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. Military Academy. CROLIUS, WEST, & DODGE, Committee of Arrangements, of the Common Council of New York.

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From among many received, the organs of deputations, and from private guests, the following are selected :

From John Anthon, Chairman of Meeting of the Bar. At a meeting of the members of the Bar of the city of New York, held at the room of the Law Institute, in the City Hall, on Tuesday, October 4, 1842, on motion of Mr. David

Graham, Mr. John Anthon was called to the Chair, and John W. Edmonds appointed

Secretary.

On motion of Mr. Daniel Lord, Jr., it was Resolved, That the members of the Bar will co-operate with the Common Council, and their fellow citizens, in celebrating the completion of the Croton Water Works.

Resolved, That Messrs. John W. Edmonds, James W. Gerard, Daniel Lord, Jr., Robert J. Dillon, and George Griffen, be a committee to act in behalf of the Bar on that occasion.