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redtettw FROSr GitEIXEK, IHatrlct Ajentt of tbe nd SANTA FE RailROAD, lyatp-cial party of land to and other point. In tbe r-l-ry tbe rlTtr and Bentbweat ou Ineaday, October O. rip Tickets Only $23.75 ly Fare orer the Alchfem. Toa Fe Batlroad refunded to land buy.rs eto In the Utato UUM land. I.

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Louis, JU, GEOROE KRiECHBBAUM. Burlington, Iowa. PROVKKRS. "Nn one cvi bo flck when tbe utomneh, blood iTer find kMm-) nro bnaltliv, aLd Hop Bitten thrni BO." Tbe nourishing totile. appetiser a 1 on e.irilj Hop 1 It is lo remain lont: or out Hop "Itteie are mcJ Vt by dti Hop Dlttrra cu much "Rf cau'f rich bloo', and hcaltby of 1 Ko what ynr feeling, or ailment Bitten "111 dujou liood." Kememter.

Hop Bltltrn nercr docs hatm, but alwuyii and Pun IT tbe blood, clranie tbe ttomach and elen the brmtli witn Ilop Blltein Qoiet OTttt and btl.ii; ep In Hop Bitten No healib with InactlTe liyer and uilna-y or- m. vlihoot Ilop 1'iiuri." Try Hup Daro and Pain Kollef lorjalebyO.P. Squire. A RamM.4 IChorcblll. o.t8wlt*dlm win 1S78, under Urf ION HOTEL, i 1rt mi; li p' rofh 1 of Onten Ral.ro^l Will lOVft.

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1878. JUNE 1830 TUB CAPTURED CIPHER TELEGRAMS. Full Description of tlio System and a History of the Translation. How the Ciphers wore Made--How They were Found Out. Iho Keys to the Intcrprotntlon--A Vocabulary of Copurcony.

York Tribuue. Ibe eitraordiniry ciphers devised by the democratic munugers of the electoral campaign which cftmc after the election iu 1870 nrc desaribed in full below, and, together with nn account of the manner iu which they wero made, we proseut detailed proccaa by which they have been interpreted. There ore no fewer than six distinct systems of cryptogriphy in this collection of secret telegrams--perhaps even more--but ono system predominates so ireatlT over the others that to it wo shall devote nearly all the space we cm gpiro this Burning for the exposition. Tho others we may perhaps discuss brieilj when we print the dispatches that belong to them. We invito the public to witness every step ia the pro of this deciphering, partly because it is an interesting and intellectual exercise, and Military reminder that the best laid plans of rogues and plotters are always in danger of detection, and pirtly becnuse we wish to show that tho reading we oflcr has been arrived It by no happy guessing, but hy a course of sheer demonstration.

Tho of the icvs which we have found for the substantial part of this elaborate puzzle is wilh all the certainty of an absolute mathematical proof. getting at the most serious of the oprrmionB of the democrats in tvro if not three of Ihe disputed slates. The system consisted of cipher within a cipher. First, arbitrary ciphers--generally geographical proper names--wero substituted for nil tell-tale words and expressions. Wo never find, for instance, "Democrat" or Radical," Hayes or Tilden," Reluming Board" or Elector," "Governor" or "President; THE TILUKX CIPHERS.

The of the Correspondence. captured poliiicM correspondence, now in the possession of The Tribune, covers the period between the presidential election in November, 1S7G, and tbe completion of the count in nil the r'upuied States, early in the following month. It comprises 1. between ihe Dernocrnlic patch, r.viilenlly there was more than one key. But Iiow did tht; person who received tho cipher message know what key to use in translating it A I I SYSTEM.

