The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-22

partmenC, VINO Str0ve 70 gave his regency
his stead. But the people were weary Of
republicanism and wanted 8 ,mething even
more monarchical that Lima's regency.
There was an attempt to give the regency
into the hands OF the Princess Donna jan
| maria, then IN her eighteenth year, but it
was finally decided that an emperor of four
teen ought to govern as well as princess
OF eighteen, and so, after noisy discussion,
| bill was passed overlooking the age of the
emperor and declaring him to be imam
growed." The majority of Emperor Dom
Pedro II was proclaimed the sd day of
July, 1910. And thus the full hedged en-
peror began business as boy, but by no
means an incapable one.
Slavery was the first great subject to claim
| the attention of the youthful emperor. 1t
| was brought home to the country in an un-
of yellow fever on slave ships, the first that
was known of it in the country. Pablo
opinion was aroused and declared against
the traffic, and stringent laws were adopted,
and thus began movement which has never
ceased looking to the final abolition of
magnitude were started, and public educa-
| ton was given boom. Always liberal
spender he was not long in getting the
country into debt, and he has faithfully
kept it so ever since but he has given it
guild pro quo that was we'll worth the money.
L
helped to swell the Indebtedness. That
with Paraguay was specially heavy drain
upon the resources of Brazil both in life
and treasure.
In the year of the settlement of peace
with Paraguay, Dom Pedro had the salts
fected. A law was passed decreeing that
every child born of slave parents should be
free. He also proclaimed the freedom of
all slaves belonging to the state or the i'm
perial household and provided an emanci-
patton fund to be annually applied to the
| ransom of slaves owned by private individ-
uals. Ever since the emancipation of slaves
| has gone on rapidly, the slave owners them
selves in many instances helping it on. It
was thought once that an abolition of slave
labor would ruin the plantations, but the
emancipated negroes turned to and worked
| with will, thus encouraging the good
work begun in their behalf.
The emperor married sister of the king
OF Naples, a virtuOus and good tempered
| woman, with whom he lived most happily.
Both were beloved by their subjects, not
| only for their moral and Intellectual
| strength, but because of their affectiQnate
| regard for the welfare of all under them.
The Princess Isabelle was born them in 1916,
| and her son in 1875 They have no other
surviving offspring.
TREATED CoURTEoUsLY.
LONDON, Specialize duke Of Lemours,
| father of Count D'Eu, son-in-law of Dom
Pedro, the exiled emperor of Brazil, has
telegraphed to the queen at Balmoral that
the emperor and his family embarked at
Rio Janeiro without being subjected to any
disagreeable experiences. Dispatches re-
ceived here this afternoon from Rio
Janeiro reiterate the statement pre-
| viously telegraphed that the formation of
the republic met with no opposition. The
latest intelligence received at Rio Janeiro
indicated that Bahia and Pernambuco were
in state of tranquility. People everywhere
| are so much absorbed in the new order of
things politically that business is at COM
| plete standstill. Commercial dispatches
are forwarded from Brazil to foreign
countries without scrutiny or de-
lay. All dispatches, however, re-
lating to the political situation or
giving any information in regard to thenew
government have to be submitted to the
censor. The result of this is that the only
intelligence about the revolution which has
reached the outside world, except the very
meager facts that have got through in the
commercial kilograms in cipher, is that
which has met the approval of the govern
ment censorship. A dispatch has been re-
ceived at the Brazilian legation here in
London from DR.. Barboza, the mi nj ster
finance of the new government, directing
the Brazilian minister to notify the London
stock exchange that all financial engage
ment will be faithfully observed by the
republic. This dispatch, it is thought, will
have reassuring effect in commercial and
financial circles. Banks and private finan-
ciers holding Brazilian bonds have largely
refused to sell. This action has prevented
panic.
REPORTS CONFIRMED.
| WASHINGTON, Special.-Senor Valent, the
Brazilian minister, this evening received
| two dispatches from Rio de Janeiro fully
confirming and corroborating the news Of
the overthrow of Dom Pedro II. One of
| the dispatches came from Bocayura, the
| new minister of foreign affairs, and merely
announced the success of the revolution and
| organization of the provisional republican
government. The other from Minister OF
War Constant, announced the establishment
of the republican government, the forma-
| ton of the new cabinet and also that the
| dethroned emperor has been directed to
dispatches stated, was quiet and tranquil.
Senior Valento declined to state whether he
had been requested to resign or whether he
intended to resign merely stating
that his resignation was matter
for future consideration. Among navy
officers no surprise was expressed at the
news of the revolution. Commodore
Ramsay, chief of the bureau of navigation,
| said that twenty years ago, when he was in
Brazil, there was general feeling that
when Dom Pedro's reign ended repub-
lican form Of government would be in
stituted. Lieut.. Barry, who only recently
returned from Brazil, says that the change
which has come to pass was openly talked
among Brazilians as probable to occur, and
they expected it any time. To the people
been sudden.
NEWS AND COMMENTS.
COLOGNE Special.-The Cologne Gazette,
alludirg to the German interests in Brazil,
says: