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New-York tribune., 1871-11-16

The Board of Health yesterday took such
action relative to the sanitary condition OF the
city as is now possible. Among other things,
it was decided that on and after Dec. 10 no
cellars shall be used as human habitations.
The date, though fixed at a too remote period
to permit the new rule to be of any use "a
preventive against the plague which now
threatens us, is probably as near as clrcum-
stances will permit; the poor people who in
habit these dens must have time to look about
for other quarters The Sanitary Committee
referring more directly to the arrival Of the
cholera, reported that the duty of collecting
refuse and garbage is irregularly performed
and, as everybody knows, the city is widely
polluted with filth accumulated by this cause.
The recommendations of this Committee
which were adopted-are all very good; and,
now, can we depend upon the Department of
Public Works to carry out these suggestions
and save the city from pestilenceH
New-York tribune., 1871-11-16

tpeak out boldly, and tell the whole truth.
Our own columns arc open; and Gen. Barlow
and Mr.. Peckham are ON the Judiciary Committee
of the Bar Association. Send the facts TO u.s.
aud put these gentlemen on the track Of more
The risk of professional annoyance is now
much less than 10 was six months ago. The
publication of the bench ought to be one of
the chief aims ut present of the NewYork
bar, and If We push the fight with little
courage and energy we shall certainly succeed.
Give us free exposures, and o healthy senti-
ment among lawyers and laity here; and let
us have Committee of Investigation on the
first day the Legislature neets-since it is the
Legislature and not the Attorney General that
must initiate proceedings for impeachment -
aud we shall not only abolish the Gratzes, but
we shall abolish the judges who have made
them. 1t is not for honest lawyers to tremble
now ; it is the unjust judges who are in danger.
New-York tribune., 1871-11-16
Netu'3(ork Daily Gribm'rt,
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 10. 1871.

MOSCOW Journal cOunsels Russia to demand the
naturalization Of Denmark and the restoration OF North
ern sohleswig ZOrrills denied In the COrtes that
tho Spanish Ministry entertained project for tho
sale Of Cuba to the United States go Dsraen has
been elected Rector Of the Glasgow University. -
deputaon from France has presented congratulations
to the ex-Empress at Chlselhurst on her fete day.
Tho gale was exceedingly severe on the New-Engand
coast yesterday and several marine disasters are re-
ported. r==- Extensive hres have occurred at Brew
sters Station, N. Y, and Goderich, Canada. -
gristmil has been destroyed at Watham, Mass, by
boiler explosion. -E Another stagecoach has been
robbed by highwaymen In California. - snow
storm prevailed IN Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Northern
New-YOrk last evening.
it's rumored that Francis NJ BiXby win be Tweed's
successor 80 Miss Helen Josephine Mansfield has
brought libel suit against James Fisk r who Is held
in q 900 bail. The storm Tuesday caused great
damage in Eew-Jersey and elsewhere. 80 Three more
patients died Of cholera ct Quarantine and twelve new
oases are reported. 60 CanalbOat captain was shot
and instantly killed by boy. - The official canvass
was continued in New-York and Brooklyn g. Gold,
lill lila, lllk
New-York tribune., 1871-11-16

"The Confessions of Ku-Klux Rattle
snake" would be an attractive title for dime
novel, and the material is easily accessible
just now in the records of the Office of the
Post Commander at Yorkville, South Caro-
lima. This post is one of the centers of the
great fields of Ku-Klux operations in that
region, and THE TRIBUNE correspondent who
has heretofore furnished us with much curious
information concerning the operations of this
organization, gives in his letter, published else
where, a number of new facts relative to the
sayings and doings of the men who joined
the Klans for reasons best told in their own
peculiar vernacular.
New-York tribune., 1871-11-16

The names of several members Of our newly
chosen Assembly having been suggested with
reference to the Speakership, we venture to
add that of Mr. L. BRADFORD PRINCE Of Queens
to the list. Mr.. Prince, though an earnest
Republican, was last year chosen from DEM
ocratic district, because people thought he
would MT steal; has just been reelected by a
larger vote because his constituents now knoC
that their first opinion of him was correct. If he
is Fenton man, Conkling man, Or any
body else's man, we don't know it, and we
are confident that he is as ignorant on that
point as we are. Some other member may be
filter for speaker-if so, we trust that other
may be chosen-but Mr.. Prince has served
with eminent fidelity and wears well, and so
will do to the end.
New-York tribune., 1871-11-16
GRdTZES.