The inquiry had reached this point, when tho curious circumstance was noticed that the number of words in every transposi.iou was a multiple of live. We say in every tulepram, for this was the strict general rule, though a few exceptions to it will be noticed later. Tho shortest me.xsigc consisted of ten words then there nero two or three of 1-j worde there were msny of 20, of 23, of 30, of -10 of words, and they ran up into the buniireiis, proceeding by fives. This C'HiUl not and the suggestion ufiiiir'illy nroco there connection betweeu regularity of these blocks of numbers and the eyatcm of transposing Iticr.j, co length of (he dispatch was the clew which guided the person who received it in Iho "election a key to the tran.jpos-ition. Then supposing that there was one sequence of numbers for a 10- word message, and another for a message of lo words, and a for a message of 20, and eo on, it would only be necessary for the receiver to count the words iu the telegram in order to know upon which of several pre arranged sequences it been constructed.

This theory was at ODOH tinted by a group of 30 word telegrams. Five messages of thiil ienelb were selected, written out in parallel columns, onn word another, and every word numbered, r. few must be followed by a plural noun, unless Copenhagou" Blauds for a plural iiun tho only one thut remtiins id things 20). There is nothing in tho other lolutnns to us in deciding between hem. so we tho sequence for tho resent and try some other blocks.

Wo have 6, 10,29,27,19,28, 21, tilting perfectly in nil the columns, so far they are understood, and we know that he next number is cither 4 or 20' Lot us ook for a guide-word now in one of the ithcr columns In tho -Uh culumn we find i a (17), and a most natural hing to say ithoui a dispatch ia that it has ecu received (30) It 19 very likely hat the begins wilb the Rcktiow- ejgcmea! Dispatch received TOM "fjueuce for tho opening ivords of the other telegrams, (1st) loscd you 2 Am here (3J) BPS! and (oth) My hope." The verb which leome most appropriitely lo follow "Hen is cria (2(1), and the eauie order fives other column" My hopo snnll," loscd you telegraphed," and BO on. beside? settling our choice between 4 find 20 as the text numbet iu the sequence junt left incotn- iltte. In tho third column, we are irrecisti- tempted to try the arrangement 22, 21, .3, keep up appearances," and as that fi'a all the other telegrams, wo accept it cor- Fa-I ili-ji tli'p. Telegrams managers iu New-York und ihcir agents in ne rnr ely or never meet with numbers sel- aud Oregon, lelalivo to the grant- om (during tho most eriticil i ing of a certificate lo one of the Democratic count) with the name of any state. Secoud- electors who was not circled, and tho pur.

these i-iibsiitutions having been made, the chase of a elector to recognize tod act with Dim. 1 2 Telegrams between message was broken up and dinlocaled, the words being taken out of their proper order, Democratic ur r(ln gcd as if they had been atuken in managers iu Turk ami iheir friends and ft drawn out at random, and sei down as Bfcret in Florida during the progress i chance dictated. Here is Ihe beginning of of the count. I lotig dispatch that has been treated in 3 Telegrams between these New Yorl: wrt described managers aud ihtir friends aud eecru agentd Ui4V( mll liv( rri ID Louisiana during iho same crilicil period. a i i i i 4.

Ttlegriina between these Niw York riicusc to manigcTj ita.l tbtir fricu-lsftod secret Bgenis Cl 1 in South CoroHua during operation a of It miph: be supposed that the dialoeotcd Ihe CitivusBiDg Hoard at Columbia, und tbe words could always be put to cther tigin by before Ibe S-mc Supreme Court, "he eierciso of little ingenuity hnd tiencc; anybody a cxt of (Mov lri: rivcr s-- iMnutio hy whoso interference Mr Tilden's representatives bored lo control tho action of tho lionvd. Various between local detn- t'loridftand Carolina, including the "tried of Iclcgiams ou tbe subject of aa armed opposition to Chamberlain's inaufuraiiun, nlruady published by the Tribune under the title of Fun at the Fair." The whole number of these captured dispatches ia not far from four hundred. About bulf of them nrr in pkin English, the rest iu cipher. Tho plain telegrams, of arc not usually of a compromising character, except no far as ihey refer indirectly lo tracBxctions which are explained iu other purls of the correspondence. Many of however, ate aoiuMog, hnd many ure useful in throtting light upon tbe dark ways and Tain tricks concealed in the crytogniphic conimnnioilion9.

