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Show A. T. STEWAST'S WILL. The hope has been expressed by a good many journals that Mr. A. T. Stewart would, at his decease, with a grateful remembrance of the American Ameri-can public, to which he owed his immense im-mense fortune, and with the laudable ambition of transmitting bis name to posterity as a benefactor of his race, appropriate a few million dollars to, the founding of some grand scientific or art institution, for the higher education edu-cation of American citizens and tho cultivation of a moro elevated taste. There were many who believed that Mr. Stewart cherished bmc'q a design, and that his eager pursuit of wealth was kept up fur some beneficent public pub-lic purpose. But the nabob has p.i-t.l away, ai.d has clone nothing o:' the sort. With the exception of a million dollars bestowed upon Judire Hilton, a personal friend, and a few trilling bequeath to his old employes, his entire estate is bequeathed to his wife, with whom lie has not lived fur Hovera! years, and her heirs. That is all right, of course, and it is to be presumed that the old liuly will find plenty of htirs to share the property with her, and if it follows Iho usual con rat: of distribution tho great hoard is likely to be scattered as rapidly as it was acquired, 1 |