Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-05-30

can be established that Sherman'S
army applied the torch, of course
the Government becomes RESPONSE
BILE for the cotton destroyed, which
will amount, it is said, to several
millions of dollars. General Sher-
man is very positive in his testi-
mony, and SO also are Howard and
Logan. The Britishers who are to
be benefited are rather anxious to
believe Wade Hampton and Beaure
gard. The weight of the evidence,
however, is decidedly against them.
Interview with Miss Dickinson.
From the L0uisuills Ledger.
We were favored with an inter-
view with Miss Dickinson at her
hotel yesterday, and found the tai
ented little lady as bright and hope
full as she is represented character
istically to be. She was dressed in
a neatly-fitting black dress, with a
worked collar fastened at her throat
by large breastpin. Her hair,
black as jet, is worn short, with
straight, decided part down the cen
ter and her. face is lightly Drowned
by exposure, as she always persists
in standing on the platforms of cars
to look at the scenery through which
she is passing when travelling.
Miss Dickinson has strong, de-.
cided, honest and sunny face, which
deeply impresses you. She speaks
rapidly in conversation, occasional
ly terminating sentence with a sill
very little laugh.
She said the gloomy weather was
just what everybody else was hav-
ing, and the universal companion
ship should make the misery tolera-
BILE. She thought it might be a
favorable time for her to come to
Louisville just after the opera, and
was glad of Miss Kellogg's success
Oh Saturday night. In regard to
her own future, she was about clos
ing an engagement to go on the
stage. 1t had been her ambition to
do SO, but she had relinquished it
because of her mothers wishes, and
had made a compromise by going
on the lecture stage. Her proclivi-
ties were for the dramatic stage.
She believed it right for parents to
watch the tendencies of their chill
dren to employments or professions,
and discovering them, to cultivate
such proclivities most earnestly.
She said thousands of people had
mistaken their positions in life, or
had been thrust into positions by
parents, for which they were not at
all qualified. She instanced the
family of DR.. Lyman Beccher. That
gentleman had conceived the idea
of making his six sons Congrega-
tional ministers. And she gave an
amusing account of the result. Three
or four of them were never intended
to be ministers, and yet were cut
and moulded in the theological ma
chine.
| OIC VI lllclil, W HO W dS HAUL dll
musician, was constantly running
! to Boston to attend the opera and
concerts, and had been hauled up
before councils, synods, etc, till he
was worn out. Another kicked
against the theological machine and
run off to China, and plunged into
dissoluteness. His father at once
set lot of missionaries on his trail,
and they captured him and forced
him back into the church.
Miss Dickinson deplored the
American tendency to applaud ev-
crything foreign, instancing the
success of poor foreign singers in
this country, and the coldness dis
played to really talented American
singers.
During the conversation boquet
and card were placed in Miss
Dickinson's jeweled hand, at which
she smiled sweetly. She is familiar
with most conceivable subjects, and
we thought we would like to go
through course of general litera-
ture, art and science, under the
light OF that pair of honest and pen
| etratinU ewes.