New York Times, US
AFFAIRS AT MEMPHIS.
From Arkansas
Correspondence of the New-York Times.
MEMPHIS, Saturday, Nov. 8, 1862.
Col. CAMERON, of the Thirty-fourth, Indiana Regiment, who recently went from Helena to Little Rock with a flag of truce, has returned. Of his interview with Gen. HOLMES you have already received full accounts. He found three passable roads leading west from Helena as far as White River, all well supplied with water and forage. Beyond White River the prairies will soon become impassable for an army, on account of the drought, which has already nearly destroyed the crops and most of the forage. Near Brownsville the rebels were stacking prairie hay for forage, and quantities of corn were being brought to Little Rock from the bottom lands along the rivers. The rebels reported that they had been compelled by scarcity of forage to dismount a large portion of their cavalry. The Arkansas River is so low that navigation upon it is entirely suspended, but the White River has been rising since August, and now has a depth of about fifteen feet as high up as Clarendon. The rebels reported that in spite of the blockade they succeeded in obtaining considerable quantities of boots, shoes, quinine, &c., from Memphis and Helena, by smuggling.
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