New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-20
A RlalNG FAMILY,

Mr.. Ben. Wood must look TO bis laurels Mere
are other A" rising men" among us who may MP
tina bursting bad of bis nascent greatness, may
eclipse the rising sun of his splendor, may-msy-
in short cut Mr.. Ben.'s comb. Indeed, We rather
think we are authorized to use the preter-pertect
tense and declare that that event has already over
taken Bepjsmin, the youngest, and, as 1t was
boped. this best-belOyed sOn Of the Democracy,
And it is Henry, or rather many Henrys-
John r. Henry and a large family of relatives aud
retaipers, who have thus risen up among US to
sudden greatness, and extibguished the rising man
ubo only a week or two ago, gaze such rare
promise. They have not only put this their little
brother in ,mocracy into pit, but they ave
stolen away his fusion coat of many colors, and
bad The haroihOOd to app,ar with it as Chairman,
and Vce.Presidents and Sec .etarles, and porters,
and all manner Of things at The EIpreSs's fifty
thousand meeting at the Cooper Institute on Mon
day evtnitg, aud which meeting really did, no
dou II. comprise from sin to eight thousand men,
il cluoipR three to four thousand Republicans.
Henry IL great name in tho history OF this
country, from Patrick down to his grandson
down great way. II to receive in our day new
lustIe, though we believe our Henrys are not de-
scepded directly from the Virginia family. They
are too man5 for Mr. Wood to contend with in the
race to glory, and too smar. to have been oil BORN
in one State.
John 4. Henry deals in dry goods and finds his
ma ktt at the South. Joshua j. Henry is q dealer
Ia IT ady made clothing, which goes to the same
market. There are good many ways of adver-
ti.ipa 3 business, aud men who are shrcwd enough
TO pet 90 Udi2n meeting at the Cooper Institute
10 advertise their old clos and callcoes deserve
TO have the credit of it. Especially are they de-
serving of it when they make family afiH Oft,
,ud ,hare its advantage With brothers aud brothers
in.)ay, At the Cooper Institute, Mr. Joshua y.
Hem, tbkes the chair, as the head of the family;
one brother, Mr.. John T., is put upon the list OF
yicePre,ider ts; another brother, Philip is on the
same list; a brother in-la1, Mr. fenner, is
also among the Vice Presidents and another
Mr.. Feprcr, abusness partner of oDoOf the HenryS,
er lows the sans distinguished position. Mr. Steele,
who is either partner or clerk, we are nOtfure
which, in the same dry-gOods concern OF Henry
Smith & Townsend is one of the Secretaries OF the
meeting. and, if we are rightly IDoimea, another
o,s Of the clerks was on that list also. This firm
does large business exclusively at the South.
Ard, probably that the meeting might represent
the Henry interest in all its parts, tho porter Of one
of them, whose name unfortunately the Historic
Muss has not yet recorded, took the tickets at the
platform. door, saying to those who entered whom
be r, cogrized, with a merry twinkle OF the eye
"H., s. d 4. yen know p"
Now has Benjamin any such porters as these
Is Benjomin in the cloth Dg trade Does he keep
on hand large stock of dry goods suitable to the
Southern ma,ket Has he got lots OF brothers,
add brothers n-law, ard blsine's partners, and
clerks, and po,te S, wherewith to make fusions
and fifty thousand Cooper Institute meetings? of
course he hasn't and it is useless for him to pre-
serd to be a l-iDg man 10 competition with the
.oeyitably upward tendency Of q whole family and
several warehouses, and such an immense quantity
If goods on hand