Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-02
WOMAN'S SPHERE.


y Quite beauty,
But so vain she spoilt it all
wOMAN'S SPHERE.
They talk about woman's sphere,
AS though it had limit;
There's not place in earth or Heaven,
There's not task to mankind given,
There's not blessing or woe,
There's not whisper, yes or no,
There's not life, or death, or birth,
That has a feathers weight Of worth,
Without woman in it.
Exchange.
From the Bath News.
The Scotch Irish.
The claim on the part of King Henry
and his daughter Elizabeth to be the
head of the Church of Ireland as well
as OF England was secretly despised by
the Celts, and later, under James the
First, this feeling matured into open
rebellion under the leadership of the
Earl of Tyrone. The failure of that
rebellion in 1905 gave the King, Thy
forfeitures, control of nearly the whole
Of the province of Ulster, an area of
nearly 500, 900 acres. This, James col
onized on a grand scale, with thrifty
Scotch and in this province dwelt that
race of law-loving, law-abiding, loyal,
enterprising people to whom the name
of Scotch-Irish was given. From these
people have descended nearly all of
those Scotch Irish who have settled
in Bath and the other counties west of
the Blue Ridge. While true Scotch,
vet to distinguish them from the
Scotch who remained on their native
3 heath they were and their descendants
ere called Scotch Irish. In view of the
shat the ancestors of SO many of
Sese people, | have thought it
& g TO give at some length an
chat one of the most strik-
~ tents in history where for long
8; % onths and against fearful odds
ancestors fought at Londonderry,
the chief city of Ulster.
THE SIEGE OF LONDONDERRY.
James II hoped to regain the throne
of England by means of having secur-
ed Ireland. William had assumed the
title of King of England and Ireland,
but the Irish chung to James II. In
81 % in furtherance of this plan, Lord
Deputy Tyrconnell dispatched regi-
ment of 1900 papists, commanded by
the Earl of Antrim to occupy London
derry. The minds of the Inhabitants
were already excited by the rumors
that the 9th of December had been
agreed upon as the date upon which
the Irish peasantry were to massacre
the strangers. The rulers of the CITY
had previously been changed by Tyr
connell's orders until but one Anglo
Saxon remained and he a papist. The
Bishop of the city advised the admis
sion of the soldiers While others hes
itated about the proper course, thir
teen apprentices of Scottish birth, hav
ing hastily armed themselves, closed
the gates in the face of the Kings off
GERS and when the Bishop remonstrat
ed one of them exclaimed, IA gooC
sermon, my lord; very good sermon
but we have not time to hear it just
now The neighboring protestants
- hastily gathered ir Londonderry anC
lord Antrim withdrew. But the plan
ofgTyrconnell compelled the tongues
of Ulster and Londonderry, and il
1859 he sent a large force under tn
command of Richard Hamilton. tn,
traitor to force its subjugation. B,
this time sc, 900 prOtestants were crowd
ed within this little city by the sea.
Lundy the governor of the city, KEEP
the troops of an English vessel from
landing and foiled in his efforts to de
liver the city to the enemy barrel,
made his escape from the indignan
citizens. The twenty four hours which
James (who now was in. command il
person. delayed for Lundy to delive
up the city, gave the citizens time t.
mature their plans of defence, from be
ing attacked they in turn made sallie
out from the city with varying success
One desperate effort by the besiegers
was met by a more determined resis
tance in which the women rendered
no little aid in serving out water anC
ammunition and served to convince
the attacking party that poor as was
the shelter afforded by the weak wal
manned by few old guns and desti
tute of even a ditch, the 1000 desperate
Anglo Saxons behind it made up fol-
its weakness.
The besiegers then must try the eff
feet of hunger. Every avenue by
which supplies could come into the
city were closely watched and boon
thrown across the Foyle to prevent
the passage of any vessel to the city.
The attack, which had begun April
20, had now extended through May un.
to June. On May 10Th, Kirke sailed
from England with troops TO raise the
siege. On June 18th the sight of sails OF
his thirty vessels in the bay of Tough
Foyle raised for moment CLEAN OF
hope for the besieged. But though
passers through the blockade brought
tidings of his proposed attack, weary
weeks of waiting passed before Kirke
made any attempt to succor these
brave people. One hundred and five
days had elapsed since the siege be-
gan, and only two days food remained
in Londonderry. The condition of the
besieged in the city of Samaria e Kings
9th. 9TH chapters) was not more fright
full than that of Londonderry so
graphically pictured in Macaulay's His
tory of England, tVol. III p. p. 2145).
"By this time July was far advanced:
and the state tafgthe city was, hour by
hour, becoming more frightful. The
number of the inhabitants had been
thinned more by famine and disease
than by the fire of the enemy. Yet
that was sharper and more constant
than ever. One of the gates was
broken in: One of the batteries was
laid in ruins: but the breaches made by
day were repaired by night with indie
fatigable activity. Every attack was
still repealed. But the fighting men of
the garrison were so much exhausted
that they could scarcely keep their
legs. Several of them in the act of
striking at the enemy, fell down from
mere weakness. A very small quaint
ty of grain remained, and was doled
out by mouthfuls. The stock of salt
ed hides was considerable, and by
gnawing them the garrison appeased
the rage of hunger. Dogs, fattened
on the blood Of the slain who lay I'M
buried round the town, were luxuries
which few could afford to purchase
The price of whelp's paw was five
shillings and siX-pence. Nine horses
were still alive, and but barely alive
They were SO lean that little meat was
ikely to be found upon them. 1t was,
viewer, determined to slaughter
Them for food"
'There was scarcely cellar in which
some corpse was not decaying. Such
was the extremity of distress that the