New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-12
CITY ITEMS.

Mcsfc AND GYnsAsTIcs.-On Thursday and 6ssu.
day evenings Of this week will be given, Al Brady q
9TH Regiment Gymnasium, In st. Marks place, eyu-
| nastc exhibition and concert. The music win b
| furnished by the 9TH Regiment Band. The musoulas
part of the entertainment will embrace the following
exercises: Vaulting horse inclined and peg pole,
dumb bella, parallel bars, double rings aerial nishs.
Indian clubs, single bar Ia percbe, ladders, fencing,
oroadsword and exercises magic ladders, rex
bars double trapeze posturng and tumbng scrobstis
feats, batoute leaps, curriculum.
LIGHT GUARD BALL.-Tbe annual ball of the Liaht
Guard will take place the Academy of Music on the
evening OF St. Valentines Day. Everything is being
done to make this the most brilliant and attractive On.
tertainment ever offered by this crack corps.
The new plot-boats Mary Ann Williams. No. 10,
and VIM. H. Aspinwall, No. 81, have gone down the
Bay on 9 trial trip with the wind fresh from the
Soath.
The MUsEux HoTEL.--The Fifth Ward Hotel WIN
be brought to the hammer to-day together with Other
valuable property belonging to the Riley" estate h,
the same Ward, by Messrs Becker.
ARMS FOR THE SoUTH.-The United States Gfsnd
Jury yesterday examined two clerks in the store u
syms & Co., gunsmitts in Broadway, in referenoeto
the sale and shipment Of arms by the firm to the South
GUS AND SHELLS COMING TO NEw.YoRx-Ths
propeller Thomas Sparks is loading with guns and shells
at Philadelphia for Stevens water battery New-Yor.
The guns from Fort Pitt foundry near Ptsburg.
They are thirty 12-inch Columbads, each weighing
nine thousand pounds and calculated TO throw q ban .
distance of four and half miles. The whole Smount
Of shells is rs tuns. The captain venured the remark
on Saturday that he did not wish to be stopped any
where on bis route, but should he be, be would Gnh
the whole concern rather than any person, exoeT4
duly authorized of " Uncle Sam" should have them.
WORK OF THE HEALTH DEPARTNEsr.-The weekly
report of the Inspector of Sanitary Inspection furnishes
the following facts relative 70 the operations during Tie
week ending February 9: Ashes and O--'--o- -----'
iahs, -.sound and diseased meats seized, 2,lW
pounds nusances abated under notice. 50; sinks and
water closets cleaned II; loads of night soil removed
from the city limits AS; dead horses, 81; dead oows
s. dead hogs %; dead dogs and other small snimsls
80; r50 barrels Of oifal were removed
CRY MoRrsLITY.-Tbe number Of deatbs In the city
last week, According to the City Inspectors report
was 300 which one less than the week previou and
year. There were Of men, 49, women, 70: boys, i2lS
girls 100. OF the 1873 deaths from acute disessea.
scarlet fever stands highest on the list .; nfams-
ton of the lungs %; convulsior '-''-''' he
ria, IA; Group, 10; bronchitis L., e.li poA, 2. Of1p
deaths from chronic diseases, there Of consunH
ton, TO- maIasmus nfante, q; dropsy in the hea,,
II. OF % deaths from external and other causee,
were from casualtes drowned, O. killed or murdered,
D. poison q Recapitulstion: Diseases of the lmee
and throat l55; brain and nerves. 50; stomach, bow
els and other digestive organs, AZ: uncertain seat and
general fevers 80; skin, Sc, and eruptve feve, SS
heart and blood vessels l2 generative Organs 81 old
age, a. premature BIRTH 4; urinary organs, 2; bones,
Joints &C., l. Classified in regard TO age there were
under ] year. 90; from l TO years, 43; to 5.
A.; 10 10, l9; 10 to II, 4; IL 10 Is, Il Is
to H. e. II TO 20, s; 20to25, IS; Is to 80 20; 70 10
49, 49, 10 to 50. 2i so to 60, IS; 50 to TO- 2; oto
so, IL; so to 80, Il unknown, 3. 256 were M
rives of the United States, - of Ireland, II q
Germany, Of England and tie remainder Of various
foreign countries. So deaths occurred at the public m
stitutiors.
SrICIDE.-Coroner Jackman held an inquest yester-
day, at No &c Fourth avenue upon the body Of Mr..
Otis T. Peters who committed suicide on Sunday
morning, by cutting bis throat with a IL sp-
peared in evidence that shout O'Clock Sunday
morning the chambermaid observed him 10 his room,
razor in hand acting very strangely. She informed
Mrs. SHOEMAKER, with whom he boarded, and Mrs.
s. repaired to his room On entering, be seized her
and attempted to cut her throat. She screamed and
Officer Little Of the Fifteenth Ward who also BOARDED
At the house ran into the room and took the razor
away Mr. Peters then became calm, but two houn
afterward went to bis trunk, from which he took
another razor, and before be could be prevented cuf
bis throat from ear to ear. He fell bleeding 70 the
oor and expired. Upon the above evidence. the
Jury rendered verdict Of Suicide while temporarily