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6 appeal* to the surviving officers and members of every company that went into the Confederate service from tins State, and to tha officers of the Gener al Staff to prepare rolls of their com rades from memory, if there exists no records from which to make them out, and forward the same to the Chairman ■ of the Executive Board. 8. Resolved, That the thanks of every Confederate soldier of the State of South Carolina, and of the people generally, are due to Prof. Rivers for the valuble material he has collected for the history of our State troops, and especially for the Roll of the Dead preserved through his generous and patriotic labors, and this Association of the survivors of the war, tender to him their grateful acknowledgement. Respectfully submitted, f/—O Edward McCrary, Jr. J Signed v James Connor, ( James McCutchen, Ei.i.ison Capers, C. Irvine Wai.kbb, Wm. W. Ai.i.an. •fiffTlie lists and exhibits referred to are too lengthy for publication. Shawls. Shawls are said to have been first manufactured in Thibet, Persia, and India, \fhere they have been made and worn from the earliest period of time of which we have any authentic record. The Cashmdre shawl of Thibet, is the most beautiful production of the far East, and no European country lias yet been able to manufacture shawls that will compare with them, either in rich ness, fineness, or delicacy. The real Cashmere shawls are made from the soft down or under fleece of a diminu tive goat, of graceful form, that has its home amid the vast solitudes of the Himalaya Mountains. This goat is also provided with an outside coat of heavy hair, and is consequently well protected from the extreme cold of this elevated region. Here the goat is found in the company of the deer and other animals, and here he,browses on the sweet and delicate pasturage of the soil of Thibet. This rich herbage is grown on thin soil, and it is said that the moisture of the mountains never imparts rankness to its growth. That the purity of the waters of the Hydespes, and the unexcelled quality of the herbage are indispensable to the shawl goat of Thibet, is pi-oven by the fact that whtfrevor he has been trans planted, he lias undergone various modifications at each remove, and in every iustance degenerates. In some countries he is deprived of his hair ; in others, he loses the whole or part of his fleece, but in all, the essential fineness of his undercoat is wanting, and be comes more or less harsh, as climate or pasturage affect him. In Thibet, the looms on which the shawls are woven, are of the most primitive construction, and the labor is performed by miserable artisans, who receive barely sufficient wages to keep them from actual starvation. Yet these wretched workmen are possessed with intense enthusiasm for their employ ment and defllv and patiently weave scarfs and shawls, such as have never been produced in any other section of the globe. In the time of the great Mogul Em perors 40,000 looms was the reputed number in the whole of Thibet, and of these the capital city contained the greatest number. Each loom averaged hve shawls annually, making the whole number manufactured 200,000 a year. These shawls were exported to Gtvcoe, Turkey, Egypt, Arabia and other coun tries, but their immense value rendered them only obtainable by Asiatic sover eigns, opulent princes, or the great nabobs of India. Os late years the pro duction lias been much reduced, and the last account we have of the Cash mere looms places the number at six teeu thousand, with an annual manu facture of eighty thousand shawls, the greater part of which were sent abroad. Sometimes the workmen of an entire shop produce only one shawl in a year. But tfiis one is of elaborate design and wonderful magnificence, and their great- i est progress is limited to a quarter of an inch a day. The master of the shop or his foreman has each pattern cave-1 fully drawn and colored, and sitting in front of the operatives, he directs their! every movement, while they watch-1 fully dart their shuttles to and fro with j BANNER OF THE SOUTH AND PLANTERS’ JOURNAL the genuine ardor of the artisans of Eastern nations. To afford some idea of the immense sums paid for those gorgeous articles of dress, we cannot do better than copy the description of a scarf of extraordinary richness and beauty, worn by the wife of a very wealthy Turkish Pashaw, which cost seven hundred pounds sterling. This scarf has a border on either end, eigh teen inches deep, displaying a parterre of roses, anemones, narcisses, and tulips, as lovely as ever bloomed in the land of roses, or freighted with perfume the I gardens of Ghul. The princes wore it | around her waist, allowing the borders to dejiend down on one side of her i body, and each fold was disposed to ex-. hibit in succession a rose, a tulip, and 1 a narcissus envelojied in a galaxy of buds, of the moss rose, and the latter * were so true to nature, so fresh and lovely, that they appeared to project, from the ground work of the fabric,' steeped in the balmy odors of Eden, and sparkling with the dews of Hebron. Along the sides of the scaiff ran a bor der of about four of five inches in depth, resembling in richness of colors the most gorgeous painted windows in an old Cathedral, and through the body of the fabric ran long stems or wreaths of fanciful blossoms, fading away towards the centre into an opal tinge, which surrounded lifete a halo