The New Orleans Bulletin

THINGS IN GENERAL

JACK ASHORE

When Jack gets ashore after a cruise he is, as everybody knows, prone to get on a tear, and there are few people that blame him for enjoying himself after his own peculiar fashion as long as he does not overstep the bounds of propriety, which he sometimes does, and then the moral support of those who do not condemn is withdrawn, and Jack's sport is looked upon with anything but favor.

Some of the sailors connected with the war vessels lying in front of the city, taking their cue no doubt from the commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the rebellious Department of Louisiana, S. B. Packard, evidently look upon this town as a conquered and captured city, the inhabitants of which are worthy of any such treatment as the captors and victors see fit to bestow upon them.

There are two instances on record in which these men have while under the influence of liquor invaded private residences, and on being ordered out have not only refused to go, but at the same time heaped insult and abuse upon persons connected with the houses.

These valiant tars also on occasions become possessed of an insane idea of their own prowess, and it is not an unfrequent sight to see one of these belligerent individuals steadying himself by a lamp post and announcing himself as spoiling for a fight, and daring passers-by in language more forcible than eloquent to come on. Of course these things are merely the effects of the bad liquor of the town which makes the toilers of the sea display their true instincts, but then they are not nice, and until Jack can learn to behave himself ashore, for the credit of the service he had better be kept aboard.