Memphis Daily Appeal CS
Interesting Intelligence.
From the Memphis Argus, November 2.]

A number of prisoners recently captured back of Helena, and taken to Little Rock, have returned. We learn from parties who have arrived from Helena that these prisoners report that General Holmes’ policy will evidently be to disapprove of the firing on unarmed boats. This much has been elicited from rumors entitled to credit.

From the River.
From the Memphis Bulletin, Oct. 4.]
By arrivals this morning from Helena, we learn that the position of the Federals is being materially strengthened, and promises at an early day to be formidable for offensive as well as defensive purposes. It is determined to stop the cowardly operations of the guerrillas along the Arkansas shore of the river—operations so wanting in all manliness and courage as to have drawn down upon the perpetrators the maledictions of the decent part of their own people. A party of cavalry and artillery, with cannon, left Helena a couple of days ago to whip out the "Wild Irish Boy" and his band, and any other guerrillas' who may be hanging about Bledsoe's Landing, where the steamboat Gladiator was attacked. It is understood that the guerrillas about there contemplate bringing a cannon or two to some point on the banks, and using them for interrupting communication between Helena and the country above, but the inroad on their territory which is now proceeding, will convince them that the weight of cannon law lies with their enemies. The expedition is under the command of Colonel Macauley, of the 24th Indiana, a gentleman who has the reputation of being competent to make the best possible use of the means placed in his hands.
Besides this land expedition, the gunboat General Bragg had left Helena on a trip thirty or forty miles below, to attend to the state of matters along shore.
On Friday a scouting party of Federals engaged on the Mississippi side of the river, opposite Helena, captured a prisoner who proved to be Jerome Pillow', brother of General Pillow, the party to whom the general’s letter—published sometime ago—was written on the subject of securing the negroes on the Pillow plantation at Helena. Mr. Pillow was on his way to his plantation when he was captured.