Common Council

uew Council was held Wednesday eveuing, with a full attendauce of members. After lalling the meeting to order, Mayor Kinne delivered a short address in whicli he urged upon the Council the importauce of bemg economical in all expenditures of the city's money, and that they should strive to close the year with t'unds in the treasury unexpended. Among other things he recommended a reductions in the number of men upon the pólice forcé, and that a coinmittee on pólice regulaÜOQ be appoiuted, who shall prescribe the number of men to be employod, and the duty to be performed by each. The Mayor appointed the following standing committee : Finance- Aldermeu King, Bishop and McDonald. Slreets- Aldermen Ferdon, Besimer, Walker; Eogers, Seabolt and Smith. Sidewalks - Aldermen Cate, Schmid and Gardner. Street Lamps- Aldermen Smith, Seabolt and Cate. l'olice Regulation - Aldermen King, Besimer and Bishop. At this point the Council resolved itaelf into a " secret conclave," and the audience were orderedto "git." It is reported that during the session choiee was made of the following oflicers : Treasurer - Moses Rogéis. Attorney - A. McReyuolds. Marstal - Kdward Stiling. Street Comtnissioners - lst and 2d wards, J. Weitbrecht ; 3d and 4th wards, O. F. Starr ; óth and 6th wards, Chas. Adams. The Eleventh volume of the American Cyclopedia (new edition) is just out of prese. Among the articles iucluded in the volume are : Meteorology, by Prof. Cleveland Abbe (" Old Probabilities"); Mint and Money, by Henry Carey Baird ; Methodism, by Prof. C. W. Bennett, D. D., of Syraouse University ; Missions (Foreign and Protestant), by Eev. Chas. P. Bush, D. D.; Mineralogy, by Prof. John A. Church; Mercury (in Medicine), by Prof. E. H. Clarke, of Harvard University ; Molecule, by Prof. J osiah P. Cooke, Harvard Uuiversity ; Mortgage and other legal articles, by Judge Cooley, of this city ; Marrow and medical and physiological articles, by Prof. J. C. Dalton, M. D.; Mame, Massachueetts, Minnesota, Missouri, and other articles in American geography, by Eaton S. Drone ; Metal and Metallurgy, by Prof. ïhos. M. Drown, M. D., Lafayette College, Easton, Pa.; Articles in Materia Medica, by Eobert T. Edes, M. D., Harvard ; Mikado, by Prof. W. E. üriffis, Imperial College, Tokio, Japan ; Magnetism, by Prof. Jos. Henry, LL. D., Smithsonian Institutiou ; Mechantes, by Chas. L. Hogeboom, M. D.; Manganese and other chemical articles, by Prof. A. C. Joy, Ph. D., Columbia College, N. Y.; Mollusca and other articles in zoology, by Prof. S. Kneeland, M. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; Microscope, by Prof. A. M. Mayer ; Mineral Deposit, by Prof. S. S. Newberry; Missions (Foreign and Catholic), by Rev. Bernard O'Beilly, D. D.; Moon and other astrouomical articles, by Kichard A. Proctor, A. M.; Mercury, Metallurgy, (ore dressing) and Mine, by Prof. Rossiter W. Raymond, with many others, biographical, historica], and scientific, by equally well-known writers. The Appletons are sparing no pains to make this new edition a complete work. Haeper's Maoazine, with the May Number, completes itsfiftieth volume and its twenty-tífth year. This number is one of unusual, interest. The Editor's Easy jChair in a few words points, with just pride, to the past of the Magazine, especial ly its immediate past; but this number ís more occupied with the celebration of our national glory than of Harer's well deserved prosperity. It opens with a graphic and complete story of the Concord Fight, by Fbedeeick Hudsow, illustrated with twenty-eight eugraviugs. The Seventh Paper of the First Century Series, given in this uumber, is concise history of our Agricultural Progress, coutributed by Professor Wij.I.IAM H. Bkewee, ot New Haven. Seven remaining articles of the series are announced. The number contains three excellent stories, and the editorial departments are, as usual, mil of interesting matter.