Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-06-10

INDIAN TEsrINoNIAL.-The following com.
pilmentary letter was presented to Mrs Maher
the other day, by the delegations of Indians,
subscribing it below, on their departure from
her house:
10 Or Esteemed Hostess, Mrs. l1aher.
We cannot consent to leave your hospitable
mansion without an expression of our sincere
gratitude for your unremitting kindness and
motherly regard for our comfort during our
brief visit to our Great Father, the President
of the United States. When we return to our
homes in the western wilds, we will relate to
our brethren your kindness, and their hearts
will swell with the same emotion that animates
ours at parting, and will call down blessings
from the Great Spirit on you and yours
Trusting that kind Providence may reward
you for your many virtues, we subscribe our.
selves your constant and ever-remembering
friends, The Mtami, Yea, Piankeshaac,
Peoria, and Kaskaskla ~
Delegation of Indians.
Washington City, June 10, 1854 (.
FIRE.-The fire last night was in the Fourth
Ward, On Il street, near the iron bridge over
the Capitol branch. Four small frame houses,
occupied by laboring men and their families,
were destroyed, and another much injured.
The loss would be small if the property be-
lonsed to wealthy persons, but it is severely
felt by the poor families thus driven from
their homes 1ncendiaries are certainly Turk.
ing about our city and their malice appears
to be directed solely against the industrious
poor Justice calls for the arrest. conviction
and severest punishment of the malicious viii
lains
FARE REDUCED.-We see that Capt. Page
has reduced the cost of travel between this
city and Alexandria upon his steamboats,, the
Union and George Page, to five cents per trip
This is an important reduction, and when the
fact that refreshments of all kinds can be had
on board is taken into consideration, we have
no doubt that "Page's line'' will be largely
patrOnized by travellers on the Potomac.
The MIssING WARD.-All the wards have
sent in their contributions to the National
Monument, received on election day, except
the Sixth Ward. Every body is on the qai
rtrs TO know what amount OF patr iOtism is Pc
cuniarily felt in the Sixth Ward Why does
not the Treasurer shell out?
The WEATHER.-The thermometer to-day,
at / a. M, outside the Star office, regi stored
IS degrees; the high wind that blew during
the morning correcting any ill effects that
might have been felt from the warmth
Academia man of the name of GEORGE
Noble. rigger at the navy yard, fell from the
top of the stack of the ordnance building yes
terday afternoon, and was SO dreadfully in
jured that it was thought he could not survive.
ISoUEsT.-An inquest was held this morn
ing over the body of a newborn white female
infant, which was found in a privy in the
Seventh Ward. The skull of the child was
crushed. and evidences of its recent birth were
found with it. The jury decided that it came
to its death from violence at the hands of some
person or persons unknown.
MAGISTRATES TRIAL.-W. J. Paine, jesse
Hoe. Abraham Hoe and Daniel Hoe, all col
ored, were taken before Justice Beck yester-
dag, for various offences one against the other
They were charged with assault and battery,
threats of violence, stoning houses, &c. Jus
tice Beck believing it to be hard party all
around, held each one to bail in the sum of
5000. They Will hardly want to 60 before
Justice Beck again, as he deals more strickly
by the laws than they wish.
WATCH RErURNs.-Abraham Corbitt, drunk
and disorderly; fine and costs David Lewis