Des Arc citizen., 1860-02-01
Typographical Reninist elco-7A Game
 of Poker, and What Came of It.

of Poker, and What Came of It.
 The Albany (N. Y.) .Sqfesn3ai, in a lending article, tells tbe following story
 "Tweniy.three years ego we stuck tvpe' in the same alley in inc printing. eaice of the .Ne3c Yorker, edited and pub 'Hshed bv Horace Greeley George Will kins Kendall, (ihe proiector of the New Orleans Picqytms9 Morgan Bates, (we. think since partner inibe publication Of
 he Deroh .4dosfhserS)a o. A. Bowe, (who was fellow apprenlice with Gree lev. ana allerwasds published 2 paper at Little Falls,) stood atathe case in the same office. Bowe, Bates and Paige are now dead. Kendall is still living, bat has abandoaedv ibe char editorial for sheep-raisi1g on the plains ofA Texas. He left the. Yorker office to commence the Picayune, having acquired the capital flor that enterprise in way that would Hardly be considered orthodox in moral communily Before leaving New York, Kendall had tramped the Sooth as a jour printer--tfnveed for information, as he said, through every principal village and city in the Southern States, some times on steasnboats, sometimes in stage coaches, (tbere was but one railroad Tn the South then, from Charleston to Au- gusta, {, and not unfrequenlIy on foot, wilh,his baggage on his back, pendant in handkerchief, from his waIklng-stick.
 Sometimes he was flush, and well dress cd sometimes strapped and seedy-
 but always witty, genial and gentlemsnly. In his adventures he had frequently been boon compa.nionl with many of the most eminent men in the country.
 The Astor House then was just open ed, and extensively visited by Southern CTS. It was fashion with Kendall to patfonize that establishment after working hours. Smelling over there one evening, after having washed up, he was agreea- ply surprised to meet several gentlemen whom he had known as merchants, law yers and doctors, at Natchez, Mississippi After Juleps all round and a sherry cob- bier apiece, some one proposed oA'close
 the night with a. lule ggame of poker Kendall had but about five dollars In his watch fob (there was no ehtllere) but he sassented afhohg thegrest, 10 the propo- sition Excusing hanselfslorsa moment, he made 'asrush down Ann street to The office, where he hopedsto find some of his fellow printers wflh money 10 lend. Bates, as foreman of the office, had been. detain- ed making up the forms. lie had eight dollars, and 2. we (we were helping Bates) had two. hundred and seven cents
 Kendall took the dollars o,( leaving us the cents and thus made .purse of Sl5
 With thistfund he sat downto play. fhe playwent on until daylight. At7 o'clock, Kendall oame ilnoahe office, paid up the '$1o be had borrowed, told Greeley he would give up his situation, and asked all hands 10 parlake of . 'stpioas gorge that afternoon 5e. All hands were but too happy to do that same and still more hap-I lpy when their fellow crattsmenannounced that he. was the fortunaie possessor ol, about $7O0, won athe little game of po-. .ker' aforesaid, and that with the $700 bei proposed to start paper in New Or leans In due time the Picayune ap- peared was. a suceess--winning reputa- ton for Kendall as a polished writer and a brilliant wit, and what was better, giv- ing him princely income. He has had many hair-breadth escape since that was among the Santa Fe prisoners. and given up as dead, but afterwards released; he went through the Mexican War; has passed years in foreign travel, until satiated with enjoyment, and tired of the excitement of city life, he retired 10 Tex as. and is now master of thousands of acres of land. and reckonss more than a hundred thousand sheep, cattle and mules, as his individaal propeny."