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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 435, 8 January 1890, Page 6

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AMERICAN SUMMARYSan Francisco, December 14th. Much rain had fallen in California, and at the time the steamer left for Sydney, reports were coming in that bad breaks had occurred in the levie, in various places, in the Sacramento River. The upper portion of the valley was submerged, thousands of acres of wheat washed out and destroyed, bridges carried away, and an immense amount of damage done, not ony in the upper part of the State, but also in the southern counties. A number of streets in Los Angelos were impassable. The Duke of Connaught will arrive at Vancouver from Japan about the middle of May, and make a tour of the principal American cities, paying particular attention to the manufacturing and mineral sections, besides observing the American system of railroad management. He will spend a month in Canada before embarking for Horae. . The largest strike known in the leather manufacturing business of the United States took place in Woburn, Mass., December 11th. Twenty shops were closed, and 2.000 men out of work. The strike was owing to a wage cut of 50 cents per day by the manufacturers. Ku-Klux organisations are springing up in the new territory of Oklahoma, the object being to protect settlers against claim jumpers and black-mailing lawyers. Houses were being burned and people killed. The Cronin trial in Chicago lias ended, and the jury was locked up for deliberation on December 13th. It is rumoured that eleven favour conviction and the death sentence for Coughlin, Rurke, and O Sullivan ; one favours acquittal. During a performance at the Johnstown (Pa.) theatre, December 10th, a terrible panic was caused by an unfounded alarm of lire, and twelve people were trampled to death in the efforts of the audience to escape from supposed danger. Johnstown is the place where the late destructive inundation occurred. An English syndicate, with $15,000,000 capital, is about to develop the tin mines in the United States. The company already owns 600 mining claims in the Black Hills. Seven thousand five hundred women voted in Boston, December 10th, for the school committee, under the Australian ballot system. They voted intelligently and quietly. Mrs President Harrison has been formally censured by the Women’s Christian Temperance Union for serving the PanAmerican delegates with whisky punch on their visit to the White House. Ex-Governor Cleveland made an admirable address at merchants’ banquet, Boston, December 12th, on “ ballot reform,” and was much applauded. Dave Dillon, the once famous oarsman, and former Australian champion sculler, was swept out to sea from Now York harbour on December 11th, and has not been seen since.

In the case of a contested election in the town of Holyoke, Colorado, a gang of masked rulhans seized the attorneys for ! the contestants before daylight on Sunday morning,December Bth, and beat them half to death. Sheriff Wither bee, against whom the contest is pending, is accused of leading the assailants, who are called “ White Caps,” from their disguise. The female convicts in the Kansas [State Prison at Leavenworth revolted on Sunday, the Bth, and killed the superintendent by splitting his skull with hatchets which some of them had managed to secure. Another electric-light lineman, Peter Clansen, was burned to death in midair, December 9th, in New York. Some children, playing on the pavement below, heard a sizzling noise, looked up, and saw smoke rising from Clansen’s body in a network of v wires. The corpse was frightfully disfigured. The Chicago Auditorium, the largest theatre in the United States, was dedicated by President Harrison and a number of the leading men of the country, on December the Bth. More than a thousand persons were prosent. The dedicatory services were rendered notable by Adelina Patti singing “ Home, Sweet Home, and the rendering of the “ Hallelujah Chorus ” by an immense number of choristers. Sutter’s Port, near Sacramento, the earliest landmark of the American occupation of California, has, with a breadth of surrounding land, been purchased order of the native sons of the Golden West. The fort will be preserved in the midst of a park. It narrowly escaped destruction at the hands of real estate agents. The Erie County Athletic Club, of Buffalo, N.Y., have offered $30,000 for a glove fight between John L. Sullivan and Peter Jackson. The Sporting Club of Graceville, Min., have sent an offer of $45,000. An English syndicate completed (December Bth)”the purchase of 64,000 acres of mineral land in Segumachee Valley, , Tennessee, for $225,000, organised a town company with a cash capital of $4,000,000, and will build the town of Kimball. I Lively pistol-shooting took place in a court at Marshall, Texas, on December 6th, during the trial of the Keller divorce suit. The row began by State Senator W. H. Pope, attorney for the defence, hurling a cane at the defendant, .Judge Keller, If who opened fire. Weathersby, Keller’s relative, also made Pope a target, and then the shooting became general. Major Turner was hit in the abdomen, Pope in arm, his brother Alexander in the bowels and killed. Several arrests were made, as .usual. , . Two thousand five hundred people in .'Miner County, in the newJy-admibted State -of South Dakota, are depending on charity .•to survive the winter. In Bottineau County, .same State, the settlors are subsisting upon •bran and shorts.

