Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-09-09

JUNIUs.-Who was Junius When will the
world cease to ask the question:! Have the
s'rappers" been consulted, and requested to
solve tho mystery? Perhaps, the individual
who discovered that BENJAMIN Franklin was
excepting hotel in the other world, and had
Tom. Jefferson for a boarder," might throw
some light on the subject Here is something
that has turned up. and though it does not ex-
acty answer the time-honored question, will no
doubt prick up the ears of the hterati. The
staunton, Cva.) Spectator says:
few days since we saw, in the possession of
a friend at Wayneshorough, a manuscript copy
of the Letters of 1uasus, the history of which is
interesting and remarkable. The manuscript
belongs to Mr.. j. H. Baylor, of Caroline county,
Va, who inherited it from his father, Mr.. John
Baylor The owner of the document states that
his father was sent to England in the year 1865
or 1867, for the purpose of completing his
education. He went first to Putney, and then
to Caius College, Cambridge, where he remained
three years, or through that exciting period
when the letters of Junius appeared in the
Public Advertiser. He returned to Virginia in
the autumn of 1772, again visited Europe in
1875, married while there, and returned in 1879.
He brought with him on his return q fine private
library, and at his death left among other books
and papers the manuscript copy Of all the letters
of Junius, which we examined. He also had
in his possession copy of the Public Advertiser,
in which the letters were published Mr.
Baylor states that he has often noticed his
father examining the manuscript with intense
interest. Mr. Baylor says that his father often
spoke of the author of the letters, whom he de-
scribed as ''a tall man in the spring and sum
mer season of life, never firing in the discharge
of his work.
What could have induced Mr.. Baylor to an
dertake and carry through the arduous work of
copying these letters, is a question for the
curious. It is certainly rare old document
probably the only one Of the kind in the United
States A comparison with the printed letters
shows the manuscript to be remarkably ac-
curate copy.
LATER FROM EURopE.-Capture Of Bomersund.
The report of the capture of Bomrsund was
fully confirmed. The particulars show that
the French are entitled to the honor of the affair
RIGA TO BE ATTAcKED.-It had been decided
in the Baltic that, after the capture of Bonner
sund, the next place to be attacked was the i'm
portant position of Riga.
THE BLACK SEA.-The expedition to the Crit
mea was stlli delayed oy the prevalence OF the
cholera, which had swept off between ten and
fifteen thousand of the allies. At the last ac-
counts, however, the disease was abatng
THE PRINCIPALITIEs.-At the latest dates
from the Danube the Austrian army was enter
ing the Principalties. Wallachia was still quiet
Eighty thousand Russians we're concentrating
on the left bank of the Pruth
PRrssIA.-Advices from Berlin and Vienna
state that Prussia was arming and making ex-
tensive preparations to take an active part in
affairs.
As1A.-The report of the defeat of the Turks
in Asia has been confirmed.
SPAIN.-There is little news of moment from
Spain. The country was still quiet at the last
accounts from Madrid.
Dss@ Two girls employed at the American
Hotel in Bucksport, N. T., quarreed last week
about their respective departments of work