Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-07-07
CHALLENGE.
ARNoRY U. S. ZoUAvE CADETS,
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ARMoRY U. S. ZoUAyE CADETS,
Chicago, III, Sept 20, 1859,
The National Agricultural Society at their
seventh annual fair awarded to the U. S. Zouave
Cadets a stand of champion eolors, which any
company of the militia or regular army of the
United States or Canadas are welcome to, if they
can win them in fair contest.
For terms of drill, &c, apply Immediately to
L. E. ELLSWORTH,
col Commanding Z. s. zouaye Cadets.
Col. Ellsworth has entered into his work
with hearty zest, and the Cadets have drill
ed nearly every night Sundays excepted)
since the organization.
On the 22d of February last the company
paraded with eighty men, and Immediately
after the parade, impressed with a desire to
render their organization sans rePrOehe, they
adopted a set of resolutions declaring it an
offense, punishable by expulsion, to enter
under any pretenee or circumstances, any
drinking, gambling, or billiard saloon, house
of i'll fame, or any disreputable place what
ever; giving permission to all, who would
not agree to live up to these requirements, to
retire from the company. These resolutions,
so entirely novel, and unexpected, from
military company, took every one by sur
prise; but few thought the company could
sustain them, and that class of persons most
interested in having them prove failure, re-
sorted to every expedient to break them, but
they had misealculated the strength Of de-
termination professed by the men. Five, who
tried the experiment, were promptly expell-
ed and published. This settled the matter
The resolutions were copied from Maine to
Georgia, and everywhere with commenda-
ton. ......
A single instance viii serve TO illustrate
the esprit du corps of the Company: Short
ly after the passage of the resolutions prohib-
iting. drinking, when all who would not vote
for them were allowed 10 withdraw, and du-
ring. the excitement caused by them, a com
munication was sent to the company, to the
effect that seventeen members, comprising
some of the very best soldiers in the corps,
all Of them first class men, had broken the
resolutions. A meeting was Immediately
called and the gentlemen excluded, in con-
formity with their regulations, until the
charges should have been made; and it was
ascertained that there remained, besides the
seventeen excluded, only twenty-seven men
besides officers, buglers, &c, who could 90
upon the contemplated tour. Although there
were present about sixty men, and the mat
ter was placed before the company in this
light, that the number charged with having
broken the resolutions were Of the very best
material of the company, that their expul-
sion would reduce the number who could
leave the city, to participate in the contest
for the colors to some thirty muskets, a vote
was taken, which resulted unanimously fol
the expulsion of all who had broken the re-
solutions, if it reduced the company to TWEEN
ty men-maintaining that the honor Of the
corps did not depend upon the number of it
members, but upon the conduct of the mem
bers composing it. Fortunately it was prov.
en- that the charge was a falsehoOd, orgina-
ting with some expelled members, who de
sired to break up the corps, apd it was fount
necessary to expel only four.
/ buGA ID u bAEcA nA|lCh VI tAA1 NoAAA kaLAl
which will parade and drill in our city to
day. Have they not nobly yindicated thei
claim to the respect and admiration of th
: worldR Not one of these sixty men, NOR
or less, will be seen TO enter a drinking sa
loon or disreputable house in the city o
, Cleveland. Not a liquor dealer will be tn
T. richer for cent of their money, or none!
, spent in liquor for them.
They have three complete suits with them
: consisting of one full dress of blue and buff
: a chasseur uniform (French) of bluel an,
r red, and one Zouaye uniform. The last i
$ certainly the gayest. most picturesque cos
> tune we have ever seen.
b. The Zouaves left Chicago on Monday eve
/ ming. To show the estimation in whicl
e they are held at home, we quote two para
s graphs, the first from the Herald, and tn
0 second from the Press and Tribune:
The Z0UaYes took their departure Las