New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-15

Old Kaintuck, and what little ! have II
leave to that ar yORng 'un. Only think @
the boss lettin' him be named arter me
I'll never call General Shelby stuck III
again, for they do say that ne vas the one
that fust named the child, In honor, says
he, of brave, kind hearted man and {
true friend"
Personal RecoEiections of Mr.. greeley.
From the Washington Republican,
During 1865 we saw very little Of Mr.
Greeley at the Tribune office until toward
seven O'Clock in the evening, during which
time he used to come down from the office
of the American Institute, in the Cooper
Union, where he spent five or six hours
every day writing the american Conflict
Mr.. Cav was managing editor OF the paper
at the time. His room ana that OF MT.
Greeley adioined, and to get to Horaces
den," as we called his sanCtum it was ne
cessary to pass through the apartment cccu-
pied by Mr.. Gay. Toward the hour that
Mr.. Greeley was expected, two or three
broken down tramps, gang OF local polItl-
clans, occasionally q woman with child or a
subscription paper, might be seen waltlng
for him on the iron stairway that led to
the editorial rooms, and he generally enter
ed the office with motley procession OF
this character at mis- heels Gay, who was
| an aristocrat by nature, hated this class Of
~
soon as Greeley appeared, he invariably
| bundled up his papers and went to a desk
| at the extreme end of the Office, where he
| remained until Greeley left, about ten
! o'clock. have sometimes seen as many as
ten persons waiting in line to get into Gree
ley's room: The great majority OF them
| wanted assistance Of some kind, mostly pc
cuniarv. | occupied a desk very near the
door of Mr.. Gays room, and necessarily
heard a good many Of tho dialogues be-
| tween Mr.. Greeley and his visitors. Here
is fair sample OF great many:
- Uncle Horace, am poor printer, and
| have not had anything to eat to-day"
| Horace, writing away, Have you had any
thing to drink :" No, uncle" You know
you lie. What's the use of lying about it
/ smell grog, and there's no grog here ex-
| cept what YOU brought in" This, Of course,
| led to further protestations on the part Of
| the printer. wien, to end the matter, H0r-
ace would say, "Well go away; here's a
dollar l know you viii go down to the
Pewter Mug Ia famous pot-house near
the Tribune Otfce), and get drunk. Then
| you will probably get killed, but | can't help
| that. Why don't you 90 West, and be d
| decent man p All this spoken in Mr., Gree
| Tvs treble voice, and with his peculiar en-
| phasis, was irresistibly comic, but it was Of
almost nightly occurrence III the Tribune
! office at the period OF which speak, and Tor
| many long years before.
| | remember a very interesting looking
| woman came into the ounce and asked Tor
Mr. Greeley. She was shown to his room,
and III few minutes 1hr greeley came out
into the larger editorial room, There were
only two or three IN the omee az Ine time,
Horace stood at the door, and, without ad-
dressing himself to any one particularly,
said, 'Wnl somebody loan me five dol
lars 2" think 1t was Amos j. Cummings,
the present managing editor OF the SIN.
who gave 1t to the Old man az course the
woman walked down stars breathing bless
ln9S on Mr.. Greeley Next nIgnt When he
came into the othCe Lie Salu, III The same
treble voice, somebody gave me hFe dol
lars last night Here they are
Finally the run upon Mr. Greeley became
SO great that Samuel Sinclair the publisher,
hired big fellow SIX teet hlgh, ami sta
toned him near the door 10 keep MI Gree
ley peculiar visitors away, unless they had
some other business with him tLan mere
begging. la7e forgotten his name now,
but 1t was Ben something or other. That
man saved Greeley at least thousand dol
lars during the eight or nine months that
he was there. lie mad been III California
and was anything out courteous n his de
meanOr. in addition to he duty OF attend
ing to the door, he had to go to the post
office at certain hour every night to get
the mail. The "bums, as Ben used to po-
htely term them, soo1 found tins out, and
used to watch Tor his departure TO the post
office, when they would stea! up stairs in
his absence and get to Greeley. Ben
heard OF the trick that was being played |
on him, and one night returned ana found |
fellow te!lng MS story 10 MI Greeley. |
He broke III on their conversation with |
the exclamation, "D-n you, didn't tell |
you not to come II here at the same time |
catching him up boldly re carried hlIn 10 |
the head OF the stars and lei Inn drop |
down two OF three nights, ONE night, be- |
tween seven and elght O'CLOCK, ben got INTO |
rather loud aItercatlon ct the door, II
have an appointment with Mr.. Greeley" |
You can play th&g game win me; get |
ay from mere; MI greeley does not want |
TO see any Gums lo-hl54l: some one went |
out ana f0und senator wilson III thlS aWk-
WaTo posltIoh' ~ WAS III Sul-nfI' anu MI |
wilson haG juStfttul Eed HUN " asnI4gton'
tie wore Anen coat, ana was covered with |
dusG beh thouSH0 D" ItgoghlZto III MN |
an olu 1ello" VINO hau bolto MI. Hreeicy a |
good deal, ana came very near thro"ln |
our future wee ITesldehU do#E stars
AS every o0dI Knows " 0Ieeiey greaS |
dofto was staiSt1oS ana eitStioH Ietalhs.
10 be up 10 these TWO rare qualifications or !
10 nave me H4MoeI OF
pounds OF lasI year Woo H,- clIil anG me IONS
o. PlS iron H'""9 III ! enns1 "lld a OLE |
unS5F sIiuS was Tue suiest anu easiest way |
70 MI NIeeItS he&1J ana cVihLtno@uoh'
no rarely gave instructors ABOUT t!o
paper or even mace suggestions except III |
an euItV1+"i "t4t" o1t 't'FiHs tiH&'ioA t5hes'
"htn IHtte SoI!l" So1 ne 20" many tables 10 !
s&ils1y tnln' Al was a SAYING IL III" ''it.ae
that ne "ouL0 "l' 'hSS.lc':"t.: "s"'heT q !
column % a7NI"s We H=4F or wrong "y |