Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1851-02-06
iowa City Corresponds nee.

IOWA CITY, Jan. 81, 1901.
In former communications, published in your
paper, under date OF the Esd instant, several small
errors and omissions occurred, and one SO much
dsfguring the sense as to need this correction.
In the speech ofJuge Mason, by displacement Of
one word in two several settings OF type ''iron''
is put in the place Of from,' the words occurring
several lines apart. 1t should read sron under the
laws of Lycurgus," instead Of s:from under the
laws OF Lycurgus, - the ssfrom'' belonging below,
where the phrase occurs of hindering capitalists
from mot ssron as it is printed) coming into the
State. AS it is prented it reads capitalists iron
coming into the Sate," which is not very pertinent
to discourse upon money and precious metals.
Once for all, therefore, il is to be hoped that all
the ofthe press will not be set to the writer's
account, though oftertimes so hurried as scarcely
to be able to review his manuscript before the
mail hour arrives as perhaps in the above in
stance, the compositor did not review his proof
with the manuscript before him, and hence the
mistake.
TEE REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF IN
srRucrioN embraces a department of State, so vi
tai to the good of the commonwealth as to deserve
this particular notice. And as many of the rea-
ders Of the Hawk-Eye will no, be able to see this
pamphlet of 90 pages, it may not be amiss to
give a synopsis Of the State paper.
The Report opens with a reference tn the re-
quirements Of the sssct to establish a system Of
common schools" passed Jan. Is, 1919, touching
the Superintendents duties ; and he speaks Of
preparing, publishing and distributing some ex-
plantations Of that act in edition of 500 copies Of
the same. In July following he published per-
manent pamphlet Of about 100 pages embodying the
act and all laws touching the School fund and uni
versity, the reprint Of which he recommends, till
every family in the State has a copy, adding, 'sI
met with hundreds of our citizens who knew COM
par1tirey nothing about our School Ssyten.' The
underscoring is appended by the writer, both to
call attention to the fact affirmed and to the phrase
s.compardtirely nothing.''
The Report then speaks of travels and lectures
by the Superintendent stirough the State" of the
difficulties attending the organization of School
districts, Of the doctrine of neither Introducing nor
excluding the Bible, as the true way to avoid con-
troversy, of the architecture and erection Of school
houses with long recommendation of Hon Henry
Barnard's 'ssehool Architecture,'') of a series of
school books, officially recommended, of reports
and periodicals purchased for the department. OF
Normal schools, Of the expenditure of $500. for
the instruction OF eleven def mutes or blind per.
sons of the State University. Teachers. Institutes,
ofphoaectics, Of the five per cent. aud general
school fund, of the school fund Commits sioners Of
amendments proposed, and the conclusion of the
':present and future prospects" our State and
country. Our literary and scientific men. says the
Superintendent OF Instruction, citing with inver-
ted commas the phrsse,) have carried the line and
the rule beyond the utmost barriers Of creation"
Your correspondent would love to dwell on many
Of the topics in the Report,barely named above, on
the tabular statistics a. iaeclose. But it st,suicc
to say that the county fundCommis sionershave not
kept anycorrect accounts;wo or three of them hav-
ing been defaulters who have been superseded BY
new appointees, and that their duties are recon-
mcnded to be transferred to the clerk Of the Dis
ict court also that general financial officer is re-
commence unless public land Office be instituted
by the State, SO as to relieve the Superintendent, of
the many burdens Of his position, so far as tnan-
cial matters are concerned.
URBANUS.