The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-10-07
new YORK.
The Publication of the Tilden Cipher
Dispatches.
Col. MapIesOn's New Opera Troupe.
Cruelty on the Foot Race Track.
Condition of the City of cbs,tsrs s.owaway.

NEw YoRx, October 5.-There is music
| in the air for Samuel ]. Tilden and his
traud-shrieking choir. Little by little, two
or three clever heads have discovered the
key to the Tilden cipher dispatches. This
morning the Tribune says, editorially:
"The translationof the cipher dispatches
is now practically complete. The mass OF
captured correspondence is so great, and
the substance Of il so interesting, that the
issue must run through several numbers
! Of the Tribuns. We intend TO show, not
only what the cipher dispatches mean,
but how they were made, who wrote
them, who received them and how. We
discovered the Interpretation OF them. We
shall print the dispatches themselves as
well as translations, and we shall also give
keys SO that anybody can test the accuracy
of the version who has time and taste for
that exercise. On Monday, accordingly,
we purpose presenting full explanation
OF the systems of cyptography-for there
were several employed in the secret tele-
graphic correspondence between Demo-
crattc managers in New York and their
confidential agents in disputed Southern
States together with keys by which these
puzzles are solved, and an account OF the
manner in which the long sought solution
has been reached. This will lie promptly
succeeded By Florida correspondence, and
its translation, accompanied by such mar
rative as may be necessary to elucidate the
transactions to which it refers, and tele-
grams relating to other States will follow.
The whole number OF dispatches in our
possession is nearly 400, and il we except
Oregon, with which the public is already
sufficiently familiar, only an insignificant
proportion OF this great mass OF documents
has ever seen the light in any shape"
ITALIAN OPERA.
OF more importance to fashionable New
York is the musical season in store at the
Academy of Music. Colonel MaplesOn
and 10 members OF his opera troupe ar
rived yesterday. The season begins q
week from next Wednesday with ia Som
nambuIa." 3Iapleson brings Minnie
Hauck, Etelka Gerster, Campanini, Foil, q
full acting company and chorus OF sixty
fresh Italian voices.
The musical world isin ecstacies. When
Tribune reporter asked Mapleson il he
intended TO visit Cincinnati and Chicago,
he replied:s "No, think not We have
brought our best material here, and the
length OF the season will depend upon the
support which the enterprise receives. We
shall have new and elaborate scenery, a
magnificent chorus, solo singers OF world
wide regulations, and all at reasonable
rates. II our season here Is successful, |
shall return next year, and New York will
have fine season OF Italian opera every
year" II the season is not successful in
New York he feels he can not afford to go
West md II it Is successful, it will con-
sumo all the time he can spare to America
and meet his London engagements.
THE IMPRISONED srowAwAY.
An extraordinary case is that OF James
Dounelly, the man who was for twelve
DAYS confined in the hold OF the steamship
City OF Chester, without water or food OF
any kind. He still lies in a precarious
condition at St. Vincent's Hospital. He is
a good looking young fellow, about twen-
ty.tive years Of age. His body is covered
with bruises, and when undressed, resem-
bles q man who had been tattoocd from
the shoulders down. The doctor in charge
OF Donnelly asked him il he had gone on
board voluntarily, and with the intention
OF becoming a stowaway.
"Yes," feebly replied the patient
"Then why didn't you take some pre-
visions along with you?"
because had no money"
add you have nothing at all to drink
during the whole time you were in the
hold?"
Donnelly did not seem to want TO- ans
ger this question. He hung hishead, but
said, Nothing. The doctor, however, by
few questions, gathered from him that he
had subsisted part OF the time upon his
own urine and very little dry salt which
he found in the hold. The story that he
was drunk when he went on board the
vessel, is pronounced by Donnelly to be
untrue. When he found his way to the
hold OF the ship he went to sleep, and
when he awoke he found himself hemmed
in between large boxes OF merchandise
and other articles. He could not so be.
yond fteen feet in any direction. He tired
to make himself heard, but finally settled
down TO the conviction that he could only
4 be delivered IRON his living tomb either by
accident, or by waiting until the ship had
reached New York. When the vessel was
five or six days out he became unconscious,
and remained so until the hatch was open
ed on the arrival Of the steamer.
TUE WALKING MATCH
Al Gilmore's Garden has been great
pecuniary success, the receipts exceeding
SO, 900. Out Of this Gilmore pockets one,
half and pays all expenses. The second
half is 0'Leary's, who will. out of his PorI'
ton, pay over to John Hughes one.third
Thus Hughes and his hackers will be the
gamers BY about 1880, out Of which vii
Be reckoned $500, the stakes for which the
race is walked. No person who has wit
messed Hughes torture during the week
will grudge him his right to this sum. !!
has been cruel sight, and more pititu
than Hughes was the appearance of hh
/ plucky wife, who is iaded and careworn
coIorado Election Giving Much Comfort