The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-03 00:00:00

THE RICHEST MAN IN AMERICA.

The New Fork Herald gives a memoir of William B.
...titer, owner of the Astor House, and founder of
the Astor Library. He is the richest man in
America. His fortune has been variously estimated, but it
is thought to be about 60,000,000 dole. He is very reticent
en the subject even to his most intimate friends. His
father kept a fur store in Broadway, on the alto of the
Astor House, and finding his wealth increasing, he sent
his son to finish his education at Heidelberg. Besides
inheriting his father's business and wealth, which
e greatly increased by his operations in real
estate, William Astor was the recipient of his
uncle's money amounting to half a million. Tho Astor
House was built by his father in 1835. The elder Astor
died in 1848, his estate being estimated at twenty mil-
lion dollars. His will covered five columns of the .2Veto
Fork Herald. All eyes were turned upon the possessor
of such an immense fortune, but William Astor was little
affected by his sudden fame. His father loft a large sum
for the benefit of Waldorf, his birthplace in Germany, and
Mr. Astor sent one of his sons over to superintend the erec-
tion of an institution for the relief of the poor of that town
irrespective of age, sox, religious belief, or colour. Orphan
children are trained to various industries, and there are
departments for the blind, the deaf, and the dumb. " I
take great pride in the Astor House of New York," Mr
Astor has been heard to say, "but a greater pride in the
Astor House of Waldorf. The former may crumble
or fall ; the latter will exist while Waldorf
exists, or there are poor people in it." The Astor
Library, built in obedience to the will of the older
Astor, is a noble building, having originally 65 feet front
and 120 feet depth, and since greatly enlarged. The
steam heating apparatus cost $lO,OOO. The books, which
now number 139,000 volumes, have cost about $300,000,
and the sum total of the expenditure is over $750,000. It
is said that Mr. Astor, not yet fully satisfied, intends to
add another building to the institution. The Astor
Library it already the most valuable library of reference
in America, and he wishes to make it one of the first in the
world.

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Thursday, 7,
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to draft a memorial to Congress asking the admission of
Utah as a State of the Union. The population of the
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long. hardship Mr. Cinolbefaxin'
Polygamy in Salt Lake city is now published in full, and
considering it was uttered in the Mormon stronghold face
to face with the Mormons, it is no less bold than able and
true. His thoughts, ho said, went back to the first view
he ever had of Salt Lake four years before, and ho drew a
forcible contrast between the toil across the desert then to
reach it with the present ease travelling on the Pacific Rail-
road. The Vice-President undertook to prove the error of
polygamy from the Book of Mormon, and certainly he hit the
" Saints" bard by a reference to its 118th page—" The
Book of Mormon denounces David and Solomon for having
many wives and concubines, which thing was abominable
before me, saith the Lord.' Wherefore I, the Lord God,
will not suffer that this people shall do like unto them of
Wherefore, my brethren, hear me and hearken to
ola. the Lord; for there shall not any man among
the word o:.
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you have save bu
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Then he referral them to jam. Book of Doctrines and
Covenants which is the discipline and e:eed of their church;
in its chapter on marriage, it declares, that as the Mormon
Church has been charged with the crimes of fornication
and of polygamy, it is avowed as the law of the church,
that a man shall have but one wife, and a woman but one
husband, till death shall part them." Next week we will
more fully discuss the Vice-President's speech. The mail
left him at Cheyenne, detained by the illness of his mother.
The rest of the party, except Governor Bross and family,
had continued their journey eastward, and Mr. and Mrs.
Bowles hal arrived at Springfield on the 14th October.
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