New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1860-07-13
---- . NEW OREGON IOWA, JULY 13 Is

1851. @.' ... .".
and the light rested on her sweet COZ
tenanc,,,
There, my dear husband, I told you
should come to L.eneville tonight, an
you should come with me- said Mr.
Forrest Lynch, as she cody surveyc
her discomftted liege lord, ambition
to be the husband Of two wives. / hay
come, and you have come with me-
'Perfdious Julia!' said Mr.. !.yncb.
''Now if you are mind to sleep he,
tonight, you may: I shall not. am g
ing to fathers.
Mr.. Lynch did not 50 over to fathers
lie had some scruples about doing SO
but took the next train for home.
How Julia laughed at him when he
came back. She declared that Mes
Lynch was nice woman: and however
much she loved him, she could not
think of wronging her,
The disappointed lover threatened to
discharge her. .t
DO so, and 1 will tell the story to
the whole town. laughed Miss Julia.
Mr.. Lynch was Mortified. He made
his peace with her, and with his wife,
who returned from her fathers in about
a month. After that he was never
known to poach on another's manor, and
Julia was married to a storekeeper in
Macon about a year from that time.
The Administration and the Leco,np-
ton Question: Testimony Of Sec
retary Thompson before the Covode
Friday, June 8, 1860.
Hon. Jacob Thompson called and ex-
amined: t..r..... -, ... r. r.
By the Chairman-Q. Are you Sec
retary Of the Interior? A. I am.
@. During the year 1857 Mr.. Martin
was sent from your department to Kan
sas? A. He was.
@. Will you state what conversation
you had with the President, previous to
his going relative to the submission of
the slavery clause in the constitution of
Kansas? A. I must except to that
question. I am the Presidents consti-
tutional adviser, and when you ask the
question in that form you imply some
thing which I might be unwilling to adj
nit. So far as any conversation has
taken place between me and the Presi
dent, could not admit yonr right. or
any mans right, to demand that it should
be made public.
@. Will you tell us out Of what fund
Mr.. Martin was paid for that service in
Kansas? A. Mr.. Martin was at that
time clerk in the General Land Office.
When the public service requires an
agent to be sent from the department.,
and clerk is selected for that purpose,
the uniform practice of the office is to
allow his sallery to continue, and to al
low him in addition, his expenses, or
communication therefor. In this case Mr..
Martin &C ted as the agent of the bureau
of Indian Affairs, and the General Land
Office, and the expenses of the trip were
divided between these two bureaus, in
what proportion the records Of the Office
will show.
By Mr.. Wilson-Q. He was paid by
the Interior Department? A. Yes, sir,
of course. What is done by the bureaus
is considered as done by the department.
By the Chairman-Q. Did he get
pay for more than one service? A. No
sir. If he had claimed and received
double pay for the same service he
would have been dismissed from Office
without hesitation.
@. Can you explain why it was he
got friend to make application to Gen.
Cass, at the State Department, and use
his influence to get pay from that quar-
ter? A. I think can explain that mat
ter. In October or November, 1857,
probably in October, he went to Kansas
as the agent of my office. lie returned
about the LIST Of December, having com
pleted bis duties as agent. Soon after
his return, I was informed that the
State Department desired to send des-
patches to Kansas, and was called upon
to name proper person to be assigned
to that duty. designated Mr.. Martin
who was then charged by the State De-
partment with the delivery Of those dis
patches. On this trip he was the en-
ployee Of the State Department, and
not Of the Interior Department. Oh
course his pay, or allowance for expen
ses, for this second trip was chargcable
to the State and not to the Interior De
partment. But how much he was paid
by that department I do not know. and