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ington. Every one was, of course, curious, and wanted a look and a word, and for a short time there was a considerable jam and squeeze. After the first "puff" had somewhat blown over, I learned with a good deal of difficulty that they, being French, and scarcely able to understand a word of English, were en route to join the New Orleans Zouaves, and had deserted on Wednesday morning, and walked all the way from Washington to a point on the Maryland shore of the Potomac, nearly opposite Mathias' Point. They report quite an interesting state of affairs at Washington, and adduce it as among the reasons which induced them to leave.--They say that the excuse of the Government for not paying the soldiers — viz: the absence of pay-rolls — is all fudge, and that the Government has no money and no means of getting any. As an evidence, they say that a shoe merchant who had furnished about $10,000 worth of shoes to the soldiers, presented his bill, and was told that it was impossible to pa