The New York Herald Newspaper, February 20, 1870, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERAL BROADWAY AND ANN “TREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ——— OS Volume XXXV. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Bros wie ORNTRAL PARK. adway and 13th street, BOOTH’S THEATRE, Epwin Bootu as Is at., betyoen Sth and 6th avs. — GRAND OPERA HOUSE, cornet 8d sL—THE TWRLVE TeMbrarions, -ahe Svenue and aenruric THEATRE, Broaaway.—New VRusion oF PeggtH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth at.—FRou NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.— : ToT US CARDEN. Broadway.—INNISVALLEN; 8, WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- ner Thirtieth ot,—Mutineo daily. Performance every evening. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Iith street.—ITALIAN OvRRA— RigoLerro, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tuk Tunee Fast Wo- MEN—Tur Lion at Bay. ay scare . THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—Tuk BURLESQUE OF THE SEVEN. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S UnNoir tom's Cauin, ARK THEATRE, Brooklyn,— TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSER, 201 Bowery.—Couto Vocalism, NEGRO MIN@IERLGY, 4G. THEATRE COMIQNE, 614 Broudway.— 1s, NEGRO Acrs, &c. idea Milani i:ci BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, sBerani'e MinerRELee Mmmany Bullding, Mth RAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broa twiy.—Krato- PiaN MINGTRELSY, NEGO AOTS, &o.—“HAsH.” KELLY ¢ 1 PIAN MINS? Broadway. —Eri10- AIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—-EQuesTa tan NEW York MA PERFORMANOKB, GO, AnD ( OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn, —HooLey's ‘Thk MAN Anout T MINUTE ‘own, &0. APOLLO HAL Tas New Ou street and Broadway.— NEW YORK M SCIENCE AND A SEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— New York, Sunday, February 20, 1870. CONTELES OF TO-DAWS LERALD, 8. S—Washinet Fair Show for Cuban Betligerency; Shrewa Evast f a oremme ourt Decision; Proposed } Law; Forney’s Kven- ing Pa Indian Treaty Swindies—Crime in New J Arrival of tne British fron-Clad Monarch at Annapolis, Md.—A Case of Fa'se Pretences—Army and Navy Intelligence— Earthquake in Louisiana, 4—Europe : Daring, Acroit ana Heavy Robbery in a . Rochefort on Crizen Sola.er Kight ce; Th al Council, Its Progress and Decrees—Nacing Frospects— tly Feud in Lout! and High Life: na. What is Worn and d Londoa—Religious ified = Christian— ‘The Harvest or Committed in g the Montn of Janu- rrivle Boller Explo- Du {Sam Houston’ Filty-four d States D ary—Internal {ever ston at Day on, Ohio, G—Editoriais: Leading Article, Latest from Rome, the Contest in tue Council—Amusement An- nouncements, %—Telegraphic News From all Parts of the World: Carltst Movement Agamst the Spanish Gov- ernment; Indictment Against Prince Pierre Bonaparte ; French Precautions Against Riot 3 Grea Quarantine Storm on the Plains--Fighting Marrs—German-Amer- Schgol Association; South America; State of Affairs m Bra War tn Paraguay—Per- sonal Inteiligence—Amusements—"Gassing”— The Cooper Institute-—The Cherry Street Fire— Arson Trial in Newark—Sparring Exhibition at Central fall Sleepy Hollow Tragedy— Ratiroad Casualtics in Jerse; ieged Viola- tion of the Revenue Laws he Telegraph Trouble —Fire in Warrea Street—Business Notices. §~-St. Domingo: Spanish Hatred for American fhe Cuban Tuzzle—Suicide of @ We Onto Farmer—A Trionte to Herolsm— alth, Death of a War Correspondent—Inventions in the Southern States—Financial and Com- mercial Reports—Marine Transfers—Marriages: and Deaths—Aadvertisements. 9—Advertisements. 10-New York City and Brooklyn Courts—Progress of Improvements on Mr. Stewart’s Hempstead Plains Purchase ree—Suburban Intelligence—Lond obbery i Wiiliamsburg— Telegraphic News Items—Shipping Intelli- gence —Advertisements, 11—Advertisements, 12—Advertisements. Tne Boarp or Hearn has ceased making a weekly mortuary report. It is too busy getting ready for its owa death, HANGING was PLayep Our rather too effec- tively in Baltimore the other day. A little colored boy was hanged in play by two com- rades until he was dead. Gorp 118}.—The premium on gold con- tinues to decline. Yesterday the price of the precious metal was quoted at 118}, which is the lowest since the days of Bull Run. Present Gr has vetoed the Kaw In- dian treaty swindle by withdrawing it before the Senate could find time for its ratification. He ought to veto all the others now before that body in the same way and never send in avy. Tre Mitp Weatuer which we have been en- joying here of late has not prevailed in the great far West, A severe snow siorm visited the Plains on the 11th inst., and six persons, four of them soldiers, were lost aud perhaps frozen to death. Provosep NavionaL Stay Law.