Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-03-12
PHILADELPHIA.
Pnll.ApELrIIiA, March 0.

PHILADELPHIA, March 0.
Our Special Correspondent.
Politicians are especially concerned just now
with the Republican State Convention to DO held
on Wednesday of tho present week in Philadel-
phia. The Academy of Music will DO the scene Of
the ratification meeting on Thursday evening.
The annual commandments of the. Colleges
and other bodies, are being held. The Dental
college has had its Spring meetirg as well as the
Homeopathic college, the Pennsylvania Univer
sity and others. The Commencement of the Jcl-
fcrson colleg: of Medicine On Saturday was the
latest and most important of the series 80 far.
More than 100 students graduated. The affairs Of
the College were declared to be more prosperous
than ut any time before the war. One OF the anti
war cries here was the certain breaking up OF the
large interests connected with the medical schools
If the South seeded. 1t is true there was To some
extent falling oil, but no more than was expe-
rienced IN any direction. The Jefferson" was
the especial iavorite vi Southern students. They
rally to 1t again naturally and whatever fears Phil
adclphia may have had for u continuance Of her
supremacy in this line are dissipated.
Business men are not the only tenants who are
moving "up-town'' as the expression Is. IL is
curious to observe the differences that few
years will make In nelghborhood how the
dwellings give way to business, and how that
changes in its charactGr-generally from retail
to Il wholesale complexion Ten years ago all
the principal newspapers in the city were on Third
street, between Chestnut and Dock. Then the
Press moved up Chestnut street. 'Bullc-
tim followed,-then the LEDGER" The Age
was started ut time when Third street was be-
ginning to go slightly out of fashion, and chose
an office at Fifth and Chestnut streets. 1t is now
impelled to move still further up town, and will
shortly move to Seventh street above Chestnut.
60 We see that the browning tendency of trade
does not spare the newspapers.
Friend COMMERCIAL, did you ever know such a
winter There is snow piled six feet hig here,
and this is the 9th of March. Perhaps we shall
make up for IL though by having the incest sum-
mer us ever was,-so never mind. But don't
| talk about the walking, please,-dont;-n the
Broad street crossings with their abominable new
plank road laid down there, full OF tar and other
denominations which stick to mems boots and Ia
dies skirts and are tracked into houses, and
make one feel savage generally. really wonder
that good folks in that quarter submit to the nui-
sance.
| People are exercised about two architectural
designs for structures to be erected in the city,
| The one accepted for the Lincoln monument APP
pears to be altogether unsatisfactory to every ont
| who has seen it, The managers are obstinate how.
ever, and the ugly thing is TO be erected. Tht
other sore point is the design for the new Masonic
Hall on Broad street. cannot tell you all tn,
hard things said about It, Tic public outside d
| Masonry has not so clear case IN this as in thu
| other matter, for the ancient people who propos,
| to build the Temple have everything to say ant
| for other people TO put in is u sort OF impcri
| hence. Mr.. SquecIs says that there is no law
against man calling his house I'M Island If h,
CHOOSES; and SO the ancient body aforesaid are u
liberty to put upa pyramid on B,oad street
they choose, and so long as they do not intring
on the street line; still it is pity that the ncy
building cannot be made ornamental rs well u
useful. INDEX.