Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-11-21

was added the significant statement that
exchange was firm. Another dispatch,
which comes from the London and Bra
lillian Bank in Rio de Ja elro, declared
that the provisional government appeared
to have inspired confidence and thai pr.
feet quiet reigned."
In the light OF these and other tele.
grams bearing to days date, Minister
Yalente was positive that there was no
fighting in Brazil. The state department
is also without information leading to
the inference that there has been any
actual conflict between the monarchists
aad yevoluIoD:sts. Such dispatches as
have been received confirm the assertions
that the republic has been proclaimed
without bloodshed.
now NEWS IS SENT FROM BIO.
New YORK, Nov. l9.-phe cal advicsa
\ from Brazil to-day were as indefinite "a
at any time SINGS The revolution WIS frs
reported. Consul General Mendonca was
in Washington. Chancellor Redman was
the only official q. the consulate, and he
said that the consul. general when he left
was es much in the DARK as ever with re-
| gard TO the true character Of the uprising.
Mr.. Redman thought it was clear that
The reyolutionlsts were preventing the
sending out of any cable news not salts
I factory to themselves from lilo.
! "a message from that city" he said,
has two routes BY which ii may get to
this codntry. One is via Basnos Ayres,
across the Andes by lind, up the west
coast to the isthmus, and from Panama
via Galveston to New York. The other
is via Para or Pernam huoo to Lisbon by
cable, thence to Lordon, and then to
New York. But by either route no pc.
litical news can come IRON Rio de Janeiro
except with the permission of the men in
power there. And Hs for direct dispatches
from Para I suppose tine people in that
town know almost az little about the sit
nation as we do in New York. They, too,
get only such wire news as ia allowed to
be sent out from Flo. do not imagine
that commercial dispatches have been in
teEfered with"
PORTUGAL NAY FOLLOW BRAZIL,
LIsRoS, Nov. 19.-The Portuguese re-
publicans are greatly elated at the success
Of the republican coup d'etAt in Brazil
and there are mutterings OF distant
thunder which are beginning TO col 4 m
the belief, already expressed, that some-
thing OF the same nature may be at
tempted in this country. Portugal is
about ready for revolution, and, siusu-
larry enough, the conditions tor ii ere
very similar TO those which existed in
the South American empire q few days
ago.
Il is not possible, however, that the s.
tablishment OF republican form of gov
ernment could be effected 81 quietly and
suddenly in this small and thickly popu.
lated country, and considerable fsSs OK.
lists that bloody scene may be enacted
il the republicans make up their minds
to try to initiate the revoutioEists oil
Brazil.
The court is seriousy alarmed and the
cabinet Is much perplexed at he ap.
proaehing arrival OF Dom Pedro and his
family.
THE SOLE WESTERN MONARCHY,
Brazil, the only monarchy ia the Western
Hemisphere, occupies nearly two-h'ths 81
the south American continent and has, Gf'
ter Russia, tie most extreme contiguous
territory of any government on the globe
IL is bounded on the north by the United
States OF Colombia, Nene zuela, British
Dutch and French Guiana ard the Atlantic
ocean; on the east by the Atlantic. on tbs
south by Uruguay, the Argentine Republic
and paraguay. and on the west by Bolivia
Peru, Ecuador ald the United States OF Co
lombia. 1t thus borders upon all the South
American republics except Cnlli. The EN-
plre is divided into ~ PROVINCES. The tota
. population is something over 12,O00,0O0
, composed Of $3.50 per ceGt CGlea=iens
1854 Africans, 3.S6 indigenous and 3S7l
, hybrids (Mestisos, CaiI2os, &c.). As K
| nationality and religion, about So Pc
/ cent OF the tota! number OF tnhAoltauts srt
j Braztllau7 (ot all races ny BIRTH aud 10 pei
cent are roman Catholics. OF the wnite
OF foreign birth the Portuguese (abou
EtN To- ia.
! The slave population on september 3uth
! 1873, amounted to 1,5il $40. By enamel
pntions In the provinces, mApumlssion
, aud deaths the number was reduced u
about 100000 IN 1887. The Emperor. Don
Pedro IL was born In Rio Janslro, Decem
Der I'd, 1925. BY the abdicatlon OF hi
father, Dom Pedro IL he became sovereign
OF Brazil when not yet six years old. IL
had for two years, as tutor and sole regen
( Dom Bonafacio jose de Andradae Silva tn
/. leader Of the Democratic party IN Brazil
/. After the fall OF Andradge In 1888 Pedro be
!. hcame waEd OF council Of regency. Il
1870, though still undor age, he wa
a declared by the gambler TO hav
: attained his majority, assumed the govern
Il ment July 23i, aud on July 18Th, ISL, wa
/ solemnly crowned Emperor OF Brazil. o.
I September 4th, 1913 he married Princes
!. Theresa CaroiinG Maria do Bourbon
ii daughter OF Francis / King OF tho tW
nent Pedro dissolved the Brazilian pgrlia
ment, but Jbis measure accustomed II
Vulnerable difficulties. There were insul
rectious In Sac FRulo In 1871, which Ger
eral CaXlas reprcssed with vigor, but /
y 1872 the province .? Minas Gerats offered
more serious resistance until the insurgeL
!. army OF 6OO men YVES completely routed /
Santa Lucia. In 1873 the liberals mad
;. another attempt at revolution In Pernau
. baco, hE' since that time Biaz
= mas enjoyed Internal peace, an
. the Democrats had apparently aba
dOnei all hope OF f0menting NOR
Ie revolutionary movements. The emperC
% STEADILY Increased tho power OF Brazil, an
:, numerous Internal improvements were ca
j. ried on throughout the empire. Peir
Y, who Is a man o. literary and scientlf
81 achievements, developed the commerci
n prosperity OF the country, and foundt
10 schools, colleges and universities. Bait
a. more has large trade with Brazil vesse
s. from Baltimore taking Hour, lard and 9th
domestic products and bringing home ca
goes Of coffee, By decree Of Septemb
Attn, 1850, Pedro forbade the sale OF siay,
n In the interior OF his dominion, and thl
IN averted difficulties with Engapd. Ia ls
= heopenei the navigation OF 1.-THE Amazon riv
" to all nations. Under Pedro's impul
the parliament voted on august 27th, 1877
n a preliminary measure Tor the emAncip
at ton of the slaves. In 1876 he travelt
Though the United States, and his visit
M Wilmington, during which ne made a tot
% OF inspection among this leading industri
establishments, Is well remembered.
continued his travels through Europ
OF Egypt and the Holy Land. In 1887 he {
n out on new visit 10 Europe for the bene
70 OF his health, and during MS absence /
y. daughter Isabella was regent of the empii
M On May 18th, 1883, the final act aholishil