The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1860-08-09
The Zouaves i'm New York.

on thursday evening, which was attended
by very large audience, composed prin
cipally OF ladies. The Tribune thus de.
scribes their exhibition
The soldiers of the Twelfth, seated in
section OF the stockholdery reserved for
them, We're as much wrought upon by the
mechanical effects ofthc splendidly Zouave
ranks as the less intelligent observers.
They frequently gave the cue for applause.
and We're at length SO surchargei with
generous admiration that they could yet
no relief but by three cheers and a TIGER
Tor the corps Distinguished military char
acters, in the private boxes and in the
wings OF the stage, were equally moved.
Spontaneous cont ustion was the fate of .,pv
individual. There was no RESISTING the
regular fall of feet npon the boards the
uniaitering front bearing here and there
the sympathy of all the arms of all the
iinScrends that controlled and operated
them, the certainty or response to the
most delicate call, the dash aud ardor of
the young men, the pictures iucness IF their
every attitude, the happy liz gLtness of their
carriage, the novelty of many OF their tnc
tics, the confidence of their boyish captain
Several new wonders of discipline were
revealed--a sharp support of arms; q side
step Tor symmetrical positions; silent drill
OF loading and firing at Will, the looks click
ing one click, and the butts rappnp one
rap ); a lock step in which, linked by each
others arms, the corps moved like some
novel snake, coiiug and dragging in its
length. There were rare advances to the
very tootliShts, and orderly dispersions
when elias hing seemed certain, attitudes ta
ken SO suddenly that the breath was held
and brilliant exploits beyond the reach
even OF the simplest description. The ey-
ercises were divided into five parts, the in
tervals OF which were filled with music .
none 1t, of course, was martially distinc.
tive. Unusedto such confinement, the actors
suffered greatly from the heat, and imbi.
bed copiously of the iced water provided
behind the scenes. Sevcralwere forced 20
withdraw from service by inability to keep
their feet upon the polished hoor.
The prouc movements were those that
most excited all the people Several had
not been seen before. The lively turn-down
Of the men, vulgarly designated the "be :
iy-movement," (although, truly, the word
was more used than either stomach or ab.
domen In the period Of Jonah and the orin;
nal Prince OF ales, and Was deemed quite
proper provoked hilarity. But the re-
spouse to the orders to load and fire in hori.
1antal position was, perhaps, the climax of
the evenings wonder. Instantaneously the
sodies revolved and were face upward. and
thus disposed, with precisely as much una
nimity as in the common manual of arms
the Zouaves loaded their pieces. While
the spectator speculated whether they
would be discharged at the low level ano-
ther order brought the whole corps to their
ieet, wlthaIl the advantage over the enemies
ot cur country with whom the imagination
could easily people the rear Of the stage.
these having shot clear over the outstretch
cd persons OF the gag musketeers During
an entire lnternllsslon the men kept the
floor, the postures OF all being unconstrain
cdly graceful. DID anySody contrast these
Incompatible soldiers with the melancholy
creatures III uniform which ths stare OF.
icrs as tAlr representatives of tie trade of
war, and revert to the sad marches and ter
r!D!e collisions of the immemorial ,"r who
Constitute the army OF Richard!
Nor must We neglect to mention very
quaint tactics that preceded these tactics
on the ground. Ut ). as in tl.x lock .t.p
he men were involving without con
fusion their respective feet, and as
stated previously, the line rcscmbled IA
brilliant serpent. There came an order
to halt The head aud tail of the animal
came together. At another order II dou
bled up This phenomenon WAS caused by
The men suddenly sitting down upon each
ot"erS Knees, prcscGtiIg a very pretty
problem III the science of equilibrium, and
u convenient theory Tor summer pedestrians
to put into practice.
OUR EDUCATIONAL lNSTITUTIoNs.-A
sensible correspondent Of the New York
Herald, writing from New Haven concern.
ans Yale College and It's improvements,
says:
The changes made in the order of exer-
cIseS at a.e a the last commencement have
gwen new character to college life
Looking back from the present, even no
farther than one year, the transition
scepas as sudden as if civilization, by n
colossal stride, had brought us down from
the teudal tincs. Tue very thought of
being shocked out of ones dreams at such
unreasonable hours as was formerly the
way We had at old Yale" makes one fancy
those times of morning aad evening prayers
80 be traditlonary, chapel rushes" some an
cleht myth, aud that the disgraccful con.
duct connected with the old chapel services
were the sacrileSious rites of some far-off
barbarous age Students now have break
last at $50 a. m, prayers at 7.30 a m, re-
citation at $ a. IN. where formerly prayers
were attended at o.3O a. IN, recitation i'm
mediateiy after, and break fast at ! a. m.
and such appetites. Chapel exercises only
one each day are now what they should be.
IoUAVE.-The word 'Xouavc" is gen
erally aud incorrectly pronounced as a word
of two syllablos. it should hc spoken as if
written Z'r0Uc the a Nav,rg the Italian