The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-07-16
THE GERAEANJUBLLEE

| TIE GERMANJUBILEE
Tho City OF Baltimore Flood cd with
| Singers-Tho Great German socn~er-
fest-wagniflcont n arm QUE an the
and sOrc, took q n fdic to BaItinore,,-,
Tho Prize Singing.
The Baltimore papers are filed with accounts
| OF the progress and incidents of the great fes.
tival OF, the Northeastern Sse gerbund. The
procession, on Monday, was the grandest ever
witnessed in Baltimore. Not less than ten
Thousand persons were in the line OF march,
and the pageant consumed over two hours IN
passing given point. The procession was
composed OF six divisions, embracing the milf
tary, &C the head Of which was squad Or cav
air, preceding Governor Bowie and his staff;
the second division. headed by Mr.. Steinbach.
President OF the Northeastern sangerbund;
Mr.. Ak, the honorary President Of the fest.
val; speakers and representatives Of Ger
man societies in Europe in four-horse car
riages. Next the Social Democratic Turner's,
followed by twenty-niue societies from New
York City and neighborhood The Mozart
Maennerchoir led, and the other societies fol-
division was led by the Turnverein vorwaerts,
OF Baltimore. Mayor Banks, the City Council,
the Committee Of Invitations, the officers Of
the steamer Berlin Of the Baltimore and Bre-
men line, the City Police Commissioners in
carriages, and twenty-five soc,eies OF the
Philadelphia Special Bund.- eighteen being
from Philadelphia, two from Reading, one from
Lancaster, and. ono rom Wilmington, Del.
49, a 49,
the Meannerchoir Of Philadelphia; the oldlest,
singing society in America, having been organu
lied in 1886. The fourth division was led by the
Independent Tnrnvereln. OF Baltimore; AveCar-
riages with the Honorary Committee and the
Baltimore societies. The fifth division was
composed of representatives OF the press, the
Baltimore Rife Club. and members Of the Con-
cordia and OF the Geimania Clubs, all in car
riages. The sixth division was composed Of
the Honorary Committee iA carriages, two
butchers societies on horseback, and the so-
ciety Of bakers, with an immense oven on q
wagon drawn by six horses. Baking was in
full operation, and thousands Of ioaves OF
bread and cakes were distributed among the
spectators aiong the line OF msrc1, The supply
Of seltzer water was exhausted, and apprehen-
sons we're at one time expressed that the lager
would give out. In the line of march the
Arion soclety carried beautiful banner, o.,
one side OF which was the following stanza:
From the Boston noise. stiN sick ana sore, q,
j took o ride to Baltimore; - 3l% },i :.
Where theys as every one may see, e'a t.sa D
Now hola what e q jubilee" .4ii'
The other side exhibits a quartet Of frogS
giving concert, the stork presiding az their
leader, a herring and Mger beer barrel. A
,pretzsl was suspended from the banner lTl
The Baltimore correspondent of the New
York Sun. writing on Sunday last. says: n q.
Somebody says that just as water boils at
212 degrees Fahrenheit. so all human affections
evaporate at umety. and q man will foreswear
used to think this might be so, hnt now don't
believe 1t. There are two thousand German
SINGERS here, and they go about the streets
ioeAeu A1M IN arm, ana Erection. and all the
great bone boiling establishment, for the heat
strikes into mars very marrow, and
.rsd syed Poiyphsmas. Tue dsr@sns II 40
about the streets in squads and banda, always
on the sunny side, most Of them dressed in
moisture on the back. With them perapigation
is happiness. Pefspnatioh and cong, she Md
say, TOR they are irrePressibly vocal. They
and in private parlors, and IN their several
rooms, where, by reason OF til heat, they re-
| duce themselves to about the dress Of the En-
glish blondes. and fan themselves aud sing
solos. duets. trios, quartets. and ohoruses are
extemporized at tho sSortest notice, and from
strains Of fasherlsnd are @s1e heard floating
through all the corridors OF the great hotels.
+ THE GATHERING OF THE oLANs b >,
But to begin at the beginning. Most ofthe
New York societies came on by special train ON
Saturday. To go through. the cafs one would
suppose M tnat !: he had suddenly jumped ont Of
after car OF the long train was filed with Teu-
tons. They. are not taciturn, race, and the
air was filed with ''Ochsn and "Lohs." and all
the other gutteral combinations other strong,
seemed to have an English tongue IN his head
was the conductor, who doubtless regretted
that his education had not carried him also
into the German classicSs 5:FS ,af.,
! DECORATION OF THE CITY. ia. !;
To-day the city Is gay with buoting. Flags
are everywhere, and most conspicuous Of oil is
the striking flag Of the North German Con-
federation, which is seen IL a,l the streets--a
q
! OF the, authorities TO decorate their houses,
and the effect is Of hospitality and recOgni-
ton. The hotels Of which the principal So
attention. The aLiederkrahk is at the Eutaw
House, and the Arion ct Ra<nn.as, end he ;;s:.-,
lars OF these hotels are wound with evergreen,
| their DaiconteS nuDg with crimson cloth h1mms
| ed with golden fringe. and the fronts festooned
with Chinese lanterns. The citizens stand all
day opppsite III admiring groups. especially
the col0red citl8epss to whom the briilispt cOn-
trasts of the red and gold. and the Haunting
and novel flags, seem to afford eminont saaiss
faction. y = ~. q! ra.i stpt,G e } iqif5sl ~
4. PERFORMANCE OF THE eRAroarol - y.
1 On Sunday evening the ssMessiah" was given.
! It was cnrlons to hear the famous old choruses
| in the German dress. For instance. that no.
| bic one with which the second part OF the ora
torlo commences, "Behoid the Lamb OF God, >"
was hardly itself as ''Sich, das iSt Gottes