The north Iowa times. [volume] (M'Gregor [i.e. McGregor], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-05-01
A Black Sheep in the Flock.

Boston, Tor ''VlrtuouS city,, as Sh'
styles herself, gives modest world grea
occasion for scandal. She furnishes tn,
newspapers with the most piquant disl
| of horrors" every now aud then, will
which it is possible to regale the morbic
appetite, varying the luxury with dish
Of RIGHTEOUSNESS seasoned up to an ex
tent wholly surprising the poor efforts O
the artistes of the other sections of the
Union. Boston is certainly incompar
able in these things. Her taste is pecu.
liar; her palate has the rank gout;; her
choice of material seems to be unlimited
Her latest novelty in this style of gro
tesque art is the trial of Rev Mr.. Kalloch,
a fashionable minister of fashionable
church in that city, for certain indecent
performances with the wife of his particu-
lar friend, at hotel in East Cambridge.
We must decline, of course, to allude to
the details of the case they are too dis
gus,iug for publication, and may be found
only in those newspapers which are So
necessarily arrogatiug to themselves the
title of respectable )" but, if the testi-
mony given may be believed, the Rev.
Mr.. kaIloch is a hypocri5e of the first
class, a libertine of enlarged experience,
and man utterly without social scru-
pie. ...a.,. ah.ar" ...' .iEana'..t..
The lady who is the heroine of this
corrupt romance seems to be well known,
and to move in sphere of much social
refinement: what must be her moral ma
ture we are at liberty to conjecture. a. The
confidence she placed in the Rev. Mf
Kalloch was unlimited enough, if the inn
keeper and his wife are not periured, who
peeped over the top of door into the
room where this amorous couple amused
themselves. The confidence Of her hus-
band, though, in the same specimen Of
clerical purity, must exceed all compre-
hension. How else could he have attend
ed the trial day after day, listened to the
doubts thrown on Mr.. kalloch's contin-
ence even by his own friends, heard the
minute description given by ostensible
eye-witnesses of the salacious scene in
the hotel, and then folded his wife fondly
to his bosom, and grasped the reverend
gentleman hand in earnest of his sin
cerity? Such husbands are, indeed, a
blessing to such wives ald their wanton
acquaintances: how the community should
esteem them is another question. We
presume an attempt will be made, on the
part of Mr.. Kalloch, to show that the wit
nesses against him we're influenced by
venal motives. But grant this assump-
ton. Impsach, if you will, their honor
and honesty. Still, the very fact that he
paid, without amurmur, though not with
out a suspicion, an sxorbitant price fol
the accommodation afforded himself and
the lady, is alone significant, and, if other
corroborating circumstances were not at
hand, would 60 far to establish their truth
in this case and his culpability.
We do not conceive that ministers oi
the gospel are any worse than their neigh.
bors who malign them. We are not pre-.
pared to admit with certain noble excep.
tions that they are better than men o1
other and equally intellectual professions
We know that they are subject to more
and greater temptations, because, in the
confidence they enjoy, they are beset with
opportunities for offence not always pre-.
sented to others. There is species Of
heroism. therefore, in their morality thai
deserves some credit; and when mar
like Mr.. Kalloch seems to hold up the
cloth itself to scorn, charity should bid
us pause and hope that he is by no means
specimen Of the class of which he is un
doubtedly an eloquent but a very unworthy
member. 1t is pity that such gross in
stances of wrong should ever meet the
public eye No one can imagine how
imperceptibly. though how surely, the,
sap the popular respect for religion itsel
by destroying all confidence in its specia
ministers. Is it any wonder that the pul
pit complains Of the Mbelieving spirit o
the age when the conduct of so many 0
it's own standard bearers is SO productiv,
of scepticism ?-Sunday Times.
A WoMAN's VKNGEANoE.-Mrs. o. B
Matteson was great friend of Mr.. Speak
Ter Banks, and the parlor of her hous
was ornamented with a handsome portrai