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annuities to the Peneteghka Comanches tomorrow in accordance with the Act of Congress &c.

    A Noconee Comanche came in today who was in the fight with Evans.  He reports that immediately after that fight the Comanches engaged in it with the Kiowai under Kicking Bird, Little Heart & Co. moved Westward to join the Cheyennes & Arapahoes.    He went along with them four [strike] three days., then turned back this way    When he left that [strike] them, they had crossed Col. Evans trail as he passed South, and reached the fresh trail of the Cheyennes and Arapahoes as they were moving West.
   The latter are now encamped on Falling Water Creek called Mulberry Ck on Marcy's Map., which flows South from the edge of the Staked plains, into main Red River, fully two hundred and twenty-five miles from this point, perhaps more    The renegade Comanches and Kiowas are probably with the Cheyennes and Arapahoes at that point by this time.
      Please let me hear from you in case anyone comes this way.
                                Very respectfully, your friend,
                                            and obedient servant.
                                                     Henry E. Alvord
                                                     Captain, 10th Regt Cavalry.

We learn from Sherman Texas that Blackburn has received a telegram there stating that the Senate has passed the Indian Bill which passed the House early in Dec'r. but that the President will probably veto it. and it cannot be passed over his veto. Trumbull was one of the chief opponents to the bill.