A. H. Schallenberg, of the Milwaukee School Board, blew out his brains on December 7th. He was short in his funds several thousand dollars. On December 6th, Senator Hale introduced a Bill for the relief of the sufferers by the wreck of the U.S. ships of war in the harbour of Apia, Samoa, last March ; the compensation, in no case to exceed the amount of 12 months’ sea pay of the grade occupied by each sufferer. The Monongahela Hou3e, Pittsburg, made famous by Dickens in hi 3 “ American Notes,” pronouncing it the model hotel of the West, was burned to the ground on December sth. All the guests escaped ; there were 20C in the house at the time. The only accident was the falling of a fireman from the top of the building. He was fatally injured. The New York “Times’ of December stli, says English capital amounting to £20,000,000 is about to be invested in the United States in a single enterprise. The project is intended to embrace a variety of purposes, chief of these being to provide credit for new American railroad schemes. It will be what is technically known as a “ financiering” company acting upon the principles and along the lines long recognised in the English financial world. It will bo an insurance company, and its “ risks” will be railway mortgages. It will also be a guarantee company and will endorse railway credit. A Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church, at Brooklyn, December 2nd, and one assembled at Buffalo, N.Y., some date, have resolved to revise Calvin’s Creed —the first by a vote of 48 to 30, and the second by 21 to 12. Secretary Blaine received a long letter from the Chinese Minister at Washington, December 2nd, protesting on behalf of his country against the law which restricts certain of his countrymen from coming to the United States. He says it is nob right treatment to accord to a friendly nation, especially when citizens of the United Statos are freely allowed to enter China, and engage in any business. Therefore he wants the law repealed. The public debt statement of the United Statesshows a reduction of nearly $5,000,000 for the month of November. The receipts bv the Government from all sources during that month were $30,716,967 13 cents, and the expenditure $25,344,758 10 cents, of which eleven millions was devoted to pensions. George Brougham, one of Chicago s prominent meat packers, has disposed of all his interests in that city and will go to Buenos Ayres in the employ of an English syndicate, there to establish a monster meatpacking and beef-extract concern to compete with Liebig’s enormous works in the Argentine Republic. English capitalists have bought all the Yan iDusen and Star system of grain elevators, with a capacity of 5,000,000 bushels, in Minneapolis, and secured options on other properties. On November 28th, the Driggsville-Schweder gun was purchased by the British Government for £600,000. Oarsman Teemer will sail from San Francisco for Australia on the boat of January 14th. He proposes to row Beach and all comers.

An English syndicate completed the purchase of the six New Orleans breweries on November 30bh, at priees ranging from $300,000 to $750,000. A cyclone in Buford County, North Carolina, November 29th, blew down houses and tore up trees by the roots. A farmer in Washington and his entire family of wife and four children were instantly killed and the house demolished. A factory near Washington was blown down, and two killed by falling timbers. More will die. Mattie C. Levy, a girl, was caught in the fury of the cyclone and carried high in the air. Four children of Hugh Dunn, a wealthy mine owner of Elliottsville, West Virginia, were blown to pieces November 29bh, by the explosion of a keg of gunpowder with which they were playing, and which they had found in a mining shaft. The mother became insane when she heard the terrible news. The captain and mate of the ship Southern Cross from China at New York were arrested at the latter port, November 29th, for the murder of a Chinaman on board on the voyage out. The evidence showed the man had become crazed for want of opium, and was running a-muck. His death was a necessity. ThebarqueGermania.fromStettinforNew York, beached and went to pieces off the the West End Hotel at Long Branch, N.J., during a gale on the night of November 27th. ° Eleven out of her crew of fifteen were drowned, including Captain Wiudthorst. During the same gale a barge sank off Seabright, N.J., and all on board perished. Four bodies were washed ashore from the wreck at Long Branch on November 29ch. It is calculated by experts that the United States is losing over 1,000,000 annually in revenue on the prepared opium being smuggled into the country from British Columbia.

