Litchfield enquirer., 1829-07-16
GENERAL SUMMARY.

We know of no better place than under this head for the following humorous and graphic description of a noted character, from the Berkshire American:
 The characterof General Sammayy.--In this age, when military cheitanism is 90 much in vogue, and biographies of living characters all the rage tits somewhat surprising that writer has underta- ken to forth the merits and distinguishing qualities of general SUMMARY He is fellow of very compre- hensve genius, of great and varied resources, and embraces in his single head (though small one) all sorts of knowledge. His taste for novetesi is kable. He abounds in anecdote, humor, and wit, and wthal is notorious collector of murders, fires, failures, and shocking accidents. He besides soe thing oi punser and it is astonishing how suddenly he can change from grave to gay, and with what sang frod lie laugh at joke, before se has done wiping his eyes at some tale of distress As faithful
 historian, however we are obliged to menfinS ihnthe is exceedingly fOndof scandal, and oeniimes proves
 great mischief maker retailing all te vile rumorsof the day. and making himself busy with other mems matters. And yet he is liked the better for it.
 GENERAL SUMMARY is emphatically man of LET rERs-But he is more particularly distinguished for his acquisitions in modern than ancient literature. He keeps up with tIe spirit of the times, and is per. haps more conversant with EEwsFAPERs than any offer General of this orany other age Heis great friend to the printers and 1t s supposed patron,zes nearly a thousand different papers. He is moreover prodigions traveller, going from one extremely of the country to the other with incredible speed, an cro ssing the Atlantic many times in year. Sse4
 GENERAL SUMMARvis fellow of prodigious appe- tte and swallows without distinction every thing that comes in hisway. He takes down with the same ease and apparently she same relish, mammoth pumpkins and beets mammoth oxen and por<ers, cows with five legs fonr children birth, snakes with two heads, toads in solid rock sea serpents eighty feet long, living spakss syomiisd issm the hnmap stomach, an old Scar and three cubs watefsnelons in May and peach blossoms in October, whole armies slain in baties steam doctors and land gullss dueIliss and mad dogs thieves and mposors. rioters and robbers, black eyes and bloody noses, French dancers and e-
 male lecturers cold water, and blue ruin, masons and ant;masons snows fourteen feet deep, vessels wreck cd in storm, whales and whaers, witches and water borers fires and floods blood and wounds, dnnder and blixum. -
 John Speed Smith, recently appointed by President Jackson U. s. Attorney for the District of Kentucky,
 has declined accepting the ofce-and, it is added It is on account of bis being in favor of Mr. Clay for the next Presidency. pHH.
 A gentleman of Providence was fined ten dOllarst the other day for driving furiously with gig against an- other carriage. ! More efthe 6ody.--The body found on the Canada shore of the Niagara river, supposed to he MoEgans proves to have been that of soldier who was buried about year since. ...-,g
 T.s ssoemty-third Editor Tis said that Mr. .Burch, the editor of the Long-Isand Patriot, recently ap- pointed inspector Of the customs at that place. is the twenty-third editor rewarded with good office by the present reform oving administration. They are truly lucky tribe. sd p 8s sur s3a e.,. .-fE
 Mir. John Davis, workmahi in the paper mill of Gen. Burbank, near Fiichburg, Mass while engaged in necessary business about the mill caugh between the Ay-wheel and uundle-head, and nstani! crushed to death. He was from Pittsfeld, Vt.
 A ANew-York paper states that the sun not seer during the whole day the 4t inst.--a crcumsianc, which has not happened that anniversary since '76
 Mir. William Powers, proprietor of the oil clOtl factory at Lansngburgh, N. Y. on the 2lth uls. wa so severely scaIded by quantity of varnish talin
 fire, that he survived but short time Although g severely burnt, he assisted until the flames which i,a
 commuuicated to the building were cxtinguished.
 A new Congregational Church in New-Haven va ,f dedicated on Friday last Sermon by the Rev Leon
 ard Bacon, ofNew-Hayen.