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WAR DEPARTMENT Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Washington, Oct 23rd, 1868. SPECIAL ORDERS, No. 139. Extract. II. Bt [[strikethrough]]Lt.[[//strikethrough]] Col. S. P. Lee. Capt. U. S. A. will proceed on public business connected with this Bureau, to New York City, on the completion of which duty he will return to his station at Alexandria, Va. By order of the Major-General O. O. HOWARD, Commissioner : Genl. O. Brown. Asst. Comm. of Va, Richmond. Va. E. Whittlesey Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.