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'dm W1C p<s fnrg |)Iamdeal«; Sard Harrington, Hiram;C. Whitely, Ne - - - -- J. TAN SLTKE, fcOT^RT, iLijifbM8 '«®HE NEWS C0NBE5SED. •rme jcamt. Tkb fanerml services of the lite Alexander Stewart were solemnized at hie hows® and at (ft . R. Mark's ohurcb, New York, on the 13th h tKtuiL Bishop Potter officiated, assisted by a iMwwiifmmber of clergyflWb. • TOT1!5i»l'aeeowfioiw fkt each piaoe were magnificent, and the crowds In front of tho house, the chnrch, and along . the sire*i* wura vorv great. The admission to the house and the church was by ticket, and i«*| es|he holders of these included leaders in so- i ?,n* cial, professional and political life. QtfA. Til- l{£»n and Rinfl hwidad th» mn.Hm'Sn. *f THE will of the late Alexander, T. Stewait f l»qneaths all his properly and estate to his wife, l*"' "Cornelia St. Stewart, and her heirs forever, *nd appoints Judge Henry Hilton to act in • , |>ehalf of the atote and in managing his ' ' affairs*. As a, mark of regard, Mr. Stewart b®- w* toueathod to Judge Hilton the '•1,000, - , ,f Job. H© appoints Ida <•»*»» or.age Hilton and William lAvy ubs executors. The business 'fKJluraTft of the deceased millionaire will goon •"- ̂ be MmA «« death, and the various Alans of publio bea«ficaoce initiated by him v4 Vmj faithfully owried out, Hokaci. Qkeelet's old homestead in the ; i .•roods of Chapparqat, TS, Y., was recently de- h'Vta •teoyed by flrs,.. .Moody and Sankej hive !> < jfcroTight their teviyal meetings La New York to close, . Louis J. Jsmrares, formerly editor of the jfow York Timet, was arrested in that city the * "* ®ther day, in the suit of the Graphic Company • 4nd held for hsf! in $10,000 each in six units for >" .#bel, which have been pending against him in , . ;the civil court®. Detectives had, been hunting lor Jennings nearly a month. He had been '•« keeping extremely qaiet, with the intention of , sailing for Euxopewith his family so as to »void arrest. WT An offer has been made by Garvey, the plae- 't1 - terer, and Keyaer, the plumber of the Tweed "jing, to restore to the city of New York their Z jeepective shares of the stealing in which they tere instrument al as soon as the amounts can s ascertained. They wish to bs let out of ths • ' «ivii «nits for recovery of the plunder on the •Hi , Ittorspovto^ from Chicago thai thm uw sow in the West200,000 head of cattle awaiting the drying up of the country roads to ship to •the eastern market. The value of this live . •» i a stock is estimated at $12,000,000, and this sum . jrill be distributed throughout the West within ' two months Gen. John McDonald, the ex- * , • United States Supervisor of Internal Revenue -. .atSt. Louis, recently oonvkstod of conspiracy to ' aefraud the revenue, was last week sentenced ' •to three years in the Penitentiary Mid to pav a 1 i, •tone of $5,000.... W. O. Avery, late chief clerk in the Bevenue bureau at Wsshiagton, was at •l® <ihe same time sentenced to two years in the sy., penitentiary and $1,000 line. hi • ,,) lathe United Strstse Distort oottrt, at Jsf- 4,, person City, Mo., last week, the following sen* ienoee were passed by Judge Krekel upon per- sons convicted in that court of connection with ' 'fee whisky frauds: John L. Bittenger, ex- ivtilgauger, of Bt, Joseph, two years in the peni- *1 ienifwT eoA- 6se Samuel Adfer. and T^nist, matiilsrn and rcctilte-^, Si. Jo­ seph. each one year in the county jail, and f10,000 fine; John C. Bheehan, distiller, Bt, oaeph, eight months in the county jail from 4 Beptember last and $1,000 fine ; Heurv R. Hart- iliig and Ernst F. Harting, brothers. St Joseph, •ach three months in the county Jail an412.500 fine ; James E. Marsh, ex-g&uger, (Sty, aix months m jail and $1,000 fine. MENTION has heretofore been made in this }rv nt ̂ amn °' excitemest in Chicago over the frauds perpetrated at the recent election for * town officers in that city, and of the public tti 4' toeetings' held for'.the purpose of demising M 3ii jneasure* to prsveafc the franiolsntly elected ,offio«g from exerdsfng th@ functions of the **,J'^>0Bttkwi8 to which they Mid claim. The city ^rtl r Was excited as it probably never was before f : about an election, and threats of lynching the ballot-box stuff era were freely indulged in. bv. iJlHppily such a summary mode of dealing . tvitk the rascals has been obviated, as we •*u learn frc m the Chicago papers that the ob­ is! <• noxious crew have been gotten rid of by legal : |neans. At a meeting of the town board last %reek, called to canvass the returns of the l»i« election, evidence of the glaring frauds was ,,. placed before them, whereupon they declared 'the late election a nullity, decided that the . »li1 Offices of town assessor, collector and clerk g .Jfiere vacant, and proceeded to fill them bv the ' Appointment of reputable citizens, who were •S'1' 'Immediately sworn in. J»- ' THE steamer Dictator was Wrecked at TTiumi- I,;? jbal, Mo., one day last ws^k, while attempting t,;; o pass through the draw of the railroad bridge, „ % ̂ accroBH the Mississippi at that point. The f coat sunk immediately, and with it ten of the trew. Tlie bridge wag badly dftpHged Dur- «.vf^Bg tlie past year over $26,000,000 of United • AtatftH taxf" have been coilested in ths Internal •* -11 Revenue District managed at present by Ba- j if»«><>t)«rvis&r Matthe-sws, and comprehending the ^Stales of Dlinoia. Wimconaia( «nd Mic]iig». v * " J The munic pal electioa in Chicago, last week, s 01 uresulted in the choice of the entire Republican v iicket, with the exception of City Treasurer, f -w try about 5,000 majority. Clinton Briggs, the S Democratic nominee, was elected Treasurer by * ' ©.263 majority. The City Council is largely •"Republican and anti-Colvin. Thomas Hoyne Ta« united upon by all parties for Mayor, and tWa8 elected without opposition. Bat as no 'election for Mayor had been legall-- utliorized, • ' ;*nd the present incumbent, Col vm, has ex- jJFensed hie determination not to yield up the • ~ Office, it is not likely that Mr. Hoyne will be • :.i Inducted into the office. Over 5J, 000 votes j-^ere polled, an unusually large nam- » « r Ior a 'oc&^ contest Chicago i levators.' as per official figures, con- | vtain 2.892,390 bushels of wheat, 1,688,876bunb- I Mt- f,H of corn. 663-977 bushels of oats, 104.G39 I ••'tiushelH of rye, and 223,496 bushels of bailey, f makiii« a grand total of 5,572,878 buBhels, ' . 0,055,733 bunhels at this period last year... .The Toledo Blade publishes compre- i hensive crop reports from over two hun&od points io Ohio, Michigan. Indiana, and wiiicii indicate that the prowpects of wheat in principal wheat-producing regions in these 4 .^States are unusually good. Fruit everywhere is , re|iOfted aa looldng unusually weil. 1 Dom Pedbo paid a flying visit to Chicago the I -"'"othei- day, merely passing through the city en I way to Ban'Francisoo. , I 0ti! aoonk- Ichnbod Xettleship, Thomas P. Somerville, Geo. E. Miles, alias Bliss, alias Williams, and Walter Brown, alias William Bentosu Muss is under­ going a sentence of fourteen years in the Ver ­ mont penitentiary for robbing ths Barre bank, and the whereabouts of Benton, ons of the buiglara who broke ths safe, are unknown. It M reported that Harrington has fled the ooCBMvy. IT is said ex-Secretary Belknap and his friends are collecting material to make out a ease against Ges. Custer with a view to having him tried by court-martial before Gen, Terry at St. Paul... "Washington dispatches say there is no truth in the report that Gen. Sohenck will return to London as onr Minister. It is also stated that the committee investigating the Emma mine business will absolve him from any fraudulent intention in the transaction. THB President has appointed Michael Schaef- fer, of Illinois, Chief-justice of Utah ; EHsha P. Ferry, Governor of Washington Territory ; and Joseph C. Wilson, Collector of Internal Revenue for Colorado It seems that Tom Scott has encountered some formidable rivals before the Congreraional committee. It is stated that responsible parties have made a proposition to the committee to complete the Sottlhern Pacific road for the amount of the land grant, to commence without delay, and continue operations until it ia jizushed, and to make a deposit of .$3,000,000 as a pledge to the Government of the good faith of the proposition. The Secretary of War has directed the mili­ tary commanders*along the Rio Grande to grant protection to American citizens against tb# lawless outrages of the Mexican greasers, and to enforce this order--if it is necewwry--to cross the rvv«r and protect them by foroe A Washington dispatch says: *'The Ccmmit- the industrial and agricultural exhibitions al­ ready announced Negotiationh wbioh have been pending for some time between the Govern­ ment of Alfonso and ths Vatioan have been bro­ ken off, the Madrid authorities informing those at R<MrathatSp^wilifcbidAbrth6o0(iiM§datof of 1851, excepting only that ofanss which guar­ antees religions unity.... A larga dsmonstra­ tion in favor of the liberation of the *£iQhborne claimant wes held in Hyde Park, a few days ago A serious political riot, grow­ ing out of a Home-rale demonstration, occur­ red in the city of limerick, Ireland, tho other day. A large number of persons were wounded, some, it is feared, fatally. Cabtjb dispatches import the severe defeat of a large Turkish force by insurgSnt ^mti&ns. It is also reported, that Count Andrassy will ad­ dress a fresh note to the Porte, advocating the claims of the insurgents, and the Russian and German Ambassadors at Constantinople will be instructed to support it Hungarian journals assert that the Servian army, headed by the Belgrade brigade, is ©is its way to the frontier and will rendezvous at Poupriga It is re­ ported that the Egyptian army is soteoanded in Abyssinia, and m great peril. A cable dispatch says the three Northern European powers have intimated to the Forte that if a massacre should follow the arming of the Mohammedan population a military expe­ dition composed of Austrian 'and Basuan troops into Turkish territoxy will certainly be undertaken. FORTY-FOURTH (H)XUBE3(I, * April IS.