The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-04-03

Commissioner OF Internal Revenues; but, from
reports already rendered, 1t appears that large
portion of the tax que from those States is still
unpaid. No collections whatever have been
made In Alabama. No collections have been
made since the Sd OF August, 1866, at which
date the Secretary OF the Treasury ordered q
suspension until January /, 1868, under special
authority from Congress.
tn "BOne-Yard."
One of the pleasantest features of life In East
Tennessee during 1864 is thus portrayed
"There is place on Indian Greek, near the
line between Carter and Sullivan counties,
which, in the polite phraseology of the Reoels,
was. denomDated the bone-yard.' This was
the place where the Rebels carried many of
their prisoners to murder them. 1t is lonely
spot, surrounded by lofty hills, on the side of a
ridge, where a small fiat place had been formed
by the tall of a large tree. Here they would
conduct their prisoners and shoot them down,
and would then go TO the first house and tell the
Union people If they would take wagon and
90 to the bone.yard they would lind another dead
dog ready to be hauled off, The Union citi-
zens would often see them conducting prisoners
to this spot, without having the least power to
render them any assistance, hallooing and
uttering rude jokes, as it they had been going
to one of their drunken frolics Their victim
with downcast head, and with his hands tied
behind him, would walk dejectedly on before
them, while his wife, and probably a few other
female friends, would follow on behind, exhibit
ing the greatest distress imaginable"
Miscellaneous Items.
The Louisiana papers calls attention to the
fact that one hundred and fifty steamers lie
rotting IN the Red river, and declare that un-
less New Orleans builds road to the head OF
Red river navigation, she must "go under" CON-
mercially.
Arkansas offers a premium of $40, 900 q
mile for the encouragement of railroad building
in that State. Hence the transfer of the Mssls-
sippi terminus of the El Paso and Pacific road
from st. Louis to Memphis
Several of the singular sect called the
'Dunkers" have recently left Southwestern
Virginia and gone to Indiana. They were all
devoted loyalists during the war.
The Oldest paper in the State of Mississippi
is said to be the Brandon Republican. Let it
conform its principles to its name, and it will
have a new lease of life.
An Arkansas correspondent of the Spring
field (Mass.) Republican says he has travelled
unarmed through several counties of that State
with perfect safety.
An exchange says spointedly:-'It seems that
the roll of Robert Toombs' slaves will be called
at Georgia ballOt-box instead of at Bunker
Hill"
"A great Masonic 'revival" is in progress in
CharlestoWn, Virginia, and in that neighbOr-
hood. Several new admissions have been made.
The Virginia farmers complain of the long
continued wet weather in that State, The
Union soldiers used to do the same thing.
"A Mississippi, paper says that emigration
passes through that State TO Texas mainly on
account of the lack of breadstUffs.
The Augusta IGa.) Chronicle and Sentinel
estimates the number of the distranChised
classes in that State at S772.
-Seventy.fve new buildings, twenty of them
sawmills, have been built in Pensacola, Florida
since the war.
The Mobile Tribune calls the Reconstruction
and Supplemental acts "The Hammer and the
Spike"
The New Orleans papers report severa
alarming crevasses below Natchez
The Dismal Swamp Canal is suffering from
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