New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-07-16

whites in Louisiana, we think the mother OF
States will yield the palm, and admit that
Louisiana is the banner State of the Union
in point of mental servitude. We proceed
with this ANALYSIS. 1t must be observed that
in the Northern and Western States there
is comparatively small number of colOred
people. Illinois has about ten per cent, for
example consequently the two and half
per cent. of menials in these States is appli-
cable to the whole people. That is, there
is in most of these States one person in every
forty or fifty exclusively employed in attend
ance upon the others. In the Southern States
there is a much larger part of the people
who employ no servants at all, hence the
proportion of four per cent. of domestic SER
wants assumed for the Southern States is
exclusively attributable to the white popula-
ton, and so doubles itself or nearly so. In
Louisiana, for example, there is a majority
of colored people who have very few SER
wants. We may, therefore, be justified in
stating that the white and colOred dOmestics
of the whites in Louisiana is ten per cent. of
it's population. That is, that while in Maine
or Minnesota there is one person detailed to
make it the exclusive business of his or her
life to attend to the wants Of others, there is
at least one colored person so assigned to
serve for every ten persons of the whole pop
ulation of Louisiana.
1t is to this phase of the question that we
desire to call the attention of the ladies of
Louisiana. Are they willing to discharge
nav to drive into exile these nurses, seam
stresses, cooks, washerwOmen and GRAND
boys and girls? If they are not, it will be
well for them to ask the heads of their several
households how they propose to supply the
place of those domestcs, and especially
whether it is expected that the ladies of their
household should perform those mental duties
themselves. To make it palmer, when the
gentleman lights his cigar to walk to his COM
Portable office, is his wife to roll up her
sleeves for the washtub: This is the mo-
mcntous question.
RICHEST MEN IN AMERICA.-Thc New
York correspondent of Cincinnati Commercial
Writes; "The three richest men In America
are VIM. i. AstOr, A. T. Stewart and Com
modore Vanderbilt, all residents of New
York city. AstOr's wealth is mainly in real
estate and its revenues Vanderbilt's is
mainly in railway stocks and their dividends;
Stewards in goods, houses, stores, factories,
land and stocks. The aggregate wealth of
each one of them is supposed to be some
where between s75 100000 and 100000, 900
which looks rather heavy. Nobody knows
exactly; they cannot tell themselves within a
HlllllOn OF TWO. luOSc WHO KNOW ulOSt
about their affair put the figures highest, and
they say that the income tax return of a few
years ago, which showed each of them to be
worth between twenty and thirty millions,
gave no proper idea o. the real wealth.
Aston lives unOstentatiously Vanderbilt
lives in a three store-story brick house on q
third-class street; and Stewart lives in a
marble palace in Fifth Avenue, more mag
niicent than any other residence on the
American continent, and equaled by few in
any of the great cities of Europe. AstOr
and Vanderbilt are New Workers by birth
Stewart is a native of the north of Ireland.
Astor is a large heavy man of 20, with
strong features and a rubicund face like a
parchment, and gives the impression Of be-
ing hard-up. Vanderbilt has children to
whom he can leave his fortune but Stewart
is childless. Astor's public benefactions
are confined to something like couple OF
hundred thousand dollars, which he gave to
Astor Library, and the two golden candle
sticks, nine feet high, which he recently
gave Trinity Church. Vanderbilt has
never made any public benefaction, except.
ing steamship to the Government during
! the war, till very recently, when he gave a
million dollars for educational purposes
one-half of this sum to found university il
Tennessee, and the other half to another
educational institution. Stewart has aways
had the reputation of being close.fistet
but he must be credited with his million
dollar "Home for Woman,'' which will bt
completed next year. AstOr is an indepen
dent Methodist, and Stewart is said to be
inclined to thinking for himself. Stewart is
a scholarly man Vanderbilt is not Aston
is an accomplished man of the wOrld.'