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LUDWIG'S PATEIT TEEE SAWIIG IIACHIHS. 



We have numerous machines for manufacturing 

 lumber into all sorts of useful articles after the tree 

 itself has been brought to the mechanic ; but noth- 

 ing has until now been introduced to fell the tree 

 in the forest, and sej^arate the stem into pieces of 

 suitable length for transportation or use. Mr. Lud- 

 wig thinks he has supplied this want. He has a 

 machine to be operated by horse power, and anoth- 

 er to be operated by hand, an illustration of which 

 we give above. He says : "this invention is one of 

 the modern improvements intended to facilitate the 

 lumber business and the clearing of land. 



By the operation of this machine the w^ork can 

 be done in quarter of the time, and there is no 

 waste of wood as usual with, the axe. It requires 

 but one horsepower to drive this machine with suf- 

 ficient force to saw the largest tree, and also to 

 move it from place to place. Any man with ordi- 

 nary capacity can manage it with perfect ease, as 

 there is no machinery about it requiring any me- 

 chanical skill whatever in its management or opera- 

 tion. A belt wheel can also be applied for me- 

 chanical purposes. 



Since introducing the above the undersigned has 

 turned his attention to the production of a Porta- 

 ble Hand Power Machine, which is now offered to 

 the public. This machine is so constructed that it 

 can be put into operation in any place and worked 

 by one or two men with decided advantage over 

 any other machine which has ever been put into 

 market, thereby proving itself to be the machine 

 for any person who is engaged in the lumber busi- 

 ness. It is readily applied to any tree either in a 

 vertical or horizontal position. 



Further information may be obtained on appli- 

 cation to Matthew Ludwig, patentee and manufac- 

 turer, Boston, Mass. 



A Mark of Progress. — Porters Spirit of (ht 

 Times, a journal devoted, as our readers are aware, 

 "to Field SjTOrts, the Turf and the Stage," has fre- 

 quently congratulated the country on the happy 

 fashion just now so prevalent, of ladies' riding at 

 our County, and some even of our State Agricultu- 

 ral Shows, It last week furnishes a striking exam- 

 ple of the progress thus effected toward achieving 

 what it considers the aim and tendency of this Fe- 

 male Equestrianship, viz : to "help make racing a 

 national sport." Agreeing entirely, as we do, in 

 this view of the probable result of such exhibitions, 

 we cannot neglect to chronicle all the steps taken 

 toward its accomplishment. The one in question is 

 as follows : A challenge for a match of horses re- 

 cently appeared in the paper above quoted, from a 

 lady, who has found several equally "spunky" dames 

 and damsels to accept it — about one of the latter 

 of whom we now receive the information below : — 



"Three times has she been a victor at the trott- 

 ing courses of the Agricultural Fairs ; on one of 

 which occasions she (at Canandaigua) drove a black 

 Morgan stallion, in harness, in the slashing time of 

 2.38. This lady desires us to say to Di Vernon, 

 that she is indifferent whether the trial be in run- 

 ning, steeple-chasing, or in trotting ; and if in run- 

 ning, is vailing to go in either one or four mile heats." 



According to present probabilities, tlie Union 

 Course, which has already been the scene of so ma- 

 ny similarly refined and ennobHng contests, will 

 shortly "behold two beautiful and high-spirited 

 women, mounted on blooded running horses, flying 

 through a four mile heat !" With Porter's Spirit, 

 "we confess to no little interest in this business." 

 ./5re our mothers, wives and sisters to be engaged 

 in thus drawing the country "'a few inches nearer 

 the millennium" of the turf and its accompaniments ? 

 — Country Gentleman. 



ViEV/ OF Life. — It is said all martyrdoms looked 

 m.ean when they were suffered. Every ship is a 

 romantic object except that we sail in. Embark, 

 and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on 



