The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1848-10-11

child, leaving the rest to her husband or to
the parish. The respective relatives Ihave
ascertaned beyond doubt that the fugitive
pair, instead Of proceeding to Devonshire, as
they had pretended, embarked on board the
Ocean Monarch, ::and with the woman's
child, perished when that ship was destroyed
by fire. Mr.. Bacon is known to have had
some previous knowledge of America. He
was formerly a police officer, and few
years back was sent to America in pursuit
of vcstry clerk who had absconded:
SHOCKING DEATH WIN. M. Evans,
! brother 10 the editor Of this paper met his
death on the Cd instant, in most horrld
manner. He had taken passage at Mont
gomery. Alabama, on board the steamer
Olive, Miller captain, andwhen near Kings
Island, while promenading the second deck,
in conversation with gentleman, the boiler
burst. and the upper hurricane deck passed
/ over the head Of Ills companion, and striking
Mr.. Evans, precipltated him in the midst of
the red hot boilers, from which horrld sltua-
tion blinded as he was by smoke and steam.
he succeeded in ex.ricating himself by seIz-
inc with his hands the red hot iron bars and
lifting himself out His mangled body was
Immediately conveyed ashore, and the best
medical aid was rendered him in vain. lie
fingered in the most excrucialing torment,
for tweniy-four hours and expired. Captain
Miller was also scalded and otherwise
woundedG by the explosion, and now lies
dangerously ILL., 1t is thought the engineer,
(whn is represented to be man of low
/ charactcr,) designed the explosion, as the
captain had concluded to discharge him
when they reached Mobile, and he had
hint Of it. Be this as II may, the engineer
is now in Jail. and will, we learn, be tried for
his li(e.--Mlton nv. C.] Chronicle, 9Th uh.
THE COLD.EARTH CURE.
There is no soil in which quackerv -four
shes so well, and hears such good fruit, as
in England. From cow cabbaees TO Life
Pills-from homeopathy to brandy-aed-
from nonsense to downright stupidity; it does
not matter VIII it is, they all take root, and
the weaker the plant. generally the further IT
shoots, and the larger The produce gathered
from il. You have only to cultivate It well
with advertisements, and the crop cannot lall
10 lie liberal one.
The last specimen Of grecnness in this
particular branch, has been the Cold Earth
| Cure. II seems that mans disease, like
his faults, are completely buried when once
he Is put under the earth. You are imbed-
ded for so many hours, up to your chin,
and YOU come out quite new clay. We
have heard of an hospital where the pa
iicn,s were arranged in so many beds. with
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taaes. The doctor is the gardener, and he
digs YOU up when YOU are well, and carries
you home in wheelbarrow. This system Of
horticultural medicine, we are told, is spread
ing everywhere in the North. 1t must be
only another offshont of tho Vegetable Pills.
Man can bear a great deal; but we must say
we should moi like being cut and trimmed
like tree, or watcred like flower bed, or
turned over and narrowed like plough field
lust 10 get rid OF the rheumatism. Who
knows but we might rise with our ears'nll OF
corn, our head replele with green stuff, our
eyes expanding INTO enormous goose berries,
whilst our hands were covered with big foS.:
gloves, and our coat showed nothing but
mass of ,arcs!
We have had this new system explained
to us! First OF all. you are put into bed OF
virgin soil up in your waist; your arms are
at Liberty, 50 that you can read the paper,
or drive away any sparrow that Perches on
your nose.
A,twelve o'clock, one of the medical gar
deners arrives and administers to you a
douchc. bath of the finest gravel. This is
repeated every hour till you experience the
most delicious shooting pains all over, when
a refreshing shower from a watcr.pot is
sprinklcd over your head This has the
desired effect. and your rheumatism, or your
tnottache, or your corn, is considerably re-
Ieved, and vni feel las fresh as daisy
This is repeated till nighifall, when you arc
carried between pieces of turf into tic CON
scrvatorv. where you are locked up I'LL the
morning; or else you arc provided with
comfortable cucumber frame 10 protect you
from the dcws of night. and the nocturnal
invasion of the cats: This systom is pcrse
vercd in till you acquire quite new trunk
when you are lransplantcd 10 The hot house
and fed on the mnst nourshIng herbs, and
wrapped up in The daintiest leaves. BY
these means you are restored to The flower
of your youth, and live to green old age.
Now This course Of medicine may be very
deep a#d clever To those who wish 10 60 be
low the surface of things; but for ourselves
we prefer standing upon the old order "l
things. FI2sI, may be grass, but still we