The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-08-18

dulged their tastes for fancy articles, living and
dead. saw more than one OF them with q 1--we cal
perched Oh the outside OF his PACK, and not few
mad tame birds-sparrows, thrushes, blue birds and
| IN one instance parrot-in the same proud post
which II was said had already been through moro
campaigns than one IN Algeria with its masTer and
partly upon his head, very young kid What a
strange ess. daredevil body OF men they looked
rs they swept past in their usual sharp, stunning,
irregular step, but, to my ideas, how utterly unsoi-
DISCIPLINE AND UNIFORM
They seem to have will OF their own, do these
wild sons or Gaul and beyond that win they obey
no living creature. Their discipline Is like their
apart from that OF all troops have seen or that
the modern world has ever heard or And
part Of their win seems to be that when
or duty. even on the line OF march,
their officers are not to- bother them or interfere
marched through strasbourg, their oficers did not
seem TO take the slightest notice OF what they did,
Not that there was anything positively wrong in
ing body, In the eyes OF those who have been accus.
toned TO soldiers in any civilized land it was impos
chassepots and sword bayonets were quite accI.
dental, and that they were a mob OF men flying from
great hfe Oh from tremendous earthquake, carry
out OF the ruins Of their houses.
THE MORALE fN
yet they cannot be all rulans, rather, In many
cases the ruItanism Is more assumed as part OF
q conventional bearing than real. dined the
three OF whom two lieutenants and subieutenant,
told me they had gone through their career as prl.
vate soldiers corporals and sergeants In the Zouaves
IA one OF winch corps tney now hold commissions.
It would be impossible to meet anywhere three moro
kindly-heared or truer gentlemen, without parri.
Gle OF the roughness which speak Of In their men
or mere given to the amenities Of life am told
tnat is not every ocer even although he may be
govern or oflcer the zouaves and That unless the
men like and yet fear an officer he is better any
where than at their head. There is one regiment Of
Zouaves here still; they don't march until tomorrow,
when the division they belong 70, the Fourth Of this
army corps, leaves Strasbourg.
g, Their colonel Is q very fne.looklng man OF about
breast ne Legion OF Honor. The French military
medal medal, the Cr,mean the Italian and the Mexican
wards OF quarter OF century In Algeria, and
looks as II he was dried up and rendered as hard
iron by the sun. His men are very proud OF him,
and would go anywhere and DO anything for him, as
FIGHTING AT HOME.
The other day two ZOuaves, both more than three.
quarters drunk, had first dispute and then fight.
they belonged to different regiments OF Zouaves,
ana when the cause Of their dispute was investl.
gated 1t was found that the one mad insisted upon
the other admitting that the colonel mentioned
The adversary was quite agreeable to say what the
0ther wished, but wanted to make one exception In
anT the d dspe G" es ava WAS ac c
they drew Their swords upon each other.
CURIOUS COMPOUND OF HUMANITY.
They are strange beings, with curious mixture
OF good and bad In them, are these zouaves. AS l
said before they are unlike any troops in the world
could no more be USED other French infantry are
used than you could make cavalry DO the work OF
artillery, or get the chaplain to work as doctor In
the hospital. We have had for the last ten days
about eight thousand OF them here IN Stras-
bourg and only one was punished for anything Ike
a serious offence, although they have all been ION
the drink" more or less, since they arrived. The
man OF whom Ispeak was orderly at the door Of q
superior officer of the commssarat
mounted artilleryman came TO the house with
letter from one OF the generals and asked the
to hold his horse while he mounted upstairs The
zouave did SO, but ille other remaining too long
away he began 10 be bothered at having to hold the
horse. What did he do but walk 1t away, take of
the saddle and bride and sell It to the agent OF the
government for purchasing horses, thus selling the
government its own property. The money OF course,
and 1t was only on their return to camp when the
money was spent that he was made prisoner On
his trial he commended that he had not stolen the
horse, but had merely made 1t over to any depart
ment OF the same service.