The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-05-07
George Wilkins Kendall.


tdins portrait of the editor in chief of the
New Orleans Picdyune, GEORGE w. KEN
DALI, who, 1--WE copy the hternationars
article1 as an editor, author, traveller,
or bon garcon, is worldfamous, and every
where entitled to be chairman in assem-
blies of these several necessary classes
Of people. Take him for all in ALL
he may be described as a new Chevalier
Bayard, baptized in the spirit of fun, and
with steel pen in lieu of blade Of Damas-
Gus. He is Vermonter-of the state which
has sent out Orestes Brownson, Herman
Hooker, the Colons, Hiram Powers, Ham
nah Gould, and a crowd of other men and
women with the sharpest intellects, and for
the most part the genialest tempers, too, that
can be found in all the country. His boy,
hood was passed in the delightful village of
Burlington, from which, when he was OF age,
he came TO New York, and here he lived,
until about the year 1885, when he went to
New Orleans, where his subsequent career
may be found traced in the most witty and
brilliant, and altogether successful journal ev.
er published in southern or western states
Partly for the love Of adventure and part.
ly for advantage TO his health in the spring
Of S4l, Mr.. Kendall determined TO make an
excursion into the great southwestern prair-
les and the contemplated trading expedition
TO Sdnla.Fc offering escort and agreeable
companions, he procured passports from tlio
Mexican vice consul at New Orleans, and
joiued it at Austin. The history of this ex.
peditlon has become an important portion o.
| the history Of the nation, and its details,
embracing an account OF his own captivity
and sutlerincs in Mexico, were written by
Mr.. Kendall in one of the most spirited and
graphic books Of military and wilderness ad-
ventures. viclssiludes, and endurance, that
! has been furnished in our times. The work
has been published in two volumes by tile
Harpers,in 1874. Ii thas since passed through
many editions, and for the fidelity and feic
ity, the bravery and bon hommie, that mark
all its pages, it is likely to be one of the
choicest chronicles that will be quoted from
our own in the new centuries.
After the publication Of his narrative of the
Santa-Fe Expedition, Mr.. Kendall resum
ed his more immediate services in the Pic.
ayune- always, it may be said without inius
tce to his associates, most attractive under
his personal supervision; and in the angry
and war-tending controversies with Mexico
which filed the public mind in the succeed
ing years, he was one of the calmest as wei
as wlscst of our journalists. When at lengtl
the conflict came on, he attended the yicto
rious Taylo. as a member of his staff along
the mountains and valleys which that grea
commander marked with the names of i'm
mortal Victories and had more than satisiac
ton for all griefs of his own in seeing The
flag of his coonlry planted in every scene il
which his country had been insulled in hi
own person.
Upon the conclusion of the war, Mr.. Ken
dali commenced tile preparation of the mag
nificent work which has lately been publish
ed in this city by the Appletons, under th'
title of 'Thc War between the Unite,
States and Mexico by George w. Kendall
illustrated by pictorial drawings, by Car
Nebel" Mr.. Nebe may be regarded as on'
of the best battle painters living. lie ac
compared Mr.. Kendall during the war, ant
made his sk etches while on the several field
5 where he had witnessed the movement OF tn
contending armies and in all their accesso
ries of scenery, costume. and general effect
: he has unquesionably been rs successful n
= the actors in the drama admit him to hav
! been in giving vivid and just impresso
of the distinguished characteristics of eac
conflict. The subjects of the plates are tn
the Bombardment of Vera Cruz, the Battl
of Cerro Gordo, Storming Of Chepultepec
the Assault on Contreras, the Battle OF Cher
J ubusco, the Attack on Molino del Rey, Gen
eral SCOTS Entrance into Mexico, the Bat
tie of Buena VISTA the Battle of Palo Al;C
and the Capture of Monterey. In some ca
ses, there are two representations of the sam
, scene, taken from different points OF view
: These have all been reproduced in eolore
= lithography by the best artists of Paris. Th
literary part OF the work. comprising yer
: careful and particular accounts of these
vents, is excellently written-so compact
D and perspicuously, with 50 thorough know
edge and so pure taste, as to he deservin
l OF applause among models in military his
= tory. Mr.. Kenaall passed about two yeal
: in Europe for the purpose Of superintendent
its publication, and its success must have an
9 ply satisfied the mos, sanguine anticipation
e with which he entered upon its composition
New England largely represented anon
the leading editors Of the South and IVES