—In the House yesterday Mr. McCrary introduced a bill to provide stay of execution in certain cases, It is intended as counter movement to the Supreme Court decision relative to the payment of old debts in coin, Two Murper Cases.—In the rural districts at least there still remains a satisfactory tone in regard to the sanctity of human life and a prejudice against immunity for murder. Two persons convicted of murder in the second de- gree at Rochester have just been sentenced to imprisonment for life. Tuk Cask oF Pierre BoNAPartEe.—The correction of the former despatch in regard to the trial of Prince Bonaparte puts the matter in quite a different light. The Prince is to be tried under articles of the Criminal Code that involve the death penalty if the prisoner is found guilty, but leave it in the discretion of the court to modify this penalty if there are extenuating circumstances. The least possi- NEW YUKK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20, i870,—TRIPLE SHEET. Latest from Reme—The Contest in the Council. Since we last referred to the Council in our editorial columns we have had some fresh news from Europe, SAG Rome, in relation to the 6ame, ‘The ne a8 hedih of stich a chargeter that we feel compelled to ‘ return gnce more to the subject for the purpose of tendering warning and advice, It was always our opinion that the hour of difficulty would be found, and although we would not say this is the first hour of dilficulty, we are not without a reason for saying the hour of difficulty has come. By cable we have learned that the Catholic Powers of Europe, one and all, have become fierce on the two questions of the Syllabus and Infallibility. The south of Germany has been all along in a fury of opposition on those two great questions, which seem to have been the main reasons for indicting or con- voking the Council. Within the last few days we have found that Count Bis- marck, who has all along been watching the fray, but who has on this subject been singu- larly reticent, has been compelled to speak out, The Syllabus and Infallibility are against his schemes. They would raise a great barrier between him und his life purpose—a barrier big enough to make Sadowa a huge folly and his own life a grand though somewhat showy failure. Bismarck has joined Hohenlobe and Boast ; and we know that so far as the civil Powers are concerned Germany is a unit against Infallibility and the Syllabus, This is so far a triumph on the side of com- mon sense and common honesty. But it does not give a full, and therefore not a fair, idea of the opposition forces. It is now well known that the Council was convened for a special purpose, and it now begins to be known— thanks to the Heratp’s love of truth and fair play—that the original and special purpose cannot be carried out. We now know that two petitions or memo- rials have been presented to the Pope, the one in favor of Infallibility and the other opposed to it, The Infallibility memorial has been signed by some four or five hundred; the non-infallibility memorial has been signed by some two hundred, Our latest news has it that over one hundred bishops who are on the opposition side refuse to sign sim- ply because they wish to wait and reveal their purpose by their votes. Timid men the most of those who hang back must be; but their sympathy and their common sense cannot be called questionable. What gives force to the Infallibilists is this, that their ranks have been swelled by some eighty- nine bishops in partibus who have been created since the Council was first convened— a creation not dissimilar to that which was threatened by the late Earl Grey when he re- solved to force through the first reform bill, and which, although it was never found neces- sary, had to commend it a something which this Papal creation had not and could not possibly have. This, however, is notall. The Infallibilists are a nameless and unknown set of men, None of them has a world-wide reputation, if we make a single exception, and if we make it we must make it in favor of a renegade. Dr. Manning is the only man, whose abilities are generally appreciated, who lends countenance to this Infallibility nonsense. But whea we remem- ber that Dr. Manning was an able but dis- appointed Church of England clergyman before he joined the Church of Rome, and that his ambition will not be satisfied short of the Pontifical throne, it is not, perhaps, unjust to say that his piety and his antipathy are very nearly of equal value. The Roman Church does not wish to be governed by an English pervert; and Dr. Manning, knowing his diffi- culties, has yielded to, and, as we think, failed, by