From St. Louis

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 27.

Col. Wood’s cavalry has driven the enemy out of Dent, Texas, and Howell Counties, Mo., and taken sixty rebel prisoners.

Cairo dispatches say heavy rumbling explosions were heard yesterday in the direction of Columbus.  The enemy are supposed to be blowing up their entrenchments.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, February 28, 1862, p. 1