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THE C O U M. T li Y M A N. 215 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.”