an exuberance of zeal. Among the anti-infallibilists we have to rank such men as Cardinals Rausher and Schwarzenberg, and Bishop Ketteler, of Germany; Darboy and Dupanloup, of France ; Strossmayer, of Hun- gary, and Kenwick and McHale and Ulla- thorne, of the English-speaking communities, or the Greater Britain, as our cousins across the big pond are fond to put it. So much for the character and positionof the men who oppose and who favor the extreme measures of the Council; but the names we have mentioned give but a very imperfect notion of the opposition. We kaow how Dr. Dollenger, pérhaps the ablest scholar in Catholic Germany, has spoken out. We know how Dr. Michelis, of Braunsberg, has de- nounced Infallibility as a ‘humbug,” how he has since spoken of the petition in favor of the dogma as ‘‘a cowardly evasion of the real bearing of the question,” as ‘‘untrue from beginning to end,” and as “passionately and terribly uncharitable.” We know how Dr. Schulte, perhaps the ablest professor of canon law at Prague, has disposed of the Infallibility dogma by exhibiting it in the light of a reduc- tio ad absurdum. We know what Father Hyacinthe has done. We know that Father Grutry, one of the most popular and learned of the French clergy, has characterized the statements or arguments of the infallibilists as ‘falsifications, mutilations, dissimulations, lies and frauds.” What with the bishops and the clergy so fearlessly speaking out, we have no choice but say that the opposition is dangerously strong. We bave it on the very best authority that the Pope himself has been coerced into some- thing like injustice against his opponents. We are sorry to have to say it; for the Holy Father, personally considered, is a very re- spectable old gentleman. But the truth must be told. It is now a well known fact that the Patriarch of Babylon, who had evinced most unmistakable opposition to the Infallibility dogma, was summoned into the presence of the Holy Father and, by a process not dissimilar to that well known by the Jews in the Middle Ages, compelled to withdraw his opposition. This method of getting rid of opponents does not secure ultimate victory. In this same con- nection it ought to be mentioned that by the Pope or thoso who have used his name the telegraphic despatches of the opposition bishops have actually been stopped. With these facts before us what can we say? We cannot say that all is well at Rome. We cannot say that the Catholic Church is a unit. We cannot say that another reformation is im- possible. We dare not say with Lord Macau- ple punishment, in case of a verdict of guilty, will be a long term of imprisonment or depor- sation. lay, if this Infallibility is not given up, that that ‘‘Chorch which was great and respected | before the Frank set foot on Britaln—when Grecian eloquence still flourished at Antioch, when idols were still worshipped at Mecca— may still exist in undiminished vigor when some traveller from New Zealand shall in the midst of & vast solitude take his stand on broken aroh“of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul’s.” Since 1840 the world has made some progress, and the action of this Ecumenical Council makes us question the wisdom of the seers of that time. The Mormons—Will They Treat for an Exodus or Fight for Utah? In regard to the terrible Cullom bill ‘‘in aid of the execution of the laws in the Territory of Utah,” the organ of Brigham Young at Great Salt Lake City, the Hvening News, has declared in behalf of the Utah saints that they ‘have no objection to the passage of this or any bill—the more obnoxious the better ;” that it will not injure the people of Utah, though it may give them trouble, but that “there is one resolve, however, which we have heard expressed, which we trust will never be forgotten—no mob, sanctioned by law or otherwise, shall ever enjoy undisturbed the fruits of our toil. We would rather see this land (Utah) converted again into a wil- derness and the labors of twenty-five years swept away in a few hours than that our ene- mies shall find that reward for their villany in our possessions,” This means that if any attempt by the gov- ernment shall be made to enforce the laws of the United States in reference to polygamy in Utah, and that if the saints shall not be equal to the expulsion of the United States military force that may be sent against them, they will lay waste by fire their homes and their im- provements, and leave Utah the wilderness which they found it. This is the raving of a lunatic; for with the destruction of their settlements the poor Mormons would be left completely at the mercy of the government. The Mormons in Utah number, perhaps, one hundred and twenty-five thousand souls, all