immediately. sW.
TTranslation.l
Please consult Gordon and Bull, and telegraph
whether anything can be fixed TO effect victory IN
Canyassing Board now. Money abundant. Iele-
graph Immediately.
COLUMBIA mo datel
s. WEED Freett House, NJ Y:
Sugar held. Too late. London ladiournedf word
blOttedl. Bath firm, but Tom necessary. Send L.
June to Spain immediately. POPE
lTranslation.l
Consultation held Too late. Board adjourned.
Court firm, but money necessary, Send 5000 to
Haskell Immediately.
COLUMBIA, Nov. 27.
Why don't Smith Weed answer POpei This of
last consequence. HASKELL
At last the answer:
NEw-YORK, Nov. 27
Colonel C. HASKELL, Columbia:
If h Juno can make Naples in HOuse and York
May, Spain can Paris as you 10; otherwise cannot
secure tea. B.w.
lTranalatiOnl
If 5000 can make majority in House and fix
Senate, Haskell can draw as yOu teegraphed; other
wise cannot secure arrangement.
What tLis arrangement" was, we shall SEQ in
the next Act.
"
THE THIRD ACT.
In the dispatches between "POpe" and Spain"
at Columbia, and Smith Weed at the Everett
House. we were compelled to abandon for short
time the safe ground of clear demonstra-
tion, and to embark upon the uncertain
sea of conjecture. We get back now to q
solid footing, for the remaining dispatches OF
the South Carolina story are IN "a cipher which we
can read according to fixed rules. We find no more
cryptograms of the e" i June" class but we come
to the dictionary CODE" Of which We saw the
working long ago in tho Oregon disclosures. In
this system the dispatch is put into cipher by
finding each word of it In dcton-
ary, previously agreed upon and substituting
for 1t whatever word may be found in the CORE
spending line a certain number of iDages either for
ward or back. Patrick began to use the dictionary
system in his dispatches from Oregon during tue
latter part of November; and Mr.. Tden was so
well pleased with it that he bought num-
ber of dictionaries and supplied the agents
whom he sent at the eleventh hour to
Florida and South Carolina. Mr. Weed used it in
communicating with Paris in Florida, signing him
self whip" the corresponding word to which,
according to the key then employed, is Weed, a
Troublesome plant" Pclton signedS' Commentary"
which corresponds with Colonel" The dictionary
kilograms in Florida and South Carolina were
evidently not written with the aid of the
same dictionary that served for the Oregon
cipher, for they contained great many
words that are not IN that book. To discover what
dictionary was employed, we had only TO try every
work of the kind within reach until we found one
by which We could make sense. Two or three prin-
ciDlcs assumed at the start helped to abrldge the
labor. First, il was taken for granted that.
as a matter of convenience, the number
Of pages to be turned, either backward
or forward, would not exceed six OF seven, and the
trials were consequently kept within that limit.
Secondly, the dictionary either very large ora
very small one, since the consPirators must have
adopted one of the great standard works
to Do iOunu IN every COUSlleIaDlt tOWD,
or pocket abridgment convenient to carry in trav-
cling. Thirdly, the key a shiftng-key
because words were not often repeated; if the
number of pages to bo turned had been always
the same. many of the ciphcrs would have re-
Cured frequently. Aftor a long search, the book
was found to bo Web5ter's Pocket Dictionary of
tho English Language and the number of pages
to be turned varied from one to five.
THE LAST PLOT.
The South Carolina Legislature met on the 2Sth
of November The excluded representatives of
Edgefield and IauTens Counties being refused adj
mission. all the Democratic members Of the House,
by one Republican, left the Capital
and organized House of their own at Carolina Hail.
Counting the men from Edgefeld and LaHrens (whO
had no certlcatcsD, they numbered 81 mem
bers; without these they had SO; the Republi-
cans had so; the number necessary to a
quorum of full house was 63. The legality of both
therefore. was in doubt There was no
dispute about the Senate; that stood Is Republi-
cans TO 13 Democrats.
In the latter part of November Mr. Hewitt, as
chairman of the Democratic National Committee,
published statement that President Grant would
recognize whichever House should obtain quorum
of members holding certificates from the Canvass
ing Board This letter is probably referred to in
tho following dispatches not in cipher, which give
us our first glimpse of the new Democratic plot:
COLUMBIA, Nov. 81.
ApRAM s. HEWITT. NeIr- York:
Your letter of oath inst. received. Your sugges
tiOns will DO observed. but the event upon which
success depends will not be effected unless aid is
given See Senator Gwin, and answer by telegraph
To-day Every hour is important If you concur,
telegraph me at once afirmatiyely.
A. c. HASKELL.
1901
Nov. 81.
Hon. ADRIAN S. HEWITT, Nec- York;
Consult Dr. Gwn about his Dispatch and answer
IL | can act on 1t. WADE HAMPTON.
mo. 40
COLUMBIA, Nov. 27.
W. T. PFLTON, ErereH House. Neic- York:
IInrvitfls letter 9th. 10 uasken received. Pro-