New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-27
mOBR ADVERTISING.

Or ce there was frog we remember hearing
when We were yOuDg-more years ago than we
like t. think of-who died from al " happy cause.
BE "bust." But thi, miserable and painful end
was brought about entirely by his own misbehavior.
His wretched vanity prompted him to try to emu
late the OK IN size, and the consequence was, as
might have been seen by frog of the most limited
III derstanding, the very nasty catastrophe above
mentioned.
Nov, "H., s. & T." we consider, in the way Of
ADVERTISE G, to be-metsph oricslly speakiug-au OK
of an enormous size. Whoever undertakes to
emulate them in magnitude will come to that same
miserable ending which befsl the frog in the fable.
They are irreproachable and with good reason;
they have been growing great while. The use of
Mass Meeting at Cooper Institute as sort of
huge advertising var i, not new thing with them,
this time, runs 80 perfectly, and was made to do
the grinding of the whole family. Whoever pro-
poees to initiate them in this business of political
advertising must begin at the beginning. A good
way is 70 be published for Diminishing porter who
unlike the one of the knowing wink-was such
fool as to have opinion Of his own upon politics.
But any imitation will probably end in failure.
At the row at the New York Hotel on Tuesday
evening there were two young ger 'lemen who got
themselves into difficulty and we're taken to the Sta
tion House They also are of the dry.goods fa niy,
and possibly may have been about tht hotel for an
opportunity OF distinguishing themselves. If they
were, they got it, but much in the way of the ndi
eidual to whose pathetic fate we referred in the
beginning There may be something very glorious
in fightiog especially when ladies' eyes are beam.
ing from hotel balconies, and gallant Southrons are
lOlDg in resdiI loom windows to watch the issue,
and oil in defense of the right of our Southern
brethren doing as they have mind with their own
iggers. SO far it is all good for Dry Goods. Bat
when it is followed by the merciless grasp of po-
hcen an, by an Occaional hint from his baton to
move quicker, by a hard bench in the Station.
IIouse for the night, a Police Justice the next
morning, and q fine, or bond to take ones
utterly disappears but it does rot even promise
much as an advertising speculation. We can
fancy ire dreams in the Henry family, after the
lights were fed and the gaIlat de dead, on the night
Of the great Mas Meetiog-visions of Diy Goods,
=" like PeOD upon Ossa pitd'-dreams of ready
made clothing coming out of the Infinite past, ex.
tel ding iuto he infinite future; full suits, Of all
sorts aid sizes, with never leg nor an arm 10 the
eLoe OF them, but marching a stately march
from everlasting to everlasting; but dreams ia
Staton- House, with buDged eye, swollen
chin, and baaered nose-that is quite suotaer
NATTER ard the advertisement we aIlude to, not
desirable.
TIE Gaze re allud, to is peculiarly unfortunate,
because the risk taken WAS more than ordinarily
great. Wien meIe worldly mao gets into diff.
cuty, 1T much is thought Of it, and il is soon for.
gotten. But when young Quaker gentlemen,
whose lives hitherto have been such that their
course vas steadily onward to the high seats of the
meeting, far forget the faith Of their fathers as
ID give their adherence to Pro-Slayery party, aad
Tie discipline and queries of the meetiog rs to gu
gage in street lows, and all for the s,ke of Dry
Goods, then the result is more pitiful. We can
only hope the warning may not be without profit.