The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-12-23
MISCELLANEOUS.
From the New Orleans Delta
Jack Moran.

VIA From the New Orleans Delta
- jack Moran.
Jack Moran was certainly the most original genius
hat we ever met with He served in all the campaigns
in the Florida war; and was present at the battles OF Re
de la Palma and Palo Alto Jack is fictitious
livdua but a real flesh and blood animal, and in all
he is either lsungng about the Palo Alto House. Point
Isabel else shooting eurews and cranes in the marshes
adjacent Jacks headquarters were the suffers store Of
our amiable friend H., and TO H--- Jack was ''al IN
all" He BACKED boots curried down the horses shot
birds, drank whskey, did all the chores" and cursing
OF the whole party. The hrst acquaintance we had
The back part of the store, Ia mere rekettyrackery
shanty,) was absolutely alive with frogs Some one
called out, in the very richest Milesian brogue-
"Ah, Paddy, me boy, how We this mornlnl Jim
my love, did ye Shape well last nightl By the luks oy
yer coat Pm hinkin that ye wur caught in the ram
Niyer mind, Jimmy, you and ! are one and The same
cowld wather is our maxim fonver an, day, Georgy
my lark, hows yer mother, an al-oh. murther! muir
ther Pye kilt him I've kilt hint"
eyes, apparently in The greatest agony Of reporss
What's the matter Jack %
"Oh, Eve kilt my darnG He was the loveiest Of ov
EN- ALL nursed him since he was babe and now Eve
murdered him |"
Murdered who, Jack"
Poor little Pathriek, the itAs frog wild the speckled
coat and the white stomach accidentally throd on his
toe and broke his back p
Just at this moment an elongated specimen OF humani-
y, yellow saffron and weak that same coffee
cned plane entered the store and inquired or some
bird shot-o-shoot-them little birdees-that-wos a
comm all around" AT almost every word the poor el-
low would have to stop and draw long breath, in order
to give him strength sufficient to repeat the succeeding
one but Jack, although his heart full of sympathy
for the afflicted, could not resist the opportunity
sis II shot we want"
"Yes-I want-some shot-to shoot-them there
little"
"Oh, know what We want Is il for them wee bits
ov birds that hoppn about as thick as gooseberes
in mackere saison ,"
well, / don't-want-nohin' else"
by the powers, me boy, yeve come to the right place
thin same birdees, an lis lucky am here and on ye
I've thred and thried to EN-, but this is the only kind
ov metal that will penetrate their hides"
enough to kill bull, let alone birds not larger than
spaTows. H.. -, - ..
But" said the invalid 90" wanted mustard-seed shot,
-
"Nan alive" answered Jack with seeming asperity,
al till We these and no others are the shot Iroued thin
IN mustard and ould Major Munroe, long life TO him
used to kill thousands and thousands ov birds livery
mornin' befoor noon for his breakfast"
Jacks logic had great effect the 'green un," and
he actually sold him four pounds of buck shot to be used
against birds tanner than chickens and not bigger than
wrens! ..- .-
Jack was foraging party in himself-money was Of
no use to him-he had plenty OF whskey two old spav
ned horses, gun that went on once IN about five tunes
and as for powder and shot, why he always managed
get them somehow other. He would kill brace or
two OF plover and then sell them for fish, then he'd
trade the fish Oft for whskey and ammunition, or any
thing else that he might want So he went on, care
less light hearted, hquoroying creature, thinking Of
naught that might happen on the morrow.
Once whilst on shooting excursion on the plain out
side the Notifications at Point Isabel Jack happened to
be our escort In fact he acted pointer and showed
where the game lay. Suddenly he flushed covey of
partridges-we were about to fire when he shouted
'hould on ~ ... a.
slack, you're fool what did you do that for ~
"Ah, SIR" said Jack, with true sigh, "Dye that
grave, yonder; not thin narrow dirt piles, but the grave
tho cEata boO,p i'm
That, sir, poor Rnggos grdre an these is his par
dgs They feed about there and seem to love his dust
| wouldn't kill one of IN if | was starvin"
The lesson was simple, but touching. There, indeed
the truly martial grave OF the gallant Rnggod and
his friends, where Oh. ...'...-i ..
"Sady and slowly they laid him down,
From the field Of his fame fresh and CORY; r~
Yet they carved not lne---rased not a stonc---
But left him ALONE in his glory!" ...E .....
On another occasion, too, we noticed spirit in Jack
that above all praise An officer of the army was on
furough Ia term used, possibly, to his feelings for
in fact we believe it eternal furlough y he was
very much addicted to ntemperance, which, all proba
after carouse he woke up and found that person
had cut the shoulder straps from his military coat Nau-
rally sensitive this insult drove him almost distracted
and the dernier resort he again had recourse to the
bottle About noon he was perfect maudlin-- -frend-
less poor and dsgraced almost beyond redemption he
had none to succor him, and would not aa#-
Have turned upon his heel to his lifep HI
All around were laughing sneerng, scofing but poor
Jack Moran, the drunken soldier still had heart which
welled up the purest streams Of sympathy. He took
of brother "Ah, gntlemin," said Jack,
know that I am not the likes of ye-for like to git
drunk and be me sow I'd be drunk all the while if
me fortune could AFFORD it. All poor Captain -, /
knew him whn he was man. and a Drawer nor a better
soser nivr stood in shoe leather If yed seen him as
have wild his beautiful wife alongside him. his bright
soord by his side and his eye sparkn' wild the bright
hope, yed not laugh at HIM now. The bloody Ingun
Seminoles ruined his sweet ady- they'd murthered her
it would ha' been blessin-but, mattherhes nvir
been the same man SINCE" y @.aa .
AS noble heart as ever beat in mans bosom dwet in
the breast of poor Jack Moran! "