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ty also.ITrouble with Mexico--The BagdadAffai r.It seems that some two or three weeks eince, one Maj. Gen. R. Olay Crawford, of tho U. S. Army stationed in Wbstorn Texas, sent some 200 or 3000 Negro troops to Bagdad, a small town in Mex ico, under pretense of protecting the oitisens from outrages of French troops This expedition, whether by .explicit command from Gen. Crawford or not, does not appear—went regularly into the pillaging business themselves after the most approvod style of many oth ers while Scouring portions of their own country “so called.” Gen.[Crawford,',lik6 somo other notorious Generals secured a portion of the. booty—probably the Lion’s share. The Maximilian Govern qient, being about to take notice of the affair, a crawling may not be incompatible with tho dignity of some officious officials. This is not tho first interesting item in Gen. Crawford's history, as may be seen from the following which we clip from the Richmond Times:“Tho “General R. Clay Crawford,who is now upon the Texas frontier, was con-victed some yeitrs ago, in company with a man named Clifford, of robbing James F. Pondleton, at a hotel in Wytheville. Ho was sent to.tho Penitentiary, but soon aftei* made his esoape.Of course this sending troops into .Moxico was a highhanded outrage, and, unless our government * makes • tho amende honorable promptly, it may re. suit in a serious difficulty with Maximilian and his backers. Gen. Crawford.4 •is now.under arrest, and it is to be hoped that the nation will not be precipitated into a war by his sort.Organization of Oostanauia Stea*
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Rome Tri Weekly Courier
Rome, Georgia, US
Sat, Feb 03, 1866
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