--denote,--The proceed­ ings in the Senate were dull and uninteresting. Bills were passed providing for I he Imprisonment t*,A nn iVnpn<1Hrr#>* in th« Trea«nrv denarfc. *od transfer oi United States prisoners; providing tee on i,xpenuiti res in vne ireaeury aepait- ; f ^ sroarate entry of packages contained in one ment, m examining the accounts of the bureau ' - - • - • "w of captured asd abandoned property, has dis­ covered that property of immense value is un­ accounted for. The responsibility for much of this is directly traceable to Simon Draper, of New York, former Government agent, mow dead." ! H* ftreworAi. Bevwwte COIAWWHI "PiTrrRBon, ; foot the Memphis (Tenn.) district, recently made : raid on the whisky crooks in Henry county, 5 -Tean.. and CaHoway county, Kv. Eight illicit • ® distilleries and several thousand gallonu of • si|^E«h were destroyed, and nve of the guilty | c^>artie» arrested. i I « ; The annual flood iî toeM^WBsippi river is [ unusually disastrous this season. Many I **fcreakK have Occurred in the levees, and much I "•Valuable country inundated by the escaping I .tffHtt-r* The dnmasf, it is estimated, will | each severa l mi l l ions o f do l lars , j , s . j ; ,» | 1TA«HI»«XPN. 4? f#; ( f BtPHE8tntattves of tLe whis^yJintersst are I *tn Washington, wdrking for a reduction of the | Hax to half a dollar a gallon, ft is not likely | Athey will succeed The anniversary of the | atiearisiuation of President Lincoln, April 14, I 'Vaw observed as a pubic holiday at the capital. Okn. Babcock has been indicted by the Do* Pedbo, Emperor Of Brazil, arrived in New 'York last week. Secretaries Fish, Taft, Robeson. Gen. Sherman, Mayor Wickham and other officials steamed down the bay and tmarded the steamer bearing the distinguished visitor, for the purpose of escorting him to the city. The Emperor poeitively declined a pub­ lic reception, and the committee left the vessel hortly after boarding it. In the evening the Emperor and Empress visited Booth's Theater, and the following day visited Moody and Sankey at the Hippodrome. It is stated, as understood at Washington, that charges have been filed against Gen. Cus­ ter by a prominent army offioer, and that action will be taken in the case by Gen. Terry, Cus­ ter's department commander, as soon as the infbrmation on wbich they are based reaches his hands/... .Gen. John A. Sutter, the original California pioneer upon whose estate gold was discovered, is in very reduced clrcumstanoes. Geo. Sherman and several liundred ' other forty-niners sre petitioning Congress to give him a pension, or rather to repay him for sup­ plies and medicines furnished sick and desti­ tute miners. Sutter resides at present in Washington. The ship Victory, from Shields, England, for Ban Francisoo, was recently lost at sea. All the people on board, twenty-six in number, perished....The Irish rifle team will sail for this country In August. Great distress prevails among the people off that remote and in the winter inacoessible cor­ ner of the Dominion, the Gaepe district, at the mouth of the river St. Lawrence. Feed foe animals and food ior men are about exhusted, and the horrors of actual starvation can only be averted by a speedy opening of navigation. POLITICAL. Tax *• Liberals" have issued a call for a consultation to be held next month in Phila­ delphia. It bears the names of Chas. Francis Adams, Carl Schurz, David A. Wells and others. .... Lincoln statue, paid for exclusivelv by con­ tributions from colored people, was unveiled on Capitol hill in the presence of a yast audience. The oration was delivered by Fred Douglass, tod a poem was read by Miss Iky, colored.... A Washington dispatch says representatives of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads will present to the House Committee for con­ sideration a proposition for the settlement of their affairs with the Government very similar to that already before the Senate. Their propo­ sition is to give a certain number of acres of land back to the Government at $2.50 an acre, this land lying west of the 100th meridian. To the amount arising from this retrocession of land they propose to add that the Govern­ ment now owes the company on account of transportation, and then pay into the treasury a sufficient sum annually to" provide a sinking fund to meet the bonds and interest at ma­ turity, this sum to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treaury. The Illinois Democratic Convention will con­ vene at Springfield on the 22d of June Nebraska sends an uninstructed delegation to St. Louis. The Indiana Democratic State Convention, which met at Indianapolis on the 19th of April, placed in nomination the following ticket": Governor, James D. Williams; Lieu­ tenant-governor, Isaac P. Gray ; Judges of the Supreme court, First district, S. H. Euskirk; Second district, A. G. Downey; Third district' John rctt.it j lourih district, James L. Warden; Secretary cf Btate, John Neff; Auditor of State, E. Henderson ; Treasurer, Benjamin C. Shaw ; Attorney-general, C. A. Buskirk ; Superintend­ ent of Public Instruction. J. H. Smart; Clerk of the Supreme court, Gabriel Bchmick ; Re­ porter of the Supreme court, Augustus N. Mar­ tin, A platform was adopted commending the National House of Representatives for its measures of retrenchment; calling for the withdrawal of the National bank notes, and the substitution of notes issued by the Govern­ ment ; declaring that the legal-tender noteB constitute a safe currency, and demanding the immediate repeal or the Resumption act of 1879 ; declaring pride in and an intention to stand by the common-school system, and pre- nerve It from sectarianism ; favoring the ad­ ditional pensioning of the widows and children of Federal soldiers ; pledging the delegates to Bt.Loois to vote as a unit; opposing the payment of the rebel debt; and closing with a tribute to Gov. Hendricks as a suitable Presidential candi­ date. VOKEIOK. A t*b*ty of peace has been made between the Republic of Liberia