told—men, women and children. The general character of their territory is that of a desert, with here and there, as in the deserts of Ara- bia and Africa, a pretty and fertile valley, with its fresh water stream or streams. Nearly all these oases in Utah, avail- able for cultivation by irrigation, have been appropriated and made productive by the industrious Mormons, But beyond these settlements on all sides is the howling wilder- ness of sandy wastes and rocky mountains, With the destruction of their settlements, then, the Mormons would instantly be reduced to starvation ; for even their cattle, removed from their settlement pastures, would perish. In his first explorations of that country Fremont found no native four-footed animals in it larger than the desert sagebush rabbit and the wolf, and the few native Indians he encountered he found mainly subsisting upon crickets, grass- hoppers, lizards and ‘‘such small deer.” The Mormons, being so situated, are incapa- ble of military resistance even against a regi- ment of well appointed United States troops. Brigham Young, well aware of his defenceless position in an appeal to arms, has never seri- ously thought of such a thing. But still the question recurs, if the pains and penalties of outlawry, fines and imprisonments are to be passed against Mormon polygamists, and a de- tachment of the United States Army is to be seat out to Utah to protect the civil officers in carrying out the law, what will the Prophet do? The Pacific Railroad has simply rendered Mormon polygamy in Utah unsafe to-day and impossible to-morrow. In the course of a year or two, if left alone by the government, the institution will be removed by the Gentiles, and perhaps in the most dreadful scenes of fire and destruction, Humanity to the Mormons, not less than a decent respect for the obliga- tions due to the general law of American society, demands the intervention of the gov- ernment either for the peaceable abolition of Mormon polygamy or for the quiet re- moval of the Mormon saints to some other country; and it is in the names of humanity and charity that we would call the earnest attention of Brigham Young to the necessity of preparing for the one alternative or the other. Religious Revivals Out West. It is pleasing to notice in our exchanges accounts of the religious fecligg that prevails at this time throughout the. West. Winter is the season for serious reflection in the rural districts, and it has been improved to more than the usual extent during the past and present months. The Week of Prayer has everywhere been productive of the most grati- fying results, In the city of Peoria, Illinois, on one occasion, five churches grasped hands, and after a week or two of continuous pray- ing ten in all were joined in supplication. Seven thousand families were visited and spir- itual consolation imparted with the happiest results. A special committee of mothers— two from each church—was appointed to labor for the salvation of fallen women, with ample funds to draw from for the aid of any outcast who might wish to lead a better life. On one Sabbath evening as many as five hundred per- sons rose for prayers at once. A similar re- ligious revival prevails in other parts of Illi- nois, as well as in Ohio—Cincinnati being especially blessed—in Indiana, Michigan, Wis- consin, Missourt and in other Western States. These are glad tidings coming from a comparatively newly settled portion of our country, and are indicative of what is a real and tangible truth—namely, that a thoroughly religious’ sentiment is entertained in the hearts of the American people, and that religion is the bulwark and foundation of our free institutions. Is Tuts Fentanism?—Mr. Voorhees, over in Brooklyn, said he was a Know Nothing, and Chambers announced himself as g Fenian. This seemed to be the only understanding between the men on any subject whatever previous to the fatal shooting. Now, from Philadelphia, we have news of another shoot- ing case, in which a dispute between strangers touching Fenianism is the prelude to gun- powder. Is this the form of the latest devel- opment of Fenianism ? GeENERAL ReyNotps, military commander in Texas, declines to be a candidate before the Legislature for the United States Senate from that State, This will be sad news for some of the copperhead organs who have been insist- ing on having all the Southern military come " manders in the Senate, Becapleation—Docs tt Cause Instant Benths” Some quasi scientific interest has bees excited by a discussion that takes its present start from the decapitation of the murderer Traupmann. It has been argued that decapi- tation does not cause instant death; that the head particularly survives separation from the