The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-07-02
The Great German Festival In New
York.

The Third National German Shooting Fo5ti-
val is now in progress in New York. II com
mencrI on Saturday, at Jones Wood, and will
hr kept up the whole Of THIS week. The
Journal of Commerce SAYS
G"rnans have cnmc from ilic roEiotest parts
of llIo FalInriniid anu from every State in the
Union 4" attend This festival. Preparations
for it have quite occupied the spare time OF
or philosophical Tcutnnlc ciliznns. Com
mlttccs aml suD-committeps, with as many
kinds of badges rs the Chinese man,larins
have of buttons, have been busy day and
night for weeks past pcrfecting all the ar
rangcment. lor the affair. Gits TO tho ag rc-
gate value Of over $40 600 have been presented
by associations and individuals III Germany
and the United States to bc competed for by
tho sharpshnOters. Among the foreign dona-
lions ia u nerdlc- gun. the offering Of the King
OF Prussia, rs thorousIl-going Gorman as
ever lived. Tho programme of the fetd in
cldes, besides unlimited shooting, balls, con-
ccrts and DanQncts.
The New York Sun gives the following pre-
liminary Incidents of the festival:
The arrival Of tho Western delegates, bear
iE9 with them the flag OF the league -"Das
Bmndrs!ahi.o'- -w..s the great ovont OF Satnr.
tiay. They w"r'' escorted hy the Now York
SclmiZru battalion aud troops OF friends on
the sidewalks TO tile Germana Assembly
Rooms, where they received an enthllshal c
welcome. Speeches wore made by Mr.. Often.
dorrrr aud Mayor Hoffman, AMI were received
with great applause. The ceremony Of dnliv r.
inc the ls OF the I,uud escorted hither from
Chicago by over one hundred sharpshooters.
followed, Mr. Mulclcchnor, Of Chicago, and
Supervisor Andrew Wimau, vice-presilent of
the SrhutycnbunI, delivering addresses. In
the evening many Of tho buildings III those
PORTIONS of the city occupied principally by Ger
luans were brilliantly illuminated. All day
Yesterday tic prizes were on exhibition al
Stcinway Hall. aid wcle inspected by thou
samis ol people.
The following dispatch was yesterday re-
ceivcd by Mr.. Max MorgrnLllau, the secretary
u; lix Schlll2rlIlesL, by llc Atlantic cable:
"HAMEIRG, Sunday, June 23.---IiaiI Column
bia = SOUS MAY success crown yoIlr manly
sport. HAMBURG RIFLES"
a. y ucluck yestccdoy morning Two larges.
crowded. with members of the visiting tlelcga-
lions and their ladies', left The pier nj the fout
"r Barclay street, and proceeded on an cXcur-
sioiI down the bay. Bands OF music were on
the boat, lager lowed freely, and the lay Wa4
one nr enjoyment altogether Truionic. The
party PASSED The Narrows, sailed down The
I.,w,.r ELy. and then sailed back again. Meet
ing i French war steamer, tho Germans began
singing the hlarsrillaiAr, accompanied by tho
bl;nl. 'l'luar on hoard Of the mam ol-war re-
spon.lrd enthusiastically. waving halls and hand.
kerrhirfs, and taking ul: the burden oi The nj
tiullal hymn enthusiastically. Houn after the
British, steamer britannia passed, anI The Ger.
n,.lls sann "tiod Save the Queen Justify, call
ing firth a similar demonstration from the
pas:semserS uf tile slc.iliIer.
The cXrlU,rnHt4 next luukc,l arnuml i'll yail,
for Il German steamer, and not meeting any
they broke forth with the German national air.
'Waa isl ,I':i lcntschGn Faterand?" (What
ls The Germans f:lLlicrland?) The barGes
landed their passeuRrrs for awhile ilE Slatel
ls!aIIl, where they were received with the
Trims; uf lIus AMI other demonstrations, anC
escorted to Suffers Park. Here about twt
hours were spent in "firyiuSs Of aEer To Gam
i.sinuy, sud linn re-emLarking the delegates
sailed up the Hudson III flr as Fort Leo ant
back tu ihc wharf nj barclay street, where
they arrived III 6 l.. NJ.
Later in the evening powder company o
New York presented eight powder horns TO th'
.ssoia!i'.n through tho medium OF Gcnerp
Sigcl. The Cllarlcaton SchIlZem Cumpan,
presented tame bear tn the association, ;tir,
thereby created much fun, JUDGED. the II,