and the re­ volting tribes A heavy rain-storm prevailed throughout England and Ireland on the night of the 12th of April.... Late advices fram Al­ giers report a serious engagement between French troops and insurgents near Constantine. The latter, numbering 4,000, were completely routed, with a loss of 600 killed and wounded .'Hie French loss small An idea of how thev deal with bribe-takers iu Greece may be gained by a perusal of the following telegram from Athens: "The High Court of Justice has hentenccd M. Balassepouloua, a former Minis­ ter of Ecclesiastical Affairs, to one year's im- f'isonment, deprivation of political rights dur- three years, and to give the $10,000 he re­ ceived as a bribe to the poor-house. M. Nikol- opouless, a former Minister of Justice, was sentenced to ten month's imprisonment. The Arch' iwhop of Cophaionia was fined £10,000. a . lLrchbit,boP °* Patros, $4,400, and the Archbishop of Messene <54,000, being double the amounts they received as bribes. All were impeached for corruption and simony." Titeee has been a successful revolution in Hayti--Gen. Dominique, the President, having been virtually driven from power by the force But revolutions, like bilious diseases, are very common down there The nla*?ue is spreading in Asia, and apprehensions a^ felt that the dreadful malady may reach the Levant and thence pass to Europe. Levant, A Fbehch official decree has been issued impo?taUonI and authorizing the construction of a pontoon bridge auroaa the Miagiasippi river, fiom some point io LaCroaae county. Wis., to noma point in Houston ootidty, Minn.... Adjourned till Monday, April 17. EOUM.--Several bills of a local and unimportant character were passed .The Senate bill to confirm pre-emption and homestead entries of public lands within the limits of railroad grants, In cases where «uch entries have been made under regulations of the Land department, was passed The bill to transfer the Indian bureau to the Interior depart­ ment was discussed without action Adjourned to the 17th. Saturday, April 15.---Senate.--Not in session. House.--The case of Hallett Kilbourn, ths real estate pool recusant witness, formed the subject of a lively debate in the House. Ths Judiciary Com­ mittee, to whom the question of the habeas eorpns had been referred, reported unfavorably on the ap­ plication, directing the Sergeant-at-arms to make a respectful return to Judge Cartter, ©f the District court, setting forth the cause of K'ilbourn's deten­ tion, but to retain the custody of the prisoner. Hurd, Lawrence and Hoar considered the House justified in holding the prisoner In defiance of the court, while Garfield, Lynde, Kelley and Kasson olalmed that the House should obey the mandate of the court and deliver up the prisoner. The question was not decided..., A resolution was adopted directing tho Committee on Rulf s to inquire into the charge that Smith, the journal clerk of the House, had offered to prose- oute additional bounty claims for a commission The bill to provide for the administration of oaths iilTimpeachment trials was passed.... The Senate amendments to the Consular and Diplomatic bill were reported from the Appropriations Committee and ordered printed. MONDAY, April 17.--Senate.--After the jour­ nal of Thursday's proceedings had been read, vari­ ous petitions and memorials were presented, and at half-past o'clock the legislative business was suspended and the Senate proceeded to the con­ sideration of the articles of impeachment,. After serration, being now occupied as a Gov­ ernment store-house. It was here the gallant Crocket an$ Bowie fell. San An­ tonio is the military headquarters for the southwest and perhaps the best business place izi Texas. ALEXANDER T. STEWABIV life and Character ot the Deceased Merchant Prince--Hl» Remarkable Mer­ cantile ^access--Be mtntoeences- «ff|iii Career and Personal Habits. [From the New York Tribune.} The secret of his extraordintiff suc­ cess must be told in his own words : "My business has been a matter of principal from the start. That is all there is about it. If the golden rule can be incorporated into purely mercantile affairs, it has been done in this estab­ lishment, and you must have noticed, if you have observed closely, that the cus­ tomers are treated precisely as the seller himself would like to be treated were he in their place. That is to say, nothing is misrepresented, the price is fixed, once and for all, at the lowest possible figure, and the circumstances of the buyer are not suffered to influence the salesman in his conduct in the smallest particular. What we cannot afford is violation of principles" ' The hard, practical Sgotch sense which these words indicate, and which was the strongest trait of his character, was in his blood. He was of Irish parentage, but more remotely of Scotch ancestry. His father was a prosperous and highly respected fanner, descended from a race of Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, whose industry, frugality, and precision the boy inherited in full measure. Alexan­ der Turney Stewart was born in 1803, in the suburbs of Lisburn, an extensive manufacturing town about six miles from Belfast. Before he was eight years old his parents and elder sister died', and he was left with only one near relative-- his grandfather--who in his old age cherished the hope that he would live to hear his grandson preach