body for an appreciable period of time; that it lives not only in so far as it retains a vital warmth, but lives also in tho higher sense of the term—experiences pain, horror, the con- sciousness of its condition—in short, that it can still exercise the supreme functions of existence. If this be true, it is obvious how terribly this fact must add to the cruelty of such ® death, and also, perhaps, how fit a death it is for such wretches as this French mur- derer; but we are certain that the world must do without the satisfaction of knowing that there is a punishment so excruciatingly horrible for its criminals. This theory is merely a bubble of morbid fancy. For what is animal life? In its higher forms it consists of the co-ordinate exercise of the functions of a heart and a brain, and it can be reduced to no simpler term, Divorce these necessary parts of vital unity and there is no such action for either as can constitute conscious life. It is true that the ablation of tho brain may not always instantly stop the action of the heart, and equally true that tbe heart separated from the brain may be kept in operation for a cortain length of time by external stimuli. But it would be a misuse of words to say that an animal so operated upon was kept alive. We move the vital machinery by some other than the vital force, and the operation is as clearly physical as the operation of driving a locomo- tive. This experiment takes advantage of the fact that the human body is composed of the same material elements as abound in nature, and as such is subject in specific ways to all the natural forces. In acephalous monsters there is no argument against this, because of the fact of monstrosity.. They have this vital brain power abnormally placed. The reason why the heart stops when parted from the brain is plain in a physiological sense—the brain is the source of its power. Experi- mental physiology in tracing the vital prin- ciple from point to point finally comes to the brain as its ultimate hiding place. The heart acts in virtue of the power it receives from the brain and in subjection to that power; and animals ‘the most tenacious of life—as the cat—die instantly when the brain is punc- tured at the base of the skull so as to break up its communication with the heart. But the dependence of heart and brain 1s correlative; only that which is true of the heart separated from the brain is more absolutely true of the brain separated from the heart. While the heart ceases its function from the time when the brain no longer sup- plies power, the brain also ceases its function from the time when the heart no longer sup- plies the material from which the power is generated, and from which is generated in ad- dition the power to perform intellectual opera- tions—that is, the power ofthonght. Thought is merely the name for that act by which the intellectual power compares and combines the impressions received through the senses; and the intellectual power cannot, more than any other power of the system, perform any act of its function without a constant and regulated supply of blood. Every abnormal fact in the supply of blood is followed by some abnormity in cerebral acts. If the blood is unhealthy even the cerebral acts reflect its character. Our clumsy conceptions cannot keep up with the delicacy of the intimate operations in that alembic in which the brain draws from the cir- culating fluid the power to perform its func- tions of perception, memory and comparison ; but the broader laws are known by actual ex- periment, and no knowledge can be more posi- tive or better based than our knowledge of the obliteration of the intellect, the immediate cessation of intellectual, conscious life, upon the interruption of the supply of blood to the brain. The fact related of Sir Astley Cooper, that he was certain he saw a face blush when the head of which it was part was held up to the multitude as that of a malignant, was explained by him on the theory of accumulated power. He believed that the mental excitement preceding execution had engorged the brain to such a degree that enough power was stored up to originate a thought of shame, But this is not satisfac tory, despite the apparent authority of the name; for a thought of shame cannot make the cheek red in the absence of the heart, The mechanism of a blush is this:—Some sudden impression is made upon the brain, by word or act, exciting an emotion of pleasure, anger or shame, and the brain thus suddenly stimulated reacts upon the heart; coincidently with this excitement of the heart there is a dilatation of the minute capillaries in the transparent tis- sues of the face, and into these dilated vessels , rushes the current of bright red blood, fresh