New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-08-09


thoroughly unanimous yu-h Fire
Bot the eliminating Joy OF the Ne" -, q,
Zouave only comes to him when be nuns ,hon
horseback He can't ride horse an! $50 hs
,,u Moot. office can milk q goat; neVeftleie''' N'
;oy when he bestrides the oar-bade sp ne VI "n '"
eiated horse il something too pare lot s"'u''
Co. ,ba vri,er,s self he hates a horse more ,ua"
the Idle Apprentice of Dickens ever quo OF 'V"''
800, Of ;uvepe pings of the body; OF JuNehho
icbes over he brute's head; Of juvenile KICKS NJ
der rlaees of juvenile bsterr and raws esci''h"tu
a. AZ nbesllar part Of the anatomy oil man upon WHICH
lie friction Of the saddle has It's tenderest influence
have ever tended 10 keep him at foots length from 'ne
eoune horror. l had, to ray truly, always be leve1
thai am the worst horseback rider in the world ana
had battered myself TO no slight extent on thar enva
bic distinction, until saw the riding of theNew' YORK
Fire Zoulves. / resign, with regret say 1t, WIN
genuine humiliation l acknowledge it; but a manly
respect for truth and bad hOrsemanshp compes me 10
resign my high claim to icing the worst rider IN the
known world and to hand over that coveted honor 10
the New-Yolk Fire Zouaves-any one OF them, II
doesn't make any difference which, for each one Is
worse than the other.
But for all this the Zouaves are rs proud OF their
horse Zouave-shp as if each one was Ducrow OF
Jimmy Robinson himself. They dash about at the
most reckless pace all over Alexandra and The sur
rounding country and the only why the regi-
ment has not been decmated by broken neoks u.s. HAT,
as a general! rule, Zouaves head runs into his
shoulders, and there lent any neck to speak Of.
don't believe II is true, as by some a@ereo, maj
when the horses get too tired the Zonaves rest them
by carrying the horses up tie hiIsi but do know
20 be tue, that Zouave would charge down the
wharf al the Potomac, and If his horse did not take
the river NJ q single jump Mr.. Zouaye would sgmale
him as a lazy brute and sell him for two-and-sAlence
| % tie ilst customer VINO had that much specie
IL all our wauderings through the camps we must
oxect 10 fiud at every turn the IouaVes on horse
! back Where they get tie horses, the Zcuaves only
know If they can't get horses, they take laesasses-
IN truth. tink they rather prefer jacKases Ne The
tail is better one to hold on by-and Zouave horse
has 10, unfrequeDily, TO carry three or four on the
upper-deck, and as many moro as can lind stowage
without covering up tie bTutes eyes, and lettering his
heels.
THE SSiler's tent IL the same in Al camps ever
visited BE understood for The benefit Of tooss no
are uniformed that the SGter is tho merchant OF 'he
regiment, He sells ACKNOWLEDGMENT IN papers anu
puge--cigars, of cabbage and toba'co-red hefnnss,
| crackers and noasses cakes. lie would eel whisky
| If he dared This tent il always numbered mp with
barrels aud boses, and ths customers end OF II,
board across two pork barrels does duty for counter
Hore the men in crowds, every boar in the day.
to get ZONE little deIieacy after salt fat pork and no
vegetables with the thermometer at 80, even moAs-
SEQ cakes arc delielcy 70 eat, or for gass OF cool
lemonade TO drink and make much of.
Az The regiments mosty supplied with water
from muddy springs of thex own digging 20 prevent
poisoning ~ our anisbe Virginia neiglbosl, and az
| hos, in "a gass
of even suffers lemonade lie most grateful beverage
under the tou.d circumstances
The currency used with tie susler 10 pastsboard
tickets, representing respectively tie value of cents,
10 cents or % cents payable in goods at the fuiers
store When colder desires 20 enter into commercial
negotiations with the sutes, and has no money where
with TO achieve that mercantile desiderstln be nAiur-
ally concludes to anticipate portion OF his pay.
He therefore, obtains from his captain printed order
on the payma5er for one doar or more, IA the csse
may be, which Is signed by haiseb, Of course. ss
drawer Il the order and ia then coun'egned ~ the
captain a. q guaranty that the sum Of money called
for in the order il actually due tie This docu
ment s now negotiable and the suter viii take H. aid
give for il its face" not IN money, bat In heSef',
which are simply due-bl ON hiHself, Which ne binds
himself to redeem in soodS.
As the goods are sold at LIE own p1css, and the
tickets must eventually all find their way 70 his esab
Iabynent II follows that the Office OF Regimenis But
Ter usually Gays better than that Of Maor-General
| When pay day comes round, the men, having speu,
ali their Tickets have, general rule little inter-
est in the Paymssier. Ire SGtler presents ali the
orCerp for pay which IN his possession. and FROM
the Paymaster receives the gold This whole system
is q very Objectionable one, and the French plan OF
ra,ina the men every ten days would be AN inf1ite
Improvement Al tits, the men DO the work. and dare
tie Danger, while the Suder pockets the Lions, or
rather the Sutler's, part Of it.
This dgre ssion lie long, bat ", perhaps, rot unm-
porant- All Suffers stores," or tents are alike
are always thIopged aud always make money There
is usually q rear entrance for the officers, who arc
thus admitted lehnd tbs counter, and occasionally n
sportiye Major takes fancy 10 iSie frolicsome horse
in at the back door, and smashing senfation is the
result.
Though tho Sucrs prohibited from selling spirits
to the men, which rule they obey strictly in regi-
ments STILL as rule an officer need not langush for
his Houor--a Colonel can have bis Cocktail" Ma
jor can procure lie mint julsp" Captain bis "cod
without" Lieutenant lis lemonade with" and
! even Sergeant can have Lis :" smash"
But the whole sutlcr arrangement Il bad, though il
is 90 intimately connected with the system OF army pay
mens, hat reform touching only the Sntlers Depart
ment would be hut half skin-deep.
"Sweethearts and Wives though sailors toast,
is a soldiers sentrient Rough sometimes though
the dress and manner, and talk Of oar private soldiers
still the quiet stealing away into the shade Of tree
or the shadow Of broad tent, to write letter home
the eager, tender anxiety OF the eye, which
sumed rorgbDsss Of the voice can completely hide,