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The Daily Dispatch: may 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Harriet Martineau and the Tariff. (search)
ve been disposed of ere this, much to the comfort of the captors. In searching for some place to dispose of himself last night, your correspondent espied a small house near the camp, and on entering it in the dark, was surprised at the gleaming of a musket in the hands of a sentinel, who had been left in charge of two soldiers who had imbibed too freely. Promising the sentinel a supper, he consented that I should occupy 6 by 2 feet on the floor, in close juxtaposition with the sons of Bacchus, who now lay sleeping soundly under their narcotic draught. A requisition was made upon these two gentlemen to take up their line of march about 3 o'clock this morning, and it being found impossible to awake one of them, your correspondent resorted to a scientific method, sometimes employed in London, with such immediate effect, that but for the interposition of the sentinel and sergeant, the suddenly aroused and infuriated man would have given your correspondent a black eye with which to