"Let it be referred to James II. Coleman
"esq.; he is my Gratz." Such was the answer
of Judge Barnard to an application for the
appointment of MIR. Gratz Nathan as referee
in a certain case before the Supreme Court; T;
and 40 it has come about that the favored
eight or ten lawyers-sons, nephews, brothers
in-lay, or other connections of the justices of
this district-to whom this immensely profitable
class of business falls, are known in the pro-
fession as "Gratzes," and each of them is as
signed to his own particular partner on the
bench. The mere fact that such nickname
has been adopted is proof enough of the
shameful extent to which the scandal has
risen. In an elaborate article yesterday we
gave some particulars of the nefarious referee
system which has long prevailed In the New
York courts, and we shall continue our ex-
posures without regard to the threats OF I'M
prisonment which have already been made us.
The plain provisions of the law are daily viO-
lated by the men who are sworn to admins
ter Justice. Clients on both sides are feeced
by the tribunals created to protect their inter-
ests. It Is perhaps too much to cay that an
estate which goes into the Supreme Court Is
liable to be divided between the Judge and his
"Gratz J" but the instances are innumerable Of
references and receiveshps ordered for no other
purpose than to make GO good thing" for
some nephew or friend, and of outrageous
fees exacted by these persons for their 1ct-
tious services. Take tho famous Erie suits of
1889. At the end Of the Drew-Vanderbilt war,
when the rubbish Of conflicting ipjunctions and
violated mandamuses came to be cleared away,
It was found that every dollar Of the hundred
u. - okrAk txa had
been removed TO NewJersey, beyond the juris-
dictiOn of the court. Judge Barnard never
tEeless appointed Mr.. Peter B. Sweeny receiver
of nothing, and allowed him for his trouble
$4,000. to b paid, of course, out Of tho
Treasury OF the Erie Railway Company. What
judge Barnard's present "Gratz," MI James
n. COLEMAN, has received for not taking care
of the stolen Shares of the Engtiah gtockhold-
ers, ard how much has been paid out 10 ref
ereos In the innumerAble suits brought by or
against the Company during the Flax and
| Gould regime, -we are at q. .1oss to Ruess-
That referees and. receiyers arc allowed to
charge unwarrantabIe fees u not the worst
abuse 6f the system. It ID q vorse thing that
counsel and clients are virtually compeiled to
accent the Grstxes of the saprcme Court, or
ipcur the hostility Of the bench and iconse-
oueut professional rGin. j, It ID WORSE that
desp0tiGm has BEEN Get up In the courts of
law Hor the purpoee Of enrGhing the, judges
or the juakes' relntives at the expeme Of
mikvrs and that for years .tkis has gons on
without ohsck bodaAasS lawyers Lacked tie
ooufaks 70 .coznplasn. But now that there Is
tecnasa panig among the hingg Of all kinds,
an opportunity presents itsaif Cor lFesltngpp
a.
New-York tribune., 1871-11-16
Tbe World saws {:

"
General Creswell's order forblddng tho
usual OF any addresses by the etercarrters
on the ground that solicitation Of presents Is not only
inmical to personal serespeot but an injury to the
public service meets rough handling the press 1t s
generally thought to be contraventon OF equal rights
to keep the poor carrier out Of his NewYears gft while
officials far higher IN rank are ready to absorb any
imaginable number and bulk Of donations every day in
the year"
THE TRIBUNE submits that this business
of justifying one wrong by another has already
been carried too far. If Officials higher in
frank" do wrong, let them be rebuked and
set right, but do not make one abuse excuse
another. 1t is the business of the Government
to pay its employees fairly it is the duty OF
those who use the mails to pay the legal
postage. There, obligation ceases; there,
spOnging ought not to begin.
New-York tribune., 1871-11-16
POLITICAL.
OFFICIAL CITY RETURNS.


