your Common Council, the thanks of our Board and my own, for the invitation, and our acceptance of it. The period fixed for the celebration is one when our citizens are usually much occupied with business, which, with previous engagements, will prevent a full attendance from Mir Board. Our intercourse with New York is so frequent and intimate, that we are always "at home" in your good city and while we sensibly appreciate your hospitable ;

intimation, that arrangements will be made for our accommodation, we are well aware that the duties of the Committee will be various and most arduous permit ; those of us,

therefore, who are able to avail ourselves of your invitation, to report ourselves on the

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morning of the celebration, and to give you no further trouble than to assign us such place in your order of arrangements as you may wish us to occupy. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, JONAS C. HEARTT, To Mayor of Troy, C. CROLIUS, Jr., ) E. D. WEST, and \ Committee, &c. WM. DODGE, Esqrs., J

An invitation to the Officers and Cadets of the U. S. Military Academy, was acknowledged, and declined thus :

From Capt. Swift, U. j$. Corps of Engineers.

West Point, October 13th, 1842. GENTLEMEN: Your invitation to the Superintendent of the Military Academy, and the Corps of Cadets, to attend the Croton water celebration to-morrow, has just been received. The permanent Superintendent of the Academy, is at present absent, and during his absence I do not feel myself authorised to accept for the Cadets, your flattering invitation, I must express, however, for the Corps, my high appreciation of the honor conferred upon them by the invitation. Very respectfully, gentlemen, your obedient servant, ALEX. I. SWIFT, Captain U. S. Corps of Engineers, Acting Superintendent Messrs.