Show BY telegraph A M E P R 10 I 1 0 A IT rf 41 rew NEW YORK 8 hiscock you h have havo ave said eaid if you had any idea of the influencing of these boards venally the last person you would huid have chosen would have been col pelton why did you not deem it proper to call Coo cooped perla or dewitt dewitta attention to the matter alid as ask k thein to take charge of the matter lest pelton might compromise t the h 0 democratic general committee A I 1 supposed ed they had full knowledge and would be able to take care that nothing wrong would should be done the atmosphere at that time was full of rumors 0 of f fraudulent rp returning turning boards I 1 declare before god and aad my country cpu opu that the tho votes of louisiana and florida were bought meaning by republicans I 1 would scorn and anti condemn my righteous title if it the democratic party had soured my sent seat by frau fraud tilden baid eaid he had received no special information regarding the ex anav legal ega proceedings inthe in the disputed Is ute southern 0 therrie tates states supposed the national committee attended to these things had bad benn been to some sone extent a patron of pelton ho he thought the better way than to investigate the relations with the national commit tea was to stop such transactions he thought that buch such a course would have been beeri better dor for florida than what was wag done there hiscock objected to the latte latter pare of this answer and hunton said he thought that vilde vitae 5 ought bought to be edio wed to ans answer fully hiscock thought so also but witness should not go gut out of the way lo 10 attack other persons tilden said that when a certain party set up a high standard of morality he proposed to analyze that standard and igei ea if they lived up to it themselves Col dol pelton thought it excusable to fight fire with fire file and adopt the tactics of the enemy Pel tons act was an inchoate off offense ense eose acts on the other side were consummated and gave the presidency to a man not elected he did not attempt 4 to t excuse col pelton the latter did not hot act up tip to his own standard QI 0 morality hiscock asked what evi evl evidence dence denee he had bad that any aby votes or certificates werd word were bought by the am tilden said this evi evl evidence clence was before the committee in the testimony of mclin hiscock governor tilden are you entirely clear that nelld was influenced in his action by a hope of reward ai ae I 1 swear ap so by my best recollection I 1 believe I 1 shall to every one in this elaml nation and shall protect myself fully without going into matters with my family gea relations hiscock had you any antor t ma tion time that the returning boards of south carolina and florida were for sale give the name of the gentl gentleman einal einai who told you A I 1 cannot give the name of any man mane I 1 state it that would convict anyone it appeared in the tho papers hiscock we will now go back bach to the tho time pelton visited baltimore I 1 ask yoa again to give me any evidence you have that those boards were being corrupted by the republican republicans I 1 limit you up to the time of the final action of these boards A I 1 have no evidence up to that time what I 1 teamed was from the subsequent investigation tiddens Til dens tit attention was directed to dispatch no 34 tallahassee november 22 col pelton 15 Gram Gramm mercy murcy urcy eicy park wooley asks mo me to say let toccoa be got together immediately in readiness for tor contingencies cles cies either oither here or in lionia lana iana why do you me fotr answer all ali swe signed marble marbie 11 tilden 1 I do what the dispatch means do not noc know that any large sum of money was raised by the democrats in new york after the election for political purposes except when the national committee was wag in debt 1119 hiscock cock directed attention to telegram no 14 from new now york addressed dressed to smith weed at columbia and ind signed denmark in which occurs the sentence bente neo uco atry tny try and make one portion payable after atter votes are cast and another abnot jor tion after final result I 1 tilden said Pelton did kotcon not consult him in the matter and he did not know that pelton polton was in coin cain muni mun mud cation leation with wead and others in the south fouth I 1 I 1 1 I tilden closed by stating thebo these telegrams never nover with my knowledge caas cams to my house aa As tilden was leaving the chairman hunton remarked 1 facetiously 14 well as the return returning ini lui lizards b oarda were for sale perhaps it la Is fair to conc cone idue iddo that the suc sue ess oss ful fui party were the purchasers laughter reed quickly I 1 object to that remark of the chair chairman man maD and ask its withdrawal chairman Is ib it not a logical conclusion from the p premises remise but without waiting for an answer bp he withdrew 11 if VV the remark xit xii E ii h parris then took the raid stand but the only point developed was that his hia telegrams although addressed to tilden Tilde ii were intended for the na national tonal tonai committee tilden may bave have opened them but the purpose was vas wag thab that they should al once be bb submitted to the committee r georgo george W private secretary of governor tilben was