Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-05
FIFTY YEARS AGO
IN THB STAR

lN luH Olhu
Tho Presidents veto Of u new law
regulating the freedmen's bureau
Er>edmsr,. Into prominent public no.
AAS>AA1AS1 . IT.. a++v ,,o ora
Bureau e MY
much cf1ticsm was d.
rected against it by opponents Of Mr..
Iohn.or 7, rba star If March. 1886.
'onnso" :" "e
Is this arucie on the SUBJECT
Articles having appeared In the New
York papers CHARGING the agents Of
. ..,. a,.+-,,+
with traficking in negroes, letting
them out to the southern states anu
oth.r o,,.r.... ua have taken some
o'nei ooaAe
operations of the bureau in this vicin-
g., nd how. raa.or +o he,iave that the
10y 01 40
rumors rererreo TO Originated III LILO
establishment in this city Of an in
+a,1,gence Office, under the auspices Of
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officers OF that department Oh 'ne gov
eminent. Some such arrangement Is
rendered necessary nv the collection at
~
this point OF vast NUMBER OF negroes
who focked to the city during the war.
rhor. ora nov about Ak nm colored
coHie mere eiiee 'he VI
me reoeino .h many VI en ntar We LII
sistence denarfments until recently.
They have now been discharged and
the supply OF laoor mere sTeaty eA-
bedis, nc nn +hs yar,n. IN The ID
joining counties Of Maryland and Vir-
ginia. Unless remedy was provideo
u, Lie su,puS ,, tauo, ~uul anI crin,s To
meet this state of things the intelli-
gence office was established. and SO
iaI as we Know mas wosns '.,., Munina a u,y
hundreds Of colored people with com
Portable homes who would otherwise
nave psem u.t err aes...ues, p t;n $50 az
I itW To make n # seIfrsunnortins y Fee
OF q lor eaGn maze anu 9. o. Gems emu LOT
eacn 1emade nlreo IL palo o! inc CHI
pioyer. Inc Ireeome .n ana enpio yer,
MAKE ,ne,r o T G Ga,i, as 20 e,fi ie
also dolns sooo Dy genera a.ee e
10 ciaims ana srievances OF me ireea
men, lhus savus .ns.h lIun. sne nal Ss
OF many so-caneo pnllan n VINO
perform otner services 1or tne PACK
oan 1or pu.e iove of the race ano-a
small consideration.
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>o+u,;+hs,.,a,,1 III. .nno,ncau.r+
INC
made in the spring OF 1865 that En-
peror Louis Napo-
M,-:,:. Icon nronosed to
Maxlmlllans eoh -
Ar wit h draw military
army FOTCe. support from En-
,,~;,;. IN M.x;co IN. nm
peror aa~ia'i'a" :"
fortunate Austrian continued to depend
unon European forces for his mainte-
- III, CO. ~ M,roh 1see
iahe II "
is the following:
1--WE have information from an Off
...-,,. l.; ,s.~;.. .. +ho
effect that in January his force was, in
round numbers. as follows: French.
oe,oo', ono. nHa,, $3.50
ias). 5000. making a total effective force
OF about $4,000 men. This force has 40
neio PIECES anu ihc,uus @ .es
paper. a navy force of 90. 900 men. un-
der foreign officers. but this has proved
en .. unaxaaap,e, tot whenever .ne
thew desert in such numbers that 1t re-
quires the services Of all the reliable
.soopS near '"e "oe%~ous u watch
at was said at the time Our inform
ant left Mexico that Marshal Bazaine's
LII for ra;n <nsoa e - % nan 80. ~
80 IL Is; hiahI, nrnhah,e nnt1
Nfar.h.l Tora,, /, tha Tran,h oha~ha.s
stated that rainforcannent r,as 80
or,ired r. was ei.o $1,000 ~
loo that tho Austr;an goyarnman+ h.d
started project to induce the emiera'
ton of 100 900 men to MEXICO and that
that number Of mon would he n,us+erad
out of the Austrian service with the
that thew would 90 70
Mexico and enter the service ~ MaYi
milan by building UP military colonies
and holding themselves to support the
when called upon"
1t was favorfte diversion of some
of the northern newspapers opposed to
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auini"is.ia
False News About tlon at this time
fifty years ago to
the U1Str1ct. m;sr.,r.,.,+ M,
so"
oitlons IN washington. ana The Star
was kept busy refuting the canards
that were rr;nted eIsewbere If this
character. In the issue OF Marcn 3,
1866. is reproduced such an item in one
of the New York n,ners and conied In
$500 pap $500 Of'SN -''