the circle of a damask rose. Another celebrated shawl, manufactured for a Persian Am bassador, cost twelve thousand rujiees. Favorites of the harem frequently wear shawls worth six hundred pounds, and even the dancing girls of Northern India sometimes possess shawls valued at one hundred pounds, The ordinary shawls of Thibet are worth 'fifty to seventy-fire pounds. Three hundred years of trial have failed to produce a fabric that equals the genuine Cash mere, ami we shall probably never wit ness the manufacture of au article that will rival the original in beauty or ex cellence. The shawls that stand next in order for the fineness of their material, age made trom the fleece of the Angora Goat. These shawls are woven in* Persia and India proper, on looms simi lar to those of Thibet, and the raw ma terial is clipped from animals varying in color from white, brown and gray, to* extreme black. These- goats are very docile, and have been imported into the United States in considerable numbers. In this country they improve in si/.o and weight, and the three-fourths hlood Is said to yield a softer and finer fleece than the imported, but the im proved quality is offset by a correspond ing loss of length of fibre. In England,the manufacture of shawls, in the Eastern style, was undertaken at Norwich, in 1784. Thibet wool was imported, and this was afterward mixed in the production. The warp was of Piedmont silk; the weft wps fine worsted; and the designs were worked in by hand on the web. In 1805 these shawls were entirely completed upon looms. Soon after, shawls were made at Paisley, of cashmere wool, after the Indian pattern, and these have attained deserved celebrity. Woolen scarfs ol' various kinds, and tartan plaids, have been made for centimes in Scotland.— A description of the colors of tartans worn by the different clans, in 1750, is a scrap of curious and instructive his tory. In 1747 their use was prohibited by act of Parliament. Time lias soft ened down the asjierities of border chieftains, and tartans are once more a fashionable article of dress. In Eng land, the principal shawls printing establishment is at Cmyford, in Kent, i The figures are made \v itli blocks, the ; same as for <a i-o, ami with similar j elaborateness. < )jje hundred blocks | and sixteen hundred applications, are j sometimes necessary for the production | of a single pattern. Prior to the invasion of Egypt by the French armies under Bonaparte, j real Cashmere fabrics were almost un known in France, and were only jios - sessed by members of the royal house | hold, or foreigners from Persia, Turkey ! and other Eastern lands. The shawl's ! brought home by the army were held jas trophies by the ladies'of Paris, for | many of them were dyed with the ! blood of Mamelukes from whom they j were plundered. This peculiar beauty, j softness and richness of design, soon j made them fashionable, and they ! brought a very high price, Bnd are now i treasured as priceless heirlooms by their I descendants. M. Terneaux, senior, manufactured the first shawls made in France from Cashmere wool, and some of the best of these fabrics were exported and sold to Asia in 1823. The mannfactnre of these articles suggested to Jacquard the invention of his celebrated loom. The Angora and Asiatic shawl goats have been imported for years in large num bers into France. In the Pyrenees, Airis, and other departments, they readily be come acclimated, and when not exposed to damp and unwholesome pastures, are possessed of their characteristic vigor and activity. Shawls made o' their fleece are very brilliant and ser viceable. Sometimes the wool is mix ed with silk and cotton. The best Cashmere shawls are entire ly woven, while the European imita tions have their designs either em broidered upon the fabrics, or else by a more costly method worked into the web in the process of weaving. Shawls made by tins last mode have both sides alike, equal in color, beauty in richness. Crape shawls are made of silk, and the best are the production of India and China. Excellent specimens of this kind are also made in Paris. The Grenadines are made wholly of silk with a peculiar twist, and are much prized; Chevilles are of silk and cotton; Chine •re made with a warp printed liefore weaving; Barege shawls are of wool, made by the peasants ol a place of that name in the Pyrenees. The display of fabrics at the great Paris exhibition, places the Orientals in advance of all other people in the manufacture of shawls; but France, England, and even the United States have made commendable progress in this direction, and we nay hope for better results in the future. The shawl business in this country is most exten sively carried on at Lowell, Mass., and Waterloo, N. Y. The importation of shawls into this country in 1866 was §3,832,505, which was the Paris cost price. In 1869, woolen goods, including shawls, dress goods and c.iu-j>ets, constituted eight jier cent, of the total valuation of our importations. .From the American Agriculturist. Hints on Turkey Raising. The Southern part of New London coun ty, Connecticut, is famous for its Turkevs. and the manner of raising them is thus de scribed by “A Native:’* ‘-Ten or twelve hens with a gobbler, is a good stock, and if there is a good range for them, this number m»y be kept with very little more trouble than a trio. Birds from two to four years old will bring much stronger chicks than yearlings, and give much belter results. But