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Reported attack upon Helena, Arkansas.

Jackson, Miss, March 14.
--A special dispatch to the Appeal dated Panola, 14th, says:

‘ Tolerably authentic reports received here say that Helena was attacked in the rear on Monday, the 9th.

Parties from that direction say that heavy firing was heard yesterday. The information comes from deserters, who say there are but five thousand Federal troops left at Helena.

Gentlemen from Memphis report that twenty five hundred sick are in the hospitals of that city.

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