The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1889-12-21
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Az MO lne ilOIoh lay lOF TWO uhYh.
Though every thing appeared quiet
when she arrived there, Captain Her
ring and First officer Black, when they.
went on shore, heard many rumors
which indicated that the people had not
received the news of the revolution with
that degree of calmness that character
ized the actions of the inhabitants Of
Santos. One man, De Cana by name,
collector of customs at that port and
strong Imperialist, held on to the flag
of the empire and resented the removal
from his uniform of the buttons
stamped with the crown. Threats we're
OF no avail, and the collector locked
himself up in his house to escape the
wrath OF tho Republicans. Ten days
after thet5news of the deposing Of tho
Emperor had been made public, De
CANA submitted TO the demands OF the
new government, removed the objec-
tionable buttons and gave up the impe-
rial flag.
Captain Herring heard that during
one of the nights DE CANA was holding
out small party Of Republicans sur
rounded the house and tried to set fire
TO ii besides riddling its inmates with
bullets. De CANA was not deprived of
his Office. A number of men who held
Office under the Emperor were retained
in the same position by the republic.
On the second day of the revolution a
cipher dispatch was received at Rio an
nouncing an uprising NJ Bahia, one of the
northern provinces. 1t was said the dis
patch contained the information that a
fight had taken place between the
militia and a large mass of the people
who refused to believe the news, and that
nearly five hundred people had been
killed.
Captain Herring said that the gov
ernment at once stopped all cipher
telegraphic communication and placed
strict watch on all the ordinary mes
sages that we're sent on the wires. The
news of the uprising caused little OK
citement at Rio but it was afterward.
given out that there was no truth in the
report. Where the contradiction came
| from was not known to the officers ol
the Horox. They heard it talked OF by
the people at Rio.
THE Republicans left no stone un
turned to accomplish their purpose
So complete we're their arrangements
| that when the republic was announced
all of the imperial war vessels that fol
weeks had been lying in the harbor
were so fixed that it was impossible foi
them to participate in any uprising tina
might have possibly occurred. Th'
man-of-war Nitheroy had been place,
in dry dock several days before, ant
was half dismantled when the Repub
licans made their great move.
Besides Collector De Cana there wer'
several officers who refused to submit T.
the Republicans, but unlike De GAM
their fate is unknown.
Itwas on the first night Of the reyolu
tion that these naval officers, eight il
number, are said to have defed the au
thority Of the new government. Th
story goes that the men climbed on tn
Liverpool steamer Chatham, which la
at her dock, and, securing boat, rowe
out upon the harbor, bearing aloft a.
imperial flag. A party of Republican
gave chase in another boat, and som
shots were exchanged. The naval off
GERS we're captured and incarcerated i
a prison on one Of the small islands i
the harbor. None of the men had bee
seen up to the ting the Horox left Ric
and Captain Herring said that the ger
eral belief of the people was that the
had been secretly shot while in prison
as the noise Of the discharge of frearm
had been heard in the prison the mex
day by some people who we're near tn
spot. The Chatham, on which the naYs
officers are said to have climbed, be
longs to Thanepot & Holt, the same fri
that owns the Horox.