A showman named 11. P. Sartille, at a performance given in Worcester, November 29th, instructed a spectator bo discharge a gun he (Sartille) had himself loaded at his head. The spectator did so, and Sartille fell dead with a ball through his brain. It is said he had selected this method of getting rid of his life. The United States “squadron of evolution ” consisting of the new steel cruisers Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, and Yorktown, sailed from Sandy Hook, lower New York harbour, on Thursday, November 21st. This expedition is called a “ fancy cruise,” and is undertaken as a show off of the new American navy before the maritime nations of the world. Admiral John Walker, who has been on shore duty for the last eighteen years, commands the squadron. The British steamer Santiago was burned in mid-ocean, November 17th. Captain Colcord, of the German tramp steamer, Energie, that brought the news to New York, says when he encountered the Santiago, she was blazing from stem to stern, with her two masts gone by the board. The cargo consisted of over 2,000 bales cotton, corn, and other produce. Ship A. J. Puller and the Energie rescued the crew. Several of the officers and men were partly blinded by their fight with the fire, the third mate totally so. The vessel was valued at $350,000 ; the cargo at $535,000. Mrs Delia Parnell, mother of the Irish agitator, now living in destitute circumstances in Trenton, N. J., attributes her condition to prominent land, leaguers who took pains to deny that she was in need. She declares her son Charles has nob a dollar, having given everything he owned to the cause of Ireland.

The latest sensational shooting in New York occurred at Fulton Ferry, November 22nd, when Stephen L. Pettus, of the brokerage firm of Pollard, Pettus. and Co., and Secretary of the Brooklyn Elevated Railroad Company, was shot five times, thrice in the back and twice in the neck, by Mrs Hannah Southworth. He died instantly and without uttering a word. Mrs Southworth, when taken to gaol, said she had shot Pettus because he had dishonoured her. She had repeatedly threatened his life, and had brought puib against him for SIOO,OOO alleging betrayal. The woman is a widow,

a handsome brunette, accomplished, and of good family. Fettus, who was married, but without childien, talked freely and disparagingly about Mrs Southworth, notwithstanding her threat. R. H. Payne, a loading citizen of St. Louis, Mo., blew out his brains, November 21sb, in Jersey City, after squandering in speculation an estate of which he was executor, valued at SIOO,OOO. The estate belonged to his widowed sister-in-law. The city of Indianapolis, Indiana, is reported overrun by footpads and daring thieves, and the police are powerless. Officers are sand-bagged on their beats, and burglars lunch leisurely in the houses they despoil before leaving. This state of things is due to jealousy in the police force.

In Detroit, Michigan, Alderman Jacob, President of the City Council, and Aidermen Tierney, Burt, and Martz, have been indicted for soliciting bribes and general official corruption. THE WOOL MARKET. Despatches from Boston December 2nd say that while there has been no tangible improvement in the situation of the wool market, there is clearly discernible a much stronger and more hopeful feeling among dealers. Wool has been bought in larger quantities than noticeable for many weeks. The American “ Wool Reporter,” of the sth, says the confirmed report of a ten per cent. advance in London on sales of all wools suited to American manufacturers has added strength to the Boston market, affecting fine delaines and combings especially. The general opinion now is that prices have touched bottom. This is made more assured by the existing stringent money market. Ohio fine fleeces have strengthened with an advance in Australian merino. Pulled wools are doing fairly well. The large fire in Boston so exhausted the manufactured stock that there is great demand for lambs' pulled. The new full clip is arriving freely, but the prices are above the manufacturers’ pockets. A TERRIBLE AFFAIR. The “Tribune” building, Minneapolis, Minn., was destroyed by fire on the night of November 30th. Fifty editors, printers, and others, employed on the top floor, were apparently shut off from all avenue of escape, and the wildest excitement prevailed. The fire started about 10.30 in a pile of paper on the third floor, and the flames immediately enveloped the elevator shaft, and closed all mode of egress for sixty or more men employed on the seventh floor. The building was eight storeys high, standing on Fourth-street, near First Avenue. It had but one stairway, a winding affair, and one elevator, which proved the means of its speedy destruction. The St. Paul “ Pioneer Press ” had a branch office, employing five men, in the sixth storey. There were about one hundred men in all employed in the top floors, and of these eight are known to be killed. Several tried crossing to another building hand over hand on telegraph wires, but their strength failed; they managed to get a distance of say twenty feet, and then dropped to the ground to meet instant death. Others jumped or fell from the window ledges. One man shot himself when he found there was no chance to escape. Before a stream from the engines reached the upper floors, the windows were full of men shrieking for help in a way that was heartrending. The street was a mass of human beings Dowerless to aid. When the ladders were brought, the work of rescue began quickly. Some got away, with severe burning, by the fire escapes and stairway; many more by tho ladders. Half a dozen jumped, several were crushed. Seven bodies at the morgue have been respectively identified as Milton Pickett, assistant city editor “Pioneer Press;” James F. Igoe, telegraph operator; W alter E. Miles, assistant press agent; W. H. Millman, commercial editor “Tribune;” Jerry Jenkinson, compositor ; Robert McCutcheon, compositor ; and Professor Edward Oleson, of Vermillion, Dakota, who happened to be making a business call on the editor of the “Tribune.” The entire plant _of the “Tribune,” valued at $100;000, is gone. The losses by other occupants of the building will swell the total to $150,000. An abhorrent sequel to this fire is that Charles S. Ostrom, cashier of the Minneapolis Department of the St. Paul “ Pioneer Press,” located in the Tribune building, is arrested for arson in the case. He had, according to his own confession, embezzled $*2,200 of the “Pioneer Press” money, which he had lost in gambling. His books were left out of the safe on the night of the fire, as if he intended by the destruction of life and property to prevent his shortage being detected by their being consumed at the same time. Ostrom, however, only confesses the money deficit ; he denies tho arson.

