The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-08-22
RIOTS IN IRELAND.

THE CATHOLICS AND THE oRANGE2EN.
A special dispatch from London dated
Aug. goth says that the Irish riots in Bel.
fast continue with undated fury, and the
city is at the mercy of the bloodthirsty
mob. Martial law has been declared.
Fearing repetition of the terrible scenes
Of '66, all places of business were closed
at noon. A regular panic prevails, and
many respectable people have fed from
the city. Orangemen in bodies of three
and four hundred issue from their head
quarters in Sandyrow and rush through
the principal streets like demons firing in
all directions. It is apprenendei that
they will attempt to demolish several Ro-
man Catholic institutions, and large re.
Inducements of constabulary have &C.
cordingly surrounded them to resist an
attack. Several regiments, including de-
tachments from the Royal barracks in
Dublin, were drawn up to. day in High
street, Donegal street, and the vicinity Of
Linnen Hall, ready to charge the rioters.
Dragons and mounted constabulary pa.
trolled the city last night, but the skoot-
ing was as brisk as ever. In many iAK
stances innocent victims were killed. Biz
ter outcries are made against the city "a
thorities, whojus as during the riot Of &C
allowed the feads to pelt the troops witEQ
brick bats, wreck churches, pillage stores
and perpetrate atrocious murders before,
they gave the word Of command. The
Orangcmen are mostly favored, although
they have been charged. The mode OF
warfare is cowardly in the extreme, and
people walking quietly along are shot
down like dogs. At this writing the
hospital on Great Patrick street is filed
with wounded and dying, and the screams
of sufferers, as they are taken, are heart.
rending. Several women have been shot.
The troops can do nothing without the
sanction of the Mayor, who, owing to
great indignation of the citizens, has 81
length been compelled to order the mill.
tary to engage with the rioters. About a.
dozen persons have been shot.
At the so~called Boyne bridge, near
the railway station, during the riots of
| 1866, the Orangemen made an efigy of
O'ConnelI, tied rope around it's neck,
plunged it in the water, subsequently,
placed it In q coffin, and, after mimicking
the last rites of the Roman Catholic
Church, burst open Catholic cemetery
at Friars; but the ring leader. man
named James Connell, was next day shot
dead by the police while leading gang
of rioters to ourn Roman Catholic or,
phan asylum. The Orangemen detest
al. ~ OSNo~,oIJ
to his having won Catholic emancipation
in 1929, and it was because the Roman
Catholics were celebrating that victory
that the Orangemen again commenced an
attack. The scenes since Thursday last
have been terrible It was at first
thought that order would be restored in
a day or two, bat the Partially and bad
management of the authorities have led
to the present dreadful state of affairs.
Many private houses have been torn down
or burned. Worked up to a fit of des-
peration, the Roman Catholics from the
district known as founding and Her.
cules street have appeared in the streets
to resist the farocious assaults of the Or
angemen, who, for the last two or three
DAYS, have made the most appalling
threats. Respectable citizens are seized
with terror, and are trembling In their,
houses with fear. Tie ship carpenters
mostly Orangemen, have joined the riot.
ers with their formidable weapons. The,
opposing parties had several engagements
last night and this morning, and several
men were killed. If the authorities pre-
vent the military fro@ clearing the streets.
and shooting down the rioters the city
will be Quilted. As last resource, G.
quantity of ammunition and rifles have
been distributed among a number of deps
uty coustables, who will assist in the en-
forcement of order. In attempting to
keep the Orangemen and Roman CathO-
lies apart, several soldiers belonging to
the Fortieth Regiment of Infantry were
seriously wounded and conveyed to the
hospital Fighting is going on at a place
called Thompson's Bank, where the navies
are employed. Another engagement &C
Cured late last night near County Down
railroad station, in York street, and it
was not until several men had been cut
down that the >constabularY succeeded IN
the opposing parties ......-.a.
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THE Vossisehe .Ze5tupg, of Berlin, one
Of the widest circulated papers in PrusSl@
and one which is said to express Prusslah
national feeling as clearly as any QUIET
journal Of the Empire, has tnlS 70 say u I
our Presidential contest; eGl ao1 rIsa1
awa are at a loss to know how any
Germsr American can allow himself to
be ro;sIed by the sopkistries by which
unscrnpulous men try to make the candl-s
dature Of Horace Greeley Palatable toouI
countrymen in the Uaited States. NOS ad.
Thev cannot and will not Support him IA
IN Incarnation ef Inconsistencies, OF crude SIS
theories, of exploded Retions on public y
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