the next witness and was questioned concerning telegram 39 addressed by marble to the gover governor nor nop of oregon requesting him to refrain issuing a to an elector I 1 Q do you remember it or anything about it A I 1 do not Q I 1 suppose this is al out the answer you intend to give 1 to all those other telegrams A AI I have no recollection of an auy any y telegrams at all laughter Q yah yas governor tilden in albany beo between ye ea november aoth both oth and Decombe rOth 6 t A I 1 cannot recollect Q now bo be sure A I 1 have as I 1 have already said BO no recollection of any of these telegrams Q do you remember telegrams signed marquette fc A yes I 1 d do I 1 they were in cl elpher cipher pher I 1 was out of town while a number of them were received they were opened by one of the Q did the directors intercept your telegrams A my private telegrams were not opened but the cipher ones were JEli hiscock cock that is all we are much obliged to you for your information the committee went into executive session decided to exam examine ifie no more witnesses und and left in the evening for washington lacer later csc cac an fn che the fwu oace vt of the alleged attempts to purchase the electoral votes for tilden has been revived and intensified by the cipher investigation now progressing everybody now concedes that fraudulent attempts were made that the transactions were ra rae ras rascally cally wally and that as the braid herald says there is no saving the reputations of pel tn ten and smith weed the only question remaining is as to whether they are credible witness ess by whom to prove their operations were persisted in without Til dens denb connivance and despite his ailon of them when any third person was brought into their consideration era tion no adequate picture of Pel Pelt tons pitiful exhibition as a witness can be presented except by a verbatim report even then the significance and suggestive suggestiveness nesb nesa of his manner would be still needed to give a proper shading to the scene Afew A few essential facts however catch the public eye and stick as circumstantial evidence going to question tiddens Til dens personal complicity among these are the following pelton admits that ho he carried on the disreputable busine business is in part at tiddens Til dens own house he there explained to cooper that he was g ing to baltimore to negotiate the south houth carolina purchase notified him that ho he might telegraph next day for some money but thought he was cautioned not to tell tilden hewa he was less definite on this point than its importance demanded nor could he remember what cooper replied next day cooper refused to provide the required funds tildon tilden telegraphed pelton to come home and he brought the south carolina negotiation with him chat that despite his uncles rather vio bently expressed dissent from the corrupt scheme pelton still persisted in trying to raise the money being determined to do so as far as was in his power but who he expected to get the eash from he does not now know he said he would have jave tried cooper and scott of the Nt national ional lonal democratic committee but names no others he declares that he had no reason to suppose they would agree to it but object to it in the south sooth carolina case on moral meral nevertheless pelton bo definitely accepted the south carolina proposition and subsequently teo teb tho he florida proposition atter after taho demand for J had beon been rejected as too high and was reduced to all on his own responsibility ho he says bays but still loo looking liffie to cooper and scott beott for hep hop the florida board wils wag was compelled to decide finally on the ath of december neiton pelton admits that he telegraphed definitely to maible op ahe the ath that he would deposit deport the but bat falis fails to tp explain satisfactorily how hl he VM was to get got it at hueil bucu short ehor notice as he insists he hud had not afo broached abed the subject to anybody and would require at leas least t two days to jay the proposition before the ine members of the democratic committee andret and get the money and had bad noi eason bason far supposing anybody in particular would supply it he confesses albo also the transact lod iod was ended by a ib degram tg from marble that the fhe negotiation was off pei pel tons utter inability to rem remember tuber how or art he got his cipher and anu final conclusion that he made it up himself juat no na aeo wab was start starting ipg south la Is C especially puri pusI cious clous the cipher Is of buch sueh such 9 a character that expert experts would require many hours thoughtful work to prepare it its impromptu invention and development by a man who does not know that ho he ever made any cipher before is a flagrant impossibility melton believed he made an independent invention of marbles cipher another independent of coyles forgetting that all three use the f tanae bame code there were several democratic clerks who also had the keys but the whole party with singular unanimity have dib destroyed dis troyed their ciphers and carefully forgotten all about them the care with which the disreputable telegrams were kept from tilden himself wab was only equalled equal led by the freedom with which they were confided to other parties