Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-17
THE BRAZILIAN INSURGENTS.
Russia VIII Not Recognize Them
Bloodshed IN Bahia.

The New York Htralds Berlin correspondent
says private telegram received there from st.
Petersburg reports that Russia has broken of
all diplomatic, relations with the Brazilian
minister, telling him the czar will never recog-
nize the present government Of Brazil
Private cable advices received Saturday in
New York and Baltimore from Brazil do not
give as hopeful forecast of political tranquil
ity in that country as was anticipated It was
intimated that the president Of the provincial
government is i'll and that financial circles are
agitated. 1t is announced from Lisbon that
Viscount de Ouro, Dom Pedros late prime
minister, has issued manifesto calling on the
Brazilian imperialists to vote for the imperial
candidates in the coming elections
The steamship HORROR, from Brazil, ar
rived In New York Saturday. She left
BIO de Janeiro on November %. Although
everything appeared quiet at Rio Capt. Hem
ming says he heard many rumors which
indicated that the news of the change Of gov
eminent had not been received with entire
degree OF calmness. On the second day of the
revolution cipher dispatch was received at
Rlo Janeiro announcing that there had been
an uprising at Bahia and that a fight had taken
place between the militia and the citizens and
nearly 500 people had been killed. Capt Hem
ming said that the government at once stopped
all cipher telegraphic communications and
placed strict watch on all ordinary messages
that were sent on the wires
The republicans left no stone unturned to
accomplish their purpose. So complete were
their arrangements that when the republic was
announced all of the imperial war vessels, that
for weeks had been lying in the harbor were
so liked that II was impossible for them to par
tlclpate In any uprising that might have posi-
bly, occurred The man-of-war Nitheroy had
been placed in a dry-dock several days before
and was partly dismantled when the republic
ans made their great move.
There were several naval officers who refused
TO submit to the republicans and their fate is
unknown. 1t was on the first niggt of the rev.
oiution that these officers. eight in number are
SAID to have dehed the authority of the govern
ment. The story goes that the men climbed on
the Liverpool steamer Chatham, which lay at
her dock, and, securing boat rowed out upon
The harbor bearing aloft an imperial flag. A
party OF republicans gave chase i'll another boat
and some shots were exchanged.
The naval officers were captured and incar-
cerated in the prison on one of the small
islands In the harbor. None of the men had
been seen up to the time the HORROR left Rio,
and Capt. Henning said that the general belief
OF the people was that they had been secretly
shot In PRISON, rs the noise of the discharge of
firearms had been heard in prison the next day
by some people who were near the spot
DOM PEDRO AFFLICTED WITH soFTENINd OF THE
BRAIN.
The NY. Times has a page-long letter
from A. NJ. Gibson at Rio. He says: Upon the
return OF the emperor from Europe his real
condition soon became generally known He was
afflicted with softening of the brain, and pare
sis was inevitable within a brief period. He
was vaguely aware Of the impending catas-
trophe, and with weakened faculties, conceived
the notion that the church would be at once
the bu!wark and the means of perpetuating his
dynasty i'll Brazil. Supposed to be, and be-
llevlng himself that he was. dying, when so i'll
Ill Europe, he began to recover from the time
he received the pope's blessing. 1t was re-
garded by his daughter as a miracle, and, weak
physically. disordered mentally, he gradually
came to believe that his life had been spared
for special purpose.