The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-06-20

change enough to allow them to satiate that
uncomfortable desire to sec the 'fions,"
common to both saint and sinner.
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JOHN BULL.--This term is said to have
originated as follows: DR.. Arbuthnott,
friend Of Dean Swift, wrote an ingeuious:
satire to ridicule the politics of the Spai.ishs
Succession, and entitled his work ''The'
History of John Bull" in which he pctur-.
ed an Englishman as Sir John Bull, Charles
Second of Spain, as Lord Strut, Louis XIV
by Louis Baboon, and the Dutchman by =
frog! Th, name of John Bull has s'stuc
to the English people ever since.
A Skeleton Out Of the Closet.
We publish to-day the most inn
papers relating to a grave case of d
scandal which has for months pas
the surface of society inI
ing Western city. Upon the merit
case we, Of course, do not now pf{
pronounce any opinion. The mat
been forced into the courts of the
will there receive quite as thorough
lation as the interests of justice can d
or as cornports with the good of
munity at large. But the story, as
appears in the showing alike of {
pondent and the complainant, mus
the attention Of the most thoushtls1
frDot the common story of fas
constSand reckless dissipation, VIII
adorn a ia, invoked to point md
wear Parisiar7ainst the wicked PED
and build cottages, give balls, ke,
The parties to this aSaratoga or N
for years in the extreme.h have becl
of the straitest of all religio&corum
Theirs was like Mr.. Thackery 's<Qmt
highly respectable family; not
worldliness pomps and vanities,
Greet and sober in all its ways "a
family, Of that quiet and prosperous
class in which we are so constantly
to look for all the graces Of Christ
and all the certainties Of a tran
impregnable propriety.
Mr.. Burch, the husband, was
well o-do in the world; mem
Church; teacher in Sunday
man bound by all his professions
pecial practice Of all the higher
bound to rule his own household
merciful, considerate, reasonable an
His wife, of like ostensible tastes and
with his own, had little to do with tha
Melstroom in which cheap moralizer1
sure us that the virtue of the nation is
and fatally being swallowed up. Her eartI
ly estate is briefly, if not elegantly, summed
up in the following remarkable passageN
from a gushing letter, addressed to her by
patectic and emotional clerk of her hus-
band, in reply to her request to be per-
mitted to know what was become of her
children: ....
"Surrounded with every comfort and
luxury this world could give-kind and
most exemplary husband-affectionate and
loving chidren-host of friends-a position
second to nonc-the envy may say of Chi
cago."
Such were the persons who are now be-
come the scandal instead of he ''envy"
of Chicago. And what has their life been
for years past while they were occupying
this "position second to none?" If we are
to believe the story of the husband, his
wife fas been living for years in violation Of
her conjugal vows. Under his roof with
in the constant reach of his affectionate and
religious supervision, a woman, whose ex-
treme weakness of character is apparent
from the very "Confcssions'' which he COM
relies for her ruin, has been behaving with
husband had not been member of the
church, and Christian father, but on the
other hand, a mere worldly banker, plunged
in worldly pursuits, neglecting his domcs-
tic duties in the absorbing thirst for gold
keeping all the wakefulness OF his mind and
his eyes for the counting-house and the Ex--
H. Cow Il hs.,h hA, C..
t;gues of his spirit and the heavness Of his
lids.
If Mrs. Burch had been French Cour-
tess, could she have found more liberty in
the 'gilded saloons of an etf'ete aristocracy,'
than, on her husbands showing, she found
in the decent parlors of a republican finan-
cier? If such things can be, it is not su-
perfuors for us to inquire whether, after
all, our Republican fnanciers invariably
fulfill the whole range of their domestic
duties; whether a mans obligations to his
family and to society. assumed in the very
act of organizing family, are adequately
discharged when he pays their bills, carries
them to clutch, and insists on their eating
their meals decently and in order.
If we accept Mrs. Burchs statement Of
the secret history Of this unhappy house.
hold, darker questions rise upon the mind
Mrs. Burch's story reveals to US along vista
of secret brutalties, tyrannies and insults;
veiled under smiling surface Of pious po-
liteness to the world at large. We have the
broomstck morally laid over the wifes
shoulders in the morning, and the cards to
alGinner- party issued in the afternoon. At
home recriminations, abuse, sometime pos
tive physical violence, always moral intimi-
dation of that slow and stealthy kind which
tells so surely upon the sensitive organiza-
ton Of nervous and irresolute woman
Abroad, all the signs Of perfect conjugal
peace, and truly exemplary domestic life.
Years Of this cruel hypocrisy culminate, at
last, as Mrs. Burch AYERS, in a systematic
attempt to put her out of place as a wife, a
mother and member of society and this
attempt is carried into execution with all the
circumstances Of a conspiracy. If Mrs.
Burch's assertions shall be sustained, we
shall be gratfied with the knowledge that an
American banker, without touch Of no.
bic blood in his veins, or the excuse Of ar.
istocratic license bewildcring his moral con-
ceptions, can build up for himself in the
privacy of his exemplary" home, charaes
ter combining all the attributes which have
made the names Of De Parslin and ClanriE
carde Immortality notorious. -..
If, on the other hand, Mr.. Bureh's coms
plant shall be favorably listened to by the
Court, We shall be startled by a fresh les
son upon the impotence of responsibility,
wealth, pious professions and position
second to none" to guarantee the honor Of
women, the rights of husbands and the
peace Of home.
In either case with such skeleton sud.
denly walking out Of a highly respectable
bankers doorway in perfectly democratic