NEW YORK, Feb. 16.
The Times special Washington dispatch says it is believed by military men that Manassas will be evacuated by the rebels as Bowling Green has been.
As soon as Tennessee is released from rebel despotism, the carrying of United States mails will be renewed on the established routes.
It is sincerely believed that the proposition recently brought by the rebel flag of truce was to refer the present dispute to foreign arbitration.
The Herald’s dispatch says the work of thoroughly re-organizing the War Department, is rapidly progressing. To-day a number of clerks were notified to leave, and prohibited from revisiting the Department again.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, February 18, 1862, p. 1
