East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1864-03-30

ding out against the sky like a huge
mountain, became a special object Of
attention, and was selected by them as
the point from which the attack would
surely come. Talking made them
thirsty, and they relieved that by fire.
quent applications administered inter-
nally from a pocket flask, reported to
contain whiskcy. Their fears or the
whiskey at last raised their imaginary
terrors to such pitch that they pro-
posed to set out and make the circuit
of the camp to SEQ that oil was quiet.
Jones proposed that they should first
drink and then as dutiful soldier, he
proposed to awake the captain and in
form him of the danger likely to be-
"sii ms coni'~--I Dar-s averrnled
this council, and proposed to drink
and set out upon their own RESPONSE
bility, which they accordingly done
1t had now been raining in torrents
for two hours, and every hollow in the
earth was full of water, into which
these vigilnnt sentinels splashod head
long. After q long circuit they came
back to the wooded hill and diyed into
its hidden terrors fearlessly. The
clouds began to brighten up and OBJ
jects could be distinguished at short
distances. This circumstance was
another terror to our heroes, as great
as tho darkness had been before
Here they were, outside Of camp,
without the knowledge of any one,
and if in returning, by misfortune,
they should awake some light sleeper
and he should in the darkness mistake
them for foes, q murder would surely
follow.
He proposed to drink and then hail
tho camp, to prevent accidents, but
fearing the ridicule of the whole COM
mand, they concluded to effect their
return stealthily. They at last sue
ceeded in getting into camp without
any accident, and sat down on a log
somewhat broken and decayod to ar
range plan for presenting this mat
ter Of sleeping without sentry, to the
captain. They occasionally got over
a knotty point in their discussion by
appeal to the flask, and by the time
that was empty, had become SO toler-
baly happy that they did not care
whether they were surprised by IndI-
ans or not. They still retained their
seats on the old log, and were viliant
in their determinations, when Darius
started up wildly, flung his arms fran
tically about him and shouted at the
top of his stentor lungs Snakes in the
camp, boysl Snakes" Il
There was confu sion in tho camp. =
Some who had been witnesses to their
actions from tho first, roared with
laughter, others screamed to know
what was the matter, and others swore
at this needless interruption Of their
rainy dreams. Capt. Nesmith was
the first to address the valient Darius,
which he did in these words: "Lieut.
the censures you have heapod upon
my head are of no consequence. The
imaginary foes you have conjurcd up
are not ferocious. The whiskey you
have drank is vile stuff or it would
not have effected you SO severely
The arousing of this camp from slum-
Der is of no consequence--none Of
these offences arc worthy of mention
but for lieutenant in the dead of
night to attack rotten log, and turn
the pismires out into this rain is dam
nable, and l advise youto shake them
out of your brooches legs and go to
bod"
Everybody shouted, and Lieutenant
Pismirc is still hailed by his friends
with Snakes in the camp boys
Snakes. He looks ferocious when
thus accostcd, but he is not disposed
to be quarrelsome.