Morning journal and courier., 1880-09-01

ing with terrible earnestness for the conflict
 The South was straining every nerve to resist
 the Northern multitudes. Her Congress
 passed law conscribing all men under 35
 years of age. To fill her armies the North
 had better and more successful mode. She
 offered immense bounties and high pay. h.
 duced by these, thousands of European mer
 cenaries enlisted. The South had nothing
 but her gallant children to put in the field,
 and thus she was condemned to stake her
 most precious jewels against the trash of Flu
 rope"
 Mr. Moody's new school for girls at North
 field will, he says, be fashioned largely after
 that at South Hadley He has already made
 arrangements for dozen Indian pupils, and
 he says that he means to get as many Chinese
 girls to put there also as soon as he can find
 them, believing that there can be but little
 hope for the general up-building of China in
 the gospel till the traditional ideas of the Chi
 nese concerning the position and capacity of women are so thoroughly overturned that they can never gain national foothold again. ''Buddha," he remarked, taught that the only hope which was held out to woman of ever amounting to anything was that some time in the future ages she might be born over and become man. And what can ever be expected of her, if that is all the straw she has to grasp at :? I have no doubt that more can be accomplished in the right direction by bringing the girls to this country, right into civilization, as is done with the boys, than by simply trying to teach them at home" This bold and benevolent idea is worthy of MT. Moody's great mind and heart, and we hope he will live to give it a good start.
 There are not many States in this country
 like South Carolina, which fact is, on the whole, a cheerful one. While the population of that State has been increasing 42 per cent. during the past ten years, there has been decrease in the value of land to the amount of $23, orc, 892, decrease in the number of buildings of 2,610, and a decrease in their value of $7, 76S, ,37S, being total decrease in the value of all real estate, not in towns and cities, of $50, S45, ,27O. The taxable v&lue of real estate in cities and towns has declined from $34 ,446, ,974 in 1869, to $25, ,5SS, 271 in 1879, a decrease of $9, 658, ,6O3 The total decrease in value of all the real estate in ten years is, therefore, $40, 7O3, 1873. It will be seen from these figures that the 996, SPA inhabitants of 1879 live in 2,610 fewer houses than the 7o5, COG inhabitants of 1869. It is also apparent that the said houses are worth $7, ,769, ,37S less than were the greater number returned in 1869. The State has also lost in the value of horses, sheep, hogs and cattle, but there has been a gratifying gain in the value of dogs The people of South Carolina must have been so busy increasing the population that they have had no time to attend to anything else.
 The claim filed in the pension office by the ex-rebel soldier Hanna has troubled the Democrats great deal, and they have tried hard to establish the charge that he was trapped into the matter. It appears from his own statement, however, that he opened the case by writing to Washington claim agent, whose advertisement he saw and which read as follows:
 PENs1oNs-Any wound or injury, or any disease, however slight the disability, entities 6 soldier of the late war to a pension. Ap- ply at once. Thousands are yet entitled. Pensions by law begin back at the day Of dis charge.
 He then wrote to ask if they covered both the North and the South. In reply he was informed that his claim was probably good, and was asked to fill up blank. The agent l had only loyal Southern regiments in mind, and he, on receiving the application, wrote to inquire if the Fifteenth South Carolina ] (Hanna's regiment) was loyal regiment. Hanna says that he replied that it was, as he thought s'loyal'' meant 'lovely''; that the cause he had been fighting in was "loyaf' and he thinks so still, and that the man who won't stand up for his freside is no man at all. l This is Hanna's own statement, and out of this the Democrats have manufactured the l explanation that he was tricked into filing his 1 claim.