Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-27
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Conflicting Reports About
Affairs in Brazil.
NEWS FROM DIFFERENT SOURCES
Official Advices Assuring-Private
Dispatches Discouraging-Rub-
ber Men Alarmed

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD
WASHINGTON, December 26.-An Asso
ciated Press reporter who called at th
Brazilian Legation to inquire for new
concerning the fighting which was re
ported to have occurred at Rio d'
Janeiro, from the 18th to the 20sh inst.
found that the Minister had just re
ceived the following telegram from Ruy
Barboza, Minister of Finance under thu
new regime:
From cablegrams we learn unfor
tunately that there is no speculation from
newsmoDgers against us which is moi
credited in Europe, in spite of all oul
warnings against this sort of conspil acy
The report about the mutiny of the corps
of artillery is false. 1t was only mu.
tiny of few soldiers and
Immediately suppressed. This circum.
stance has increased confidence in the
Government, which shows itself strong,
and prepared with prompt and decisive
means to put down any disturbance oil
public order. The aggravation of General
Fonseca's illness is not true; on
the contrary, he is recovering speedily
from his former complaints. At any rate
the fate Of the revolution is now accepted
by the whole country, it does not de-.
pend on the contingency of one man g
lifey however precious it may be.
In the army itself the revolu-
ton can rely on other chiefs
Of great prestige, and no less
devotion to the cause. ALI the different
orfr rnu xrstL
thusiasm the time fixed-November Is,
lS9O-for the meeting of the Constituent
Assembly. They consider by this act
the stability of the republic insured"
RIO DE JANEIRo, December 26-The
government has issued decree that oil
persons found endeavoring to corrupt
the allegiance of the soldiers or contriv-
ing or proposing any measure for active
opposition to the republic, shall be
tried by military tribunal. An oppo.
sltion journal was suspended on Tues
day.
New YORK, December 26.-Private ca
bles received today by Charles R. Flint
from Brazil state that the situation there
is no better. and if anything worse. The
markets for exchange, both at Rio and
Para, are in very bad shape, while the
rubber market is liable to give out en-
tirely, as the supply now on hand will
only last two weeks.
New YORK, December 26 The steam
ship Sirius which left RIO Janeiro De-
cember 4th and arrived here today, re.
ports that several foreign war ships,
among them the United States steamer
Richmond had arrived in the harbor; that
quietness reigned in the city, but that a
riot had taken place in the Rio Grande
district, although no particulars could be
learned up to the time of sailing.
Captain Fisher. of the Sirius, was seen
by a reporter, and said: "When
we were at Rio rything WAS
quiet, business was going on as
usual, although banks were a bit
wary and drafts of over G100 would not
be honored. There was, however, an
undercurrent of discomfort manifested,
and 1 am not surprised to hear OF
an outbreak there since we left. There
is evidently a considerable number OF
people of the city who desire to see the
empire re-established. When we were
there this sentiment had not taken snaps
in any definite movement, but there were
mutterings of dissatisfaction heard. The
truth was that the banishment of Dom
Pedro and the proclamation of the re-
public were done with such suddenness
that the adherents of the empire had no
time to make any demonstration. I
look for trouble. not only in Rio, but
come. Those at the head of the new
movement have not pleasant prospect
before them by any means"