From Arkansas

SpPcial Dispatch tt. the Detroit Free Press. Jjittle Kook, Sept, 26. By the arrival of Coloncl Cloud, Second Kansas Cavalry, direct from Port Sinitb, nforuiation is receivcd trom Gen. Bluut's command, itnmediately followirif the defeat of Viele and Cooper, of the rebel army, at Primaell. Ooi. Cloud, with five hundred of the Seeond Kacsas Cavalry, and Robb's Battery, left that point for Fort Smith. Beforo arrivin at the fort he became satisfiod that the rebel General Cobbol had taken up his line of mareh for A rkadelphia. Col. Cloud iminediately started in pursuit, and at the place knowu as Devil's Barkon, found Cobbel strongly fortiüed and in command of 2,000 meu. ,After :in engagement which lasted ten hours, the rebels were routed with a loss of ten killed, fifty wounded, and one huudred prisoners. Cobbel left lus dead on the ground. Colonel Cloud pursued as far as the jaded condition of bis horses would admit. The rebela took the Arkadelphia road. Colonel Cloud returned and establiehed a Provost Marshal's office. - The battle of Fort Knnth was fought with Cobbel on the ]st instant Between that time and the 9th about 1,000 mounted Federáis carne iuto Fort Smith all of whom are anxious to join in the defense of their homes. Oti thfi 9th Col. Cloud took 200 of the öecond Kausas and two pieces of Robb's battery tnd started for Dartnell Point on Arkansas Kiver, five miles above this city. At that place he met Col. Leinon iu command of about 1,000. The engagement between Col. Cloud and the rebels Itisted about tvvo hours, wheD they fled, the Federáis pursuing the rebels. Col. Cloud capturod the camp and a large amount of commissary stores and about forty prisouers. Between Fort Smith and Dartnell l300 inouuted Fed. erais joined Colonel Cloud's cominaiid From the latter place the Colonel took up a line of march with 100 of the Sec oud Kansas, and arrived on the 9th. A courier has just come in from Benton, briuging news that a forcé from Marmaduke's command was at Kockport, estimated at five thousaud men, and was preparing to attack the Federáis at that place Monday of this week. To-day the first train started on tbe Meuiphis and Little Hoek Railroad, aud arrived at Duvall's Bluff. The road is in bad condition. The train rau off the track near Ashley Station, which delayed it about nioe hours. No guerrillas on the road. The passengers were Lieutenaut commandiug Phelps. Major Beuner and niyself. Traiüs iu future will run regulurly. HjÉf Among the articles at the State Fair, none, we predict, wi'l be more universally adruired than a piece of work by Mr. MeC"y, a young journeymau shoe maker of this city. It is a port rait I of Gen. McClellan together with its iïanie, the whole executed without previous instrucción, either in peintiog or sculpture. The portrait is a life-size jast and mono-cbromatic. The frame is oarved out of a rough bluck walnut slank; :s perhaps, four feet and n half i)y three aud a half, elaborately adorned with moulding, foliage, flowers, &c. - 3urtnounting the hole, isa sword crossed ty the scale of justice, covered by a scroll representing the " Constitution and Laws," on which is perched an oagle aearing a scroll in his beak. This whole ;roup is carved out of a block. On a joard in the artist's room lie tbe tools with which this elabórate work was exeecuted, - a shoe-knife and a few awls ! - The work has been accomplished in about two months occupying leisure time, ïnostly evenings. Mr. McCoy was a soldier in the First Michigan three inonths regiment. We doubt whet.her anotber of McClellan's admirers, can pay so delicate a compliment, or exhibit as mnch iugenuity in doing it. Exhibitors iu the departmeut of fine arts, will find a strong competitor, both in the business of carving and painting, in a young ahoe-niaker who has never handled the regular tools i)f either art. - Ypsdanti Sentinel. - The Puinting of Mr. McCoy was iwarded the first premium in its class. JL2E "Aa to being oonflioted with the gout," said Mrs. Partiugtou, " btgfa living doesn't always bring it on. It is incoherent in some families, and is handed down froni futher to soa Mr. Hammer, poor sou'l, wbo has been so long ill with it, disinherits it from his wile's giaudfather."