Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1854-07-15
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Plymouth, Ohio, Saturday, July Is
Excitement.

Earth is full OF excitement. The null
iiiuds that fills the world are rushing on,
pell.mell, and although ever and anon
compelled 10 stop and gaze on some start.
ling event, the effect is merely mo-
mentary, no more lasting than a summer
shadow. Each one has his own parlic.
ular objects in view, his own ends 10 gain,
his own ambition to saiiate, his own pas
,ions to crafty, and with his mind so
completely absorbed, he has but little
lime to notice the ups and downs, the
good or i'll fortune Of his neighbor.-
Death, too, may fix his ialons upon one
at our very doors. Wha, matters il!-
The ends each are pursuing absorbs all
else, and thus the movement is still on
wurd--often, yes, generally, recklessly
und rashly onward.
The two weeks just past, have been
pregnant with events, and full of excite
menL Every hour gave birth to a topic,
every day produced nine>day's wonder
The weather, usually commonplace
subject enough, was really worth talking
about The thermometer standing never
below 9s. and often over 100, afforded
lasting theme. Then again, Philadelphia
has been visited by two awful conhagra-
lions, in which 100000 worth of prop
erty fed the flames. Before the public
mind was recovered from the agitation This
produced, it was again shocked by The
awful accident upon the Susquehanna
Railroad, by which forty human beings
were hurried to eternity. Close upon the
heels Of this came the account of COL
Iision at sea between the ships Trade
Wind and Olympus, by which twenty
four lives were lost. The intelligence
from Europe, too is well calculated to
keep the excitement up to fever.heat |
The fighting continues, but there is no,h>
ing satisfactory. The allied armies are
marching from point to point, the allied
fleets are sailing from port to port doing
Just enough TO create an excitement, and
not enough TO allay it, Then comes the
excitement in the monied circles. The
iassue Of spurious stock Of the New Hav
en- Railroad, by the transfer agent, Rob
ert Schuyler, 10 the amount of two mil.
lions of dollars, followed by u similar
fraud perpetrated by the Secretary of the
of the Harlem road, furnishes a sufficient
amount of excitement to make even the
most insatiate lover of it cry "to,d!
enough" The Know No,hings furnish
another great topic. Their wonderful
success, their rapid spread, and their nov
el mode Of establishing the princi Piles
they contend for, has created never
failing fund of wonderment. Within two
weeks, in no less than dozen places
their candidates have been elected, by
sweeping majorities. Then the riots be-
tween the Catholics and Protesants, the
attempt to expel Sumner from the Senate,
the scores of murders, robberies. suicides,
casuslilies &C., have served to keep the
public pulse beating most wildly. And
all this in two weeks! Truly
"rhe times are out of joint"
and ii will take strong hands and sagac-
ious heads to straighten the tangled web
and restore the body polite 10 a state of
health.
But, startling as these events are, they
will only attrac! attention and excite re.
mark for the moment. Mankind looks
not TO the PAST, but TO the present and fu
iure. Like a child on the bank of a
swih.:unning stream, watching the bub>
bles on the waters, as they float past they
are forgotten, and his gaze is turned up.
ward TO discover something newer and
morc novel. 1t is only those who are
directly affected, those into whose souls
the iron enters, that remember.
Two weeks of uninterrupted excite.
ment! How much woe, misery, anguish
Jealousy. hsar'-burning, desolation and
despair has been caused by the events to
which we have referred? How many
will remember this two weeks of excite.
ment!
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"CHoLERA AT TIFFIN.-We learn
that the Cholera has made its appearance
at 7iffin. Fifteen deaths occurred Wed.