I ihcso list which constitutes by far the most irnpor'an! of the grams. We hive devoted long and study to them, r.nd havo at list mastered the tjstems upon which they were constructed, and obtained Ihe keys which unlock their meaning. The public will undoubtedly agree nith us in thinking that the labor expended on this work has not been wasted. THE I I I I SYSTK.MS Tha ciphers employed wero of several kinds. Tho Oregan correspondence was conducted by what IB generally called the "Dictionary Cipher." Here tne first word of the menage to be sent wr.s sought in a dictionary previously agreed the wiitcr then turned back four pages (of course any number of pages might have been chosen, but iu this case it was four,) and picking out ihe word which occupied a cor responding position ou tho fourth page, thai in the cipher.

Tho process was then repeiitd for" tbo next word, and so on to the end r.nd the receiver then retranslated the document inlo plnin English by reversing tie operation iu hid copy of the dictionary, li happened lhat Iho Litile Die- tiooary" used by Velton and Patrick had employed before in tho same way. in the course of injunctions at Ihc Wejt, and somebody who knew the cipher explained it ns soon as the Gabble" dispatch goi into prim. Several of tbo incriminating messnges were thus deciphered as long ago as 1877 and when Iho Tribune obtained possession of tho correspondence, the translations were completed and a full and consecutive narrative of Ihe Oregon affair given to the public. (See the Tribune, September 4. 1878 But in the Southern correspondence the conspirRtors at Gramerpy Patk employed ciphers of a very different sort, and of these accident unfortunately failed to give us the key.

It is true that the "Dictionary Cipher" appeared now and (hen In Florida and South Carolina, but the die tionary wlocled waa evidently not the same that served in Oregon, and there was no clew to the rain by which the book, whatever it may have been, was to be mcd. Another system of cryptograms, of which we find comparatively few exanplfd, was devised by substituting numbers for all tbe most signifi- or, as we might all tho tell-tale" words in a dispatch for instance: TAMAiiifsr, Dec. 1. Koe i fetch may IbiiteeH forty of ft inunt for example, with the lines 'quoted above (which are complete in sense so as far they go, though they are only a fragment of a dispatcbj-- will tee that the task is by no means a litht one. When the meaning of nil the words is understood, it will generally be found that a transposed dispatch can be re arranged in a variety of ways, all making rood nd good grammar, but all dija 6 elren can jou two in If twenty.

Fox. messages contained numbers and else. Tho local poliiiciuus Monally corresponded in that simplest and ttflst futile of all cryptograms, which con- merely in the subsiitulion of one letter lor another; and there wero other which we shall havo something to snj coarse of our narrative brineij them into tiew. 6 or very large majority, however, of tee southern secret there was one of double cipher, unvarying in i Principle, though cadging often in of applicuion; utid a little ez of the pile of tuleitrtimi puffieio the hey to this in Mods we should haTD little difficulty iu grceing hopelcsily iu significance; nnd whcu Ihe perplexity increased by tile introduction) uf of blind words, of i we not know i they are noun 1 or verbs ov adjectives, ibc attempt to recrm- stiuet i sunleuces i the aid of a kt-y in almost And yet the proper se. quenco of all the words mu't bo deforc we make even a guess at the meaning of nny considerable number of bhnJ vordt).

