Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1850-08-09
0theIIo ana Desde.nona.


Edinburgh, the lth Number Of the Foreign Quarterly Re
| view.
0thciIo and Desdemona.
The First District Court at New Orleans was
crowded on the lth instant to hear the decision
in the case of Blanc Jaubert, free man Of color.
called upon by writ Of habeaS corpus to produce
the person of Rebecca Bernstein, Young and
/ beautiful Polish grlo sixteen, whom it was al
legged he had inveigled away from her family.
Jaubert is a remarkably white quadroon with
nothing in his physiognomy to show that he is of
African descent, though the fact, we believe, is
clearly admitted. He is a man of large wealth :
but it is alleged, married.
After hearing testimony it was ordered accor-
ding to the SIS article Of the Code of Practice,
! that Blanc Jaubert be imprisoned until he pro-
duce the person of Rebecca Bernstein. This
had the desired effect, and the girl was brought
INTO Court and Jaubert released, An order was
made directing the surrender of the girl to her
| family.
While the Judge was directing this order to
be entered on the minutes, Rebecca manifested
her determination not to obey the order of the
Court by words and gestures to some Of her fam
lily who advanced towards her.
The Judge thereupon turned around, and look
ing sternly upon the girl, addressed her thus:
Rebecca bernstein, you must and shall obey
the order of this Court; you must not be pemit-
ed to throw yourself into the abyss of infamv
! that gasps before you. Go home to your family,
and resume the life of chaste and modest wo-
man
Rebecca arose and with great emphasis declar-
ed, 81 would sooner die than go home with
( them y
Judge Larue-You had better die than lead
the life you hove been leading for the past three
or four days The order of the Court Shall be O.
beyed at even sacrifice.
On this, Rebecca retired with the Sheriff. at
tended by her family. She was handed into a
carriage in which was Mr.. B.. Kowalesky her
guardian. The moment Rebecca ascertained
this, she raised a loud outcry, and attempted to
leave the vehicle, but the door was closed, the
driver on the box, and the girl taken away.
Thus terminated the scene but it did not close
the drama, which had still new and startling act
to be played. The girl being informed that her
apparently white lover was in part of African
blood, and moreover married, was melted to be
the instrument Of his assassination. She made
an appointment with him, and the rest of the
story is thus told:
"They proceeded TO the corner of Annuncia-
ton and Race streets, followed at short dis
lance by three friends Of the girl, who were there
to aid her in case of emergency. During the
walk Jaubert communicated the fact that he had
offered $1,000 TO an acquaintance, if he would
assist him in again taking her from the guardian. .
ship OF her family. While thus conversinp, Re-
becca suddenly threw off her bonnet, upbraided
him in violentterms for his infamous course, told
him that she was satisfied of the falsehood OF his
solemn oath that he was not of negro blood nor
married man and then with a motion too qnick
to allow his retreat, she drew a pistol from her
dress, presented it and fired, the ball penetrating
his cheek and shattering the teeth of his left jaw
| Jaubart staggered, but the desperate girl finding
her work bat partially done instantly drew ano-
Their pistol, and planting it directly in his face,
pulled the trigger. The weapon failed TO second
the intenton--it snapped, and her friends fearing
violence from Jauben, Immediately came up to
her aid One of them, pistol in hand, advanced
to the wounded man and offered fair combat,
bat Rebecca declaring that she would vindicate
her own cause, snatched the third weapon and
aqain ossayed to shoot the late companion of her
| flight Jaubert rotreated as the infuriated girl
advanced; and he owes his life to the fact that
she could not, with her ignorance of the weap-
on, discharge the load.
Jaubert refused to complain of the girl, ac-
knowledged that theirprevious relations had been
! purely innocent. Whereupon the girl departed
with character as good as new--n the estima-
ton OF the chivalry perhaps better.--AJbany At
las.
| ROMAN VILLA DISCOVERED. --There has been
discovered lately, by young Englishman, an
ancient villa, near Pau, in France, the greater
part of which has been eXcavated, and the whole
is to be, and then rooted in, to protect it from the
elements, so that it will remain probably, for hum
dreds of years as monument OF times and things
and persons long since passed away. This
! villa is perhaps, sixteen or seventeen hundred
years old, and might have remained tolerably
| perfect for some thousand more, had it not been
brought 10 light by human labor, stimulated by
human curiosity. tits large building, being
one hundred and twenty-three English feet in
length with good many large rooms, the floors
of which are all of mosaic, and nearly all in a
good state of preservation. OF these there are
enrravngs, in the London Illustrated News, of
| the l5th of June, and they are very curious and
beautiful, perfectly symmetrical and accurate,
and, at the same time, very elaborate. Human
labor must have been cheap in those days, we
! think In the center was the impluUiun, a kind
Of cistern for receiving aud holding water from
the roof. The floor of this Is very curious, the
mosaic work being wrought into the figures OF
fantastical looking fishes and sundry other queer
| looking figures, intended to represent some
kind of sheli-fish, probably, such rs it would not
now be easy to find out of that impluUiam.
THE QUICKSILVER MINES OF CALIFORNIA
The Baltimore Patriot mentions that company
has been organizedin that city, and that the stock
has nearly all been taken, to work one of the
quicksilver mines of California, which. according
to the authentic accounts which it says has been
| received from those who have made an eXamin-
alton of it, and whose scientific knowledge gives
authority to their opinion, are inexhaustible, and
must yield an unexampled profit. Some idea o.
the value of these quicksilver mines in California
may be formed from the following extract of a let
ter from Gov. Bennett, of California, which he
addressed to a friend in Washington
The quicksilver mine Of New Aimaden, with
inl2 miles of this place, is valued at several mil
lions Of dollars. In few days. Mr.. Forbes in
forms me, they have &c retorts in operation. ano
will extract s. 900 lbs. daily, worth from $4,000
TO S,O09-more than two millions annually
/ Only think of that This IS only one Of the sew
eraf mines. il is the largest