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yet a young, as well as a very handsome housewife ; but 

 she has been the mother of nineteen children, thirteen of 

 whom are living, and every morning "rise up and call 

 her blessed." Need I add that the children are an honor 

 to such a mother, or that her noble husband "knoweth 

 and esteemeth his treasure," as a good wife always is a 

 treasure to him who deserveth her ? 



"Now out of this matter this lesson I add, 

 Where ten wives are better, ten more are more 

 sad." 



And this is not a solitary instance, but a fair sample of 

 the way in which the highly-educated, polished ladies of 

 southern planters "Looketh after the ways of their own 

 household." The exceptions are among those who have 

 been spoiled, (not educated,) in fashionable boarding 

 schools. Solon. 



Mr. Robinson's Tour. — No. 20. 



[New York American Agriculturist, 9:255-56; Aug., 1850] 



[June ?, 1850] 



Benefits of Railroads to Agricidture. — Having given 

 an article upon this subject, as illustrated by the New- 

 York and Erie Railroad,^ I now propose to give another 

 of similar character upon the South-Carolina Railroad, 

 which connects the city of Charleston by three branches 

 to one stem, with Camden, Columbia, and Hamburg, and 

 thence to Augusta, Georgia, and all the Georgia railroads. 



I left Charleston upon my tour of examination on the 

 14th. of Feburary, which some of my readers at the 

 north will perhaps remember as a severe cold day, while 

 here it was mild and pleasant and free from snow, which 

 never incommodes this road as it does some of those at 

 the north. It is but an act of justice for me to say that 

 I had been provided with a "free pass" by the president 

 of the company. Colonel Gadsden,^ which I understood 



* Printed ante, 314 ff. 



' James Gadpden, railroad president, promoter of Southern na- 

 tionalism, minister to Mexico. Born May 15, 1788, at Charleston; 