from the heart and accelerated by that organ’s more vigorous impulses. Because the forcing power of the heart is a necessary part of this process people who have suffered decapitation cannot blush. But is there any possibility in this notion of accumulated power? Can preceding mental excitement in the case of criminals about to die fill the vessels of the brain so as to leave the capability of thought when the further supply is cut off? There must, of course, bea point of time between the arrival of blood in the brain and the abstraction from it of the cerebral power, and then of the use of that power. Then, of course, the blood that left the heart in the second before the axe fell is in the brain as the axe falls, and is discharging its freight of potential thought perhaps as the head lies in the basket, Perhaps—for this leaves out of view the interruption to the cerebral function that would result from the shock, and also the question whether the point of time necessary for these changes is appreciable to our mind. It fur- thermore leaves out of view the probability that the intellectual excitement which is sup- posed as engorging the brain might not engorge it, but, so far from leaving the brain thus with a store of possible power, would, by excessive draught upon its already accumu- lated store of nerve power, leave it bankrupt. But there is a field for ghastly experiment here. The heart has been made to pulsate after death by electricity; when will it be tried whether the brain will also respond after death to the stimulus of in jected blood? London Robed Side by Side. The special fashions correspondence from Eare ve which appears in our columns to-day ‘ally comprehensive in matter, minute, in its description of the various ‘ume prevailing in the Old World, brilliant and viv “®¢lous in style and pleasingly piquant in narra, IV@ From Paris we still hear of imperialism, bells, beauty end dis- monds, wit and gallm Y: The retrospect is, however, slightly clow. ed with more than afow dark social tinges, in Boos shape of night attacks in the city, high ™¥ | robberleg and attempts at murdor, reva“™g onoo more a melancholy proof of {hd , sad fact that humanity has not yet arrived at that state of Christian perfection where min, suffering from poverty ‘or the results of his own improvidence and crime, can behold with resignation his fellow man rovel in all the accessories of wealth and the enjoyment of the “purple and fine linen” which follow, in many instances, as merely material ac- cessories to the “‘accident of his birth” in another, and, apparently, more happy mun- dane sphere. Our special writer tells of the ball dresses at the Tuileries, diamonds, furs, laces, pearls and velvets, Then there were social converse, supper and chit-chat. Ameri- can fashion and beauty presented quite an on- livening, unrestrained and cheering feature even in the very highest circles of French society. From London we havo a special fashions report, which reads very like as if Mr. John Bull were about to bestir himself and show that he can ‘‘do the thing handsomely” just as he pleases and when he pleases, John is a little peculiar, however, in all such mat- ters—a disposition which he may, perhaps, inherit from his remote ancestry in Briton, who never troubled themselves much about clothing so as they had comfortable coun- try care and a collar to denote to whom they belonged. England, is, there- fore not very independent even yet in the matter of innovations in dress. Her people look to the court in this as in everything else pretty much. The Prince of Wales, conse- quently, stands out pgpminentiy in our cor- respondence in the matter of a new overcoat, which subsequently became ‘“‘all the rage” in London from having been seen on his royal shoulders, This wonderful coat is made of a material from Ireland known as “frieze.” It is to be hoped that American strangers in the British metropolis will not thus be brought to mistake his Royal High- ness for the O'Donovan Rossa, M. P., should the celebrated Celtic convict be discharged under a royal pardon. London was still given to much dancing, had some very fine balls, anda “good time” with a few aristocratic marriages. We thus present the two great European capitals to the readers of the Heratp side by side, dressed for the court, the altar, the ballroom and domestic enjoyment, and in such manner that the readers of the HERaLp will be able to reply to the question of ‘‘How do you like them?” soon after dinner in New York to-day. is oom, as usual,“ styles of cosy, Affairs in St. Domingo. Not alone to Cuba is Spanish insolence con- fined. In the neighboring island of St. Do- mingo we find Spaniards domineering and browbeating any and every person