The double cipher is, therefore, one of the moat difficult cryptograms ivcr dcviced and it 1-j not nurpriiing thnl democratic politicians operaiiotis it covers should have flittered ibemselves with the assurance thai tbe Tnlnnr could uvvcr dissovcr Iho interpretation, lint almost any cipher, however intricate and iogpaious, be read if the trnnulator have number of specimens lo work with and there was certainly no lack of material in this DIECOVEHY or THE KI.Y. The beginning of tho discovery was a fortunate Euess at the meaning of ono of the blind nordi. A substitution-cipher that occurs i tioUble frequency "VVareaw." It is found in almost all Ihc longer dispatches once it stands alone as a message by itself; occasionally we find it a i iu Hectiona, as "Warsawcd." The cotjecture immediately presented itself that it signified either or "answer;" but as the latter word is used without disguise in some of iho same messages which contain 11 Warsaw," tho other alternative was aa sumed to be the right one--an assumption wliich later discoveries speedily confirmed, Warsaw" proving to be the equivalent ol both "telegraph" nnd "telegram." Accepting Ihia do. nition ai correct, iho following dispatch of ten words wns read so easily thai it might almost be said to rearrange itself at first sight: Colt MUM, Xor. It, 1S76.

To I I A AVlf Witttitw they n-ml utl unchurigc-j Jlaat nro Idiots c.in't tituntion. Can't r. ail Sltnitlon unclmngtd. Thej all Tne words in this dispatch aro transpose( according to the following order 9, 3, 6, 1 10. 5, 2, 7, 4.

8 Or, to make the matter plainer, let us number tho words of the ci and illustrate the process of transpasi lion: 1 2 3 1 'J 6 7 they rc-ftd nil uncl.finKtil lant are 9 10 cau't fUfuallon. To make the translation according to thi key eivcn above, Ihe 9th word of tho ciphe ome 6rst, Ihe 3d next, and then mus follow in order the G'h, 1st, 10th, oth, 2'J 7th, 4ih and Sth. We tried the same, se quence on other dispatches. It fitted noni i we caroo IP a second message of exactly ten worda, follows: Mn with you Anna communic ition put Weed Onrle can in. Thin yielded to Iho same key of transposi tion, nnd the words being rearranged ac cording to the sequence already given, stooi thus: Ctn yon put tno In cummuAicatton with A i The meaning of "Anna Charles was stil dark, but there could be no reasonable doub tliiU the right sequence of words had been fouid, and this conviction was strengthened when a third ten-word message yieldei readily lo tho same key.

But there wen very few of these short messages in ihi bundle, and the sequence that applied ti them would not fit any part of a longer dia Thus we have disposed of 15 of our 30 words, and the arrangement of the others is Ci'XDpirolively bcciuie, of course, with elimination of successive groups of jer.i tho possib.e pcrmuta ions of Ihe remainder are very rapidly diminished. We need not carry the oxpluimiion of the pro cot's any ut proieiit. Kviough has been nnid to show that ihe formalioti of the separate blocks of words is not by mere r.iu- doin guessing, but in greac pirt by strict apjjltcilion of tin 1 rul'9 of prammer nnd at- tfniion to thai tho succession of words is ofli-n not I which wiy he, hut that which must bo; und i whi-never we i conjeciuro verify it hy rcpi'Vil by the frni'iiifiitH 11. -ir i I i I I i not i iiliuiruu.il.v io lha wlijlc group THIS, i lion, ii scq'ivnco i i ikfijr repeated t-xpt-ri- i SO i i i i 17. '2li.

1 'i. U. L'J -27, 1'J. Ii8, -21. -1, 7 12.

-2-2, 21 15, 1-1, 2, 2-i, 8 a is to say nt i lanslation, and 8) nnd tho tranal.t· I nessajje accordingly 8 If 4 ou 1 want 7 Judge 13 Mathewa 5 or 2 Iloicomb would 11 como 14 on. 9 Telegraph 3 mo 15 by 12 same 10 name. Now here is a message belonging to whM wo will call, far tbo moment, Ihe second 15- word group, the koy to which was found by bo regular process lo be 3, 7, 12, 2, 0, 8, 1. 1, 11, 15, 9, 14. 10, 13.

