The "fighting Zouaves."
The New York Journal of Commerce remarks as follows:
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In connection with George Law's letter to
President Lincoln, advising the clearance of a path through
Baltimore at all hazards, it is a significant fact that that gentleman presented
Wilson's Fighting Zouaves with a pair of revolvers each.
It is the unanimous wish of that regiment — expressed on repeated occasions — to force a passage through the
Monumental city.
The same desire is expressed by the Fire Department Zouaves, and, in fact, is universally cherished by the soldiers of New York.
The petition to the
President urging that the
Baltimore route be held by the
Government at any cost, is receiving numerous signatures of influential citizens throughout the city.
Col. Learned is organizing a"Pathfinders' Association," the avowed object of which is to cleave a road to the capital through
Baltimore.
‘"Our route is through
Baltimore,"’ is printed in large letters at the foot of a poster, stuck about town, asking for recruits for the Fifth Regiment of New York volunteers.
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The New York papers complain that although there are 20,000 men now in that city ready to go to
Washington, or anywhere else, they cannot procure fire-arms, especially Minnie rifles.