Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-10

Colonel EIlsworth'e Zouaves In WashlRGs
ion- How the Fire.boys Amuse Them-
selves. f no s9.r al.rr fl .Y
The Washington correspondent Of The
Philadelphia Pres thus describes the New
York Zouayes at the Capital -7 cf ,-.
The New York Zouaves, under Command
of Colonel Ellsworth, of Illinois, have created
good deal Of CONSERVATION iI our City of
Magnificent Distances. They have had two
days of extensive, expensive and extreme
fight fun and frolic. They have broken
into taverLs, terrified Old ladies, ordered
dinners and suppefs which they had the i'm
pudeHce 20 request their victims 70 charge to
that bankrupt concern, the Southern Oonfed-
erhoy, aud performed many other irfeperent
feats.l They now occupy the new Hall Of the
House of Representatives from which their
aristocratic predecessors, the New York Sew
enth regiment, retired to encounter thecold
rain-stoIm Of Friday and Saturday and, in
order not 70 be behind the representatives OF,
the people, they yesterday imprevised a
House Of Representatives elected q speaker
clerk and other officers, went into full ses
sion, dissolved the U MON, and reconstructed
i il, and then wound up the joke by going
into Executive Session, after the model Of
the Senate, and, inobedience TO the example
OF Senator Mason, ofaYirginia, ordered the
galleries 10 be cleared, which was ruthlessly
effected, although that part of the building
was then occupied by some of their tired and
sleepy companions, seeking few hours rest.
After walking the parapets Of the Capitol
rife on shoulder, leapiDg fences, knocking
down sentinels, turning aside indignant bay
onets, hanging like monkeys from the outer
edges Of the DOME two hundred feet
above the frm-set earth, to everybody's hor-
. ror, they have been brought up with a round
turn by an old gentleman at the other end of
the avenue, named Winfield Scott, speaking
through quiet gentleman, in charge of the
Capitol, Major Mcdowell, United States
Army. These Turco men of our time, these
untsmed fremen after FIRE. eaters these red.
shirted patriots SO Indifferent to all other
appeals, have at last been conquered, and to.
day order Ieiens in Warsaw What mighty
magic has produced this change few can
know, but I suspect they have been PROM
ised steamboat ride some pleasant May
morning to Mount Vernon, with slight in
tlmation that they may stop at Alexandria
on their way, for Refreshments. Its aston
ishing how mild and gentlemanIy the Zou-
aves have become since their treaty with
General Scott. N y. i,.- -, ,...--..
On the same subject the Washington Star
of Monday has the following; Ga.is.s1s sol
We visited the quarters Of Colonel Ellis
worth Zouave Regiment in the Capitol. on
Saturday, and found the b'hoys in undis-
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