So that, read- ug tho third word of the cipher first, tbe seventh word next, the twelfth word next, aud ao on, we havo the message aud us niufUlion, as follows: 1 Morj icloct '2 in 7 tiomo Di-loct 12 ono luivu 2 In 6 lutvc ti wliom 7 Numu 8 you 'J uu 10 in 11 coufiifenco I. ono inning 14 evidently 15 than 4 hiwo I inoro 11 confidence 15 than you I I evidently 6 Imvo 10 in 13 winning. Tne problem now was to tind an arrangement of the numbers which wou'd make CESO of all five coluraus equally. It would not have been difficult perhaps lo contrive a conjectural reading of the fire: column, lor hat or.tained only one word but he i a i would have been no better haa a guess unless the other four dispatches had confirmed it. Tbe only eystcmatio method of deciphering WHS to fit together lit.

lo groups of worda, trying every rational combination of two or three, and verifying he c-porinvnl by comparison i the corresponding words in the parallel columns. Almost always a few words can bo found which s'jek each other's companionship obviously am! naturally. Tncse we may cill guide-words." In the first column for instance wo have the word "adjourned" (27.) We know, by the dalo of Ihe dispatch, (Co umbia, November IS), ihtt the rain who wroie it was nnxion-ly walchlug the pro cecdinps of tho Sottih Carolina board of state canvassers, find Ihe inference is clear that tbe only adjournment ho would be likely to telegraph nbout was the adjournment of the c-invassing board. We find no open i of the board in his tcl egrim, but there is the substitution-cipher 1 London," which is used with great frequency nil through Ihe correspondence; il that lucana canvassing board it will make a good nominative to Ijourned." Now we also know the board did not complete its labors till week after this date; Itte ad journment then was not final, but to some particular day, and the day has been given in Ibe dispatch "London adjourned unti' day after to morrow is a reading which not only feems rational hut agrees with tho factfl aa we learn ihem from an examination of the newspaper files for November, We have therefore, tho sequence of 27 10, 28, which makes sense in the first col umn. In tti-3 seond, it produces this ar raogcment of words us out if a in tb third and fourth it yields a largo proporiion of blind wor Is whicti give us little or no help in Hie fifth il produces "satisfied byBa v-naand A ibesecollocations look at leas eacourngiiif: The trigment of a sentence, or sentences, which we hnvo obtained from Ihe second column, UH out if contains two clewd by which we cnu extend Ihe sequence in both direction)); pluinly tho word in that column which procrdis us out" is "count" I 2 a 5'h words, i to," ju-tt us clearly the words that lead up to "count Our fragment now contain!) seven words, and it ends with Ihe article (2S).

7'here are only two words 11. U. 2i IS. 18. 1C, 2-i, 8-- that is lo the seventeenth word of the cipher ia the tust word of the tnti-hled DH'-iige, uie thirtieth word of the cipher is the Bccom 1 word of the mei-siige anJ ao on.

Hut there were many ton's still to bt applh-d to tho solution. We I IIP key found on a sreivi IIIHIIJ tr'ii'-j, iMiion ciphers, name be lov.y,- in itn F.oudn correspondence. the South Carolina i i i dispvohei to Mid from a uiiinner of persons. VTV nil" wl.ich it did not ti', but it i so (nT't'Cily to otberu, yielding nt uce nu and iutclligiblo trani-litliou i i auy foroqd construction of sentences hat d.iiil" i i i i i strict accuracy. the heijueuce Liul only two or 'M- dispi.rhi't out of iv largo number, its to those two or three might live been called an accident but when it iViind to suit two or three dozen writ eu by different persons at different ml eent from different pinci'i" to different per- there could be no port of question that it was a fixed rule.