THE STATE AND COUNTY VOTE IN EIGHT wARDs
ADDITIONAL SENATE AND ASSEMBLY
PIGURHs-PR0TEsTS IN TWO DISrRICTs-TuE
KILIAN-PREAR CONTEST.
The Board Of Supervisors resumed tho
official OF the city vote yesterday Alderman
Plunktt presldng resolution carried resembling
Q former resolution Of tho Board to tho effect tha,
tho Aldermanc ticket should not DO canvasscd uu tho
goth inst This resolution further provided that the
Aldernanic and Assistant Aldermanc ticket DO call
yassed Immediately after the General Senate, and Az
sembly ticket. Mr. Mitchell Of No. 81 Chambers ST. en-
tered protest behalf OF Henry Wcsser candidate fur
Assistant Alderman in the Vth District on tho ground
that his vote falsely counted in the Xth, XIth
and XIIIth Election Districts Of the Eighth Ward
protest against the election OF Blair In the Ivth Assem-
bly, District also presented on behalf OF Mr.. Mo
Mahon Both we're referred to the Committee on Pro
tests
In the table published yesterday and In those given
below the from the election districts official
but the totals not OFFICIAL the additions being made
by the agents Of the Press Association Tho Official ad-
ditions have not yet been made. The totals, pub
lished, however. have been computed with great
care, and will not, 1t Is believed, differ from
the Official fOotings. Tho vote for AssemblymaA
In the XVIII District. as published yesterday in THR
TRIBUNE, gave Frederick Kan the Reform candidate.
majority of IS Alexander Frear his Tammany Op-
pOnent. The official returns by election disrlcts weTs
carefully added four times By expert accountants who
are roady to swear that their totals correct II their
fOotings agree with those which the canvasscrs will
soon make Mr. Kan will, Of course, have no occasion
to urge the protest which he entered before the returns
from his district were canvassed.
STATE AND COUNTY RETURNS.
The following are the returns by Election DsirictS
from the Ivth. vth With IXth. XIth XIIth. XVIII.
and XXIId Wards:
New-York tribune., 1871-11-16

Tho great storm which slowly approached
tho Atlantic coast from the West mas during
the past few days, spread over very large
area. In New-England, the gale has been
severe, and many marine disasters are reported
off the coast, though, happily, we have no
account of loss of life At several ports, the
wind was accompanied ~ remarkably high
tides. which have occasiOned much damage.
The first general snOw-storm of this season
followed the gale from the west, and prevailed
last night in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Northern
New-YOrk, and Canada. The force of these
disturbances is probably spent.
New-York tribune., 1871-11-16
Response y The Tribune.

We favor no lf-and-haf Boards, and agree
that the majority should rule. Complete Rep
resentation provides effectively for this. What
we ask is. not that the minority should rule,
but that it should be heard. In our present
Common Council, it has no voice; in that
which is to be inaugurated next January, it is
likely to have nome In at least two Boards
of Aldermen within our remembrance, a mi
nority of two-ffths of our voters had but one
representative, who might propose, indeed but
with no one to second his motions, they fell
dead on the instant. Our councils were never
utterly base and venal while they were made
up in unequal portions of two adverse parties
Will not The Sun reconsider
New-York tribune., 1871-11-16

The review Of the years fishing business at
Gloucester, Mass, reveals q mourntul phase
of this much h-afaicted branch of industry.
During the year, by the loss Of one hundred
and thirty-six lives, fOrty-five women are
widowed and ninety children left fatherleSs +;
and this tale of sOrrow makes no account OF
the wider circle Of sorrow and bereavement
which the death Of sons and brothers has
spread in one small region of the sterile coast
of w-En1land,
New-York tribune., 1871-11-16

We Give the inspectors who are said to be
engaged in the work OF trying TO count out
six of the regularly elected Aldermen In order
that Tammany may still have . remnant 20 DO
It service, fair notice that they are emOarking
on dangerous business. The times are not
favorable for such frauds, nor tOr the men
who attempt them. The correct returns tor
Aldermen have been carefully watched and
whoever attempts fraud in the Ofnciaf count
may reckon on instant exposure ana tne
spAsdisst pOssible puniShnenk. Hands on the
rekurnSl ~ g-.s.
New-York tribune., 1871-11-16
ar nsements. ett.. elde eptn,ng.

