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News from Pike's Peak.

Fort Kearney Dec. 27.
--The Western stage from Denver, with the mails and six passengers, and $12,000 in treasure, passed here at 4 P. M., yesterday, for Omaha.

The weather continued clear and pleasant in Denver, and building was still going on.

The California overland central and Pike's Peak express coach passed East at 2 o'clock this afternoon.

Denver City dates are to the 25th instant.--Twenty mules were stolen from the C. O. C. and P. P. express at a station near Julesburg, recently, by a couple of Mexicans. An altercation occurred on the street yesterday, between Somers, a cattle dealer, and Tappan, a newspaper correspondent, respecting reference to the former in a letter recently published in the Missouri Republican. Tappan received a slight cut in the hand from a dirk-knife. Preparations are making for a stage line to Santa Fe and the San Juan mines. The weather is pleasant. The nights are frosty and the days clear and warm.

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