From the North.
Mobile, Aug. 27
--A special dispatch to the Advertiser and Register, dated Tapeta, 26th, says: ‘
Memphis papers of the 23d have been received.
They publish an intercepted letter from General Hindman to General Bragg, in which the former states that he has 30,000 men. Arkansasians, Texans, and Mississippians, and only 3,000 stand of arms.
The Yankee papers report a battle to have been fought at Clarendon, on White river, in Eastern Arkansas, between six regiments of Yankee infantry and eight regiments of Confederate cavalry, under General Hindman.
They claim to have won a victory and announces heavy loss on both sides.
It is stated that two regiments have been enlisted in Chicago, and three regiments per day pass through Philadelphia from the eastward.
The St, Louis Democrat has intelligence confirming the defeat of the Lincoln the State militia of Missouri, by Quantrell, the Southern partisan leader.
It is confessed that the militia lost two pieces of cannon and 200 men in the fight.
The battle occurred at Love Jack, in Jackson county, on the Kansas border, and not far from the Missouri river.
The correspondent of the Chicago Times estimates the forces under Buell's command at 35,000 men. ’ 