Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-09-12
The Late Riots in Belfast.

''Order reigns once more at Belfast, -
says the London Telegraph, land we
may say, without Impotence, that it
should reign. Foreign nations. that
journal continues, (which blame Eng
land for her dealings with Ireland, might
well be requested to turn their attention
to this Hibernian city, which calls itself
by all sorts Of proud names and so judge
whether it is an easy task to make Irish
men quiet and happy" While we write
Belfast presents the appearance, in more
than one quarter, of place which has
been sacked by an Infatuated army.
There are entire streets wherein 4 whole
pane Of glass is not to be found, the
very easements are being shattered to
pieces while the feathers from a hun
drcd mattresses streW the roadway, and
piles of embers here and there show the
spots in which the furniture of the vic
TINS of one or the other side has been re-
duced to ashes In the middle of these
ruins, and between the Quietcd sayagcs
of Sandy-rOw and the Pound, is encamp-
ed a force of nearly four thousand
strong in all, if we count policemen and
militia with the regulars-a little army
i'll fact and yet the fighting has come to
an end. much more because the rain tell
and the cOmbatants weary, than by rea-
son of any effective interference. We
ask our foreign critics to contemplate
this mOnstrOus spectacle. and to tell us
what they could do better or more gent
ly than we have done with ''furiOus
fools like the Protestants and Catholics
Of Belfast. To talk of Arabs. Africans
or Red Indians is really rcleyant any
body can ciyiIizc those: but what arts
Of government could humaniZc these re
ligious madmcn of Belfast? The fight
ing is over by sheer WEAKNESS at last.
and it seems, after all, that not much
life has been lost. The skulls of these
fanatics are pretematurally hard: so
that, although we read Of one doctor
patching up no less than nineteen bleed
ING pates, only two or three deaths are
recorded. Meanwhile a collateral effect
of the disgusting war is to have shifted
all the Catholics into one quarter, and
all the PrOtestants into anOthcr-in 9th
cr words. the materials are laid for a
new battle next August as carefully as
when a hOusemaid prepares for tO-mOr-
rows fire And this hideOus and bar
barrie hatred is nursed on either side, in
the name, forsO0th, of religion Civil
ization is weary of such blasphemy, and
we recommend the authorities to show
us next August something else like fool
ish tolerance of these miserable out
breaks. Let Catholics and PrOtestants
alike have their silly professions accord
ing to the law, but let order also 90
forth with its cartridges rammed home,
so as to make examples of those who,
on either side, would plunge a great city
,,,4 Oh Of ~,,,l vrrp1l- OF +h1+
through which Belfast has just passed"
THE ALARMED SENTINEI.-During the
siege of Gibralter, in the absence Of
the fleet, and when an attack was daily
expected, one dark night a sentry,
whose post was near the Devils Tower,
and facing the Spanish lines, was stand
at the end of his walk, whistling, look
ing towards them, his head filled with
nothing but fire and sword, miners,
breaches, storming and bloOdshed. BY
the side of his baT stood deep-necked
earthen jug, in Which was the remainder
of his supper, consisting of boiled peas.
A large monkey (0f which there are
plenty at the top of the rock,) enCOur-
aged by the mans silence, and allured
by the smell of the peas, ventured to the
Jug, and, endcayOring to get at its con-
tents, thust its head so far into the neck
as to be unable to withdraw it. At this
instant the soldier turned round, and
came whistling towards his box. The
monkey, unable to get clear of it, start
ed up to run off. with the jug sticking
on his head. This terrible apparition no
sooner saluted the eyes of the sentry,
then his frantic imagination converted
poor pug into fine bloodthirsty Spanish
grcnadier, with tremendous high cap
on his head. Full Of this dreadful idea,
he instantly fired his piece, roaring out
that the enemy had scaled the walls.
The guard took the alarm, the drums
were beat, and in less than ten minutes
the Governor and his whole garrison
We're under arms. The supposed grena-
der, being very much incommoded by
his cap, and almost blinded by the peas,
was soon overtaken and seized; and by
his capture the tranquility of the garri-
son was restored, without that slaughter
and bloodshed which every man had
prognosticated in the beginning of the
direful alarm.