Furthermore, the sequence were not discovered by ono person otic. Three investigators, working at a liet.vnce from each other, upon different onndle.s of telegrams, and without intercommunication, reached independently tho same conclusions Several of the keys were found all three simultaneously. And it is worthy of remark that one of these trans- ators got nt the result by a very difl'erenl road from ihc others. He picked out of a rrcat of telegrams, without regard lo length, all the blocks of words that could be formed by observing tho necessities of grammatical construction, or by considering other indications in tho dispatch itself, and was not i he came to compare and group them a he noticed how tho classification depended upon the length of tho rncs- sape. Tho 9V8tem being established, sequences of 15.

of 20, nnd of 25 words were found by the same plan purJuced in constructing the longer one. I I I I KEYS In the course of this work il began (o appear that, for some of the groups of Hum- tiers, if not for all, there were two keys, either of nhioh the correspondent could use at pleasure Ihe key being probably changed cvjry now aud then for the purpoes of better concealment and this explained tho exccp tional ciphers whose obstinate resistance to the firdt found keys had puzzled us. Two sequences, both in fnqtient use, were found for the groups of 15 numbers, of 25, and ol Arguing from analogy that the other keys must likewise be double, wo made thorough examination, which resulted, aa we anticipated, in our finding a second sequence of 20 numnerH, and finally a second of 10 And this led in the interesting and surpris ing discovery that cash of these second or supplementary keys was in a certain sense a complement to another. Wo can best ex plain tbiM law by an example. Here is a cipher dispuch of 15 words, belonging to wlmt wo will call for convenience tho firs group; and to make tho process clearer we will write and number It vertically 1 want 2 Iloicomb 3 me 4 you 5 or 6 would 7 Judgo 8 if 0 Warsaw 10 name 11 came 22 same IS Matthews 14 on 10 by The key to Ihe transposition in the grou; The keys to both these groups--to all Ihc jroups--have been cbtaincd, it will be observed, by numbering tho cipher message, (in.i then tenting down th" nuinbtrs of the cipher worth in the order those words must take are trantpoteil to make the tion Uut now suppose we reverse the pro.

cess. A tiuJing iho translation we number tin! words in that co- at-cutivcly, and write Joicn the of the translated worth in the ortlir thf'i took in the cipher Hen; Is i a lo-wjrd message, uttuibered in the translation: 1 -1 4 5 7 8 It' iuii w.utt, Judge Mntlheui or HjlcoDib 9 'li) 11 li IS I I IS Teli- ft HIO by sami- iflut messncc ns tho words stood in the cipher, but with tho number-) translation attached to them w.mt, 7 llo'comli, 12 ia-, 'J on. li or, 8 wouM, -1 I 11, 15 name. cime, 11 Until, wx. 10 oil, Kl bj.

1 tjti ci exactly tht sequence of the ttc- onii ijrtiup. Renumber the of the second in Ihe same way and il gives tho 'sequence already found for tho first group. Tbe law holds good wilh all tbe other sets of keys. The translation of one cipher always gives ft sequence for tho construction of second cipher of a group; eo that perhaps wo might eay that in- icvJ of there being as fur some me wo supposed ten independent amely, of 10 two of 15, two 20, two of 25. anl two of 30, there nri- eally only five each of waich cm be irned iu twi wiyii If this remarkable HP uniKMiK'nl h'i'l bji discovered mrlier ii votild saved h'llf tho lutvir of i i alien.

i i ns it does, ai nd of tlio i i it in ft mHt i i accuracy of iho hoy vi; h-ivo rrangcd siuotj tne slightest mistake iave destroyed the operation of the rul-j. Ve aro not yet prepared 10 say that aa ihe irooeti of i i out the goes oilier keys miy not he found but so nr (he calleoiion, appears to bo complete. A word key made, bul it proved upon nrlher exitniaatton lo bo only ihc union of 15 and a 20 and a-10 word waa nearly ioiohed, early in tho investigation, whcu it was to be this same sequence of 20 ikcn twice COMlllXATIOXS OF KEYS. The work wus performed at first with hori difpatcbes only. When Ihe.

longer ines were undertaken, they were found to be all formed upon a combination of two or mote of the ton sequences already diacov ered, or upon (he repetition of some ono ol hem. Messages of nixiy words, for in stance, vero instantly deciphered by ap- 30 word koy twice A message oi 75 vordd was rcid by applying first a sc qiience of 15 and then using a iiO word key Often il happened in thcso compound dis paichi-a i word was dropped, cither bj a blunder of tho telegraph operator, or 03 preconcerted arrangement. In lhat case course tho subsequent words were thrown out of place bul by shifting all the num hers of tho sequence one step the broken How of the interpretation was at onco re stored. And it is also to bo noticed that when this dropping of a word occurs, the dis patch f.ilia short, by one, of ihe number ol words necessary to make it a multiple of five. Tho sense is often complete without tb missing word, but by following the key it is easy lo sec just where tho omission has oo curred.

