New-York tribune., 1890-01-27

bats on their circuits high the frescoed cell,
ings. Here are score or more OF paintings OI
Virgin and saints-Portuguese old masters con
denlned TO dust. darkness and oblivion III lAls
once prosperous town. The guide leads on
through empty halls to the deserted organ iol1
and refuses TO halt at the windows ana ,. oal.
comics where wide-ieaching and beautiful views
can be had. The keys are returned 10 their
place when the great doors have ceeh asaHl
locked, ana the cOnsecrated places ana memories
left 10 their congcnial darkness.
The cathedral in Pernambuco was throheeu
yesterday, q high mass being celebrated for the
late King of Portugal with pomp ana ceremony
hardly suited TO the altered political cOndlllohS
of Brazil. Perhaps it this ecclesiastical dem
onstration that insiigated certain displays OF lhe
military i'll streets, the soldiers uaICHius
through the streets with the conscious AR ol
patriots who had brought about one revolution,
and could do it again if they became dissatisfied
with the situation. Negroes were CARRYING mus
kcts behind the drum-cOrps Just as they were
officiating at the altar. Antlp9thleS oil race 90
not seem to exist in Brazil Full-Dlooded negroes
as we'll as mulattoes are 10 be found III Gov
ernment Offices conducting the details OF admin
istration: they hold clerkshfpS in the mercantile
houses and are as we'll dressed as the Portuguese
merchants; they officers III TIE army, ana
they wear the robes OF The priest ana Ihey arc
often physicians with white patients these are
the educated negroes and halt-casteS Removed
from them by the same barriers OF social exclusion
which separate the whites from the lowest blacks
are the lahOrng negroes, many Of them Scared
and tatooed like native Africans The educated
blacks and mulattocs. when they are able 10 dress
in European style like the Whites: are acccpteG p;ai
In Brazil by the governing race on terms OF social
equality. Both afinitics and antipathes OF race
are less potent than they are in America.
wedding celebrated in a Protestant chapel last
evening. The bride was tul-bloeded negro
dressed in white, with large pair of kld gloves
on her swarthy hands, and a bouquet OF prlsh'
flowers carried with no lack OF grace. The Drlde-
groom was attired in black with white gloves
and carried another bouquet. Three friends, less
deliberately dressed, accompanied them as VII
ltt,fr Wit
and another man reinforcing the bfue@rooh.
The minister performed the ceremony WIN
solennity in the presence of congregation OF
seventy-ive people of every shade OF color III,
cludin.r many whites When the pair had clasped
hands and promised to stand together until lie
end, the company pressed forward to oher con
gratulationS The bride was kissed by everybody
, black, brown maroon drah' pale gray ana nIF
white There were Portuguese ladies of irrcproach-
able social position, but they kissed the pride
twice on the mouth and congratulated the bride
groom with unaffected heartinesS
Among the races Of Latin blood ailinitics are
not 50 powerful 10 attract or repel as among races
Of Saxon, blood This is fact that is illustrated
in the radical difference between the social rela.
tions of blacks and whites in Brazil and In the
United States. Here the negroes are in the main
ignorant laZy superstitiouS and many OF them
not very far removed from the savage state,
but when they have been enabled to better their
position. TO acquire the rudlmcnts of education,
and to dress like the whites, they are received on
terms of equality There is no race antipathy
that shuts them out from social advancement.
Feelings of affinity do not operate here aS in
our Southern States TO keep the black man on an
inferior level above which he can never hope to
rise At the restaurants black and white are found
dining together on terms OF social int 'mocv. They
worship together in tlc same churches. hey are
found shopping torcthcr in the same drvgoods
stores or spcculoting tocc'hcr in the EXCHANGES.
They dress alkc-thc educated and wrli-fo-do-
and they live together. not as alien, bat oS con-
genial races There is no affinity among men
Of Portuguese blood Ike that potent bond which
draws together The whites of our own country and
rcpcls social intercourse with the blacks TINS
fact nav prove TO have considerable v9lue in de-
tcrminiug the future OF Brazil Race autipathlcS
caused by the presence Of several millions Of
cmancipated blacks are not likely TO sprlngt, mp
here J. y. :.