par tiela about the only thing pellon remembers sharp Is that uncle tilden had nothing to do with the bus busl ness and that pelton was determined to buy his election anyhow it is admitted however that he continued in confidential relations with tilden for nearly two years after his connection with the oregon oregan cipher business had been expose exposed ds and until after the tribunes southern exposure had coux blaed ube the cou country it con to be Til dens denb personal representative in political affairs as much trusted after as before tiddens Til dens repudiation of the south bouth carolina dicker weed was also retained in the confidence of tilden who notoriously sent him to rochester boeh Boch esteras as leading depre i tentative senta tive of his interest sin in last falph falls state convention Conventi oui the general verdict is that pelton and weed are stalwart goats but not large enough to carry kofl all the elpher cipher infamy CHICAGO 8 major reno beno was waa again on the stand to duy and answering a question replied em it was no cowardice that made him move from the timber on the bill he had a flask of whisky wl with th himbur did not drink a drop until the battle was over he used und it on the when on tho the custer ouster battle battie battlefield fieldi where the stench was so severe that the officers drank it he was way pressed w to of custer and final jy confessed zd that he hadano had no confidence in him as a soldier but said baid that his ills relations with custer were werf friendly had his own brother been with custer he could not have done differently he would do the same again under the same circum es with the knowledge he theu then had the long trial was waa closed b by the defense submitting bome borne daou the arguments will be submitted on monday and the case atoned IDNEY neb neu SC apt vroom with a detachment of the third cavalry arrived hereto here today to day with the cheyenne indian pria from fert port Bo binson the prisoners will be bennt befit lunder lunden guard to fort leavenworth Ti kanbas kansas aneas aneus tomorrow to morrow ina in a special car nev NEW bortiri YORK 10 lothe ahe the seffind sei Sef orld orid fild say Itis it is just to bay say thatTil that tildene Til dens denh evidence itelear ia clear decisive and unequivocal and leaves him in a better hotter position than he was in before it was given wlllie while W bile hile there is no particle of evi evl evidence dencer to connect him with or connivance in the acts of hits ilia ne nephew p hew how nud ani nui nul others appearances have been against lu 1 lt him and many persons exl may y still t ili lil sneer at the tho idea ig jg of his closest friends it would bogost unjust bor bou however rever totor blow flow that investigation la 18 0 aver o ver to continue continuo to arsat assat tilden ngan accomplice in lh elpher cipher no matter how bow suspicious some borne of thet surroundings maybe maybo may bo n tho washington special ati aai on Til dewil deWis testimony saya says til den stock went up hero here on account of a vague junior rumor tuat that tilden was prepared to make somewhat of a startling showing to the country if he had an J opportunity hut fil lot W which S cured secured cred credit I 1 t a because i iube iuso it was vas generally known that tilden had desired to testify before the committee the result has not justified these theto anticipations hul hut it is by xo jio means unsatisfactory to the democrats generally who privately agreed that fils fits hiscocks cock cook and aul reed of f the committe relieved tte tze the tho da democratic in party arty of any further trouble with tilden a as 8 a presidential candidate the herald special i saye statistics disprove the unive universally r received statement that the indians are deare decreasing asing aging in number the latest returns show that they are sen Aeu sensibly sibly and measurably increasing there being now now a total of general grant has jur jua b beeam euphi Lo to graphed in paris by the tho light of a Jablo tabio ehoff choff cindie cindle ft it is li ald this light produces better portraits than sunlight i wade hampton is pronounced low spirited and suffering much another amputation of the leg hone frone is necessary i general sherman gherman bas has whitten written a letter to the editor af p pf the constitution a long iong jetter letter warmly epp cpin mending the soli eoll climate and resources of 0 northern georgia fo to emigrants no single region on the continent holds out as strong induce inducements ments mente che cho present population hrs has not dono done justice to tb the 0 region regions he do predates pre cates class dle die distinction lons ions ai and ad jaya paya baya bayh au an attempt to build an aristocracy on the ground of a slaveholding ancestry will result in ridiculous failure advises them to let up on carp carpetbaggers carpet not one in 50 of the men who wiio built san sar i franciaco FrancL co and other great weste western rn cities are natives of the place all are substantially carpetbaggers carpet the estimated lasto loss to the merchant marine in the four principal kales of the past season is is oyer over a heavy beavy drain on the of this and etli other er IJ julies ilea iles oje Ope hundred bundred seven lives were losi josi |