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Show The- ArkHiiftiis NiiiHbIi!c. ltttlo Kock, J. The situation hero is practically unchanged. Brooks ntill occupies the Court House with about five hundred men, while Baxter Bax-ter is at the Anthony House with three hundred. Tho U. S, troops continue to occupy a position between them. (fen. loigan, an er-Conlcd-erate, assumes command of Brooks' forces in tho Suite, and oalls on his old comrades to rally to his standanl. Both parties appear to bo waiting for definite news from Washington. Col. White's account to Baxter of the fight near Pino lllulls, yestenlay, is that some two hundred men gathered gath-ered lijr UnxjUs near Now Gnscony, and being unable to secure transport atian to Littlo Hock, they began plundering tho citizens, and White asked and obtained leave of General Newton, Baxter's Connnaniler-in-cliicf, to tlispersu them. Ho went with a force of ninety men in Jcfler-non Jcfler-non Co., whero ho found them, and Himt three olhcers to coinmand thntn to disperse. When the officers camo in range, they were lirctl upon, when White ordered an advance, and a fight ensued, resulting result-ing in tho killing of nine and tho wounding of twenty of Brooks' men, the capture of two of their loadora and eighty-two men, the rest diRpers-ing. diRpers-ing. White bad seven men wounded and three horses killed. Ho paroled all the prisoners except two lenders, Murphy and Van D'Santc. The GuxvHk'x Pino Bluff special, tonight, to-night, gives essentially the name account ac-count as the above, except that it places tbu casualties at six killed and wounded, of White's party, and twelve wounded of Brook's men. It said (similar ImikIb are in Bincohu and Aihansans County, and White has been or.lered lo disperse them. |