A paltry sum_." A more honorable, high-minded gentleman never lived." HOME JOURNAL OFFICE, NEW-YORK, _September 22, 1851_. TO JOHN SMITH, JR., OF ARKANSAS: _My Dear Sir_:--I thank you sincerely for your sacrilegious conduct." The guests were quite unused to subterfuge, and at that highly satisfactory conclusion, espying the parson in a tank.