Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1860-01-19
Typographical Reminiscsnce-A Game
Of Poker and rhai came Of IT,.

OF Poker and lchai came Of a..
The Albany IN. W Gatesm,an, in a
leading article tells the following story:
"Twenty.three years ago we stuck type
IN The same alley in the printing office Of
The .Nep Yorker, edited and published by
HORACE GREELEY, GEO. WILKINS KEN
DALI, (,he protector Of The New Orleans
picdyunel, MoReAS BATES 1--WE think since
partner in the publication of the Detroit
.9dueriiser), o. A. BowE (who vas a fell
low apprentice with GREELEY, and after
ward, published paper at Little Falls },
stood at the case in the same Office. BowE,
BATES sud Pace are now dead. KENDALL
is sill living, but has abandoned the chair
editorial fer sheep raising on the plains Of
msnce The Picdyune, having acquired the
capital for that enterprise in way that
would hardly be considered orthodox in a
snora community. Before leaving New
York kendall had 'iramped' The South as
iour printer-traveled for information,
as he said, through every principal village
and city in the Southern States. sometimes
(there was but one Railroad in the South
then, from Charleston TO Augusta end
not unfrequen'lv on foot with his baggage
IN his back, pendant in handkerchief,
from his walking stick. Sometimes he was
flush and we'll Observation-Disclosures strap
ped and secdy-but always witty, genial
and centlemanly. In his adventures he
had frequently been boon companion with
many Of the most eminent men In the coun-
try.
The As:or House then was Just opened
ard extensively visited by Southerners.-
Il was fashion with KENDALL 10 patron.
izc that establishment after working hours
Siroliing over there one evening, after hav.
ing washed up he was agreeably sur
prised 10 meet several gentlemen whom HI
had known as merchants, lawyers, and
doctors, at Natchez, Mississippi. After
juleps all round, and sherry cobblcr a.
piece, sNme ene,,proPosed TO close the night
with little game Ct poker. KENDALL had
Int about FIVE dollars in his watch fol
(,here was no watch there, but he Assem-
ted among he rest, 10 The proposition
EXcusing himself fer a moment, he made a
lu,h down Ann street 10 the Office, where
he hoped 10 find some Of his fellow printer:
with money 10 lend. BiTEs as foreman @
Tie office, had been detained in making uI
the forms. lie had eight dollars, and we
Eve were hclring BArss,) had two hun
drsd aud seven cents. KENDALL took tht
dollars, (leaving us the cents, and thus
made purse Of %;l5. With this fund hi
sat down 10 play. al o'clock kendall
came into the office, paid up the ST o he hal
borrowed, told GREELEY he would give VI
his Situation, and asked all hands 10 partakt
OF 'pious gorge that afternoon. 'Al
hands were bul two happy TO do that same
and still more happy when their fellow
craftsman announced That he was the IN
fortunate pOssessOr of about 500, won a
he little game of poker aforesaid, ant
that with the 500 he proposed to start 4;
paper in New Orleans In due time tht
P,cayune apPeared-was a success-win
ming reputation for Kendall as polished
writer and brilliant vii, and what wa.
better, giving him princely income. HI
has had many hair-bread.h escape since
that; was among the Santa re prisoners
end given up as dead, but afterwards re
released; he went through the Mexican
War; was years in foreign travel, until sa
Hated with enjoyment, and tired of The ex
element Of city life, he retired to Texas
and is now master Of thousands of sores o
land, and reckons more than a hundred
thousand sheep, cattle, and mules, a, hi
individual property"