American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-10-08

WHAT STRANGERS SAY OF BALTIMORE. We
find IN the last Louisville Journal, lengthy
letter, dated from this city, and written. we be-
lievc, by one ofthc editors of that journal, from
wlRch we extract the following:
Il like the aspect of Baltimore better than
tltat Of any other large city in the Union. AT
least, Judging from its outside, for know moth
ing Of It's inner life, should give it the prefer
ence as a residence. 1t has the air eff sociabli-
ty and hospitality, so much so that il might be
taken for Kentucky city. In the evening, IN
the Summer time, the doors and windows are
all thrown wide open, and men, women, and
children sit out at the door-steps and porches,
or saunter along the pavements.
Baltimore is ahead of all the either cities in
the Union ia the manufacture ef agricultural
implements. She owes this lie Part to her po-
sltion, but in some degree to the accident OF
possessing some mechanics Of uncommon in
genuity and enterprise. You fnd manufactnr-
cd here hemp and whGat-cutters, corn-shcl-
lers, cob-crushers, horse-powets sttaw-cutters,
wheat-tans ~heat-threshcrs and meal-grinderS
ofvarious patterns. Here too is manufactured
Pages circular portable saw-nill undoubtedly
the best md of the kind ever invented. They
have a mill in the South, known as the wood
pecker mill, patented by a man in North Caro-
lima, the saw of which is a blade with a single
tooth at each end and which, some people like
very much-the blade has rotary motion.
think Pages mill greatly superior TO that. His
has circular saw with many teeth. The
gearing is simple. His horse power is most
excellent one, but the price, 5000, is high
The price Of the mill and all the necessary
irons, with twelve foot carriage, is $780,
Pages cornmill lit has stones) is considered
an excellent one. There iE good straw and
corn-stalk-cutter at Robert Sinclair, jr., s.
Co.'S, wisch works by horse power. This con-
Germ manufacture a cheap cast iron corn-meal
mill which would be valuable where there are
no good mills. Pages co7a-planter is consid-
cred the best about Baltimore. it may be used
for turnips.
In the woodwork shops at Baltimore, eve
rything, almost, is done by Eaachinery. They
have machine for boring and morticing;
machine for lemons, which does the work as
fast as thought and with the most perfect &C
curacy; and vertical saws of various sizes for
ripping aad for scroll work. Al the scroll and
crooked saving of cabinet makers is done by
these saws, so we'll that the veneering goes on
without further smoothing For all bracket
ted work of houses a similar saw is used, and
the saving in all work Of this description is i'm
mense. They have a very simple and cheap
machine to supersede the plane and broad axe
in all heavy straight work, and which does the
work of several men. R. Sinclair, it,, s. Co.
make the beams of their plou CHS straight, and
they get out their stuff with one of these plan
ing machines. Then they mortice and tcnon
them by machinery, and rip the timber with
circular saw. All these labor-sa wing ma
chimes and many others may be added to any
workshop at small expense, with small
steam engine. These advantages explain the
reason why wood work of almost every des-
crption is brought out from the Eastern to the
Western States"