if, from any cause, last year's bens are kept, let them be from the early broods. The late broods should all be sent to market. It is a great point to make the hens all lay near home, and. for this purpose it will pay to yard them for a few days when they com mence laying. They arc thus much more easily protected from foxes, skunks and ver min, and are much more likely to keep to gether in one flock. When the young ones are large enough to go to the fields, make houses or shelters for them to lay in, and, if [Kissible, have them several rods apart, so that at hatching time the Turkeys will not be able to hear the peeping of their neigh bor’s chicks. This will sometimes make a sitting Tnrkey so uneasy that she will aban don her own eggs. If nests are made near one another the hens should be set at the same time, so as to come off together. This is also desirable in ease of failure of a part of the eggs to hatch. Two broods may be given to one mother to the number of 18 or 20, and the other hen will very soon begin to lay again. The eggs should be carried in at night, if frost is tluvatened, and lx- returned to the nest again in the morning. The heat that they receive from the birds while lay ing, and the turning that they gel is said to have a favorable influence upon them and to make them hatch better. There is a dif ference of a day or two in the hatching of a fresh and ail old egg, although they Ik? of the same clutch. One old bird is inclined to accommodate her movements to the strong est of her family, and the weakest are fre quently left behind and lost. When thev come off, confine from one to three broods in a pen from 10 to 15 feet square, made by retting up wide boards edgewise so that the young ones cannot jump out. The old ones will not wander far from the. pen, and in about a week the chicks will be able to clear the boards, when they may be safely left to go with the hens. ’ In storms they should be sheltered. (Jive a little food at first. Indian meal is too tine, and frequent ly kills them. Get com cracked at the mill on purpose, and increase its size as the chicks grow. Wheat—buckw heat and oats are good for them when a few weeks old.— Feed, also, at first with some kind of fresh animal food. Chi pped liver and beef, boil ed eggs and curdled milk are good. The success of the Turkey crop depends mainly upon the first month. They should be brought home to the poultry yard every night. For the first, three weeks a boy or girl should be employed to watch them, to keep away hawks and other enemies, and see to the stragglers. Not a few chicks are lost in the grass and perish because they lore the sound of the mother's voice. One child can watch the broods of a dozen hens, and keep them in the same range—a great deal of trouble later in the season. For, if they begin to feed together they will natu rally take the same course every morning, anil all the Turkeys wifi be found near to gether when they are sought at night, if they should fail to come of their own ac cord. If fed every night they will rarely fail to make their appearance when the cows come to milking. A pasture is the best range for them w hen they are young.” Notes. -—There are some things about Turkey raising, wnich it is worth while for a novice to know, not told by our corre s| xmdent. Turkeys, if well trained, become very domestic and may easily be made to lay, in good sized boxes placed in sheds or out-buildings, out of the reach of dogs and vermin. The eggs may be removed daily, and this is best if they are carefully handled, because a Turkey is. half a day upon her nest, long before she becomes broody. If early broods are desired, leave a nest full of eggs (wooden ones) and the hen will soon stop laying and sit. Very tame Turkeys are often such (lersistent sitters that they must be taken off at least every alternate day to feed. Turkey hens are very careful mothers; they rarely or never tread upon a chick, anil w hen the chicks are very young, their ex tremerare is almost distressing. They mav, therefore, be cooped; and this is best with all early broods, for otherwise the young suffer for lack of brooding. When Turkey liens are cooped with their broods the great est care is necessary to prevent the coops becoming foul. It is well to shift them daily, or to use an abundance of dry earth scattered several times a day over the floor of the coop. We prefer to feed all young birds animal food; hard boiled eggs with curds mashed together and mingled with bread soaked in milk, is our favorite diet for young Turkeys and they thrive upon it.— Cracked wheat and com follow, and with other grains these soon become tho staple food. The Peanut Market.