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and truth, is an agreement, or disagree
ment with itself. If people, generally,
agree with it, in making this test, we are
willing to submit to the majority, publicly,
though, privately, we may disagree with
them.
‘Particularly if ho wishes to succeed.’—
Of course'the Union does not wish us to
succeed. Why, then, advise us to that
course which will lead us to succoss?
Now we are done with the few ideas
advanced by our cotemporary. Besides
what we have said, we wish to add a few
more words.
Wc have not said, at any time, that
Gov. Brown has openly and professedly
mado issue with the confederacy. We
state the case in this way: ‘Pr. Davis
stands for the confederacy, and Gov.
Brown, ~by Ms conduct, stands against it.’
We say this still, and in saying it, we only
state it as our opinion. Our own people—
yankeedom—Europe—the whole world
look upon Pr. Davis as the very head and
front of the rebellion. Oppose him, and
you oppose the cause. lie and the cause
are inseparable, and you cannot oppose
one without opposing tho other.
Are we wrong in the estimate wo have
put upon the evil to be accomplished, and
already accomplished by Gov. Brown’s
conduct? A returned prisoner, in jf late
letter to the Constitutidnalist, an extract
from which we publish in another column,
informs us that Gov. Brown’s late message
has already greatly damaged our cause.
It was placarded in Boston that he was
out against Pr. Davis—the meaning of
which was, no doubt, that he was out
against the confederacy, and by detaching
Georgia from it, would break down our
cause: and this produced a heavy fall in
gold, because it was thought that with
Brown against it, the rebellion must soon
be crushed out. Hence, the Confederate
Union to the contrary notwithstanding,
we know we are ‘fair, just, and truthful,’
when we say that Gov. Brown, 'ly his
conduct, stands against’ the confederacy.
Destruction of Government
Property.—‘Cairo, March 12.—Over
two millions of dollars worth of gov
ernment property is said to have been
destroyed at Eastport, Miss.f by tho
flood in the Tennessee river.
The rebels hold possession of Hick
man, Kv.
The Now Orleans papers, of the
6th, contain no military news.
The steamer Post-Boy was totally
destroyed by bursting her boiler,
twenty-five miles above New Orleans,
on the 5th. Two lives were lost.’
Prom Mobile.—Mobile, March 25.
—“ The following despatch has just
been received :
Hcadq'rs, Blakely, March 24.
Gen. D. H. Maury :—I have just re
turned from the cavalry front. Ll. Sib
ley behaved very handsomely. The
following has just been received from
him :
Greenwood, March 24.
Gen. Liddel :—I have the honor to
inform you that I charged the enemy’s
wagon trains this afternoon, about 3
o’clock, and captured twenty-one pris
oners, and ten mules, and horses: al
so killed eight mules, as the only
means of destroying their tran&porta-
tiou.
This occurred between the east and
north prong of Fish river, two miles
north of Magnolia. Gen. Beach, and
his division, is now moving through,
the last of-the 13tli army corps. We
learn, from prisoners, that Gen. A. J.
Smith has command, somewhere on
the western shore, to operate against
Mobile. The army is in motion, to
day. We could find out nothing of its
strength, or position, savo tho above.
The mules, and prisoners, are hero.
A. C. Sxrley, Lieut., &c.
All quiet on this side.”
Who Can Beat Brown l—Thom
as Co., Ga,, March 21, 1865.— This
question is of vital importance to our
state, and country, and should inter
est every Georgian. But the people
are already beginning the same old
-ruinous plan of suggesting a candi
date, from almost every district, or
county.
Now, if, as we learn, the army of
Virginia, and our representatives in
congress, have united upon General
Henry L. Benning as the man, why
cannot the people join with them, and
thus defeat Brown, and elect a man
that will do honor to our state, and
confederacy. He is one of our ablest,
and purest meu, and one of Lee’s
bravest, and best generals—a man who
does not understand the art of wire
pulling, and who refused many solici
tations to run for governor, during the
last election. Let us have the battle-
scarred Benning.—Once a Brown
Man,—Macon Telegraph.
“ Ole Bull reappeared, after an ab
sence of many years from the con
cert, in Berlin, recently. His old ad
mirers were pleased to find that, al
though his hair has become grey, he
possesses all the wonderful mastery
over his instrument, which he display
ed in years loug since passed away.”
Home.—“The following beautiful
passage is from the pen of Dr. Guth
rie :
Home ! To be homo is the wish of
the seaman on stormy seas, and lone
ly watch. Home is the wish of the
soldier, and tender visions mingle
with tho troubled dreams of trench,
and field. Where the palm-tree
waves its graceful plumes, and birds
of jeweled lustre flash, and flicker
from among gorgeous flowers; the
exile sits staring upon vacancy ; a far
away homo lie3 on his heart; and
borne, on the wings of fancy, over
intervening seas, and lands, he has
swept away to homo, and hears the
lark sing abovo his father’s fields, and
sees his fair-haired boy brother, with
light foot, and childhood's glee, chas
ing the butterfly by his native stream.
And in his best hours, home, his own
sinless home—a home with Father
above that starry sky—will be the
wish of every Christian man. He
looks around him—tho world is full
of suffering; ho is distressed by its
sorrows, and vexed with its sins. Ho
looks within him—he finds much in
his own corruptions to grieve for. In
the language of a heart repelled,
giieved, vexed, ho often turns his.eye
upwards, saying, T would not live al
ways.’ No ; not for all the gold of
the world’s mines—not tor all the
pe'arls of iier seas—not for all tho
pleasures of flashing, frothy cup—
nor for all tho crowns of her king
doms, would I live always. Like a
bird about to migrate to those sunny
lands whore no winter sheds her
snows,* or strips the grove, or binds
the streams, he will often, in spirit, be
pluming his wing for tho hour of his
flight to glory.” •
Richmond, March 26.—“The New
York Herald, of the 24th, says Gen.
Lew Wallace has left New Orleans,
on a special mission, for Matamovas,
for the purpose of inquiring into tho
arrangement of Mejia, Maximilian’s
commander, there, with Geu. Slaugh
ter, for delivering to the latter Texan
refugees who have escaped into Mex
ico.
Admiral Porter’s flag-ship arrived
in the James river tuesday, and an
chored off Aiken landing.
President and Mrs. Lincoln visited
Gen. Grant, on thursday.
Gold closed, on the 23d, at 150J.”
“A New York telegram says that
the Imperial Mexican government has
ordered tho police to arrest all per
sons expressing sympathy for tho
IJnited States.”
