...usiness to Leavenworth related to the protection of Kansas, and was made in consequence of a message from Generals Fremont and Prentiss. It is true that, while at the fort, a dispatch was read from Colonel Judson , of Fort Scott, to the effect that from reports of his spies he feared that Southern Kansas would soon be invaded, for the purpose of retaliation for the thieving, robbing, and burning that had been ...