The New York Herald, US
INTERESTING FROM ARKANSAS
Our Helena Correspondence
Return of the Great Expedition-What It Did and Did Not Accomplish-Why It Failed-The White River Country-The Rebels Know of Our Coming-Gen. Steele Again in Command-Gen. Carr in St. Louis-Arrival of New Troops, &c.
The great expedition, of which I wrote you hastily from the mouth of the White river, has all returned to this place. The advance guard reached here yesterday evening: the rear boats, on one of which was your correspondent, arrived this afternoon. The gunboats are now coming up the river, being just in sight. This is a different termination of the affair from that I promised in my last letter, and is as surprising to me as it will be to you when you are in possession of all the facts relating to it. Viewed in almost any light, it is a complete failure; and yet is not without some compensating benefits to offset the mortification which every true Union man, in favour of an energetic and vigorous prosecution of the war, must feel at its result.