But they are stingy in another way, that brings with it its own punishment--they starve themselves. I know of several of your half million folks, not a thousand miles from where I now sit, whose table does not cost them fifty cents a day, and that too with tolerably numerous families. I was once ill-advised enough to dine with a gentleman of this description, in a sister city, in consequence of his repeated and pressing invitations. We had part of a fore-quarter of very small mutton boiled, with a small modicum of potatoes; one man could have eaten the whole. To be sure, I had a glass of "London particular" Madeira after dinner, if it deserves the name, but as soon as I had done I made my excuses--"indispensable business--obliged to go out of town, &c." and fled to an eating-house, where I satisfied what Dan Homer emphatically calls the "thumos edodes," the madness of appetite, with something more to the purpose than lean mutton. Mr. Longford was "none of them sort;"--he retired from business with only fifty thousand dollars, but with a clear conscience, adjusted books, and not a single cent of debt--he never refused his charity to deserving objects, and never signed a subscription paper for their relief,--he was never a member of a charitable society, and never contributed a cent to the Missionary funds, whether for the Valley of the Mississippi or the Island of Borneo, where there are nothing but monkeys, or Malays as incapable of being christianized as the monkeys. Had he lived at the present time, and in this section of the country, he would have been prayed _for_ and prayed _at_, at least once a day, and been, besides, occasionally held up in the pulpit as a specimen of total depravity, and a child of perdition. Yet, with all these defects, Mr. George Longford was a sincerely devout man, and a most firm believer in the Christian religion,--from a conviction of its truth, not merely because it was the fashion to believe it, or because his fathers believed it before him,--and a practical observer of its moral precepts. He read and studied the New Testament, because it contained a compendium of all his every-day duties as a rational and accountable being, and as a member of society, not because it was a magazine of polemical divinity and abstruse doctrines. The evening of such a man's life is calm and tranquil; his death is indeed the death of the righteous.