from a Metho­ dist pulpit. The boy had natnral ability and methodical habits, and easily lei his classes., finally taking a degree at Trinity College. His grandfather died, how­ ever, before the course of study was completed, and the young student was left without a relative. The grandfather had a worthy successor in a pious Quaker, who was appointed the young man's guardian, Under his guardian's advice he finished his course at the uni­ versity, one of his tutors being the famous Sheridan Knowles. He was not one of the boisterous revelers of the uni­ versity whose portraits Charles Lever has drown with a bold hand. With a frame not robust, but lithe and active, he was a serious, painstaking student, who was always to be found reading in his room while his fellows were enter­ taining roysterers in their chambers. He had graduated with honors, and was about 20 years of age, when he de­ cided to emigrate to America. A trivial eircumstanoe at the turning point of his life made him a n»«rohmxt. A young a proclamation by the Sergeant-at-arms, Chief Justice Waite administered the oath to such of the Senators as were absent oil the day the Senate was organized as z court of im­ peachment. Shortly after Belknap, accompanied by his counsel, ex-Senator Carpenter, Judge Black and Montgomery Blair, entered and proceeded to the table provided for tttem. 'i'he return on the man with whom he had bcoomo intimate w i'U served upon the ex-oecrecary having been react, and the Sergeant-at-Arms having called upon him to answer, Mr. Carpenter read, and had filed a plea denying the jurisdiction of the Senate to try Mr. Belknap on the articles of impeachment, as he was not an officer of the United States at the time such articles were found and presented to the Senate; that he has not since been nor is not, now an officer of the United States, but was and is a private citizen of the United "States and of the State of Iowa. The court then adjourned until Wednesday. Eoute.--The House devoted another day to the ease of Kilbourn, the recusant witness, and, at the conclusion of a long and animated debate, adopted a resolution proposed by tynde, of Wisconsin, tkat{ the Sergeant-at-arms " mule# return to the wRf of halieae corpus, and that he take with him before the court the body of ivilbourn. Tuesday, April 18.--Senate.--A bill was passed authorizing the Congressional printer to furnish copies of the Record, and extracts there­ from, to the members of Congress at cost, and other public documents, etc., with ten per cent, additional thereon, and to collect the money after delivery A bill was also passed authorizing the repavement of Pennsylvania avenue The House Deficiency bill was called up, amended, and finally paeaed A message was received from Ifresident Grant vetoing the bill reducing the salary of the President of the United States from $50,000 to $25,000. He takes the ground that the salary of $25,000, fixed when the population of the United States was but 3,000,000, is insufficient now that the population is 40,0(t),000. When the President's salary was $25,000 per annum the salary of members of Con­ gress was fixed at $6 per day, averaging about $750 per annum. Congress has increased it from time to time, and now it is $5,000 per annum. The President says that no one who has lived in Wash­ ington can regard $25,000 as a sufficient salary for the Chief Magistrate, and, while it will make but little difference to him. justice toward his successor demands that he should veto the bill. House.--In the House to-day the formal argu­ ment in the long list of contested election cases was begun. The first reached was that of Brom- berg (white Democrat) vs. Haralson (colored Re­ publican). It was decided in favor of the latter, the cowiui ti.ee having unanimously reported that he was entitled to tho seat. The case of *1nlay vs. Walls (colored) was begun nvxtf but not con­ cluded. Wednesday, April 19.--Senate.--There was a large and brilliant audience present to witness the second day's proceedings of the impeachment trial. Belknap, accompanied by hia counsal, appeared at half-past 12 o'clock, and took their seats. Five minutes before 1 o'cioek, tho House managers came in, and the prodeedings were at once begun. Af­ ter reading the minutes, the replication of the House was presented by Manager Lord and read by the Secretary. After the read­ ing was concluded, Carpenter said that Belknap desired a copy of the replication, and time until Monday, the 24th, to consider the fame. Manager Lord said that the House managers desired to hav^ the trial hastened as much as pos­ sible, for reasons not necessary to be stated, and therefore he asked that time be given un­ til Friday, the 21st. Edmunds submitted an order giving the defense until next Mon­ day, and that the House Nanagers file their answer thereto by Tuesday, the 25th, and that the trial proceed on Thursday, the 27th. This was agreed to, and the court then adjourned until the 27th After the impeachment proceedings, the House bill to define the tax on fermented and malt iiquors was passed... .On motion of Thurman, the vote by which the bill in regard to the counting of tho votes for President and Vice-President was passed was reconsidered, and the bill placed on the calendar. , House.