— Since the close of the war a remarkable increase is noticeable in the production of peanuts and on many of the smaller plantations in the border State* they have largely superseded tobacco. Virginia will send to market this year 400,- 000 bushels Tennessee 300,000, Georgia and tho Carolinaa from 150,000 to 200,000 bush els, which, together with what we import from Africa, will furnish an abundant sup ply. The crop is one of the most profitable and easily raised that farmers produce, and the yield in poor soil ranges from eighty to one hundred and twenty bushels to the acre. At the time of gathering the crop they are worth only about if 1.25 per bushel, but after lining kept until after the African crop Is exhausted, their value ranges from ♦3.50 to $8 per bualiel in this market. Formerly, all that were used in the North and West were inqiorted, the South raising enough foT its own lire alone; but now every freodman that can purchase or lease a piece of land puts in a crop of these nuts, and farmers, having found them profitable, are raising them on a large scale. We are, therefore, obliged to import very few for home con sumption, anil, until the war broke out on the continent, we were exporting small quantities to France and Germany. In this country we used them only as a palatble luxury, but both in France and Germany they are valuable for the oil which they con tain in large quantities, and which, after being expressed, is used for adulterating olive oil, and was highly esteemed for salad dressing. In this country, however, cotton seed and lard oils are so much cheaper, that our table oil is manufactured mainly of these. There was received in this city, during 1869, 235,000 bushels of tills product, the remainder of the crop.going to Boston, Baltimore and Philadelphia. JVf-w York Bulletin. Life Vigor of Woman. —Tho Lon don lAincet relates a remarkable in stance of the vital energy of woman. She was thirty-five years of age, and had borne eight children. Near the time of her ninth confinement she was seized with a fit of delusion, during the moments of whicli she ripped open her abdomen. The wound was very large, allowing the omentum and a portion of the gravid womb to protrude. The cut into the womb was two inches long. The wounds bf the uterus and abdomen received proper surgical treatment, and the patient did well, though for awhile hopes of recovery seemed foolish.— Three days after the event a healthy child was born, and the mother was soon well. What a strange affair is human life—a fright will destroy life in one instance, and terrible wounds will not kill in another. Take Simmons’ Liver Regulator. It will remove ail unpleasan feelingst and make you well. Prepared only by J. 11. Zeilin & Cos., Macon, Ga. Dec. 17—ts. triy In these times of high prices, it is well to remember that children can be supplied with shoes for less than half the usual annual cost, by wearing Metal-Tipped .Shoes, to say nothing of stockings destroyed and health endangered by wet feet, arising from the childlike liahit of wearing out their shoes at the toes first.— Jl on ion Journal. Arrest that terrible Catarrh, and thus avoid a comsuptive’s grave by using Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. The proprietor will pay SSOO reward for a case he cannot cure. Sold by druggists, or send sixty cents to Dr. R. \ Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y., and re eeive it by mail. Pamphlet sent free. Dec. 17—ts. ‘ THE GREAT PICTORLVL AN NUAL Hostetler's United States Almanac for 1871, for distribution, gratis throughout the United States, aud all civilized countries of the Western Hemisphere, will be published about the first January, and all who wish to understand the true philosophy «f health should read and ponder the valuable suggestions it contains. In addition to an admirable medical treatise on the causes, prevention and cure of a great variety of diseases, it embraces a large amount of informa tion interesting to the merchant, the mechanic, the miner, the farmer, the planter, and professional man; and the calculations have been made for such meridians and latitudes as are most suitable for a correct and com prehensive National Calendar. The nature, uses, and extraordinary sanitary effects of Ilostctter’s Stomach Bitters, the staple tonic and alterative of more than half the Christum world, are fully set forth in its pages, which are also interspersed with pictorial illustrations, valuable recipes for the household and farm, humorous ancedo tes, and other instructive and amusing reading matter, original and selected. Among the Annuals to apjiear with the opening of the year, this will be one of the most useful, and may be had for the asking. The proprietors, Messrs. Hostetter A Smith, on receipt of a two cent stamp, will forward a copy by mail to any person who cannot procure one in his neighborhood. The Bitters are sold in every city, town and vilage, and are extensively used throughout the entire civilized world. Dec. 3 —ts. FRUIT & ORNAMENTAL TREES FOE AUTUMN OF 1870. We Invite the attention of Planters and Dealers to our large and complete stock of Standard and Dwarf Fruit Tree'. Grape Vines and small Fruit. 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DITSON A Cos., New York. dcelT—tf Six Oaks Prolific Cotton Seed. The earliest, most recuperative, productive, and wonders oily prolific of ail other cottona. Seed can be had from J. M. Bnrdell, Augusta ; p. H. Behn, Savannah ; W. C. Dukes A Cos., Charleston, S. C.; or the originator, Jaroee V. Jones, Herndon, Burke county, Georgia. dccl7—lm V SPSUIVG HZZuO COLinOE, near mobile, ala. THIS rNSTIvTTION, which was destroyed by fire last February, being now rebuilt, will open its session on the 7th December nest The terms for the pres ent session, payable baif yearly in advance in cur rency, are as lollows : Board. Tuition, Washing and Stationery $270 Entrance 1 ee, first year only 15 Medical Fees... * 14 Bed and. Bedding, if furnished by College 14 For reference** and circulars address the President of the College, at Spring Dill, Ala., tho Kev. Clergy st Mobile, the College of the Immaculate Conception, corner Common and Baronne street or P. 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