Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-11-20
THE BUREAU OF EDUCATION.
Report Of the Com missioner.

The report of the Commissioner of Educa-
tfon for 1875 contains the usual abstracts OF
the reports Of the several state and city SUI
perintendents and other educational publ
cations, together with increased tables of
statistics compiled from replies TO inquiries
addressed to various state ana city educa-
tional officers and institutions throughout
the country. The benefits OF a common
nomenclature, adopted as a result OF its
work in reporting educational statistics are
pee, osecomihg apparent; From the generaliza,
from so many sources. the lessons rise spon-
taneously 10 the surface. By this process
existing excellencieS are shown and emula-
tion is excited, while past errors are seen aud
methods OF improvement suggested. Tue
greater demand upon this office for informa-
lion upon special topics has been met In part
oy the publication OF eight pamphlets, con-
tanning in all 704 octave pages. The subdl-
Vision In charge of official educational re-
ports and publications, reports marked
tendency TO abandon faulty and obsolete
methods of instruction, and TO adopt those
more in harmony with natural development,
and at the same time those better adapted TO
NJ the pupils for the practiced duties of life.
Dun ing the year there has been a marked in
crease In the attention given TO the introduce
ton of
DRAWING IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
special report Oh drawing in these schools
and art education Is in preparation by this
oifice and is nearly ready for publication.
Inc statlstlcal work OF the office has greatly
improved and been largely increased during
the past year. OF the Particular luouIries
sent TO schools of learning, asylums, reform
atorles, DC, In addition TO the regular inqui-
ries in reference 10 public school systems
there were nearly COCO. In addition 10 the
regular WORK OF the office one of its subdivi-
slons has been engaged in preparing a special
report on public libraries in theUnited States
including those of schools, colleges &c and
has received the cordial corporation of all
interested In these important means of elu-
cation.
THE SOUTH.
The commissioner feels the liveliast SYM
paihy with the embarrassments encountered
in the states in which slavery has been more
recently abolished and urgently recommends
mat The geneIa al government devise some
measures OF aid that VIII be generally salts
factory. He affirms the utter impossibility
of accomplishing the amount of work now
performed in the Office, were it not for the
gratuitOus labor performed by thousands of
educators in different parts of the country
and states that no other year has brought so
many testimonials of the utility of the work
1t attempts 10 do. He asks that such rea-
sonable increase of his clerical force be m ade
as will enable the office more Satisfactorily
TO accomplish its work.
THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION.
The relation of the bureau OF education 10
the International exhibition has been two.
fold-hrst, the educators of the country have
naturally made il medium for harmonic
ing all diverse projects and plans for show
ing OF educational methods, appliances aud
results; second, the preparation of such
limited, but correct. reports on the various
OF education as would be ofpermanent value
RICHARDS, THE HALF-BREED INTERPRET
TER, M ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS has been re-
ceived TO the effect that on the 18th instant
the bodies OF John Richards and his nephew
young Palady) were found in the Running
Water, 30 miles from the Red Cloud agency
at The crossing OF the road to Fort Laramie
rfddled with bullets. The murdered men
being on the way to Red Cloud from Laramie
at the time of their death, il is supposed that
the murder was done by hostile indians. The
wagon belonging to the two men was upset
INTO the river, and on the bank We're found
their guns. The brides and lines were the
only things taken from the harness. The
oOdles mad lain in the water several days,
and could be identified only by papers fonnd
on them. Both the murdered men were
Sioux half breeds, Richards having been a
very intelligent man aud a great friend of
the whites. He has been in Washington sew
eral uIAles with Indian delegations, as inter-
prefer. Assisted by Young-man-afraid Of
nlsHOrses, he was the mems of bringing To
Red Cloud, last September, TO treat Tor the
sale of the Black Hills country, the wild
northern Indians, for which dangerous sef
vice the government presented the two with
1cOhead of horses. Great excitement prevails
at Red Cloud, in consequence OF the discoy-
cry OF this brutal murder.
MENTAL Norwich, N. ", nearly a tbou-
sand persons paid seventy five cents 10 hear
MI. Beecher lecture on education and gov
sf ,,i1;e Wednesday night He advocated
more thorough separation of church and
state, and discouraged reputation His per-
i0Imance was grand, except that part OF il |
"a which he made an effort at self-vindica-
ton by denouncing that class of sins with |
which he stands charged. Then he appeared |
burdened. and his elOquence suddenly de- |
freedom than he is wont to, especially ia his |
church. The lecture was applauded.
MEXICAN CATTLE THIEVES KILLEp.-A
ulsnAtch received from Fort Brown by way |
of Galveston says that party of state troops |
came upon horde OF Mexican cattle thieves |
yesterday who were crossing stolen cattle |
into Mexican territory, and upon the re-
fusal OF the authorities 10 surrender the cat
tie, they crossed the border and had a fight |
with some four hundred Mexicans, Ina which \
four OF the latter were killed. The United |
states troops were ordered not TO cross into |
Mexico.
AN INDIANA FINANCIAL PLATFORM
Three thousand citizens of Indianapolis have |
signed declaration complaining OF the de- |
preston OF business and the mistaken fnan- /
cIal policy OF the government, and demand |
ing The unconditional repeal of the resump-
tion act, the retirement of all national bank |
notes, the substitution therefor OF legal /
tenders, and the refunding of q portion OF /
the national debt into 3-65 interconvertibls /
bonds. The declaration concludes with a /
call Tor mass meeting December I.
AT THE CHARLOTTE On. c. RACES yester-
day, IN the one and one-eighth mile dash,
Sprightlet was first and HartIand second: |
time. 2:13. Second race, half-mile heats,
Mollie Darling first. Thomas O'Neill second; /
time, 81, -56k. .5Ss. Third race. one mile /
dash, Abdel KOree first, Century second; /
time. lisa. The track was heavy on account /
OF rain.
THREE MEN INJURED AT A CHICAGO
F1RE.-A nre broke out last evening in Mar 4
tines dancing hall, in Chicago, and while |
the fire patrol and citizens to the number OF /
twenty were attempting to save the furni- /
ture the roof fell suddenly, catching about a
dozen OF them. Three were seriously injured /
and the others slightly. Five thousand dol /
lars Will cover the loss on the building.
THE GUIBORD CASE.-The guard has been
removed from Guibord's grave, as the ce-
ment Is sufficiently hardened to defy q re. /
mOval of the body. The reply of the cure of |
NOtre Dame TO the counsel for the Institut
who demanded ecclesiastical rites
over the remains Of Guibord under pain OF /
damages, IL published. The letter refuses /