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It is thought now that the condition of the Cheyennes and Arapahoes will be such that in want of a large amount of spare transportation, they will have to be left in this region till Spring, a proper force to stay with them and conduct them to their reservation as soon as practicable.

    My own impression is that matters will come to an end quite suddenly at last, wind up in a hurry, and that that will be between the twelfth and fifteenth of this month.
    The 7th Cavalry have about 600 horses left and 750 men the Kansas Regt. still has 550 horses.   Gen'l.  Sheridan talks (at his own Hq. Qn.) of dismounting the 19th here, mounting the 7th entire and leaving the balance of the horses, about 400 [underline] in this District to be recuperated and used by the companies of the 10th Cav'y. which he thinks he will brings [strike s} down here without mounting them.   He says the horses are good ones as a