FORT KEARNY, March 8, 1865-2. 35 p. m.

Major-General DODGE:

Nothing heard from Sixteenth Kansas yet. The Eleventh Kansas left here this morning for Julesburg. Indians in small bands infesting country beyond Laramie on the telegraph line.

ROBT. B. MITCHELL,

Brigadier-General.

DENVER, March 8, 1865-6. 15 p. m.

Major-General DODGE:

Train from Leavenworth arrived. If I have been breveted, hope for an assignment to duty.

T. MOONLIGHT,

Colonel.

WASHINGTON, D. C., March 8, 1865.

Brigadier-General CARLETON,

Santa Fe, N. Mex.:

GENERAL: The Secretary of War directs me to say, in reply to your letter of January 29, that you will arrest and have tried all persons engaged in unlawful trading with hostile Indians or supplying them with arms and ammunition. Citizens and Indian agents may be tried by military commissions. Before executing sentence the proceedings in such cases should be sent to the War Department for approval. On the 31st of December General Crocker was directed too report in person to the commanding officer of Department of the Cumberland. If the order has been miscarried please repeat it, as General Crocker's services are required by General Grant.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

H. W. HALLECK,

Major-General and Chief of Staff.

WASHINGTON, D. S., March 9, 1865-4 p. m.

General CANBY:

It is reported that the rebel navy has been relieved from duty on the coast and sent to Western rivers too destroy the river transports. Great vigilance must be exercised to prevent such depredations.

H. W. HALLECK,

Major-General and Chief of Staff.

(Same to General Thomas, Nashville; General Pope, Saint Louis, General Washburn, Memphis; General Dana, Vicksburg; General Reynolds, Little Rock; General Hooker, Cincinnati, and Colonel Robert Allen, Louisville.)

HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, March 9, 1865.

(Received 7 p. m.)

Hon W. H. SEWARD,

Secretary of State:

Vessel from Bermuda reports the arrival at Azores of rebel iron-clad Stonewall.

M. M. JACKSON,

U. S. Consul.