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rs, among them Lieut. Col. Chardle, of the 80th Illinois, and Howling, of the 9th Iowa, and about 80 other officers. Our army fell back, having parted from the trains. We captured a large amount of commissary supplies, upon which the whole army subsisted one night. Next morning before we fell back we destroyed 300 acres of flour and a large quantity of bacon and other stores. The cause of Arkansas is to be fought over. Affairs on the Mississippi. The Memphis Appeal, of March 20th, furnishes the following: We learn that a skirmish occurred Tuesday morning between our gunboats and a shore battery of the enemy, erected during the preceding night, nearly opposite to Tiptonville. On discovering that the enemy had been at work on the west bank, our gunboats got up steam early in the morning and went out to attack them. The enemy had placed three twenty-four- pounder rifle guns in position, for the purpose of cutting off our communication at Tiptonville, where