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les, capturing boats at every turn, and returning by White river, where he left a portion of his captured booty, as he might have an opportunity to use it hereafter. Jeff. Thompson was at Austin, fourteen miles this side of Helena, on Friday morning. He had about twenty five wagons of ammunition a short distance off, and came in to see what the prospect was of crossing to the Arkansas side. He took breakfast in the town, but shortly after a Federal force surrounded the place, and Gen. Jeff Thompson only escaped by about five minutes. He managed to get his wagons off also. The Confederates in Tennessee--man Bung. The capture of Humboldt, Tenn., by Confederate cavalry has been published. A farmer named Beadle guided them to a bridge which they burned. A dispatch to the Chicago Tribune says: Beadle and four others, supposed to have been connected with the rebels, were arrested this afternoon, and eight others during the night. Beadle was at once tried and sentenced