Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-06-16

Improvements of Udshn eton-C Course
of the Start is very gratifying, in view
of the steady devotion of the Star, from
It's commencement, to the local improve
ments OF the national metropolis, to OBJ
serve the attention that IS now paid TO
the subject by our citizens. There has
never been feeling in Washington so
manifestly for its advantage as this that
now exists here with reference to the un-
folding and application of it's internal ad-
vantages. If this feeling is kept within
proper bounds, lift is not allowed to run
riot in the wild fields of stock iobbinc
and speculation, it will greatly promote
the permanent prosperity of the city.
We are certainly pleased to notice the
improved tone of our press in this particu-
lar. In the Republic of Wednesday last
we find the following paragraph, which
we copy In our columns with pleasure:
1--WE see houses springing up with
magical rapidity. We have seen the
green fields of few weeks since covered
with buildings in various stages of
growth, and almost think if one Should
plant brick and single it would in
a short time grow up into a habitable
tenement.
" But the question arises, Who are to
occupy all these houses Upon what
do the speculative purchasers of lots and
builders of blocks-evidcntl for rent
depend Let them set. about opening
the sluices, let them lay the main pipes
of travel, and the permanent and tran
slent population of the city afford them
an ample reward for all their enterprise.
g In order to present practical evil
dcnce of the difference between CITY
on the main route of travel and one
which suffers from Instructions, we call
the attention of our readers to the differ
'ence between the arrivals at Baltimore
and Washington"
How much better is this employment
of the pens of the Republic. than to be US
ing them Ill the mere warfares of party
Parties arc of to-day; but the prosperity
of Washington is for all time He who
promotes the interests Of this city pro-
notes the general welfare of the whole
country. \ century from now it will be
a small matter whether our personal
wishes arc gratified with reference to the
triumph of this or that portion of our
cOuntrymen but the monuments Of en-
tcrprise. taste, skill and genius which
may be reared here by a union of all sec
lions and all parties, will stand upon our
soil, when many centuries shall have
passed away.
The improvements We advocate in these
columns are all needed III Washington.
They are essential to its welfare, its health
and its happiness. We shall continue to
urge city reform, therefore, as one of the
great features of our paper, confident that
the good people of the metropolis will con-
tinue, as they now do, nobly to sustain
US.
Anothcr 1fair.-Of late years Our city
has been growing quite notorious for the
murders Of wives by their husbands
Yesterday afternoon between four and
five o'clock, the residents IN the vicinity
of the Avenue and 9th street were alarm
cd by the discharge of q pistol and a
scream in the house OF Mr.. J. 7. Berkeley,
which soon caused rush Of the neigh
hors to the spot. 1t was found that Mr..
\. J. Morrison, gentleman who occu-
pied rooms in the house, had shot his
wife, and with her a young man named
VIM. Fl. Hester. The facts. SO far as we
have been able to learn from the officers
and others in attendance, are about as
follows:
Mr.. Morrison has for some time sus-
pected that his wife had been wanting in
fidelity to him, her lawful husband. In
order to discover how far his suspicious
were correct, he gave out that he had to
90 to Baltimore, and would not return
that night. He sccreted himself IN the
house. and saw all the man9uvrlng OF
his wife and Hester through a glass in the
panel of the room-door. He fired thrice
through the glass, one ball entering his
wiGc's right side, intiicting a wound not
at present thought to be dangerous, as
TIE ball has been extracted; and another,
striking Hester in the side, passed through
his lungs. 1t is supposed the wound
will prove fatal.
Mrs. Morrison, no doubt. thought her
husband in Baltimore, for she spoke to
him. and told HIM she thought he was
tboro Ho,. oycIno,otio0S and derlara-