BOOrn's THEATPR-"Dot-" Owens.
FIPTH AVENUE THEATER.-" Divorce"
GIOBE THRATER.-"B Bertha"
GLAND OrERA HOUSE," Eileen Ogc." The
FloreDoeA
LIMA EDwINs THEATEn-Opera BOuffe: LA
OyHbis DucAssss" hhs. Aimee
NIBIO's GARDEN" Our American Cousin" SOth-
ara.
OLYMPIC THRATER.-"Humpty Dumpty." Fox.
ST. JAIfTs THEATBR-Opcretta Troupe.
ST. PETERS HAII--HaTtzs Entertainment.
UNION SQUARE THEATER.-Yariety Company.
WAIIACK's THEATRR-"R Rosedale" L. Wallack.
EMPIRR RnyK.-P. T. Barnum's Museum, Men
sEsne Hippoirons, Abd CifeaL Day ssd Night
NRw-YoRK CIRCUS, FOurteenth-st, between Third
asd POurth-AVea
New-York tribune., 1871-11-16

Newfoundland still coyly repels the advances
made to her, and has once more voted against
entering that singularly artificial confederation
the New Dominion. This is not surprising;
Newfoundland has nothing Whatever in COM
mon with the inland provinces, and can very
uroperly take warning by the example Of Nova
Scotia, maritime province seduced into the
union by bribed Legislature, and now discOn-
tented with her position. Annexation to the
United States may not be highly thought of
in Newfoundland confederation certainly is
NOT
New-York tribune., 1871-11-16

Probably not many claims against Great
Britain arising out of acts committed during
the late Rebellion come under the category of
claims to be adjudicated by the Commission
now sitting at Washington; but it should not
be forgotten, now that the Commission is
fairly organized, that all such cases must be
submitted to that body by the 96th Of March,
1879; otherwise, under the stipulatiOns of the
Treaty, they are forever barred.
New-York tribune., 1871-11-16

desirable condemnation. This "a, however. 8
bold suggestion from Russia, though we must
remember that the AoscoaS Gasette, which now
makes it, has long been bitterly anti-German.
Not great while since its utterances were 30
marked that the Government ordered it to be
silent; If it now speaks on such important
questions. 1t certainly does 80 by permiSsion'
tle Russian press being anything but free.
New-York tribune., 1871-11-16

1t is so easy to send men about the city
exacting fines for not removing snow that
never fell, sign-bOsrds that are safe and non
obstructive to vision or travel, that it is
wonder that this business has not been more
extensively prosecuted by the Tammany har-
pies. Our reporters have unearthed few of
these frauds, and it appears that this fruitful
field has not been neglected.
New-York tribune., 1871-11-16
COMPLETE REPRESENTATION

The Sun resists what Is called Minority Rep
resentatiOn thus heedlessly:
"It to to embody faacy and to tend to cor
ruption. We had minority representation In our old
Board Of Supervisors, half of whose members were
elected by the majority and the other haif by the MI
nority This Board built the Court House, and In
itiated that system of public robbery Of which Tweed
Connolly, Ingerso Garyey and Watson, were the great
e1emplars We fear that similar result would follow
upon the adoption Of DR.. Greeleys plan Of cumulative
voting The best system, after all, to let the majority
rule and hold them responsble for what they do Let
LA stick to that"
New-York tribune., 1871-11-16

As all Russian newspapers are "ssmi-ofacial,"
in the common aecePtatiOn Of that term, the
adyice Of the koSeOW Gazette that RassiA
rhoula dsnaand the return Of Schleswie-Hol-
Ubeiu TO Denmark may be considered Eignih-
cant. Rusma naturally desires that the power
~ Ger5nany in the Baltic should be counter
balanOsd. and the naturalization Of Denmark
and retntn Of her abstTacted Duchy would
IS the meak patnral means to arrive at that
New-York tribune., 1871-11-16
An EARNEST APPEAL.

