New-York tribune., 1879-01-16

the cipher agents upon whose transacuohs
the report was to pass judgment! Inc iihc-
tons of the SeTgeant-at- lnclude suni-
moning witnesses whom 1t is desirable to
examine, and failing to find those whom II Is
desirable TO the majority not to examine
Mr.. J. J. Daniel, of the Florida State Demo
cratic Committee, had" this important officer
Of the committee-of the committee yet to be
created. And 30 everything seemed to be
comfortably fixed.
What Colonel Pclton meant by tclilng MI
Paris that the committee would appoint Linn
- one member" as well as clerk, we do not
know. II appears from his answer that he
did not understand it himself, Here Is his
reply, sent in duplicate, one copy to MI. hihe,
clerk at the Everett House headquarters ana
the other to Colonel Pelton, at No. 10 Gram
ercy Park: M.
MORRIS X. KING, Errrsh House. Ne'e YORK. =
Twelve o'c,ock midnight Monday kneel le1icoSraphy
bass I've leech conduit stevedore to taken nesc'ht anu
woe spermacei aforesaid helmet subiughte mover oi
research caN, terra-GOita lorewaihs "riSh' uh
preuaicod seem ord nal metre NhamDe.
Dec. g.
MORRIS X. KING:
Twelve O'Clock midnight, Monday. just LETT BARROW
Latter comedies state to Jlden and will so advise Have
strong hope OF Board Repeat last telegram fol""hg
words unntclli2hlc: seem. Ordnal, netrt shdihp'e
In an interview with a reporter OF TIE
TnIBI-NE, Mr.. Paris recently said that ne
found this cipher very difficult 10 use. ana
soon gave it up. We do not know what eX-
planation Colonel PcltCn returned to the above
request but there is short dispatch IN the
Same cipher, neither dated nor siGned, wiich
may be MIR. Parriss rojOinder to second teie-
gram on the same subj ct. 1t Is tins:
WILLIAM I. PELIoN - Gyameic5 FdTh, " J.:
Distance wise unprciudiced.
l1ran.laliOn.l
WILLIAM r. PEtTON:
DI~pltch wholly unnieIigblc
Colonel PcIton. upon the receipt OF the
news abqut General Barlow, addressed HIM
self To Mr. Manton Marble, III the transposl-
ton cipher, as follows:
NEw-YoRE, Dec. ..
MANroN MARBLE, Tdiiahassc':
il definitely tl-y Justify opinion and by Charles act
telcgraphed certain Board action answer VIII immrdi-
a,cy telegram of state when aud Thomas be Bar
lows is cOnccdng will here received
lTranslation.l
NLw-YorK Dee. ,.
MANroN MARBLE. Tallahassee:
Telegram received. + It certain that Barlows opn-
ION tclcrauhcd here cOuccdEG STATE, Will be Justified
by pction ol Boar. and when wl they actl Answer
definitely am Immediately. Thomas Charles.
Mr.. Marble replied III the same cipher that
" BARLOW saw cheap chance Tor mag
"nlnimity [a,l visiting statesman Is TO the
main question, May easily be cheated, bnt
"Mo.cs cannot help putting absolute iaiih III
"right result, Ukich ! am promised mtdR 'Jht'
What ne was promised at midnight we may
easily conjecture, if We remember that tins
was a day after the receipt of Colonel Pcton'a
second telegram accepting the proposals tol-
wardcd 10y Fox and Moses to pulchtae one
member of the CanvasSing Board "tor hall
" hundred best United States dOcumcnts;' and
that it was day caller than Mr. Maj
ble's TELEGRAM to Pclton to "tcll Russia sad
"dle Blackstone because the proposition
had failed. Possibly in the stress OF the final
negotiations, the affair of Mr.. +. l.. Paris and
the ordiual metre shamble" was neglected.
But if the meaning Of those words, and the
significance OF the message III which they oc-
CURED, need any further eucldatiOn, 1t seems
to us that there are several gentlemen who
might he called upon to rise and explain. How
would it do TO begin with Speaker Randall