The Daily Dispatch: February 01, 1864., [Electronic resource]

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Charging for water.

--During the recent trip made to Salisbury, N. C., by the Richmond Ambulance Corps, who went as a guard to a number of Yankee prisoners sent to that place, they met with some rare specimens of Southern hospitality. At one place on the route every one who partook of it were required to pay fifty cents per glass for water; while a party of soldiers, who could not afford to drink it from a tumbler, were made to pay two dollars for the use of a well and a goard to dip it up with. At another place a dispatch was sent to have a hot supper for a certain number, when the landlord of the hotel removed from the table the clean cloths, putting dirty ones in their place, as well as locking up his best table ware, and putting in its place the most common and filty crockery, spoons, &c., which could be found. This welcome reception to an organization which is composed of some of our most respected citizens was given them on the line of the road lying in North Carolina. The army would be the best place for such fellows as the keepers of the two hotels alluded to above are.