Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-01-31
RIOS BLOODY STREETS.
An Account Of the Slaughter at
the Artillery Barracks.
Nearly Two Hundred Soldiers
Shot or Executed.

Advices received from Brazil lndi ate tina,
affairs in the new Republic are not progress
ing as Peaceably as has been supposed Rio
Janeiro has been converted into n military
garrison, and the whole country seems TO DO
practically under martial law. The severe
methods of the President General Foaseca.
and his Cabinet have apparently turned
many ardent supporters Of the PrOvj> lnnal
Government against II, and the ranks ~ the
lmperialists are largely augmented from this
cause.
The English steamer HALEY. which ar
rived at Brooklyn from Rio .IaneIro
brought full details regarding the revolt % the
Second Artillery regiment. in which nearly
two hundred men were killed. Captain Moore,
Of the steamer. did not 90 ashore durin- tire
vessels stay in port, but Chief Officer !
Rangdale spent several hours in the city and
learned all the details OF the trouble.
Prom what | understand, sall he the
trouble hal been brewing Tor some time.
When the new Government took charge II
promised To raise the pay Of tn" soldiers, hut
this was put off until the regiments brame
exasperated. Among the artillery ol'iorrS
were a number of sympathizers with Dom
Pedro who never lost an opportunity t.
malign the new Government aud inCltc the
9rivates 10 open rebellion. \ number If
small revolts resulted Even the news
papers although printing glowing accounts
OF the enthusiastic reception OF the new flag
in the various provinces, had begun iault
finding with the Government
This sort of thing continued until the
Second Artillery regiment with whom
Dom Pedro had been very popular,
broke out in open revolt. At about
seven o'clock in the evening they hauled
down the Republican fag and hplsted
the Imperial standard, at the same time firing
artillery salutes. Hastily summoninE his
Cabinet Fonseca inquired the meaning Of
the cannOnading and on being informed or
dered his officers to suppress il.
Two brigades of infantry were ordered
out and the barracks in which the rcbclious
troops were lodged was surrounded on all
sides. The streets leading TO the scene Of the
trouble were blocked with soldiers. The
doors of the barracks had been barrIcaded.
but were smashed down by the Republican
soldiers, and several volleys were poured
into the ranks of the insurgents with terrible
results
The artilerymen made some show of
fighting, AMI ten of the Republican soldiers
we're killed 1t took nearly two hours to
stopped ia men and two officers were found
to have been killed. All of the officers and
ringleaders, together with a number Of citi-
Zens who had joined them, were arrested,
and the remainder of the regiment was put
under guard. Those arrested were tried by
court martial two days later, and fifty men
and seven officers were executed. There
were eight citizens who joined in the upris-
ing. Ihey were placed on the German
steamer Lisbon and sent to Hamburg, with
Instructions not to return. Since this took
place everything has been quiet, but think
more trouble will break out at the first
chance the soldiers get. Everything is ruled
by the army, and the people arc getting tired
of it"
Captain Moore stated that an ominous
quiet prevailed during the time he remained
in port. He could see no change in the state
of business since the Provisional Government
was established except that there appeared
to be a shortness of laborers. He could not
account for this. Little was said in the news
papers regarding the uprising, and it was
treated simply as revolt by drunken
soldiers. The papers continue to print de
spatches from the colonies telling about the
Government but nine-tenths Of these de-
spatches are written by Republicans, and all
are sent over telegraph wires controlled by
the Government.