who does not regard things in their peculiar light. Our correspondent in St. Domingo city furnishes us with information regarding the treatment of an American citizen who dared to speak candidly through the columns of his journal of the conduct of the volunteers in Cuba, For this he was called to account and cowardly assaulted in the streets by two Spaniards. Hostility to Americans and everything Ameri- can is open and undisguised. It is cultivated by the Spaniards and cherished by almost every European agent in the Antilles. That the administration is, in a great measure, responsible for all this few persons will deny. American citizens abroad have little or no protection, and especially in the West Indies is this most evident. No other nation would permit its citizens to be treated as ours are. Almost within sight of the shores of the United States these insults are inflicted by the un- governed sympathizers in the despotism of a third rate European Power. Something must be done to put a stop to these outrages. The American people expect it, and President Grant should see to it that he does not disap- point their just expectations, Relapsing Fever. Dr. Harris, of the Board of Health, is a balmy old humbug—a terrible fellow for statistics—perfectly innocent so far as relates to any incendiary attempts on the North river, but not without a bewildering ambition to make sensations. He has recently made a great noise over relapsing fever. As the Board of Health was not organized to super- sede the dispensaries or hospitals—as its especial province is to guard the city from epidemics of dangerous disease—it properly has nothing whatever to do with relapsing fever, because this fever is not dangerous, is destructive to life in very slight degree, is merely an unusual type of fever. The Com- missioners of Charities and Correction, who have charge of the hospitals, have had patience with the vagaries of this monger of pathological wonders until patience has deprived them of hospital space, and now they have refused to receive his cases. He is thus placed in a peculiar predicament by being compelled to recognize the innocence of the disease he has so twaddled over ; for the Board of Health cannot establish hospitals unless the Governor has previously issued a proclamation declaring the prevalence of a pestilence, and to ask the Governor to proclaim relapsing fever asa pestilence is a fancy that has not yet occurred even to Dr. Harris, Lanp Grants.—A lengthy discussion ensued in the Senate yesterday on the policy or expe- diency of large grants of land to railroads or other corporations, It is well enough to give lands to great national enterprises like the Pacific Railroad. The evil arises from dona- tions to bogus companies, who make a show of their proposed enterprises merely to obtain the land. Itis by the land grants that thoy make their money, and they are never disposed to spend it again in building railroads that by the nature of their location will never pay. Dres® Fashions in Europo—Parta and Church Services To-Day. Our readers will have ‘only to glance over our list af church services to-day to pick oul almost any variety of sermon, denomination or creed that they wish. “The religious world is all before them where to choose." Be they Jews or Gentiles, they will find a bill of fare served up to suit. their taste, They can pay their money and take their choice, and, in some instances, they can take theix choice without paying their money. They oan hear good music, instrumental, choral or oon- gregationgl; Scan leading fashions, eminently temporal, and receive religion, purely doc- trinal, ifthey like. In the matter of fashiona and music their choice may be a little limited, but in point of doctrine they can sit under any kind of teavhing that they wish, political, social, spiritualistic or religious, 2. Thompson wih relieve the feelings of met.opolitan taxpayers’ by his argument at the Broad. vay Tabernacle against the State sup- porting ¢cctarian schools. At Grace churoh the visitor can inhale the .atmosphere of the most elegané religion of the ,veriod, and can regale his eyes with the metrop, Vitan glass of fashion, the beantifully dressed 1, dies of the congregation, and delight his heart, in observ- ing the suave manners and goodly pr ‘portions of Brown, At Christ church, on Fifth a Venue, amid a similar rustle of fashion he cam hear a discourse from Rev. Horatio Southgute 09 the “Midnight Mission"—a sad and lowly an, ject, with which silks and satins are seemingfy © inharmonious, and which is more suggestive of sackcloth and sorrow. He can find this rustle of fashion mingling complacently and de- voutly at the Church of the Divine Paternity, where, too, he will