--Tho Sergeant-at-arms reported that he had obeye^ the writ of habeas corpus in the Hallett Kilbourn ca*e, and that Kilbourn was ordered by the Judge into the custody of the Marshal.... Baker, of Indiana, offered a resolution instructing the select committee on the real estate pool to investigate wheth- er any members of the forpier Congress were con- necied with that pool while such members. Adopted. . . . . W h i t t h o r n e i n t r o d u c e d a b i l l f o r r e f u n d i n g t h o intorent-bearing debt of the United States in United States consols bearing four per cent, gold interest, and having forty years to run... .O'Brien intro­ duced a bill to provide for the coinage of Centen­ nial coins. It provides for silver dollars and half- dollars, one side of the coins to give a correspond­ ing value in coins of other principal commercial nations...i. Tho contested election e^se 'roT*i | i ioiiua, Wails vs. Finlay, was decided in favor of the latter.... The Speaker laid before the House various executive documents, including an hu­ meri®# mass of paper done up in half a dozen huge packages, containing responses to calls for infoima- tion as to shareholders in National banks Tho executive session was devoted to the discussien of the hill to tramtt'or the Indian bureau to ttw War department, • . vf, •UfaahiDgton Grand jury for alleged complicity In the famous safe-burglary affair. Indicted ! nowc'11# a universal exhibition of fliyt arts, to with him, sfflH£g6fl db-conspiratora, are B|di- f̂ 6 Puis, In 1878, simultaneously with Art Ancient Town. San Antonio is the oldest city in Texas. Its history aat* s back two hundred years before the country was settled by Amlr- icims. The old Alamo, about two hun­ dred years old, stands on the military plaza, and is still in a good state of pre- applied to him for money wherewith to open a small dry goods store. He ad­ vanced the greater part of the small patri­ mony which he had brought to America; a small store was rented and stocked, but through an unforseen circumstance his friend, after all the preparations had been made, was unable to begin business. The pluck and energy which were the heritage of his Scotch-Irish ancestry came to the surface. In order that the spaoney which he had already invested might not be lost, he resolved to carry on the business himself. He went back to Ireland, oonverted into money the moderate fortune which his father had left him, bought a stock of Belfast laces and returned to New York to open his store. The capital invested amounted to about $3,000, and in the Daily Adver­ tiser of Sept. 2,1825, appeared a modest advertisement announcing that A. T. Stewart offered for sale, at No. 283 Broadway, "a general assortment of fresh and seasonable dry goods." He had rented one-half of a store, with a frontage of twenty-five feet, exactly op­ posite the northern entrance of the pres­ ent wholesale store of the firm, then the site of Washington Hall, In the rear of his shop, the rental of which was very low, the young merchant had a sleeping- #oom. Under these humble conditions was formed the germ of the most exten­ sive dry goods business in the world. Mr. Stewart's first customer was not only a hdy but also a friend. On the day before the little shop was opened, in accordance with his modest announce­ ment, a lady whose acquaintance he had made in the city said to him: "You must not sell anything on the morrow till I come and make the first purchase; for it will bring luck." The next morn­ ing she drove up in her carriage and purchased Irish laces and other goods worth nearly two hundred dollars. It was a good omen for the young mer chant, and in the end it was a lucky in­ vestment for herself. The lady subse­ quently removed to a city on the conti­ nent, where Mr. Stewart found her in reduced circumstances, her husband having died after wasting her whole for­ tune. The jnerchant settled an annuity upon her, and during the rest of her liie Bhe lived in comfort. Another incident, quite as interesting, is related of the first day's business. A woman camfe in to buy calico, and a olerk told her that the oolors were fast and would not wash out. Mr. Stewart in­ dignantly remonstrated with the sales­ man. " What do you mean by saying what you know to be untrue ? The cali­ co will fade; she will demand her money baok, and she will be right. I don t want goods represented for what they are not." "Look here, Mr. Stewart, said the olerk, " if those are going to be your principles in trade, I'm going to look for another situation. You won't last long." But Mr. Stewart did last. His favor­ ite business principle was--one price for all. From this fixed price no salesman was allowed to depart; and no deceit or misrepresentation as to the quality of the goods was tolerated. He was led by instinct and early training to accept " Honesty is the best policy" as a sound business principle. There never was a merchant who put more conscience into his business than Mr. Stewart, and yet with him it was not so much conscience as it was common sense. Ihe two stored which Mr. Stewart built are among the nroudest monuments of commercial enterprise in this country. The trade transacted in them is almost fabilous. The sales in the two estab­ lishments are said to have amounted to 0208,000,000 in three years, and the in­ come of Mr. Stewart has been the larg­ est in the mercantile world. In 1863 his income was *1,900,000; in 1864, $4,000.