THE PRICE OF SENSATIONALISM. 0. S. King, editor of the “ Daily Union,” Ogden, was shot and killed on November 30th by ex-Deputy Marshal E. W. Exum. The shooting was the result of a villainous article published in the “ Union,” November 26bh, reflecting upon Exum and his lately-married wife, both prominent and highly-respected people. Exum fired four shots at King. This same editor published a paper in Ogden seven years ago, called the “ Daily Rustler,” and was quietly tarred and feathered by some prominent citizens for an offence similar to that for which he has now been killed. He then went to Tintia, Utah, and there came to grief also ; he was driven out of town. He began publishing the “Union” in Ogden last spring, and relied principally upon reckless sensationalism to make his paper sell. Exum is under arrest, but has the sympathy of the community. FIRE IN LYNN. Lynn, Massachusetts, the great shoemanufacturing centre of the United States, was almost entirely swept away by fire, November 26th. The burnt district covers fully fifty acres, and extends twothirds of a mile in length, and one-third in breadth. The factories destroyed were the finest in the country. This is the most extensive fire in New England, excepting the Boston fire of 1872 and the Portland fire of 1866. The flames did nob reach the portion of the city containing the handsomest residence houses. , A close estimate places the loss as high as eight or ten millions of dollars. The most deplorable feature of the catastrophe is that over 20,000 people have been deprived : of employment almost in midwinter. EXTENSIVE FIRE IN BOSTOJM. Thanksgiving Day, November 28th* brought the city of Boston its most distressing conflagration since 1872. It started at 8.15 o’clock a. m., in, the big six-storey brown-stone building 69 and 71 Kingstonstreet, occupied by Brown, Darrell and Co., the largest wholesale dry:goods house in Boston; the cause, a badly- insulated electric light wire. ■ The building became ashes in a few minutes. The area burned out comprises all the block bounded by Kingston, Bedford, and Chauncey-streets. one half of that bounded by. Kingston, Bedford . and .Columbia, while the streets leading off from Bedford and Cbauncey are burned oub’on the corners adjacent to the fire. The record of destruction is:—ls line, brick, granite and sandstone blocks

destroyed beyond repair; half-a-dozen structures top storeys gone. A fair estimate places the damage at not over $4,000,000, and the insurance at $3,500,000. The majority of the burned-out merchants have arranged to resume business at once. Tbe State Insurance Commissioner thinks it improbable that any insurance company will bo compelled to succumb under the combined disasters at Lynn and Boston, except perhaps one or two of the smaller concerns. The largest bankers anticipated no financial disaster.

