The Committee have sought among their fellow-citizens for an indication of their opinion upon a public celebration, and are pleased to find all are anxious to unite, as brethren owning a common property in this good structure, in celebrating its glorious completion. The Fire Department have already made extensive preparations for such an occasion, and the Committee hope that the Common Council will meet the wishes of so valuable a portion of our citizens, and sanction by their authority, a day to be dedicated to universal public vejoicing.

Since the passage of the ordinance making an appropriation for the erection of a fountain in the Park, the engineers and officers of the Croton Department have turned their attention towards its construction, by an early day, so far as to enable us to display the beauty and capacity of the water. The lateness of the season renders it improper to do more than lay the foundation, and prepare the basin for the celebration. The laying of the coping, and the finishing of the whole, must be deferred until after the frosts of the coming winter have entirely ceased. The Committee think that the introduction of the water cannot be properly celebrated, until the fountain is so far completed as to admit of an exhibition of its powers, and believing the same will be completed by the 14th day of October next, the Committee now designate that day as the proper one for the celebration. The Committee recommend the adoption of the annexed preamble and resolution, and also submit herewith a resolution for the consideration of the Common Council :