The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-16
%"Jnninat 81 Last unearthed.

NV LUX hNunluS EplIt
Mr.. George Augustus ssla's visit TO the
South win no doubt have many excellent
results; but there Is one in particular
which will challenge immediate attention
and admiration. MI. sala has discovered,
through the fundamentally OF q distn.
guished Senator Of the United States, the
solution of problem that has long deaed
the combined curiosity and sagacity Of
mankind. He has discovered the author
ship Of the letters Of Junius; and this dis
tracing question, which has. racked the
brains and spilled the ink Of generations,
Is at l%astiorever set at rest.
We have said that q distinguished Sena-
tor had a hand in this auspicious result;
but the saying should be amended so as
to convey the fact that the Senator simply
related what bad been accomplished
through the agency Of q friend Of his, q
person Of dazzling genius, who chooses
for the present to be known as Prof. Nc.
Hoshkosh. The Professor has evoked this
priceless secret by q lecture, the whole
text Of which viii soon, we learn, be laid
before q delighted world. Cline said
this gifted man atthe beginning Of his dis
course, "has left but q very mean balance
OF mysteries. Time has rent the veil OF
the Semitic Isis and turned Edison's cleo
trio light full blast on the Man with the
Iron Mask. Time has deciphered the
Rosetta inscription, and there amt much
in 1t. Time has revealed the cause Of the
Punishment OF Ovid, and in process OF
time we shall find out who stole the body
OF A. 7. Stewart.
'aTime has replaced the lost nose OF the
Sphinx, and all her conundrums have
been answered in the columns Of the
Philadelphia Pres. But, ladies and gen.
tlemen, the author OF the Letters OF
Junius' doesn't care FIVE cents for Time
and defies the most persistent researches
OF the New York detectives. Who wrote
those letters? Was 1t Sir Phillip Francis?
Was 1t Edmund Burke? Was 1t Lord
George Sackville? Was 1t Lord Temple?
Was It John Wilkes Booth-I mean John
Wilkes? Was 1t DR.. Johnson? Was 1t
Tom Paine when he was q young man?
Who wrote those immortal editorials?
Who wrote them? We ask again and
again, and Echo answers in q derisiyely
e%quivocating manner thatshe possesses no
reliable information on the subject"
Now 1t happened that two bosom
friends whom Mr.. Sala for the present
DISCUSSES underline simple namesof "JimP
AM" Mose"-like the twoIeminent Boston
ians who are known in the "Ballo in
Maschera" as "sam" and "Tom"-had
listened with awe and amazement 10 Pro
lessor Hoshkosh's brilliant dissertation.
They were 80 much excited by 1t that
they went out at intervals TO ''see a man."
to whom, no doubt, they communicated
their qualification. Later in the evening
they continued to pay visits Of a similar
description; and at last the evidences Of
this proceeding had accumulated in q
substantial degree. These attached friends
"roomed" together; and, having made
their way to their hotel somewhat late,
they retired, after many mutual express
sions of endearment, to their beds for the
night.
Toward the morning "Jim" woke up
thirsty, and stretched forth his hand for
the ice-water pitcher. He then became
aware that "Mose" was in a paroxysm Of
bitter tears. .sWon the matter?" affec-
tionately inquired "Jim." "0h,n wasthe
biesl who writ them letters to Julius2
Wbydidn't he ownup?Whydidn'th he send
1t to the papers that he writ emp" And
Nose continued to weep and moan as one
who could not be comforted. But here, to
use the words Of Mr.. Sala, unable to en-
dure any longer the affiiction OF his friend,
the sympathetic Jim sprang from his
couch, and sitting by the side Of Moses
bed took his friends hand and wrung 1t
affectionately. Don't cry hoss, he said,
the tears running down his own brown
cheeks. Don't cry; 1 can't abear it. You
shall know all about il. I writ them let
tiers to Julius, and he answered every
darned one Of 'em, and left 'em down
stairs in the Office locked up in the fire.
proof SAFE"