New Orleans daily crescent., 1859-11-10
rFE SCHILLER FESTIVAL.

No. TFF SCHILLER FESTIVAL.
--------1tr-
~ rrincipal features pf the grand Schiller Cen
Ae,niaI celebration will be developed to-day, the
festival having been inaugurated last night BY |
performance Of 1.-THE Robbers at the Orleans |
Theater. This forenoon the grand procession will
form at the junction of Canal and Rampant streets,
and after parading through sundry streets will
enter the St Charles Theater, where, after the per-
formance or sThe Schiller Festival March, COM
posed for the occasion by Tn. Schoenheit ad-
dresses in German and English will be delivered,
the one by DR.. Mas, President Of the Committee,
and the other by Thomas ]. Durant, Esq A poem
will be read by Mr.. Chr. Burghalter, of Baton
Rouge. Appropriate music, vocal and instru-
mental, will occupy the intervals of the occasion
In the evening grand concert will be given at
Odd Fellows Hall, and literary discourses will oe
delivered in German and English by DIR. ). N.
Gutheim and Mr.. J. W. Overall. The ceremony Oh
the coronation of the bust Of Schiller VIII oe per
formed, and the Lay of the Bell, poem uy
Schiller and music by Romberg, will conclude 'ne
| concert and the evenings business generaly-
| which, with the daylight observances, VIII inahe
| mn as festive day as New Orleans has seen IN
| long time The most carefully elaborated ana eA'
pensye preparation BY the Committee are assar-
ance that everything will pass of in the best style
| that forethought could ensure and, from first to
4 last, the Schiller Centennial in New Orleans will
be one Of the largest events in the way which has
| occurred in the country.
Tomorrow night the closing scenes of the Fes-
tyal win take place at Odd Fellows Hall, in form
Of grand ball.
The reader will find a full programme Of the
| whole celebration in This paper.
MERCANTILE INAUGtFRATIoN.-The firm OF Pinck-
arl Steele & Co., wholesale grocers, importers of
Havana cigars and dealers in foreign and domestic
LIQUORS, corner Gravier and Tchoupitoulas streets
yesterday celebrated the opening of their magnif
cent new establishment. The building itself pre-
sents external architectural characteristics which
| render it a feature Of note among the business
concerns of the city, while its spacious extent
4 within is stored with stock Of vast amount the
staples in which the firm deals being piled up on
| all sides, from floor to attic, in immense values
Of merchandise. The Inauguration of the new
store yesterday was an event. On the second
floor most sumptuous table was spread, COM
bnng all the conditions of frstclass dinner, and
round the hospitable board assembled the many
personal friends Of the popular members Of the
firm. Messrs. w. Nj Pinckard and Claiborne Steele
we're there to greet their guests, and our friend
II H. Carter lately in business for himself in the
building which preceded the present elegant cree
ton at that stand, and from which he was sum
marily elected by fire, figured round as most genia
and agreeable master of ceremonies knowing
everybody and everybody knowing him. The
& choicest viands which could be catered were dis
cussed, and the finest wines of Europe, imported
by the house, flowed as freely as if they had beer
water dipped from the Mississippi. Chiefest anon.
these was wine most favored and having the cal
! from the crowd; !; and this was from the golden
tipped bottles bearing the brand-"The Flower 0
the Sparkling Netkar Wine: from the vineyard
Of the King of Wurtemburg Ed. Laiblin & Co
Stuttgardt; Pinckard, Steele Il Co., sole import
ers.n This wine has an aroma, flavor, bod
and lively and enthusiastic g fzzle which CON
mend it to all conhoisseurs in the genuine juice G
the grape.
p. s. Messrs. Pinckard, Steele & Co., have fo
, lowed us up with courtesy, and we acknowedg
the receipt of sample of the Sparkling Neckar
above referred to, in the orignal packages as
came from the domains of the King of Wurteu
burg, and right royal tipple it is.
ST. CHARLES sTHEATER.-Manager Ben. DeBar al
nounces the opening of the season at his establish
ment tonight, commencing with the engagemer
Of Miss Jane Codmbs, the talented young actres
who won so many admirers on the same board
last season. The play is I" The Lady Of Lyons,
with Miss Coombs as Pauline and Mr.. Charlie
Pope as Claude 1Mel,iOte. Robert Macairen wi
follow, in which DeBar will do the boss robbel
and in the part Of Jacques St''op, the thievis
satellite, Mr.. Scalan the new comedian, will sho,
|. his points,