Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1861-11-28
ATcnIsoN CITY, KAs., Nov. II, Is

history Recruiting Topeka tie future Capital
Pony Express Discontinued, &c.
ATcnisoS CITY, KAs., Nov II, 1861.
In my last recorded promise to write
again soon but thousand and one other things
have occupied my time and l have necessarily
been compelled to wait until the present time.
One month ago a battle on the Usage be-
tween Fremont and Price looked imminent, but
Fremont is now removed, and Price, as far as
can be learned has retreated into Arkansas, and
it is reported has gone into winter quarters.
cannot say how this is but it is now quite GER
tain that there will be no battle in southwest
Missouri.
Since the removal Of Fremont gloom is
cast over the whole entire western army. In
the short time he had been placed in command,
he had gathered together an army inferior to
none on the face of the globe. All that knew
him loved him, and no one stood so high in the
estimation of the soldier as did the pathfinder"
His removal on the eve of battle, and just as
he was forcing the enemy, | am afraid is going
to be sad blow 10 the Union cause in Mis-
souri,
a battle took place last week on the open
prairie ten miles from Kansas City, between
ITO Of Jennson's "Jay IIawkers" and 400 Sc
cessionists. The secessionists were routed with
loss of over thirty killed and large number
wounded, while our loss was triAing. The Jay
Hawkers took quite number of prisoners, but
when Col. Jennison arrived on the battle field
he ordered his men TO take mo more prisoners"
Jennison moved on independence early last
Thursday morning with 900 of his brave men
and cleaned out the town. All the stores
houses, mills, &C., owned by the rebels now in
the sc. S. A." army were burned, together with
5000 bushels of wheat belonging TO a Capt.
with Price. lie carried off 20 horses, 20 wag-
ons, and over so "contrabands."
John A. Martin, Lieut-Co. of the Sth Reg
iment Kansas Home Guards, left here last
Monday, and is now in Lawrence with his reg
ment, but will leave shortly for Southern Kan
sus, where matters are beginning to look lit
tie warlike. Mr.. Martin landed on the soil Of
Kansas, in the fall of 1857, like most 'iour
printers, strapped" to a single "dime' and
commenced sticking type a short time when he
purchased the Office of the old Squatter Sorer-
eign, the leading organ of the notorious String
fellow, Celly, Abel & Co. A sGort time pre,i-
Gus the "Squatte''' had been purchased by
Gen. Pomeroy, and its tone changed from a
ranting pro slavery sheet to that of a Free
State. Mr.. Martin started the paper under
the head of Freedom's Champion, and ever
since it has been an uncompromising Republi-
can paper of the most ultra kind. Although
two thirds of the people here have always been
pro-slavery, yet Mr.. Martin has kept his paper
going, dealing blows out to them right and lcft
and maintaining his principles with answering
fidelity, till now he is ranked with the ablest
and accomplished writer's in the state. There
has not been convention or mass meeting
since he came here at which he has not been
present and taken an active part in the pro-
ceedings In 1859 he was elected Secretary of
the Wyandot Constitutional Convention, under
which we we've admitted less than year ago,
and in 1860 he was chosen one of the delegates
to the National Republican Convention at Chi
cogo and in the fall of that year he was cleo