- Q00; in 1865, $1,600,000; in 1866, $600,- 00G---an average of about $2,000,000 a year. When he was nominated for Sec­ retary of the Treasury, he estimated his annual income at $1,000,000. The bus­ iness of the house is world-wide. A for­ eign bureau has been establishes at Manchester, where English goods are collected, examined, and packed. At Belfast the firm has a factory where lin­ ens are bleached. At Qlasgow the firm have a house for Scotch goods. In a magazin at Paris are collected East In­ dia, French, and German goods. The woolen house is in Berlin, and lie willr warehouses are at Lyons. Payments are made at t.h« Paris bureau, and all the continental business centers there. Then there are mills in Europe and the United States which manufacture goods exclus­ ively for this firm, and there are buyers and agents who are constantly traveling from Hong Kong to Paris, from Thibet to Peru. • , ' Mr. Stewart's benefactions were on the same large scale as his business. He gave as « pT«ins yields crops. Al­ though he was American in all his in­ stincts, Ms heart was warm toward his native island. When there was a famine in Ireland he sought for & ship. A British vessel was offered; he would have nothing but an American vessel. One was found with an American captain and an American crew, and was at once char­ tered. The vessel was loaded with pro­ visions, and under the American flag en­ tered the harbor of Belfast. The agent at Belfast was directed to advertise for young men and women who desired to go to America, and a free passage was given to as many us the vessel could cany, the only requirement being that each applicant should be of good mor­ al'character and able to read and write. A circular was issued by Mr. Stewart himself and sent to his numer­ ous friends, stating the fact that he expected a large number of young peo­ ple and asking employment for them. When the vessel reached the harbor of New York, places had been found for almost every one of the new emigrants. After the Franoo- German war, Mr. Stewart chartered a steamer and dis­ patched her to Havre with 3,800 bar­ rels of flour for the relief of sufferers in manufacturing districts. One of the Paris newspapers, in commenting upon this gift at the time, said: " It ia from a republic that such examples of generosity and true grandeur come to us. Can we show ourselves worthy of the sympathy of a people represented by such men ? When Chicago was desolated by fire in 1871, Mr. Stewart gave $50,000 for the relief of the sufferers. A princely char­ ity was his proposed home for working women on Fourth avenue, which is stifl unfinished. The building has oost $1,- 000,000, The main object was to fur­ nish a building wherein lodging, food and warmth could be f urnished at the lowest possible rates. Each working girl was to pay a fixed rate for lodging, the benevolence of the plan consisting in the fact that every one would secure more comfort than in a common hotel for less money than a squalid lodging in a tenement-house. Although Mr. Stew­ art was not considered generous to local charities, he gave in his own way. He had a Scotchman's hatred of professional beggars. # • ' , The public events in Mr. Stewart's life have been few in number. In 1867 he went to the Paris Exhibition as United States Commissioner. This was the only public office which he ever held. He was President Grant's first nominee for Secretary of the Treasury. A few days previous to the inauguration of the President, Mr. Stewart and his fam­ ily, accompanied by Judge Henry Hil­ ton and Gen. Daniel Butterfield, visited Washington and occupied apartments at the Ebbitt House, a private entrance on Fourteenth street, near Newspaper-row, being arranged for his personal jonveni- ence. It was understood at the time that only the objection made by Senator Sumner prevented his confirmation by the Senate. Late in the afternoon of the day on which the nominations were sent in, a rumor got abroad thft there was a law, understood to have been really written by Alexander Hamilton while Secretary of the Treasury, prohibiting an impor­ ter in active business from holding the position of Secretary of the Treasury. A newspaper correspondent obtained the law bearing on the case and carried it to Gen. Butterfield, who conveyed it to Mr. Stewart and his legal adviser, Judge Henry Hilton, who was then with him at Washington. They immediately con­ sulted Chief Justice Chase, and he con­ firmed the view which had been taken of the law by those who first brought it to -Mr. Stewart's attention. It was under­ stood at the time in Washingtoh that Mr. Stewart proposed to retire from business and devote the entire profits that might accrue during the time that he should hold the office of Secretary of the Treas­ ury to any charitable object which ihight be named. But this was decided to be a means which # would not be proper either for him to carry out or for the Government to accept. Immediately after seeing Chief Justice Chase, Mr. Stewart and Judge Hilton drove to the White-house and laid the facts and the opinions before the President, who on the next day wrote a message to the Ser- ate asking that the law of 1788 be set aside so as to enable the candidate to hold the office. This the Senate de­ clined to do. It was a very natural am­ bition for a man of Mr. Stewart's tastes and training to desire to be at the head of the Treasury, and it is not unlikely that the