A Fort Hays (Kansas) letter states that five columns of troops, mostly cavalry, will soon move against the Indians in different directions, covering in their operations the territory between Smoky Hill and Republican Forks on the north and the Cianarro and Canadian Rivers on the south. General Custar has been restored to rank and command.

The Postmaster General finds much difficulty in making permanent arrangements for the conveyance of the mails between the termini of the Pacific Railroad. Wells, Fargo & Co. are still performing temporary service, and it is not certain how long they will continue to do so.Forty-seven barrels of whiskey were seized on Tuesday afternoon by the revenue officers, on the Stonington steamboat Narragansett, at New York.

The congressional retrenchment committee examined witnesses on Tuesday in New York relative to the revenue frauds. Thirty-three thousand voters were registered in Brooklyn on Tuesday.