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Show OVU A I'A SII K. A Kudicul Republican, Gambler Gamb-ler aud Mwludler. , New York. 7. The Times' Baltimore Balti-more special gives the following details de-tails of the Maryland Hie of R. Clay Crawford, supposed to be Oaman Fauha. He Accepted so invitation from the democrats to deliver an oration at a. political celebration at Chestertown, July 4th, 1868, aud dumbfounded them with a radical republican speech. Afterward he established a republican paper called the Freeman's Journal, and became one of the most prominent republicans republi-cans of the eastern shore ol Maryland. He stumped that section for Grant and the republican eUite ticket ot 1868, and your correspondent remembers meeting him at a gathering in Somerset county; he was a brilliant speaker, and so bold in his bilk that timid men declined to accompany him. After living in Cbestertown some three years he departed suddenly, leaving behind him a heat ol unpaid debtn, but carrying ofl all his personal property. He had established a perfumery factory, which failed, and his paper was not a financial euocess. He also swindled ome people by persuading them to endorse his notes, which were never met. His estate wah sold for the benefit ol his creditors, aud shortly alterwards he was reported keeping a gambling house in Philadelphia. About 1873 Mrylanders in the Egyptian service wrote Lome of an American officer known as Oauian Key in the army of the khedive, and the personal description tallies wiiu that of Crawford, who was tall and stalwart, with a reckless bearing. |