TO fAe Bdftor Of TAe Trfb1He.
SIR: You have always been the working
mans friend and he needs your assistance now.
Mr. Green the Deputy Controller, refuses to pay the
laborers on the public works. the axnen, engineers and
clerks In the public Department. for some reason
known to the outside public. All these pubic servants
arc duo from 10 four months salary, and many Of
them are suffering severely from actual want They have
borrowed until their friends exhausted and many
Of them have been turned out Of their lodgings for
nonpayment Of rent. When these men aSk their pay,
Mr.. Green says he win look into the case but never
dOes Tho Collector Of Taxes has collected tooOooOo up
10 last night yet Mr. Green pFetends he has money.
The employ6s Of the City must be ps4 bouae time and s
It not botter that they be paid now while they IN ds
want, than wait untn they arc starved 0Ri assure
you sir thst thsy Be NOT paid ths week many Of the
higher among them win have 70 resort 10 asSpeAte
means TO obtain Subsistenoe. 'r' t ,- .a.
nna fearful Outrage 70 keep men with small salaries
four months without pay, especially when there 10 no
other nccessity than 70 sabsArve political end
Al tho mouthpieos Of the ltaryng ofnciah Indicated
am instructed 70 request your powerfu aid. iTne
worhngmen, clerks, akd other employees Of the
city, moving the alacty with which you always re-
spond TO appeals such ths rely on your assistance In
nSucinr Mr. Green 70 Be Just In this matter Ig dear
Sir, very respectfully, A sUxxzknH.
/ Eep- -Yrk, Nov. Is. is71. 80 - b,q .1i ~ .lt (
Responss 6y The 1fiJsns. e T., -" p /
"a Sufferer blames Mr.. Green untustly.
He (Green) can only pay according to law;
and the men who undertook last Winter 70
run the City Governments for two per cent Of
the ussessed valuation Of our citizenS' prop
erty either miscalculated the cost or souan.
dered the income before Il was collected, IN
paying dishonest tuiaped.dT elainad, Mr.
Tweed's Departments Of Public Works has had
its full quota out d sthis ysaF1 Tax-L.eyy,
but he has kept moro men St swork than he
.should have, done, and thsy suffer fdf las
,wrong. Lei, them put the saddle ON tbs fieht
horse. The money required mhst soneh0'w b
raised and the wages already earned .mustlbs
tpsid,gno s1sttes. at what cost But Mr.. Green
can neither borrow without authority nof as,Dly
pubs money otherwise than in acccrdAnce
With law. Hence it may be that some must
New-York tribune., 1871-11-16

waitsfOr their iAss payment ill the Insislature
NESTS On the 1st Of JnauASy NEXT We deeply
regret thia, but neither Mr.. Green nor we can
helm Ii. 'er' 'H aAF4~..'7 co.
New-York tribune., 1871-11-16
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New-York tribune., 1871-11-16

Mr. Henri Taine has completed his notes upon
England in the Temps, and in his closing article sum-
marizes his observations. He finds three things in
England altogether admirable: The political OOnsti
tuition on account of its stability and hberality,
which enable il to avoid evolutions and invite the
general participation of citizens in public matters;
the religious system, which cultiyates morality
rather than dogma, and keeps pace with hedemands
Of modern civilization; and the accumulation and Inn
portance Of wealth, which render ease and comfort
moro widely difused than in any other country and
build up large class of cultivated and intelligent
proprietors superior, in Mr.. Taines opinion to the
corresponding class on the continent. On
the other hand the brilliant essayist
finds three things much better in France,
and they are likely to sStOnish English and
American readers. The climate Of France Is Tar
preferable and induces better flow Of spirits than
in the British Isles wealth is far evenly dis
trbuted. there are fewer very rich and very poor,
and finally the social life of France is much gayer
franker, and more coniding. Mr. Tame attributes
this fact somewhat whimscally to that equality be-
fore the law which underles the whole structure of
French society. he also makes o suggestion that
the ease and expansion Of domestic manners In
France greatly due to the habit there prevalent
of saying anything you choose without regard to the
restraints Of propriety. We will scarcely
mOiselIe do MaEpi1 and the A6airs CIsmeaoedS
into our family circle. There seems moro
Of smart antithesiS than truth In his final remark
that all "these differences contribute TO render the
Engiishman stronger and the Frenchman happier"
However may differ from this witty and fanciful
writer In his observations upon English life and
Manners It is impossible not to admire and appre-
ciAte his marvellous dexterity and skill In literary
criticism. His book on English Literature tof which
the first volume has just been pubhshed by Holt &
Williams with that conscientious iberality for
which this house u n0ted b one Of the most enter
tanning and valuable. contributions ever made BY
aforeigner to the study Of English genius- II IL
curious fact that while English criticism iswssting
itself In eeoentrcities and Vagaes, the ablsst and
most exhaustive reviews Of British authors are pro-
duced outaide Of England. In tho same rank with
the writings Of Mr. Tsine, which We have referred
to. Il 10 be placed that searching and exhaustive
comparison Of TsnnysOn and Theochtus BY Mr. Ed
mund O. 6tsdmaA In recent number of tho Atlaatio
MSntkiE no review Of equal value In dsterminingthe
exact place Of the Poet Laureate in literature has
ever bean plblished u England. IS d,