Four firemen were buried in the ruins, and their bodies had not been recovered. PAN-AMERICAN CONGRESS. This meeting of delegates from the different north and south and central American republics, got down to work in Washing, November 19th. They had previously been junketing at the expense of the U.S. Government all over the country, for the ostensible reason of making themselves acquainted with North American methods. Dr. Gazman, of Nicaragua, and Dr. Zegarra, of Peru, were elected temporary secretaries and interpreters. Tho Committee on Rules ran against an obstruction at once, as some of the delegates thought many of the regulations were arbitrary and conflicting, and a long discussion ensued. On the 21st the Brazilian delegates announced that they had been recommissioned by their Government —now a republic—to resume their duties in the Conference. A resolution, offered by ex-Senator Henderson, of Missouri, that “ This Conference welcomes the United States of Brazil to the sisterhood of American Republics,” was received with marked feelings of disapproval, and many members did not hesitate to pronounce the proposition injudicious at present. After a lengthy and somewhat acrimonious discussion, a motion to table the resolution prevailed with only two dissenting votes the representatives of Venezuela and Uruguay. CANADA. The failure of the Palson Ironworks Company, of Toronto, on November 18th, created a good deal of surprise. The liabilities are about $300,000. Leading Mormons from Salt Lake recently visited the Mormon settlement near McLeod, Winnipeg. They were much pleased with the Northwest, and say there will be a large emigration there next year from Utah. A large fleet of American seiners is reported on the coast of Halifax and New Brunswick, and an additional armed cruiser has been despatched to watch them. More trouble expected. The Dominion Government has awarded subsidies for ’steamship services to Jamaica and Demarara.

British Columbian salmon packers favour unrestricted Chinese immigration. They represent that the industry is threatened with destruction unless this class of labour is secured. The Government will also be asked to remove the duty on mining machinery. A deputation arrived in Ottawa, November 25th, to represent these facts. They further stated that the tariff had diverted millions of capital from the province of British Columbia. Sir John Macdonald resigned the Presidency of the Council, November 23rd, and took the portfolio of Railways and Canals. C. C. Colby, deputy-Speaker of the Commons, succeeded him. Parliament will be asked next year to enact laws against polygamy, be,cause of the Mormon influx in the North-west territory. The Mormons are swarming in Canada. The church has purchased 20,000 acres for $40,000 in one block, at St. Mary’s, seven miles from the present Mormon settlement at Cardstoun, where a second colony from Utah will be established, minus polygamy, which President Woodruff assured Allen, Collector of Customs at Fort McLeod, N.W. Territory, would not be practised. There was much stone-throwing at the procession which escorted Archbishop Walsh on his return to Toronto on November 28th. Near St. Michael’s Cathedral a stone went through the Bishop’s carriage and struck him on the arm, causing a severe bruise. The Dominion Government insist that the Alaskan boundary, as defined by England and Russia, shall remain the boundary between Canada and the United States. The new Siberian railroad will connect with the Canadian Pacific steamers.

Heartrending tales of destitution and suffering among the fishermen of Labrador had reached Ottawa, November 29th. Near Point Esquimaux entire families are on the verge of starvation, and are subsisting on the flesh of dogs. At a number of fishing stations, anticipating a scarcity of food, fishermen saved the refuse from the fish and salted it. This will bo used to sustain life. Fishermen were lelt without means to buy food. At the execution of Harvey, a wife murderer, at Guelph, Ontario, November 29bh, the operation was so mismanaged that the knot slipped, and the man was tortured for fifteen minutes before death. His struggles were heard outside the gaolyard. A sensation has been caused in Quebec and Canada generally by Premier Mercier’s declamations about the agitation in Manitoba and the Northwest for the abolition of French as the official language, and about that in Ontario for the abolition of French and separate schools. Four of the leading French Canadian papers came out simultaneously (November 21st) in favour of a republic. The “Herald" (English), of Montreal, also said, at the same date : “lb is nearly time that Canada busied herself about her own independence." , The International Chess Tourney, sixty players a-side, between Canada and the United States, conducted by correspondence, was decided, December 12th, in favour of the Americans—3li to 19i games.

A heavy storm prevailed in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on November 29th, and also at Cape BretoD, N.S. Many vessels were lost with their crews, persons were found frozen to death in snowdrifts, and'the 130foot tower of the Quebec Electric Light Company was blown down ; the city remained in darkness for a week, A despatch from Winnipeg, December 2nd, says there is great destitution among the Scotch crofters at Saltcoats, and the Government has been petitioned to make provision for thorn. It is stated that negotiations betw.een England and the United States affecting Canada have down to a correspondence in regard to the Behring Sea and Alaska boundary question. Hopes are entertained that a satisfactory settlement will be effected before next season. Halifax, Nova Scotia, was never so completely fortified as at present. The work is so extensive as to give the impression that Great Britain expects a war in which Halifax is to play an important part. UNITED STATES OF BRAZIL,J as the new Republic on the East Coast of South America is called, has not asked recognition from the United States ot America or the other powers of the world. Dr, Valmente, the Brazilian Minister at Washington, believes that such a request will not be made immediately, bub that the new Government will wait a reasonable length of time in order • to satisfy the world of its stability before seeking formal recognition. In his view, a constitutional convention must be as-

sembled in Brazil at the earliest possible moment. The Minister also looks forward to an extension of the right of suffrage by this convention.

