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From East Tennessee--the Yankees carrying things with a high hand.

--The Bristol Gazette has late intelligence from Knoxville. The Yankees are carrying things with a high hand, stealing property, outraging private families, and otherwise 'treasuring up wrath for the day of wrath.'

They are continuing their dastardly course towards the Southern women whom the fortunes of war have left in their hands by reason of their occupation of East Tennessee. It is understood that they have dragged from their homes the wife and daughter of Brigadier-General J. C. Vaughan and have consigned them to the walls of one of their many bastiles, whilst all the females of Judge Van Dyke's family have been, like their aged and venerable father, torn from their hearthstones and spirited away to some unknown prison without the shadow of a trial, or even the formality of an accusation.

Mrs. Dr. J. G. M. Ramsey and her daughter, Mrs. Bruck, arrived here under flag of truce from Knoxville a few days since. They were accompanied by Miss Carrie Law, who has, for more than three months past, been held, without any charges what ever against her, as a close prisoner, during all which time she has been treated with much rigor and severity, the inhuman officials not suffering her clothing to be sent to her, or even allowing her a change of raiment for a period of five weeks.

It is reported that large numbers of wounded Yankees are being transferred from the rear of Sherman's army to Knoxville; one account being that 3,000 have already reached that point. A large number have already been sent to Athens, Tennessee.

The work of plunder and rapine continues to go on throughout all lower East Tennessee under the immediate eye of Yankee officers, who are in spired to commit their bloody atrocities by the furious tirades of the infamous Brownlow, who weekly urges them to kill, murder and destroy Southern men whenever and wherever found, often designating by name dozens of individuals personally obnoxious to him, whom be calls upon. Union soldiers to shoot down on sight.

Brigadier-General Carter defends himself over his own signature in a late number of Brownlow's paper for having arrested one of old Billy Heiskell's negroes, who was, pistol in hand, hosting his for mer master for the purpose of killing him.

The churches have been and converted into school rooms for niggers. Upon special application to General Carter, the negro wench who acts as head schoolmarm was recently placed in full possession of the old Strong mansion, on Cumberland street, as a residence for herself, General Brooks and family being summarily ejected to base room for her sable majesty.

Fort Sanders has been greatly enlarged and strengthened, and now covers several acres of ground. There have been few deaths among the old residents, and but one marriage to the invaders since Lieutenant Bake's nigger girl united her destiny with the Yankee Lieutenant McWilliams. The old tories of the town seem to fear the contamination, as they are sending their marriageable daughters to Cincinnati, Pellsfield, Lexington and other points, under pretence of placing them at school.

J. G. Gant is endeavoring to be made a Judge by appointment from Andy Johnson in the Cleveland circuit whilst Dan Trowhitt is an aspirant for the position of Chancellor, in room of Ron. A. G. Warker, deposed.

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