The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-10-20

Pasha. published in yesterday
issue Of the Courier JouruuI. will
be established or contradictcd pres
entity. Whether it be true or false
thcro is enough Of romantic inter
est in the career of Clay Crawford,
apart from any association, real or
supposed, with the Turkish hero, to
mako his life a text for serious
contemplation. Nothing could be
more whimsical, and yet as we
know out Of the curious experiences
Of everyday life nothing is less
ideal, than just such experiences Of
actual vicissitudcs and adventure.
The history Of our country abounds
in odd examples, which transferred
to fiction. would be regarded as
eXaggcrations. Did not Andrew
Johnson himself como from this;
samo east Tennessee, and WAS he
not poor tailor's apprentice,
whose wife taught him to read, ana
who, after u long career Of un -
Interrupted success rose to bc
President Of the United States? 4
man of morbid imaginative nature,
he perfectly understood and en-
joycd each of the stages in his
journey through life. Clay Craw
ford was not at all like him. He
is, or was, q type of the Grant
species. If he be indeed the victor
of Plcvna, it will not, after all,
provo Il greater marvel than Grants
rise from the gutter to splcndors,
very much moro substantial, il not
moro Oriental, than were those
which can attend or await Osman
Pnsha.
East Tennessee is a weird region,
and no part of it is wilder than
Hawkins county. This Clay Craw-
ford business is not it's only con
tributiun to American legend. 1t
is nearly u hundred years now since
it sent forth an advcnturer who
achieved great career, passed
through world Of stirring events,
and lived a long life.
About the year 1901. Elias p.
Bean, a lad Of II, started with a
party of raftsmen bound frcn the
Holston to the Mississippi. They
floatcd down from Beans Station,
trading by tho way, lost thoir raft
upon the Muscle Shoals, and,
having purchased q drove of horses,
continued their journey overland
toward Natchez. Here young Bean
met tho famous frontiersman, Cap
tain Nolan, who was about starting
an expedition into Arkansas. He
joined this party, stealing away
from his brothers-whom he left to
return home without him-ovcr>
night. After many ups and downs
the detachment of Nolan's cons
mand, embracing our hero, was
captured by the Indians somewhere
close upon the Texas border. Bean
and a companion escaped from the
Indians only to be rccapturcd by
tho Spaniards, who took them pris
oners to the old town of San
Antonio. Here, after while, they
were released on parole, and, having
turn for taking things easy, and
a gcnius for work, the younger Of
tho two Americans set himself to
learning the trade of halter. He
succeeded SO well that in three
years no became the fashion, began
to mako money, fell in love with II
native beauty, and was making
strides toward fortune, when, in an
unguarded moment, an opportunity
to escape presenting itself, he yield
oil to n sudden fit of home sickness,
abandoned his business, deserted
his sweetheart and fled. Flo was
pursued, ovcrtallcn, brought back,
and, as q penalty, sent across the
Rio Grando and over the Moxiu,lc
Mountains to the Pacific seas. In
other words, they took him to
Acapulco, where no was thrown
into prison. He occupied dun
geon in the old fortress for six
years, his only comradc n scorpion.
which he tanned and took into his
affections.
In 1912 tho first Mexican insur-
rection against the Spanish power
broke out. 1t was led by Padre
Nlorelos, a dissoluto priest, but q
patriot, a soldior and u statesman.
Reaching tho sad old SEAPORT,
where Bean was confined, it rclcas
ct him, Il prisoner of half a dozen
years, but u man of undiminishcd
strength and ardor, little into his