These irregularities, therefore, far from invalidating tho principle of the key aro on the contrary a strong confirmation left in the column lo which the indefinite to which this belongs was found by the in article can possibly be applied--" few" (24)' i process already described to be 8 and the jet "Copenhagen" (4). A 4, 1, 7,13, 5, 2, 11, 14, 9,3, 15.12,10 comparison with the parallel words in the thiit ia to say, tho Sth word of the oipbor i fif'h column showa that "Copenhagen" will, the first word of tho translation, the 4th not do, and we take few." Now the phrase word of tho viphor ia the second word of th its correctness. They aro all traced to the same cause aud all corrected by tho earn means. Tho Tribune publishes A TAHLE OF KKV-t, which we reproduce for our readers, tha they may test for thcmtelvcs the cypher mea sages that we aball print at a future date 10 words. I.

II. 9 6 7 lo 1 8 6 ID wor Is III. IV. 8 12 vordfl. 7 12 8 4 1 11 15 9 14 10 VI.

12 18 3 6 4 1 20 1C 2 19 Kl 10 0 7 14 17 11 lo 9 wcrtU. vii via 18 12 12 0 18 25 10 3 17 20 15 10 8 21 A 11 7 13 22 1C 21 14 4 words IX IT 30 20 1 11 20 2o 6 10 29 27 19 28 24 4 7 13 18 12 22 21 15 9 11 1C 2i 8 THE SCB-TnUTION CIPHERS. After getting the eolation of the trans; aition ciphers, tho blind words," or substitution ciphers, had next to be considered. Many of them explained themselves, aa t-oon aa the dispatches in which they occurred wero arranged in proper order. Many wero interpreted by tho help of tho newspaper files of tho dates lo which they belonged.

Some few are stiil under investigation. Aa illustration of tho substitution process which was a sort of cipher within cipher, is found in Ihe case of ex-Governor Bigler, who was one of Tilden's visitors at New Orleans, and who wished to communicate with Russia in Netv York, and he intrusted his message to eomcbody to put into cipher, it begins therefore in tlr.a form: Bijtler to Russia." But about that lime wo find Colonel Pclioo- ask.nc Smith Weed at Columbia to Tel- cgrapa what ia Iho majority on Russia." Who was there in New York who hnd been running for anything ia South Carolina? Nobody hut Mr. Til. den himself. And that ho was there nre a Hundred things to show.

Another South Cirolina dispatch mrotioim a report thit" American party aro trading off Russia aud aa a matter of faoi we know that tho par era were full juat tit that of a scheme of the Suuih Carolina conaerve.ivea, to trado off Tilden for Hampton. -By a somewhat similar course of observation, which will bo apparent- later when we print the'dispaUh" 1 "Grace' 1 ia aster aioed to- be Hayes Ithaca" ia shown to eland for democrats and Havana for republicans. Rochester is very often used, end here is a telegram which proves its meaning conclusively. lt-turiilnp bonnl atKmptal to count Rochetttr this morning and they aJjoiirucd until 3. nr! controllfd ptrty.

