New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-09-21
CITY ITEMS.


AcADTnY OF MusIc.-Donize.ti's comic opera Of
"Elsir d'Amore' will be performed this evening for
the first time in some years, with Adlle Frezzoini,
Messrs. CASTER, Labocetts and Rocco in the cast.
SALE OF STEREOTYPE PLArEs.-On Saturday, at
the auction rooms Of George A. Leavitt & Co.,
number Of stereotype plates were sold, including
those of all the publications Of Miller & Curtis who
arc now in liquidation. The competition was solely
between Derby e. Jackson, Rudd g. Carleton, Lesvitt
& Allen, Dick & Fitzgerald and the authors two or
three Of whom we're represented. The first lot offered
was the plates of Geo. w. Curtiss Works in vols,
I2rno subject to copyright of III per cent. These
Eve volumes, containing Nile Notes, Howa1 in
SYRIA" Lotus Eating "POtiphar Papers, and
"Prue and J." we're started at 800 each, and went
rapidly in leap. of $40, up to $40. AT this price they
hung tor a short time, they again took start
and ran up to sos EACH at which they were knocked
down to gentleman who purchased them in behalf OF
the author. Two volumes by Herman Melville were
Withdrawn, and the next lot, Twice Married; a Tale
of Connecticut Lfe," with the privilege OF paying
10 per cent copyright, received only one bid of $50,
aid for that sum became the property Of Dick s
Fitzgerald The plates coet $I33. "The Paragreens,"
rer 20 Beuopi, &C., which cost 1910, ard included the
woodcuts, was sold TO Rudd & Carleton for , being
the only bid Brittany and La vsndee,' by Emile
Souyestre cost 40 sold to Rudd Carleton for So
These publishers all bought The Golden Dagon,"
by DIR. j. W. Palmer for $25 10 per cent copyright,
cost $50. "Lske Ngami," by Chss. j. Anderson,
vol svo with wood cuts, cost sac, was started at
40, and bought by Derby g. jackson for $685. This
A. nf he PM
Wikie Collins's Dead Secret" for $780, Of I" Cali.
forpa, Indoors and Out" by Mrs. +. w. Farnham,
for so5, cost 1903; of the "Life of Ta-Ping Wang,
Chief of the Chinese resurrection" by J. Milton
Mackie, cost $685. for $20-the work being subje's to
copyright Of ten per cent after the sale Of ooo more
comics which Is required pay expenses. Dick Ftz
gerald bought the Mormons at Home by Mrs. c. b.
Ferris for sI5 cost $i6l also three juveniles, "Town
and Country" "About New.York," and Gold and
Silver" costing in the aggregate 1854 at 81 so EACH
Leayi,t & Allen bought "Tsles Of Flemish Life" by
Hendrick Conscience for Sl7, cost $50; ao vols 49,
IA and Is of " Household Words" at $50 each, and
mo.ths of "The SchoOlfeuOw," with cuts, for SIS.
The volume of "The Schoolfellow " for 1856 was
bought by Dick & Fitzgerald for sos. "Chile con
Cane, by S. Compton Smith, was purchased by the
author for s65 The following stereotype works, 10
which we append respectively cost and price obtained
were bought in for their value old metal Political
Essays" by Prke Goodwin, $l95-$l5; "Oienta
Acquaintance, "by JW De Forrest, author Of witch
ing Times" q current serial in Putnam-alss, poor
ghost !-Sl73-Sl5; "Greece and the Greeks, by Ed
murd About, sl4O-$l5; "Zillah, the Child Medium
Sl75-$I2; "a History of the Struggle for Slavery
Exteu.ion," by Horace Greeley, coet s77 including
probably the payment to the author brought $l5 and
1.-THE Englishman in Kansas" SIC. There were al,o-
gether % lots, including IA copyright publications,
counting Curtiss five volumes a. one lot and out OF
these were stated not to have paid expenses, and Of
the others, except Curtss, the same may be reason
ably presumed Indeed, With the exception named,
SCENE probable that not of the volumes hsdpa
for isef SO that Miller Curtis were like to BIO eI
ceeding temperate il their only wine was to be drank
out of the skulls Of authors. One invoice Of stereo
type plates was not cold for the reason that no one
would bid and it would appear that the times are not
propitious for such Gales
CIrr NonrALIrr.-From the report Of the City IN
spec.or we learn that there were 6o9 Deaths In iis
city during the past week. decrease Of o., o.
compared with the mortality Of the preceding week
The report does not present any particularly striking
feature except in the increased number OF deaths from
violent causes and the decresse in the general NOR
tally of the week, particularly in cholera infantum ana
OF the total number Of deaths, 144
were of children of ten ysars Of age and under The
following table exhibits the Number of deaths during
the past two weeks among adults and chdres, Gssip'
gushing the sexes:
Men. Women. 8sys. oiIs rst.l
Wei Wei : :ss.: Sept Sep. s g.. g e q co.
Among the principal causes of death were the fol-
lowing: Consumption, "a; commissions fnfantle), 4o
fthe lungs Isl Inflammation ofthe brain
>; scarlet fever, 10; marasmus GnfantIe 10; dropsy
in the head, 40; measles, 5; Group, .; cho'ei"
infantum, 80; bronchitis, -; disrrhea, ~. ihere
were also deaths of apopleIy, Il OF c0nsss~l
Of the brain, 10 of congestion of the iunsf' a VI
dy,eniefy of disease OF the heart 7ofteethng, opre
mature births 90 stillbon, and Is deaths nom 'ioe"'
causes.
The following is classification of the diseases ana
the number of deaths in each class OF disease curing
the past week: Bones, joints, &C., :; BRAN ana
nerves, ia; gepera:ive organs 4; heart snd'oiooa-
vessels, lungs throat &C., l27i old age d .n'
&c, ard eruptive fevers IS; Tilbon ana P'e."o'i'
births So; stomach, bowels, and o'her aiss'''' -"
raps. oi7; uncertain seat and general levers, ~;
urinary organs, 5-total, coo.
The number of deaths, compared win tue c0"'-
spending week in 1855 and 1856, was as ioiio"s:
Week ending Sept e. 1855 .........'..''''''''sssJ
Week ending Sept. %, ls6. .......''''''..''s1i
Week ending sept, u, lSSf..........'''''''"'ss SO
Week eadins sep.. ~ 1857. ....:.....::'. 49,.
The nativity table gives31f natives u INC oa''
States, 81 of Ireland, 30 of Germany OF England
of France, OF Wales, of Sweden, 2oi i'A'y ~'a
Of British America.