The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1860-02-15
Story Of q Successful Editor.

The Albany Statesman, in leading
article, tells the following story:
Twenty years ago we stuck type in
the same alley, in the printing Office of
the New Yorker, edited and published by
Horace Greeley. George Wilkins Ken
dali, proprietor of the New Orleans
Picayune,) Morgan Bates, 1--WE think since
a partner in the publication of the De-
troit Advertiser.) o. A. Bowen, (wbo
was fellow apprentice with Greeley. and
afterwards published paper at Little
Falls stood at the case in the same Office.
Bowen, Bates and Paige are now dead
Kendall is still living, but has abandoned
the chair editorial for sheep raising on the
plains of Texas. He left the New York
er Office to commence the Picayune, hav-
ing acquired tho capital for that enter
prise in a way that would hardly be con.
sidered orthodox in a moral community.
Before leaving New York, Kendall had
'tramped' the south as jour printer
travelled for information. as he said, thro'
every principal village and city in the
Southern States, sometimes on steamboats,,
sometimes in stage coaches, (there vas
but one railroad in the south then, from
Charleston to Augusta,) and not unfre-
quently on foot, with his baggage on his
back, pendant in a handkerchief from his
walking-stick. Sometimes he was flush;
and we'll l-dressed-sometimes strapped
and seedy-but always witty, genial and
gentlemanly. In his ventures, he had
frequently been boon companion with
many of the most eminent men of the
country.
The Astor house then was just opened,
and extensively visited by southerners.
1t was fashion with Kendall to patro.
nize that establishment after working
hours. Strolling over there one evening,
after having washed up he was agreea-
bly, surprised to meet several gentlemen
whom he had known as merchants, and
lawyers, and doctors, at Natchez, Missis-
sippi. After juleps all round, and sher-
ry cobbler apiece, some one proposed to
close the night with a little game Of
poker. Kendall had but about five dol.
lars in his watch-fob (there was no watch
there, } but he assented. among the rest, to
the proposition. Excusing himself for 9
moment, he made q rush down Ann
street to the Office, where he hoped to 6nd
some of his printers with money te
lend. Mr.. Bates, as foreman of the
Office, had been detained making up thu
forms. He had eight dollars, and we
1--WE were helping Bates) had two hundred
and seven cents, and thus made purse o
!, SIS. With this fund he sat down t,
play. The play went on until daylight
/ Att O'Clock, Kendall came into the offic
| paid up the $40 he had borrowed. tol,
t Greeley he would give up his situation
and asked all hands to partake of 'piou
i. gorge that afternoon. Gall hands" wer
but too happy to do that same, an
still more happy when their fellow-crafts
, man announced that he was the fortunat
: possessor of about 500. won at the lii
e tie game of poker aforesaid, and tha
i. with the 500 be proposed to start
p paper in New Orleans In due time th
# Picsyune appeared-was success--win
Q ming reputation for Kendall as polish
d ed writer and brilliant wit, AID what wa
o better, giving him princely income. H
!. has had many hair-breadth escape sine
e that; was among the Santa Fe prison
s ers, and given up as dead, but afterward
] released; he went through the Mexica
IT war; has passed years in foreign travel
n satiated with enjoyment, tired of the el
d citement of city life, he retired to Te1a
b and is now master of thousands of acrs
of land, and reckons more than hui
y dred thousand sheep, cattle and mules, {
J. his individual property.
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