disappointment was a very se­ vere one. Mr. Stewart has long been regarded as one of the richest men in the United States. Next to Cornelius Vanderbilt and the late William B. Astor, he was probably the richest. Mr. Vanderbilt invested in railroads from their first in­ troduction in this country, and has amassed what is popularly supposed to be the largest private fortune in Amer­ ica, almost wholly in these productive stocks. Mr. Astor's great fortune of $50,000,000 or $60,000,000 was made, as is well known, almost wholly in real es­ tate Operations, in a aity where such in­ vestments proved to be exceptionally and marvelously profitable. Mr. Stew­ art's fortune was made almost wholly in trade -- hi» real estate transactions being subsidiary to his mercantile projects-- and he took no interest in railwav or other speculative stocks or operations. His foftiue grew lean rapidly than that of the others, being subjected to reverses of trade which that of the others did not feel; but it is generally estimated that he has left property to the amount of $50,000,000, and possibly more. Revolution in European Turkey# Hie news from European Turkey looks more like a general uprising of the Chris­ tian provinces against Mohammedan rule. Already the Governor of Bosnia is said to have advised the proclamation of a holy war against the Mohajaamedans. Such a suggestion, in spite of every ef­ fort to suppress it, will sprOad like wild­ fire throughout all the provinces, and will excite men to action who could not be reached in any other way* Herze­ govina has already the active" sympathy of those provinces which once suffered, the same wrongs and attained quasi in­ dependence by revolt, as well las those that themselves need the relief for whick Herzegovina is now straggling. Ever since the insurrection shaped itself, Her­ zegovina has had the moral support, and such surreptitious aid as could be given> from the adjoining provinces of Croatia, monwiiegru, XtOTjiiia niiu SeiVia. Buti now there are advices, which mom to be authoritative, that Bosnia ana Servia will furnish feoops, and really join in the revolution, if Austria will hoid her hands off. This is the diiect result of the en­ couragement that the provinces have re­ ceived of late from Russia, conveyed through the inspired utterances of the Russian newspapers, the purport of which is that Bussia will guarantee that there shall be no interference in the ef­ fort of the provinces for their own inde­ pendence. If this assurance hfts been made in good faith, it may be reasonably expected that the revolt will speedily ex­ tend to all the provinces that ar^e' still ruled by Turkey, and that it will receive the active support of all those which have already achieved their indepen­ dence. A war against Turkey prosecuted with the combined resources of Herze­ govina, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Servia, Bulgaria, W&llachia arid Mol­ davia, with Russia guarding the neutral­ ity of other nations, there can J5e no question of its ultimate success, and the oomplete separation of all the territory- known as European Turkey from the do­ minion of the Porte. : J Such a war would likely hsve the re­ sult, in event of sucoess, of the forma­ tion of a great Sclavonic empire, of which Hungary would naturally form a. part. This is what Austria apprehends. Hungary is the main strength of the Aus­ trian esapiro already^ and a loss of its- territory and resources would subject Austria proper to the serious danger of being absorbed by the German empire and losing its individuality and dignity altogether. In fact there are indications- that Bismarck is looking forward to something of this kind, and that he will sustain the position taken by Russia, th»t there shall be no intentfcTOnco to as­ sist Turkey in putting down the Cjiris- tdan revolt. In this case poor Austria would be helpless. The very danger of it may prevent her from any attempt at interference, and confine her partisan­ ship to a refusal to permit the passage of supplies for the insurrectionists across her border. If this shall be the course of evepts (and the late dispatches cer­ tainly have such an appearance), Turkey will be forced to withdraw from all her jurisdiction in European territory, land lose the superior advantages she has had of squeezing a large part of her extrava­ gant and riotous living out of her Chris­ tian dependencies, which has been a double satisfaction on account of the hatred the Turks cherish for the " Chris­ tian dogs." For the rest, a new und powerful empire in Eastern Europe would help Wonderfully to preserve (the balance of power.--Chicago Tributes. A good deal has been said against chewing-gum by the' press at large,r trat it holds-its own evenly with the despwed hand-organs. Certain Detroit boys now peddle the stick from house to notlse, and are allowed to go from parlor to base­ ment and back, and sell to all. When he has been gone about fifteen minutes the lady of the house remarks: " 'Manda, yum gum um tell Bessum whum to get for um dinner." " Yoh, u go," Amanda replies* "Bessum, yave chickum fum dinner," remarks the mother as she reaches the kitchen. " Yaus um, bilefm yor roasum?" she asks, rolling her <nid around.--Free Press. • , ,•:* There is a man in Lexington county,, S. C., who is 108 years old. THE MARKETS. \ ' NEW TORE. 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