and down the Bowery to Grand street, through Grand street to East Broadway, down East Broad- way and Chatham street to the Park. Should the weather not prove propitious on the 14th instant, the celebration will be postponed, on which a white flag will be displayed at City Hall, Niblo's, and Bowery Theatres, at 7 o'clock, A.M. On the arrival of the head of the column at the Park, and also upon circling the pub- lic ground at Union Place, the beautiful Fountains recently constructed will be opened with the display of the Croton water. On reaching the Park at the close of the march, the several bodies will pass the front of the City Hall in the following order : — The Military and the Sixth Division will pass into Broadway, and be under the direc- tion of their respective Commandants. The Fourth Division will form on the sidewalks outside of the Park. The Ninth Division will pass for dismissal to the rear of the City Hall. The remaining Divisions will be dismissed in the Park front of the City Hall. The several societies and guests previous to dismissal will witness the ceremonies in front of the City Hall, as follows : An address" by Samuel Stevens, Esq., President of the Board of State Water Com- missioners, upon delivering the custody of the Croton Water Works to the Water Com- missioners of the Corporation. A reply from John L. Lawrence, Esq., President of the Croton Aqueduct Board. An Ode, written by Gen. George P. Morris, Esq., will be sung by the New York Sa- cred Music Society. The ceremonies will be closed by nine cheers from the citizens and others upon a sig- nal from the Grand Marshal, and the whole be dismissed. All Societies and Military Corps who have not reported to the Committee of Arrange- ments, will report to the Grand Marshall at the Mayor's Office, on or before 9 o'clock, CROTON AQ.UEDUCT. 269 A. M., on the day of the procession. The Aids to the Grand Marshal will assemble at the Mayor's Office, this day, at 4 o'clock, P. M., when they will receive their badges. By order of the Joint Committee of Arrangements of the Common Council. HENRY E. DAVIES, EDWARD D. WEST, CHARLES W. SMITH, FREDERICK R. LEE, CLARKSON CROLIUS, Jr. Committee of Board of Aldermen. GEORGE F. NESBITT, WILLIAM DODGE, DANIEL WARD, CHARLES J. DODGE, October 13th, 1842. RICHARD H. ATWELL, Committee of Board of Assistants. GILBERT HOPKINS, Grand Marshal The details of this most numerous and imposing procession ever seen in any Amer- ican city, cannot be given without more space than we have at command. The grand Canal celebration in its aquatic display, exhibited a feature wanting in this — but in re- spect of numbers present in the procession, and in the thronged streets as spectators, this exceded that, as indeed it could hardly fail to do, taking into consideration the vast in- crease in the population of the city since 1825, the period of the Canal fete. " There was, says the New York Express, a multitude present whom no man could number, and the devices presented an almost endless variety. We could neither number the one nor the other. The procession was two hours and ten minutes in passing the Ex- press Office on Broadway. The ranks were from two to ten deep. Every rank, every age, and every profession were represented. We saw all of the seventy ways of living, and at least six of the seven ages of man ; and the first, the infant in its mother's arms, at least in the crowd and lookers on. Every nation, too, that holds communion or commerce with our own, was there. There was the man of war and the man of peace — the soldier and the sailor — the master and the apprentice — the father and the son — the man of words and the man of deeds — the mace and the axe — the plough and the sword — the cannon and the bible — the music of the harp of ten strings, and the hoarse notes of the martial band. The church bells mingled their merriest peals, the cannon spoke at morn- ing, noon, and night, in their most vociferous tones of power. There were flying artillery 68 270 CELEBRATION OP THE and artillery on foot, infantry and calvary, riflemen and marines, and soldiers of every rank and every service. The Scotch Highlanders, with the tartan and the plume, pre- sented a beautiful and soldierlike appearance. So did the heavy compact band of Ger- mans, who are capable of doing- good service, we warrant, whenever they are summoned to the field. The city companies never appeared better, and the troops from the