Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-06-11

SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE II, 1859.
FEMALE VOLUNTEERS OF AUSTRIA.

FEMALE VOLUNTEERS OF AUSTRIA.
1t must be well understood that the re-
serve army which is now bein& formed in
lstria, &c, will be composed at men who
have been eight years in the regular army.
After having served eight years an Austrian
soldier enters the reserve corps for two years,
hut lie is not liable to be called on To render
militar, service unless the country is ut war.
The Austrian reserves probably consist
of some l50.0 00 men. Such numbers of vol
unteers have presented themselves that the
municipalities in several of the provincial cap
itals nave been obliged to declare that they
cannot undertake to clothe and equip any
more men. The men now raised in Vienna
join the regular army, and will. Us Il matter
of course. be paid by government. Two or
three days ago several Of the gamekecpers OF
the Prince Lichtenstein and Schwarzenburg
went to the military authorities, and offered
their services to the State, but they expressed
a wish not to he put into the volunteer corps.
These last will doubtless behave we'll in the
field, but they played strange tricks while
here. On Friday morning the third battalion
was completed, and at noon one Of its COM
panies was p%arading the principal streets Of
the city with false boards and lamp-shudes
instead of head-pieces. At the head Of the
procession marched half dozen sturdy fel-
lows, blowing clarionets with might and
main, and in its rear was Il tremendous
crowd, composed of persons of both sexes and
of all classes of society. The following story
will enable your readers to form = correct
idea Of the capabilities of u gamn M |ie"ne.
nI-nl ,rh, 10 -, command
the second battalion of Volunteers, was in
formed by his servant that Il man and Il wo-
man wanted to see him. An order having
been given to let them enter, the servant m
troduced into the room a young fellow with
a can in which was the recruits noSegay, On
his head, and a pipe in his mouth. The
hopeful youth, who held a stoekingless wench
by the hand, had got as far in his address as,
This young lady (disse franticnl wishes to
join" when he was interrupted by a double
movement on the part of the officer, who is
a man of high rank and standing. With the
one hand the commander knocked the volun-
teer's cap off his head, and with the other
the piue out of his mouth, and then told him
to quit the room if he did not wish to he
punished for disrespect. When the second
battalion was about to leave ton Leoben,
the men insisted that the women, who had
been engaged as suffers nurses, &c, should
be allowed to travel i'm the same carriage with
them, but the officers strongly objected to
the proposed arrangement. AT last it was
settled that the women should sit together III
one carriage, which was the lasti in the train.
The doors having been locked, and the usual
screech given by the engine, the train began
TO move, but without the last carriage, which
had been unlocked at the last moment by
one of the persons appointed To superintend
the departure Of the volunteers. The women
were very indignant ut being left behind,
but the men proceeded on their journey in
happy ignorance of their separation from
their lady loves.-Cor,. Of London Times.