The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-09-24
Correspondents of the London Starry
BELFAST, ireland, August 8

BELFAST, Ireland, August Is. I
! write in the midst of tumult aud anx-
iety unparalleled in Belfast since the famous
Hanna riots put the whole province and
half the country ia confusion. People are
busy closing their shops groups of men
are gathering around the corners, discuss
ing in earnest whispers the events that the
night is likely to bring forth. and to which,
in all probability, they intend to contribute.
! The police, to the number of several hun
! bred, have been drafted into town from
Dublin AID other peaceable quarters of the
| kingdom, and are being marched of to the
different stations, of which they a,e to keep
watch and ward, and the commercial CAPT
tal of Ireland is somewhat in the condition
of besieged town. The houses in several
of the streets wear most fearful aspect
The windows are shattered into fragments,
the broken glass is strewn on the pavements
and streets, aud side by side with %lese de,
! 6ris lie the rough stones aud bats with
which the ruin was accomplished. There
is hardly an intact pane of glass in the Ro-
man Catholic Penitentiary, which is under
the care of nuns belonging to the order of
the Sisters of Mercy. The dwelling of the
Roman Catholic (Coadjutor) Bishop. Dr..
Dorian. presents quite a diapidated ap-
pearance. The Presbyterian meeting house
in which DR.. Cooke ministers is thorough
| ly ventilated, and even some of the large
warehouses have not escaped the danger
which befell more obnoxious buildings.
The O'Connell monument was made the
pretext for an external and internal activity
in the lodges that (oreboded nothing good
The Orange press (for this confederation
has its press, its magistrates aud its mem
bers of Parliament, "a we'll as It's Grand
Master, Masters and Tglers) went to work
with vengeance. One loyal paper in par.
ticular made itself remarkable By its de-
nunciations of the ''Popish" policy of the
! Government bswailed the sad condition
OF the Orangemen, who are deprived by an
act of Parliament, which they did not obey,
of the privilege of iudulging in their annu.
al saturnalia, Of shooting down some half
dozen of Romanists as peace Offering to
the names of the cOnquerOrs. The result
is all that the abettors Of Orangemen could
wish for. On the Oh of August the Iodg-
es turned out, according to their organ, the
News Letter, to the tune Of 40, 900 men.
They had an tlfgy of O'Connell in their
midst, and when the train bearing the ex.
cursionis:s, who had gone TO Dublin to hon j.
or the Tribune, entered the station, they set
fire to tie rude image, and amid hoWiings
and excavations, reduced it to cinders. The
most remarkable part OF this nights pro-
ceedings was the presence of one of the
head corstables of the local police in the
midst of the disoFderly crowd. On the
following night the $40, 900" assembled in
the same spot, and proceeded to enact diff
lerent and more disgusting scene. They
carried large coffin of rude structure, 10
which they placed the ashes of the effigy
consumed on Tue previous night.
II is now "A well-known fact that the To-
cal police side with the Orangemen on the
occasion of an inquiry held here some years
ago some Of the force pleaded guilty to the
impeachment. Under such circumstances.
II is not difficult to understand how one
party is rendered wild with excitement ard
tancied security, while the other is goaded
into madness and desperation. But there
IS another feature of tie rioting that it is
yet to be described. When evening sets
in, wild and reckless body of half-naked
scamps sally forth from their respective
quarters and commence an onslaught on
the windows of all who are obnoxious to
them. The Orangemen assaied the houses
Of Catholics. The Catholic mob retaliate
on the hoxses of Protestants. In this
senseless raid the places of religious wor.
ship are singled out with remarkable fury,
aud the churches of each sect receive equal
attention. Imagine these scenes repeated
each night, and you can form notion oil
the present state of things in the Athens
vf Ireland.