A despatch from Ilio mentions that among the chief causes of the revolt were the measures taken by the Imperial Prime Minister, which aggravated the army. The police received better weapons than the soldiers. It is asserted that the Minister of Marine was a martinet, and special animosity against him led to the attempt to kill him. This was the situation, and Fonseca and the other generals took advantage of it, and the revolution for establishing a republic resulted. Dom Pedro was, however, it is said, a prime mover in his own deposition. He endeavoured to resist his son-in-law’s hostility to the anti-clerical party and had other reasons to be dissatisfied with him. He was not ignorant of the popular movement, and felt that if he should outlive the Republican advance his daughter would be able to cope with it, more particularly under the guidance of her husband. Therefore he anticipated it, and thus saved bloodshed. The Brazilian navy recognised the Republic on the 21st November. A decree was issued, on the same date, declaring universal suffrage in Brazil, to take effect at the next general election. The Lisbon newspapers are of opinion that one cause of Dom Pedro's fall was disgust of the army at his habitual and unconcealed distrust of their loyalty. Another was jealousy of clerical influence at court. Subsequent despatches from Rio, November 22nd, xeport all quiet with the exception of some desultory fighting in Bahia and Maranhao, where six were killed and seven wounded. Brazilians who still retain allegiance to the Emperor expect that Soldhana Marino, the well-known patriotic Bahian, will be elected President, and that the Republic will be of short duration. The leaders of the Provisional Government are of opinion that the Constitutional Assembly will adopt, with some modifications, the Constitution of the United States. Several leading Powers, in addition to France and Italy, have sent warships to Brazil. Dom Pedro was ill when he left Brazil, and was accompanied by a physician. The Provisional Government has given orders that another steamer than the Alagoas—which must return to Rio immediately—be chartered to convey the ex-Emperor whithersoever he may wish to go. The new Brazilian Republic has finally adopted the old flag, and this conclusion has given rise to some irritation. France had recognised the Republic. Senhor Barboza, the Minister of Finance, has convened a meeting of bankers and brokers with a view to considering plans for rendering assistance in commercial transactions when necessary. The ex-Emperor arrived at St, Vincent on November 30th, and left for Lisbon on the following day. He declined interviews while at St. Vincent.

The Due de Nemours is anxious to put the Orleans family in power in Brazil, should it prove possible to re-establish the Empire there. If his advice is followed, Dom Pedro will issue a manifesto as if still Emperor, abdicating the throne of Brazil in favour of the Comtesse d’Eu, his daughter. She will in turn resign her and her husband’s claim to the throne in favour of her son, Pedro, who will assume the title of Emperor Dom Pedro 111, ARRIVAL AT LISBON. The ex-Imp6rial party arrived at Lisbon, December 7th, the steamship Alagoas flying the old Brazilian flag. They were met on the steamer before landing by King Carlos, who extended to Dom Pedro and the rest a warm welcome. The ex-Emperor looked well. Interviews with members of the party substantiated the main facts of the revolution, with some trifling difference in details. The Emperor, after consulting his friends, decided to agree to the demands of the Republicans. His departure from Rio was in the middle of the night, and attended with some suffering to the Empress, who was agitated, and wept continually. Her hands and wrists were hurt while she was being hauled aboard the steamer Alagoas. The family suffered much from lack of food.

The Emperor will not issue a manifesto. He does not think the Brazilian people have reached anything like the stage of civilisation required to fit them for an absolutely free government. It is absurd to draw any analogy between them and the people of the United States. The Provisional Government is at best an experiment, and will end in disappointment, He will return to Brazil if the people call him. The Emperor has finally decided to pass the winter at the villa of Uuchesse de la Tour Manburn, at Cannes. A cable to the New York “ World,” from Para, is to the effect that the indications are the present Government will soon be threatened. The candidates who stand best for election as President are Senators Seraiva and Dantas. Both are Monarchists, and no Republican candidate has been settled upon. There is much disaffection between army and navy officers at Para. A telegram from Lisbon, December 11th, states that the ex-Empress’ jewels were stolen at Rio. They included the finest Brazilian diamonds in the world. Dom Pedro has engaged rooms at the Hotel Beau Sejour, Cannes. He will refuse to abdicate in favour of his grandson,