They mid they woulri -ouut Rocheittr they stood on faco of ri'turnn, an') tli.it waa all SuVocti aaked. Rochester," of course, can be nothing else hut votes" in this case, and there ia- cortbinly DO difficulty in identifying I ba- ca" aud "Havana," especially as we know- that the Democrats were then cUmoring for count of the vote on tho faceoftbe returns. Might not Ithaca' 1 bo a person 1 No; be- ciiusu while the telegram above oiled refers to the action of Ithaga" in Florida, another dispatch from New Orleans announces (bat "Ithaca" tbero (iu the plural) "havo entire returns showing 8,500 to 8.000 majority for waa about tho modest figure of the democratic claim at that mo. And there are other cases in which Ithaca" plainly refers to a parly. IDENTIFICATION OF XUMDF.R3.

We bavo already eeen how tbe eamo -ui-iana dispatch which eetabliahed tbe eanlug of "London" also demonstrated at "Thames" meant "three," and Mu- llc" menut We soon saw reason i suspect that the names of rivers always cpresentcd numbers, and this turned out to the case. Tho proofs ore complete and tuple. For example, telegram from Now ork to Col tibia states that friend will go- rough ou train leaving here to night at 'otomac oclock." We have only to consult he railway time tables of thai month to out at what time the night train for tbo nnh left Jersey City, and so we learn that otomao mtatis six Repeatedly figures stato or county majorities arc given hich wo cm interpret by consulting the owHpaper files, and eo we discover that Danube "is i and "Schuylkill" seven." i is a very common ord in connection with numbers. There 13 ne long dinpatch which bin a many rivere ii that i wo found tho key of trans- nation we knew it as the "rivnr dbpalch 'hen the worda cimo to bo reari-ioged ia icir proper peq'ionce three rivers cams to- ether after a numeral, thus D.ir.ube tvcr ritcr river." Thi; diapatch evidently efetrcd to a large amount, aud to it lump utn clearly river" could be nothing h-m 0. We have quoted a dispatch iu which the democrats claim majority 85 to 'JO Missisa- ipi thousand.

The meaning of Mississippi" and had been scmiincd before wo reached that in this waa the first time we had encounter- "Missouri." Yet tbe interpretation was- erftctly simple. The nnjjriiy suld lo a from 85 the last uait bciug on- Enown It must be anmething more than 5. wn? neither nor 7. because we iden- ifii'd them already of course it waa not 8. nd there was nothing left but 9.

Thin led' is a step further. We had all tho units ex- ii'pt 1 and 4 and two rivers remained, and "Hudson The mea-aing of was speedily settled by a telegram which, after giving tho majority for the elect -ra in South Carolina, went to eay "Rhine of Tildcn'a within '20 of heir lowest." Tac journals of the period; till show that one of the Tildcn electors was aid to be only a little way behind tbe lowest republican elector and so "Rbine" is letermined aa "ooe," anl "UuJ- ion" is ibo equivalent of "four" IDENTIFICATION OF PERSONS The when using the cipher, never signed tbe'tr real names, and yet it ie almost always easy to determine who they were. Fur Ihe telegrams were alw.iya addroacd to the rel names of the persons for whom they were intended, and n- argc majority of them either give or call for an answer, or elae belong to a series of con. tinned dispatches, all relating to one transaction and under tho iiianagcmot of ono person and-in the of nuch a series the identification of tbo writer is sure to be established When we find a telegram addressed to Colonel Pelton end signed Mo- eej," and just afterward another telegram in answer toil, a-Jdresaed to Mr. Manton Mari end signed Denmark," we are at no- Ions to decide that Marble is MoBOs" and that is Denmark." DUMB WOBDS.

Certain wards were thrown in for the double purpose of blinds," and to fiU out tbe required number of words in a multiple of o. When the proper dispatch fell abort, the nulls were added to complete the requisite number. In the form in tho cipher waa sent these unmeaning appeared scattered all over the dispatch, but when it was transposed for translation, they all fell together at the end. I wre only a few of them--Anna, Charles, Thorn i Jane, Co plain, Lieutenant, and, of course, they were easily recog- Mze J. THE VOCABULARY.

Tha folio-Ting list contains some of the- substitution ciphers whoso meaningseema lo Continued on the Eighth Payc. NEWSPAPER!.