New Orleans daily crescent., 1861-03-12
THE ZOUAVES,

| So much interest and admiration exist at the
A present time in and for this remarkable body of
| men, that we deem it not auiss to lay before our
readers our idea of their characteristics and feats
The recipe for manufacturing a Touave is as fol-
4 lows: Take an ordinary man, the smaller the bet
ter cultivate long hair, unlimited moustachos, if
possible, bright red, placing upon the back of his
4 head cap something the shape of saucepan. A
brighter shade of red than the hair with an exten
stve blue taaseli envelope him in blue bag with
4 two other blue bags for sleeees and presto! Won
i have his Jacket; then take two large red BAGS a
4 brighter red than the cap, and you at once have
i MIN oreeched; you then keep continually winding
ofue sash around his waist until physical exhaug
/ tlon 'compels you to cease your efforts. when
capping on very tight pair of white CATERS lust
1 below the very loose pair Of red breeches loI you
| have ifrst-rate Zouave.
Meconiess to being somewhat skeDtical on the
subject of Zouaves, believing that their popularity
IS based principally upon the fact that theyperform
the'eVeryday functions of life, even to the killing
OF the1r Fellow creatures, lin manner peculiar to
themselves; and as mankind is ever enenored of
novelty, the apothgem has been generally adopted
that'what is new must be superior. 49,
lt'is universally believed that the men composing
these regiments sit with more comfort on the point
OF their rtbayonet than if they were reposin1r in an
armed CHAIR that they cross rivers in the same in
genious way practiced by the MONKEYS .af -South
America and that to shoot mau,in Action II is
absolutely necessary that they should load and fire
in series of summersauts. Rumor boldly asserts |
that they carry their provisions and all their little
store of worldly goods in t1eir pantalooas, and
that they invariably sleep with one eye open. ready
at any mcment'to rise in hop, skip and.a jump, |
and slaughter any quantity of their enemies,
We ourselves look upon them in perhaps not 50 |
romantic light, but one in which, we th;Rk we |
are borne out"by facts. They are unauestionabv
brave and good soldiers, dispensing wherever thew
may go an oaor of garlic, intermixed with the
'state tunes of cigarettes; and ST, perhaps after
g campaign, on ther,return home they do syapper
oit and set their caps jauntly awry to catch the
heafts OF pretty Sabretes smiling qrisees this
htIie ahec'anon i8surely pard0nable, and is by no
ine1''s coiilhed 10 the French service. One CHAR
ao'oilslic 'ney certainly possess, which, however
tney snare with the ashole French army, and which
ID ioSnd IN that nation alone. We allude to the
to;amuse themselves and tbose
around them, which they evince at all times and!
under ell circumstances
lit has been observed that in the yarious snttIe-
nents OF this continent the first building erectedi
lnh' While the French would Immediately put m a
theater, ard when that was finished Ioolya5 n tho
comforts OF life, leaving the saul to take care of
itself until they had more eisure to attora - =
thus it was 1t the siege of Sebastonol. and rbiIo
he British soldiers clustered around ,bo oo,,,. e.
akiag in silence their drop O. beer, the zona,,o
lad 4ouilt the Theatre d 'L,L;er7ncpp ana ,,,o,.
lightly enlivening their comrades with tbcso
brightly little vG.!deviRes, which arc So keenly o..
Dyed by every Frenchman
A part3t this corps of artist Zouayeg are now
laying an engagement at one of the .shaaters id
lis city, and so remarkably clever ana tLeir ner-
'rG1ances that we cannot but imagine that thew
nus have been actors previous to their ynnaartol
lg military rides. The va4devilles and little COM
dies they have appeared in have been r;veu spjtb
esp''s seldom seen on any stage, although we
annot see much to admire in their final sco,o =,
h'sn s intended to chow the Zouave manner of
ehung, The counterpart of which NAV he seon Of Il
~ unie az the Bowery theater dur$rg the produe
on OF q military melo drama. We kava nn do,,ht :,
~ mat u IS very true picture and it all the H
a,,,, W. III our opinion that they are "a -
cry fine body of men, but that the sn,,n,;rso,I., Ill
[c, are pleasantly romantic fctor
one point in their programme is no,;ceohIs In
wing the names of the artiss-after e,np,a..+;,, W
ose that were left dead en- the field of clorvS in
On mans services and the wounds he has re-. =
'Nea are mentioned. In looking down this list 8,
come across ZouaVe Helu, "shot in the neck ),
pause for information. Why should this he
ntloned when it may injure the young man. We =,
oR Of many of our highly respectable citizens
Q frequently get shot in the neck" but then anl
ugh they may mention it the next morning to the
N companions, they do not through the public TIL
nus INFORM an anXion2 public of the fact. We to'r!
p 70 know # that shot was ever extracted if l1