The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-07-01
The German schntzenfest In New

York.
The telegraph notices the progress Of the
great German celebration at New York.
L has been in diily progress since saturs
day. To-disxtls Turnverein give an exhi-
bitioh to-morrIw and Friday there will
be feasts and concerts; on Saturday night,
the wonderful summeg,s Night Festival"
with Examinations at the Park and on the
river on Sunday, q legislative convention
of the members and sacred concerl; and
on Monday oil close with banquet and
distribution of prizes. The New York Stfa,
in its account of the festivities, says:
"The arrival of the western delegates,
bearing with them the flag of the league
{ Das Bundesfahne'-was the great event of
Saturday. They were escorted by the New
York Schuetzen battalion and troops of
friends on the sidewalks to the Germania
Assembly Rooms, whore they received an
enthusiastic welcome. Speeches were made
by 0. 0ttendorfer and Mayor Hoffman, and
were received with great applause. The
ceremony of delivering tho flag of the
Bund, escorted hither from Chicago by over
one hundred sharpshooterg, followed, Mr..
Mutchlechner, of Chicago, and Supervisor
Andrew Whitman, vice-president of the
Schuetzenbund, delivering addresses. 10
the evening many of the buildings in III Sc
portions of the city occupied princi Jally by
Germans were brilliantly Illuminated. All
day yesterday the prizes were on exhibi-
ton at Steinway Hall, and we're inspected
thousands of people.
"The following dispatch KS yesterday
received by Mr.. Max Morg,nthan, the Sc
cretary of the Schuetzenfes, by the Allan
tic cable:
1" Hamburg, Sunday, june 28.-Hail
Columbia's sons May Success crown your
manly sport. HAMBURG RIFLES.
"At 9 o'clock Yesterday morning two
barges, crowded with members of the visit
ing delegations and their ladies, left the
pier at the foot of Barclay street, and pro-
ceeded on on excursion down the bay.
Bands Of music were on the boat, lager
flowed freely, and the day was one of enjoy
ment altogether Teutonic. The party passed
the narrows, sailed down the lower bay,
and then sailed back again. Meeting q
French war steamer, the Germans began
singing the Marseillaise, accompanied by
the bands. Those on board the man-ot-war
responded enthusiastically, waving hats and
handkerchefs, and taking up the burden OF
the national hymn enthusiastically. Soon
after, the British steamer Britannia passed,
and the Germans sang God Save the
Queen Justify, calling forth a similar
demonstration from the passengers OF the
steamer.
"The excursionists next looked around in
vain for German steamer, and not meet
ing any, they broke forth with the German
national air, 'Was ist DIES Deutschen Va
terland p (What is the Germans Father
land p The bargcs landed their passen-
gers for awhile OF Staten Island, where
they were received with the firing OF guns
and other demonstrations, and escorted to
Suffers Park. Here about two hours were
spent in offerings of lager to Gambrinus,
and then, re&mbarking, the delegates sail
ed up the Hudson as far as Fort Lee, and
back to the wharf at Barclay street, where
they arrived at P. NJ.
1.-THE committee appointed by Congress
to be present at the Scheutzenfest, OF which
the Hon. B. Judd, of Illinois, is chairman,
arrived here yesterday and took rooms at
the Westminster Hotel. This morning
they,w illsbe escorted to u platform erected
in front Of the Everett House, where they
will view the PROCESSION. Afterwards they
will ride to Jones's Mood, and be present at
the opening festivities there.
Delegations arrived yesterday as fol-
lows: From Boston, forty; Washington,
fifty fifty more to come to-day Philadel-
phia, forty eighty napre to come to-day !;
Charleston, Indianapolis, and San Francis
co. To-day delegations will arrive in time
to appear in the procession from New
Brunswick, Patterson, Newark, Buffalo,
Albany, Bridgeport, and hundreds OF other
places.
"At Jones's Wood, this week, six young
ladies of SURPRISING beauty, as the story
goes, dressed in EIiddle-Age costume, are to
contend, with rifles in their hands, for
prizes. This will attract large crowd on
the day on which these delightful maidens
are to shoot atthe target. These young
ladies are to represent the six great geo
graphical divisions of Germany, and this is
oily calculated to make the contest the
4 moroxciting.'