Show effis miscellaneous cell tell ane ous war items A confederate steamer laden with provisions and having baring on board a colonel and about a x y soldiers bound for memphis is reported to been foca roe sn captured on toe thi st rea fea francis river arkansas A fight also is said to have aen place near scarce on little red river arl ark between a force of two hundred bundred adred hundred and fifty fe federals derais and six elx hundred confederates in which the latter tv re defeated with a loss of fifteen killed and thirty wounded the Se ceders had burned all the bridges in thai that vicinity and a large amount of cotton A newspaper report in circulation states that on the lyth of may eighteen of the crew odthe of the I 1 monitor lio vio went ashore at city point and were surprised by a party of conre ConCe confederates abid nine of their numb gumbir r captured ar and ti that the others fled to the boat in which they went ashore anad and put out but overe were fied fired fled upon and all but bui one ore one killed gen fremont fre mont reported that col crook of his bis department in command of a brigade at Lewis burgh was wab wis wib attacked by gen heath with a of three thousand on may 19 b matidla the act on ori which ensued the federals weri 3 the enem enemy ift lit t thirty eight killed on the fleu diem field Z and ani and 1 sity sitt sixty bitt I 1 six wounded four cannon t we bundred stand of arms and one hundred prisoners were said to have been taken the federal Federa 1 ls as ten killed and forty wounded in their betre retreat re it the enemy emmy burned green beler beier bridge beyond which they could not be pursued gen schofield has been appointed by gen halleck to the command of the missouri military district and on the uit o issued an order setting 0 forth that all guerrillas thereafter taken in arms should be shot on the spot and all who ge them shelter or fall fail to aid to the full extent of their power in detecting 1 and bring bringing gln gin them to punishment are to bc b deemed accessories and punished accordingly arkansas hefti refugees ees reported at cairo on j the that lit little tle tie rock had been captured by gen curtis army and that Goer governor nor rector had bad ded red from the state to jackson mississippi general halleck telegraphed 0 to the war department on the that three strom strow strong reconnoiter reconnoitering ing columns advanced adian adean ced that mornin ing one on the cantere and one on each flank of the confederate lines to feel of ihna works and unmask their batteries which met with considerable o position one column had bad twenty five killed and wounded tiie atre lobs loss of the ot other her two h hid id ad not been ascertained ta ineil the tle enemy left thirty dead on the field five or six officers and some privates were taken prisoners the country between the two armies is cepres represented entea as being very thickly covered with limber h prevented cannonading cantio canno dading arx oll oil May mas gust gnat it wa was announced thata thae that front ron t ro royal yai had been retaken bythe federals and thet banks army armay was pushing on and had had bad one successful fi ficht ht with the enemy other skirmish ings and figh tinga in his and fremonte Fr emonts departments department 8 are report reporter ei but nothing thing definite has been made public concern ing them |