hear words of burning elo- quence. ‘the Fifth avenue Presbyterian church, All Souls’ church, St. ;Stephen's church, the Church of the Messiah, where Mr. Hepworth will hold forth, and many others. Crossing the river to Brooklyn and following the crowd the stranger will find Henry Ward Beecher at Plymouth church, where he dispenses twenty thousand dollars’ worth of religion every year for a little more than half price. Surviving the rush of visi- tors at the door, and being generously donated @ pew by some member who pays three hun- dred dollars for it, he will hear words of wisdom uttered by one who comprehends that the Almighty has an ear for elocution and is not averse to an innocent joke. At other places in the city he can hear the pro- phetic warnings of Bishop Snow, the temper- ance ravings of a wholesale proprietor of liquor saloons and the communings from the spirit world. Altogether, the religious exhi- bitions ‘‘set’ for to-day present a varieties bill, which cannot fail to offer something pleasing to every one, and which, in point of entertainment, equal the amusement an- nouncements of more secular character pecu- liar to the other days of the week. Our European Correspondence—Transat- Inntic Crime, Religion and Politics. Our special correspondence and newspaper reports by mail from Europe, published to-day, supply details of our Old World advices by cable telegrams to the 8th of February. The exhibit is interestingly varied. Public atten- tion will be fixed on the particular account of the great robbery which was effected at the counter of one of the banks in England, by which a gentleman was deprived of the sum of nine thousand nine hundred and fifty pounds sterling almost mysteriously, before his eyes and in the presence of many individuals. He had the money chained to his person for greater security a few moments previously. A description of the bank notes lost appeared. by advertisement in the Heratp yesterday morning, having been forwarded specially to this city for such publication, so that it is to be hoped that if the thief turned “this face to the West” he may be found by our police. After the commission of great crime there is generally a fair show of religion, so we have also a good deal about Rome, the Council, the Syllabus, Infallibility, the Annunciation and so forth. The Pontifical people have come out in a ‘‘schemata’—whatever that means, not scheming, certainly—which the famous Ger- man polemic, Dr. Dollinger, seeks to demolish, with all its antecedents and accompaniments, setting forth how souls can be saved much more simply—it may be effectually—‘‘in the mode he mentions.” The German doctor uses vast force, and it is hoped he may succeed in producing a correspondingly gapd effect. M. Rochefort appears in the French Legislature, and many items of French and English news are given. The minor details of this European report are spicy and entertaining, affording material for useful, brief notes of the progress of the world at the other side of the Atlantic, “Frat BurGtary.”—The investigation of the sale of cadetships promises to open a philo- sophical question as to the definite character of bribery. The committee set out to discover whether or no Congressmen gold these appoint- ments for money. They have discovered at least that Congressmen certainly sell the ap- pointments, Will the fact that the pay is not given in money satisfy the Congressional con- science on this delicate subject? It is shown, for instance, that a member from North Caro- lina sold his appointment to the Senator from the same State, the pay being not cash, but the Senator's assent to the Congressman’s political existence. The appointment was the price with which the Congressman bought off the Senator's opposition. Now, was this any less bribery than an equivalent in money? On the other hand, if this is bribery what fact in the career of every politican is without this taint? Tne Copan Resorvtions before the Senate committee seem to be certain of a favorable report. Even Sumner has unbent from his high perch in favor of Spanish domination and consented to report them if the committee re- quires it. The only trouble now is the embar- rassment of riches, The committee have two resolutions and are doubtful which to report. It would be too bad if too many cooks have spoiled the broth. Let the committee report favorably on both of them. Murpers IN January.—We publish in another column this morning a list of the mur- ders committed in January last throughout the United States: The total is fifty-four. Of these seven were committed in New York city and Brooklyn and twenty within the area of the old slave States, including Kentucky and Missouri and counting the victims of lynch law.