Litchfield enquirer., 1829-04-09

prize fighter, at only 12 1-2 cents for ad mission to the set-to.
 q mean no allnsion to the regular, use- ful, respectable & scientific lectures in our public institutions, nor even to some of the itinerant professors and pretcnders to clas- sic lore and sterling eridition.) Tine manufactures and vendors of patent machines, from the maximum of six dollar bottles, down to the humble tribe of steam or Indian doctors, pass over, to come to the last new fashion, lion, or hobby of the day, ir%euiasonry.
 { That freemasonry has been subject of
 featuring, from the inquiry of king Henry, in l45O, 10 the present time, is no matter of news. Barruel and crazy Robinson i iectured and wrote upon it in 17oO. Dr. Morse (thereupon called Granny,) took it up in l799, and Solomon Southwick in 1927. But the most notable lecturer of modern times that have known, was Joe ash Hall, "lhe good natured, poetical, pewter-pedlar and patriotic almanac-ma- ker," of Connecticut.
 Honest Joash first professed to be ma- son, and went about imposing upon the ig- norant, and pretending to initiate them into the secrets of the craft, for the mod crate reduced sum of five dollars a head for know not how many degrees. Many listened to his lectures and paid him their money; so that at length, after repeated meetings and stirrings on the subject, he gathered and formed what is called lodge of his own, in Wallineford Thus pref and notoriety attended him for short sea- son. But the brightest prospects will fade, and the longest summer have an end. The people began to suspect Joash of being more rogue than fool, and having sly and selfish ends in the business. His follow- CTS found themselves duped by him. His peddling, his almanac making,and his trade in salves, washes, and medical nostrums, with his rhymes and ballad customers, at length entirely left him. And poor Joash, who certainly possessed considerable in- genuty, as we'll as plausiblity and insinua- ton, on the failure of all other means to turn penny added the art of engraving to his numerous other qualifications since he could not get money of other people fast enough, took to manufacturing two dollar bills ofhis own, and wound up his career in the state prison. Ceter0 desunt. JEREMY DIDLER. 
 The Chief Justice of the United States. I We find the following article in the Rich- mond Compiler. It may be considered f by some as entirely contrary to bsensance that the Chief Justice should play at quoits; having no scruples on the subject ourselves, we of course only hope that he is good at
 laying his quoits close to the hub, and that he makes a ringer every game.--U. s. Goz.
 '' was struck (sad Southern member of Congress to me the other day) with your Chief Justice. He is singular man. -is he not? I have never seen his equal in point of vivacity ana simplicity. It was but the other day, that going from Gadsby's Hotel to the Capitol, met with tall, plain-looking, striking man, with sort ofport-folio under his arm. He was walking at pretty rapid rate-and though the day was very cold and wet, he had nei- ther cloak nor umbrella over him-while the hack drivers had all of them an um- brella over their heads. He was going at such gate against smart wind, that his coat-tail~was standing upon level with the
 horizon. l ascertained that it was your
 Chief Justice. And again on the day of the Inauguration, was struck with his bright eye and forid face. He must be several years older than the President, and yet he has the art of looking several years younger. A strange man, this Chief Justice of yours. - I Then you havo never seen him at one of our barbecues-pitching quoits in all his glory with his long tall boots drawn up to his knees--and all his soul as much given up to the right laying of his quots, as he would be in un,ying the knots of difficult case in the law of nations. You must see him thus. in order to form some idea of his juyenilhy of spirits and simplicity of man. ners. ANECDOTIST."
 A STRANGE CREATURE. 1 MT. Atkinson,-A friend of mine, Mr. l Eanca (. 4